From February 2/3 to February 8/9, 1976, Elvis held a week of recording sessions at Graceland.
The sessions on 8/9 and those scheduled for 11 and 12 had to be cancelled.
This was the first time that Elvis had made formal recordings at his Graceland home, although he and his friends Red West, Charlie Hodge… had recorded songs informally on numerous occasions in the past, albeit without any business objective.
The session was arranged at Graceland because Elvis had become increasingly reluctant to visit recording studios and fulfill his contractual obligations to RCA. It was already impossible to make him attend studies, such were his discouragement, his delicate state of health, and his absolute lack of interest. Elvis, already in the final stretch of it, was very sick and absolutely distraught and devastated.
His last session had been in Hollywood in March 1975 and, before that, at Stax Studios in Memphis in December 1973.
Therefore, upon his refusal to agree to a formal studio session, RCA suggested bringing the recording equipment to his house. This idea had already been suggested several times in the past, but it had never been carried out. RCA parked a mobile truck at the back of Graceland to organize everything and make the recordings possible. This also required the hiring of a considerable number of musicians from Nashville and some even from other places.
From these sessions, despite the fact that Elvis was forced to do them, wonderful songs came out.
On February 6, 1976, in the Jungle Room at Graceland Elvis recorded a beautiful song, “Love Coming Down”. With lyrics and music by Jerry Chestnut.
It was released on the album
“From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee” in May 1976.
It was originally recorded by George Jones in 1975.
Jerry Chesnut also wrote “It’s Midnight”, “Never Again”, “T-R-O-U-B-L-E”, and “Woman Without Love”, all of which were also recorded by Elvis.
Jerry Chestnut considered this song one of the best songs he had written in his entire career.
It is a beautiful and tremendously sad ballad, in which Elvis conveys to us all the sorrow and all the burden that he already carried on his shoulders.
In my opinion, a great song and, for me, the song that Elvis has performed with the most sadness in his entire life and the one that conveys the most sorrow and sorrow.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a song so sad and heartbreaking…
I remember how your eyes lit up with the promises I made to you…
Now I know what it is to be afraid…
When the city is old and lonely
And you’re like a fool on a merry-go-round…
And a man so busy making it in the world
Not to realize that love was fading”
Here is the link of the song:
