# Walk a Mile in My Shoes: The Essential 70s Masters

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Walk a Mile in My Shoes: The Essential '70s Masters è un box set di Elvis Presley pubblicato nel 1995.

## Contenuti

Si focalizza sugli anni settanta, il terzo e ultimo decennio della carriera di Presley. Inizialmente pubblicato sotto forma di cofanetto di LP, include un set di cartoline e un booklet ad opera di Dave Marsh. Il box set venne certificato disco d'oro dalla Recording Industry Association of America il 15 luglio 1999.
I primi due dischi raggruppano tutti i lati A e B dei singoli pubblicati da Elvis negli Stati Uniti durante gli anni settanta, con le eccezioni di Kentucky Rain/My Little Friend, e della B-side Mama Liked the Roses, registrate negli anni sessanta; il singolo gospel He Touched Me / Bosom of Abraham, Only Believe e Help Me, già incluse in Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Performances; e O Come All Ye Faithful, la B-side del singolo natalizio del 1971 Merry Christmas, Baby. Gli ultimi due singoli usciti postumi, My Way / America the Beautiful del novembre 1977, e Unchained Melody / Softly as I Leave You del febbraio 1978, sono anch'essi esclusi, sebbene Unchained Melody sia presente nel quinto disco del box, e versioni diverse di My Way e Softly As I Leave You siano presenti in altri dischi del set. Dei 23 singoli statunitensi inclusi, 19 entrarono nella top 40, dei quali The Wonder of You e Burning Love raggiunsero la top 10. Inoltre sono incluse anche quattro tracce pubblicate su 45 giri solo in Gran Bretagna: I Just Can't Help Believin' / How the Web Was Woven, Green Green Grass of Home, e Loving Arms, lato B inglese di My Boy.
I dischi 3 e 4 contengono tracce di studio provenienti da svariati album, con 10 inediti e varie versioni alternative di brani noti. Particolarmente rare e degne di nota le inclusioni della precedentemente inedita versione in studio della Lady Madonna dei Beatles, e l'accenno appena abbozzato del primo verso di I Shall Be Released di Bob Dylan, anch'esso inedito.
Il quinto disco mette insieme la scaletta di uno spettacolo tipico di Presley dell'epoca, traendo materiali da diversi show del periodo 1970-1972, con 21 canzoni per una durata complessiva di un'ora circa. Undici delle tracce dal vivo sono versioni inedite.

