Trivia / From Elvis in Memphis

• Colbert Bump: "Any Day Now" has gotten renewed attention from being used on the soundtrack of Elvis (2022), not only on its own but also as part of "Don't Fly Away", PNAU's mashup of it and "Suspicious Minds" (also recorded at the Memphis sessions but released as a separate single).
• Compilation Re-release: Several releases include the album with other songs from the Memphis sessions, with 1999's Suspicious Minds regarded as a complete compilation, though it does not contain the completed take of "Poor Man's Gold" which has since surfaced.
• Cut Song: Elvis completed 35 songs during the sessions. Three of the songs were later used as non-album singles—"Suspicious Minds" was a #1 hit, the Tear Jerker "Don't Cry Daddy" also made the Top 10, and "Kentucky Rain" made the Top 20 and is still one of his most famous songs. Others ended up on the later Back In Memphis album.
  • Another song he was slated to record during the sessions was the Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil ballad "Angelica" (already recorded by a few singers, including Scott Walker). As it happened, ballad singer Roy Hamilton, who was popular in The '50s and was a big influence on Elvis, was recording at American Studios at the same time and the two met and hit it off. Elvis told Hamilton that "Angelica" was perfect for his style and decided to pass the song onto him, and Hamilton would eventually release it as a single.^note One of the last singles Hamilton put out when he was alive, since he died from a brain hemorrhage about six months later at age 40, Harsher in Hindsight since the title character of "Angelica" also suffers an untimely death. Listening to Hamilton's version you can easily hear his influence on Elvis' singing style, and get a good sense of how Elvis would've handled the song (basically, as a morbid companion to "Long Black Limousine" in the "tragic tale of mourning" category, Elvis absolutely would've milked the song's Melodrama for all it was worth).
• Development Gag: Before becoming Elvis' manager, Colonel Tom Parker had managed Eddy Arnold, and had been in a management partnership with Hank Snow, and here Elvis does covers of Arnold ("I'll Hold You in My Heart") and Snow ("I'm Movin' On") songs.