Speedway (soundtrack)

Speedway
Original stereo cover still in shrink wrap with hype sticker
Soundtrack album by Elvis Presley
Released	June 25, 1968
Recorded	May 1963, June–September 1967, January 1968
Studio	MGM (Hollywood)
Genre	Rock, pop
Length	28:26
Label	RCA Victor
Producer	Jeff Alexander
Elvis Presley chronology
Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4 (1968) Speedway (1968) Elvis Sings Flaming Star (1968)
Singles from Speedway
"Your Time Hasn't Come Yet Baby / Let Yourself Go" Released: June 25, 1968

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Speedway is the seventeenth soundtrack album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 3989, on June 25, 1968.^[2] It serves as the soundtrack album for the 1968 film Speedway starring Presley. Recording sessions took place at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in Hollywood, California, on June 20 and 21, 1967. It peaked at number 82 on the Billboard 200.^[3]

Speedway took over the new low for chart position and album sales by Presley, selling fewer than 100,000 copies, and jeopardizing his recording career.^[4]: 262 Much to his relief, it killed the soundtrack formula, this being the final Presley dramatic feature film to have a full soundtrack album. His last five movies of the decade — Stay Away, Joe, Live a Little, Love a Little, Charro!, The Trouble with Girls, and Change of Habit — concentrated on Presley the actor, not Presley the singer, with minimal song requirements.^{[4]: 239, 243, 260, 261, 279} It is also the last Presley album to be released in both stereo and mono editions as mono was being phased out by the industry, thus making the rare mono pressing of Speedway (LPM-3989) a sought-after item among collectors^[5]