## Tracce
### Disc 1: The Singles

| Traccia | Incisione | N° Catalog. | Data | Classifica | Titolo | Autori | Durata |
| 1. | 18/2/70 | 47-9835 | 20/4/70 | #9 | The Wonder of You | Baker Knight | 2:34 |
| 2. | 4/6/70 | 47-9873 | 14/7/70 | #32 | I've Lost You | Alan Blaikley & Ken Howard | 3:30 |
| 3. | 7/6/70 | 47-9873b | 14/7/70 | | The Next Step Is Love | Paul Evans & Paul Parnes | 3:31 |
| 4. | 6/6/70 | 47-9916 | 6/10/70 | #11 | You Don't Have to Say You Love Me | Vicki Wickham, Simon Napier-Bell, Pino Donaggio, Vito Pallavicini | 2:30 |
| 5. | 8/6/70 | 47-9916b | 6/10/70 | | Patch It Up | Eddie Rabbitt & Rory Bourke | 3:08 |
| 6. | 7/6/70 | 47-9960 | 8/12/70 | #21 | I Really Don't Want to Know | Howard Barnes & Don Robertson | 2:54 |
| 7. | 8/6/70 | 47-9960b | 8/12/70 | | There Goes My Everything | Dallas Frazier | 2:58 |
| 8. | 22/9/70 | 47-9980 | 3/2/71 | #33 | Rags to Riches | Richard Adler & Jerry Ross | 1:54 |
| 9. | 22/9/70 | 47-9980b | 3/2/71 | | Where Did They Go, Lord | Dallas Frazier & A.L. "Doodle" Owens | 2:27 |
| 10. | 6/6/70 | 47-9985 | 25/5/71 | #53 | Life | Shirl Milete | 3:10 |
| 11. | 20/5/71 | 47-9998 | 22/6/71 | #36 | I'm Leavin' | Michael Jarrett & Sonny Charles | 3:51 |
| 12. | 6/6/70 | 47-9998b | 22/6/71 | | Heart of Rome | Alan Blaikley, Ken Howard, Geoff Stephens | 2:53 |
| 13. | 20/5/71 | 48-1017 | 21/9/71 | #51 | It's Only Love | Mark James & Steve Tyrell | 2:41 |
| 14. | 4/6/70 | 48-1017b | 21/9/71 | | The Sound of Your Cry | Bernie Baum, Bill Giant, Florence Kaye | 3:17 |
| 15. | 11/8/70 | 2158 | 11/71 | UK #6 | I Just Can't Help Believin' | Cynthia Weil & Barry Mann | 4:34 |
| 16. | 5/6/70 | 2158b | 11/71 | | How the Web Was Woven | David Most & Clive Westlake | 3:25 |
| 17. | 17/5/71 | 74-0619 | 4/1/72 | #40 | Until It's Time for You to Go | Buffy Sainte-Marie | 2:17 |
| 18. | 20/5/71 | 74-0619b | 4/1/72 | | We Can Make the Morning | Jay Ramsey | 3:54 |
| 19. | 16/2/72 | 74-0672 | 4/4/72 | #66 | An American Trilogy | Mickey Newbury | 4:30 |
| 20. | 15/3/71 | 74-0672b | 4/4/72 | | The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face | Ewan MacColl | 3:42 |
| 21. | 28/3/72 | 74-0769 | 1/8/72 | #2 | Burning Love | Dennis Linde | 2:50 |
| 22. | 29/3/72 | 74-0769b | 1/8/72 | | It's a Matter of Time | Clive Westlake | 3:02 |
| 23. | 27/3/72 | 74-0815 | 31/10/72 | #20 | Separate Ways | Red West & Richard Mainegra | 2:36 |

