Australian singles chart:
The Mickey Newbury version of An American Trilogy entered the Kent Music Report on 24 March 1975 and peaked at #30. The Elvis Presley single (released in April 1972 in the USA) didn’t chart in Australia but has become well-known through subsequent compilation releases and Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite.
Album:
The song is on Elvis Presley’s album Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite which entered the Kent album charts on 5 March 1973 and peaked at #9.
Songwriter:
Mickey Newbury
Producers:
Elvis Presley: Felton Jarvis
Mickey Newbury: Dennis Linde
Record labels of Australian releases:
Elvis Presley: RCA
Mickey Newbury: Elektra
Elvis, from Aloha From Hawaii, Live in Honolulu:
Mickey Newbury:
Wikipedia:
An American Trilogy is a 1972 song medley arranged by country composer Mickey Newbury and popularised by Elvis Presley, who included it as a showstopper in his concert routines. The medley uses three 19th-century songs:
Dixie — a popular folk song about the southern United States.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic — a marching hymn of the Union Army during the American Civil War; and
All My Trials — a Bahamian lullaby related to African American spirituals and widely used by folk music revivalists.
Newbury first recorded An American Trilogy for his 1971 album Frisco Mabel Joy, and the medley featured prominently on his first concert album, Live at Montezuma Hall, released in 1973.
Presley began singing An American Trilogy in concert in January 1972; a live recording made the following month was released as a single by RCA Records. Presley modifies Newbury’s sequence by reprising after All My Trials both Dixie (in the solo flute) and with a bigger ending on Battle Hymn. It was included in both versions of the widely-seen 1973 satellite telecast Aloha from Hawaii.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Trilogy
Lyrics:
Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton
Old times they are not forgotten
Look away, look away, look away, Dixieland
Oh I wish I was in Dixie, away, away
In Dixieland
I’ll take my stand
To live and die in Dixie
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