Moody Blue Songwriting Credits by Elvis Presley

Moody Blue is the fifty-sixth and final studio album by Elvis Presley, released in July 1977 on RCA Victor Records and produced by Felton Jarvis. It was Presley's last studio album released during his lifetime, arriving approximately three weeks before his death on August 16, 1977, making it the definitive closing document of a recording career that had begun in 1954. Presley did not write any of the eight tracks; the album's material includes country ('She Thinks I Still Care'), gospel ('He'll Have to Go,' 'Let Me Be There'), and R&B ('Little Darlin''), reflecting the mixture of genres that had characterized his 1970s work. The title track, a Jimmy Webb composition about romantic uncertainty, was released as a single and reached number one on the Billboard Country chart, confirming Presley's continued dominance in country music even as his overall commercial profile had diminished from his early 1970s Las Vegas peak. Moody Blue was the first album pressed on blue vinyl by a major label, making it a collectible artifact as well as a commercial release; it reached number three on the Billboard 200 and has been certified four-times platinum in the United States, with much of its commercial activity coming after Presley's death. The album is primarily significant as a historical document, the final recording artifact of a career that had defined the commercial music industry for more than two decades, rather than as an artistic statement, but Presley's vocal performance on several tracks demonstrates the power and range that remained available to him in the last year of his life.