### Disc 2: The Singles

| Traccia | Incisione | N° Catalog. | Data | Classifica | Titolo | Autori | Durata |
| 1. | 29/3/72 | 74-0815b | 31/10/72 | | Always on My Mind | Johnny Christopher, Mark James, Wayne Carson | 3:37 |
| 2. | 28/3/72 | 74-0910b | 4/3/73 | | Fool | Carl Sigman & James Last | 3:30 |
| 3. | 14/1/73 | 74-0910 | 4/3/73 | #17 | Steamroller Blues | James Taylor | 3:04 |
| 4. | 23/7/73 | APBO 0088 | 22/9/73 | #41 | Raised On Rock | Mark James | 2:38 |
| 5. | 23/7/73 | APBO 0088b | 22/9/73 | | For Ol' Times Sake | Tony Joe White | 3:36 |
| 6. | 22/7/73 | APBO 0196 | 11/1/74 | #39 | I've Got a Thing About You Baby | Tony Joe White | 2:20 |
| 7. | 21/7/73 | APBO 0196b | 11/1/74 | | Take Good Care of Her | Arthur Kent & Edward C. Warren | 2:51 |
| 8. | 11/12/73 | APBO 0280 | 10/5/74 | #17 | If You Talk in Your Sleep | Red West & Johnny Christopher | 2:34 |
| 9. | 15/12/73 | PB 10074 | 27/9/74 | #14 | Promised Land | Chuck Berry | 2:55 |
| 10. | 10/12/73 | PB 10074b | 27/9/74 | | It's Midnight | Billy Edd Wheeler & Jerry Chesnut | 3:21 |
| 11. | 13/12/73 | PB 10191 | 4/1/75 | #20 | My Boy | Bill Martin, Jean-Pierre Bourtrayre, Phil Coulter, Claude François | 3:19 |
| 12. | 13/12/73 | 2548b | 10/74 | | Loving Arms | Tom Jans | 2:50 |
| 13. | 11/3/75 | PB 10278 | 22/4/75 | #35 | T-R-O-U-B-L-E | Jerry Chesnut & Steve Tyrell | 3:02 |
| 14. | 12/12/73 | PB 10278b | 23/4/75 | | Mr. Songman | Donnie Summer | 2:07 |
| 15. | 12/3/75 | PB 10401 | 20/9/75 | | Bringing It Back | Greg Gordon | 3:00 |
| 16. | 12/3/75 | PB 10401b | 20/9/75 | | Pieces of My Life | Troy Seals | 4:03 |
| 17. | 10/3/75 | 2635 | 11/75 | UK #29 | Green Green Grass of Home | Curly Putman | 3:35 |
| 18. | 12/12/73 | PB 10191b | 4/1/75 | | Thinking About You | Tim Baty | 3:00 |
| 19. | 5/2/76 | PB 10601 | 12/3/76 | #28 | Hurt | Jimmie Crane & Al Jacobs | 2:06 |
| 20. | 5/2/76 | PB 10601b | 12/3/76 | | For the Heart | Dennis Linde | 3:22 |
| 21. | 4/2/76 | PB 10857 | 29/11/76 | #31 | Moody Blue | Mark James | 3:22 |
| 22. | 2/2/76 | PB 10857b | 29/11/76 | | She Thinks I Still Care | Dickey Lee | 3:51 |
| 23. | 29/10/76 | PB 10998 | 6/6/77 | #18 | Way Down | Layng Martine Jr. | 2:38 |
| 24. | 29/10/76 | PB 10998b | 6/6/77 | | Pledging My Love | Don Robey & Ferdinand Washington | 2:50 |

### Disc 3: Studio Highlights 1970-1971

| Traccia | Incisione | Album | N° Catalog. | Data | Classifica | Titolo | Autori | Durata |
| 1. | 4/6/70 | That's the Way It Is | LSP 4445 | 11/11/70 | #21 | Twenty Days and Twenty Nights | Scott Weisman & Clive Westlake | 3:15 |
| 2. | 4/6/70 | Elvis Now | LSP 4460 | 20/2/72 | #43 | I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago | Traditional | 3:28 |
| 3. | 4/6/70 | Elvis Country | LSP 4671 | 2/1/71 | #12 | The Fool | Naomi Ford & Lee Hazlewood | 2:24 |
| 4. | 4/6/70 | precedentemente inedito | | | | A Hundred Years from Now | Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs | 1:40 |
| 5. | 4/6/70 | Elvis Country | LSP 4460 | 2/1/71 | #12 | Little Cabin on the Hill | Bill Monroe & Lester Flatt | 1:47 |
| 6. | 4/6/70 | Love Letters from Elvis | LSP 4530 | 16/6/71 | #33 | Cindy Cindy | Dolores Fuller, Buddy Kaye, Ben Weisman | 2:31 |
| 7. | 5/6/70 | That's the Way It Is | LSP 4445 | 11/11/70 | #21 | Bridge Over Troubled Water | Paul Simon | 4:29 |
| 8. | 5/6/70 | Love Letters from Elvis | LSP 4530 | 16/6/71 | #33 | Got My Mojo Working/Keep Your Hands Off of It | Preston Foster, Elvis Presley | 4:34 |
| 9. | 5/6/70 | Elvis Country | LSP 4460 | 2/1/71 | #12 | It's Your Baby You Rock It | Shirl Milete & Nora Fowler | 2:59 |
| 10. | 5/6/70 | That's the Way It Is | LSP 4445 | 11/11/70 | #21 | Stranger in the Crowd | Winfield Scott | 3:47 |
| 11. | 5/6/70 | That's the Way It Is | LSP 4445 | 11/11/70 | #21 | Mary in the Morning | Johnny Cymbal & Michael Rashkow | 4:11 |
| 12. | 7/6/70 | Love Letters from Elvis | LSP 4530 | 16/6/71 | #33 | It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing) | Shorty Hall, Alice Joy Merritt, Neal Merritt | 2:46 |
| 13. | 7/6/70 | That's the Way It Is | LSP 4445 | 11/11/70 | #21 | Just Pretend | Guy Fletcher & Doug Flett | 4:02 |
| 14. | 7/6/70 | Elvis Country | LSP 4460 | 2/1/71 | #12 | Faded Love* | Bob Wills & Johnnie Lee Wills | 4:06 |
| 15. | 7/6/70 | Elvis Country | LSP 4460 | 2/1/71 | #12 | Tomorrow Never Comes* | Johnny Bond & Ernest Tubb | 4:04 |
| 16. | 7/6/70 | Elvis Country | LSP 4460 | 2/1/71 | #12 | Make the World Go Away | Hank Cochran | 3:35 |
| 17. | 7/6/70 | Elvis Country | LSP 4460 | 2/1/71 | #12 | Funny How Time Slips Away | Willie Nelson | 4:19 |
| 18. | 7/6/70 | Elvis Country | LSP 4460 | 2/1/71 | #12 | I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water* | Joe Babcock | 4:57 |
| 19. | 22/9/70 | Elvis Country | LSP 4460 | 2/1/71 | #12 | Snowbird | Gene MacLellan | 2:04 |
| 20. | 22/9/70 | Elvis Country | LSP 4460 | 2/1/71 | #12 | Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On | Dave "Curly" Williams & Sunny David | 3:02 |
| 21. | 15/3/71 | He Touched Me | LSP 4690 | 3/4/72 | #79 | Amazing Grace* | Traditional | 3:26 |
| 22. | 15/3/71 | Elvis | APL1 0283 | 16/7/73 | #52 | (That's What You Get) For Lovin' Me | Gordon Lightfoot | 2:08 |
| 23. | 17/5/71 | precedentemente inedito | | | | Lady Madonna | John Lennon & Paul McCartney | 1:20 |

### Disc 4: Studio Highlights 1971-1976

| Traccia | Incisione | Album | N° Catalog. | Data | Classifica | Titolo | Autori | Durata |
| 1. | 15/5/71 | Wonderful World of Christmas | LSP 4579 | 20/10/71 | | Merry Christmas, Baby | Lou Baxter & Johnny Moore | 5:43 |
| 2. | 20/5/71 | precedentemente inedito | | | | I Shall Be Released | Bob Dylan | 0:48 |
| 3. | 16/5/71 | Elvis | APL1 0283 | 16/7/73 | #52 | Don't Think Twice, It's All Right* | Bob Dylan | 4:00 |
| 4. | 19/5/71 | Elvis | APL1 0283 | 16/7/73 | #52 | It's Still Here* | Ivory Joe Hunter | 3:29 |
| 5. | 5/19/71 | Elvis | APL1 0283 | 16/7/73 | #52 | I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen* | Thomas P. Westendorf | 2:28 |
| 6. | 5/19/71 | Elvis | APL1 0283 | 16/7/73 | #52 | I Will Be True | Ivory Joe Hunter | 2:34 |
| 7. | 10/6/71 | precedentemente inedito | | | | My Way | Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux | 4:32 |
| 8. | 27/3/72 | precedentemente inedito | | | | For the Good Times | Kris Kristofferson | 3:11 |
| 9. | 22/7/73 | Raised on Rock | APL1 0388 | 1/10/73 | #50 | Just a Little Bit | Ralph Bass, Buster Brown, John Thornton, Fats Washington | 2:31 |
| 10. | 21/7/73 | precedentemente inedito | | | | It's Diff'rent Now | Clive Westlake | 2:31 |
| 11. | 23/9/73 | Raised on Rock | APL1 0388 | 1/10/73 | #50 | Are You Sincere | Wayne Walker | 1:59 |
| 12. | 10/12/73 | Good Times | CPL1 0475 | 20/3/74 | #90 | I Got A Feelin' in My Body | Dennis Linde | 3:33 |
| 13. | 11/12/73 | Promised Land | APL1 0873 | 1/8/75 | #47 | You Asked Me To | Waylon Jennings & Billy Joe Shaver | 2:52 |
| 14. | 13/12/73 | Good Times | CPL1 0475 | 20/3/74 | #90 | Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues | Danny O'Keefe | 3:12 |
| 15. | 14/12/73 | Good Times | CPL1 0475 | 20/3/74 | #90 | Talk About the Good Times | Jerry Reed | 2:36 |
| 16. | 11/3/75 | precedentemente inedito | | | | Tiger Man | Lewis Burns, Al Lewis, Joe Hill Louis | 3:05 |
| 17. | 10/3/75 | Today | APL1 1039 | 7/5/75 | #57 | I Can Help | Billy Swan | 4:02 |
| 18. | 11/3/75 | Today | APL1 1039 | 7/5/75 | #57 | Susan When She Tried | Don Reid | 2:16 |
| 19. | 11/3/75 | Today | APL1 1039 | 7/5/75 | #57 | Shake a Hand | Joe Morris | 3:48 |
| 20. | 2/2/76 | take alternativa inedita | | | | She Thinks I Still Care | Dickey Lee | 3:26 |
| 21. | 5/2/76 | From Elvis Presley Boulevard | APL1 1506 | 20/4/76 | #41 | Danny Boy | Frederick Weatherly | 3:56 |
| 22. | 6/2/76 | From Elvis Presley Boulevard | APL1 1506 | 20/4/76 | #41 | Love Coming Down | Jerry Chesnut | 3:06 |
| 23. | 30/10/76 | Moody Blue | AFL1 2428 | 19/7/77 | #3 | He'll Have to Go | Joe Allison & Audrey Allison | 4:30 |

### Disc 5: The Elvis Presley Show

| Traccia | Incisione | Album | N° Catalog. | Data | Classifica | Titolo | Autori | Durata |
| 1. | 18/2/70 | On Stage: February 1970 | LSP 4362 | 23/6/70 | #13 | See See Rider | Traditional | 2:23 |
| 2. | 11/8/70 | precedentemente inedito | | | | Men With Broken Hearts | Hank Williams | 0:31 |
| 3. | 19/2/70 | On Stage: February 1970 | LSP 4362 | 23/6/70 | #13 | Walk a Mile In My Shoes | Joe South | 2:57 |
| 4. | 18/2/70 | On Stage: February 1970 | LSP 4362 | 23/6/70 | #13 | Polk Salad Annie | Tony Joe White | 4:46 |
| 5. | 17/2/70 | On Stage: February 1970 | LSP 4362 | 23/6/70 | #13 | Let It Be Me | Gilbert Bécaud, Mann Curtis, Pierre Delanoë | 3:28 |
| 6. | 16/2/70 | On Stage: February 1970 | LSP 4362 | 23/6/70 | #13 | Proud Mary | John Fogerty | 2:30 |
| 7. | 11/8/70 | precedentemente inedito | | | | Something | George Harrison | 3:40 |
| 8. | 12/8/70 | That's the Way It Is | LSP 4445 | 11/11/70 | #21 | You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' | Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Phil Spector | 4:23 |
| 9. | 11/8/70 | precedentemente inedito | | | | Heartbreak Hotel | Mae Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley | 1:41 |
| 10. | 12/8/70 | precedentemente inedito | | | | I Was the One | Aaron Schroeder, Claude DeMetrius, Hal Blair, Bill Peppers | 1:19 |
| 11. | 11/8/70 | precedentemente inedito | | | | One Night | Dave Bartholomew, Pearl King, Anita Steiman | 1:47 |
| 12. | 16/2/72 | precedentemente inedito | | | | Never Been to Spain | Hoyt Axton | 3:28 |
| 13. | 16/2/72 | precedentemente inedito | | | | You Gave Me a Mountain | Marty Robbins | 3:15 |
| 14. | 16/2/72 | Elvis | APL1 0283 | 16/7/73 | #52 | It's Impossible | Armando Manzanero & Sid Wayne | 2:52 |
| 15. | 16/2/72 | precedentemente inedito | | | | A Big Hunk o' Love | Aaron Schroeder & Sidney Wyche | 2:02 |
| 16. | 17/2/72 | precedentemente inedito | | | | It's Over | Jimmie F. Rodgers | 2:20 |
| 17. | 17/2/72 | He Walks Beside Me | AFL1 2772 | 2/78 | #113 | The Impossible Dream | Joe Darion & Mitch Leigh | 2:29 |
| 18. | 10/6/72 | precedentemente inedito | | | | Reconsider Baby | Lowell Fulsom | 2:41 |
| 19. | 10/6/72 | precedentemente inedito | | | | I'll Remember You | Kui Lee | 2:35 |
| 20. | 14/1/73 | Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite | VPSX 6089 | 4/2/73 | #1 | I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry | Hank Williams | 2:15 |
| 21. | 14/1/73 | Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite | VPSX 6089 | 4/2/73 | #1 | Suspicious Minds | Mark James | 4:29 |
| 22. | 24/4/77 | Moody Blue | AFL1 2428 | 19/7/77 | #3 | Unchained Melody | Alex North & Hy Zaret | 2:27 |
| 23. | 16/8/74 | precedentemente inedito | | | | The Twelfth of Never | Jay Livingston & Paul Francis Webster | 2:39 |
| 24. | 16/8/74 | precedentemente inedito | | | | Softly As I Leave You | Giorgio Calabrese, Antonio deVita, Hal Shaper | 2:14 |
| 25. | 15/7/70 | precedentemente inedito | | | | Allá en el Rancho Grande | Silvano Ramos, Del Moral, Urange | 2:04 |
| 26. | 29/7/70 | precedentemente inedito | | | | Froggy Went A-Courting | Traditional | 2:15 |
| 27. | 24/7/70 | precedentemente inedito | | | | Stranger in My Own Home Town | Percy Mayfield | 4:37 |

## Formazione

* Elvis Presley – voce, chitarra, pianoforte
* James Burton – chitarra
* John Wilkinson - chitarra
* Charlie Hodge - chitarra, cori
* Chip Young - chitarra
* Reggie Young - chitarra
* Eddie Hinton - chitarra
* Dennis Linde - chitarra
* Glen Hardin - pianoforte
* David Briggs - tastiere
* Charlie McCoy - organo, armonica a bocca
* Bobby Wood - pianoforte
* Bobby Emmons - organo
* Tony Brown - tastiere
* Pete Hallin - tastiere
* Greg Gordon - clavinet
* Don Sumner - pianoforte
* Norbert Putnam - basso
* Bob Lanning - basso
* Jerry Scheff – basso
* Emory Gordy - basso
* Tommy Cogbill - basso
* Duke Bardwell - basso
* Thomas Hensley - basso
* Ronnie Tutt - batteria
* Jerry Carrigan – batteria
* Bob Lanning – batteria
* Kenny Buttrey - batteria
* Farrell Morris - percussioni
* Weldon Myrick - pedal steel guitar
* Bobby Thompson – banjo
* Buddy Spicher – violino
* J.D. Sumner & The Stamps - cori
* Kathy Westmoreland - cori
* The Imperials - cori
* The Sweet Inspirations - cori
* The Jordanaires - cori
* The Nashville Edition - cori
* Millie Kirkham - cori
* Mary Holladay - cori
* Ginger Holladay - cori
* June Page - cori
* Sonja Montgomery - cori
* Dolores Edgin - cori
* Mary Greene - cori
* Susan Pilkinton - cori
* Myrna Smith - cori
* Sherrill Nielsen - cori
* Temple Riser- cori