Question: When was the first documented appearance of the song Chuck Berry used as the melody in Promised Land?

Context articles: Promised Land (Elvis Presley album)
The Promised Land (Bruce Springsteen song)
Promised Land State Park
Return to the Promised Land
Promised Land (Chuck Berry song)
Chuck Berry on Stage
Little Queenie
Babylon (W.A.S.P. album)
Wabash Cannonball
The Promised Land (Sagol 59 album)

Promised Land is a 1975 album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley on RCA Records.
 It was recorded in December 1973 at Stax Records studios in Memphis and released on Presley's 40th birthday in January, 1975.
 The material was the second pick from the December 1973 session, as the songs considered strongest had been issued on "Good Times".
 The title track, a cover of the 1965 hit by Chuck Berry, was issued earlier as a single on September 27, 1974, and hit number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK top ten.
 Its flip side, "It's Midnight", reached 9 on the Country Charts.
 Another hit single from the album was "If You Talk in Your Sleep" reaching 17 on the "Billboard" Hot 100.
 In the US the album only reached number 47 on the "Billboard" Top 200 chart but reached 1 in "Billboard"'s Top Country LPs chart.
 The album also reached 1 in the Country Cashbox albums chart.
 In the UK the album reached #21.
"The Promised Land" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1978 album "Darkness on the Edge of Town".
 It was released as a single in Europe, backed by another song from "Darkness on the Edge of Town", "Streets of Fire", the third single from the album after "Badlands" and "Prove It All Night".
 "The Promised Land" was also included on the compilation album "The Essential Bruce Springsteen".
 The song has been a staple of Springsteen's live shows since 1978, and has been included on several concert albums and videos.
 The live album "Live/1975–85" includes a 1985 performance of "The Promised Land" from a concert in Los Angeles, California.
 A performance of the song from a 2003 concert in Barcelona is included on the "Live in Barcelona" video.
 A June 28, 2009 live performance in London from the Working on a Dream Tour was included on the "" DVD.
 The box set "The Promise" contains video of three live performances of "The Promised Land", a 2009 performance from the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park, New Jersey, without an audience, a 1978 performance from a concert in Phoenix, Arizona, and another 1978 performance from a concert in Houston, Texas.
 Darren Hanlon covered "The Promised Land" on "Play Some Pool, Skip Some School, Act Real Cool".
 Eddie Vedder has also covered this song live.
Promised Land State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Blooming Grove, Greene and Palmyra Townships, Pike County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.
 The approximately 3000 acre park is mostly surrounded by Delaware State Forest.
 It is in the Poconos and sits at 1800 ft .
 The second growth forests in Promised Land State Park are made up of beech, maple, oak and hemlock trees.
 There are two lakes within the boundaries of the park.
 Promised Land State Park is 10 mi north of Canadensis on Pennsylvania Route 390.
Return to the Promised Land is a gospel music soundtrack and 80th overall album by American country singer Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, released in 2000 as the soundtrack to the 45-minute video of the same title (released in 1992 by Rev. Billy Graham's World Wide Pictures, it was only available in VHS format).
 The "Return to the Promised Land" soundtrack was released by the now-defunct Brentwood, Tennessee independent label Renaissance Records.
 The "Return to the Promised Land" title track song was co-written by Cash, Cash employee Hugh Waddell, and Georgia resident David Ray Skinner, the artist who also designed the "Return to the Promised Land" logo.
 The video project, filmed entirely in Israel in 1990, was a "20 years later" follow-up to Cash's successful film "Gospel Road" (which in turn had been inspired by the similarly formatted 1968 album "The Holy Land".
 John Carter Cash is also featured on the recording.
"Promised Land" is a song lyric written by Chuck Berry to the melody of "Wabash Cannonball", an American folk song.
 The song was first recorded in this version by Chuck Berry in 1964 for his album "St. Louis to Liverpool".
 Released in December, 1964, it was Berry's first single issued following his prison term for a Mann Act conviction.
Chuck Berry on Stage is an album by Chuck Berry, released in 1963 by Chess Records.
 Although promoted as a live album, it is a collection of previously released studio recordings (except for 5 songs..."All Aboard", "Trick or Treat", "I Just Want To Make Love To You", "Still Got The Blues", and a previously unreleased alternate take of "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man") with overdubbed audience sounds to simulate a live recording.
 One track on the album labelled "Surfin' USA", is "Sweet Little Sixteen", originally released in 1958, the melody of which was used in The Beach Boys' 1963 hit "Surfin' USA".
 Chuck's cover of Willie Dixon's "I Just Want To Make Love To You" was later re-recorded and released on the very rare Chess LP CH60032 "Chuck Berry" in 1975.
"Little Queenie" is a song written and recorded by Chuck Berry.
 It appeared on the 1959 album "Chuck Berry Is on Top" and was released as a double A-side with "Almost Grown".
 Berry performed the song in the movies "Go, Johnny Go!
" (1959) and "Hail!
 Hail!
 Rock 'n' Roll" (1987).
 It has been covered by many artists, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and REO Speedwagon.
 One year earlier Berry had released "Run Rudolph Run", a Christmas song with the same melody.
Babylon is the fourteenth studio album by American heavy metal band W.A.S.P., released on November 9, 2009.
 The album was inspired by biblical visions of "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse".
 The album contains covers of Deep Purple's "Burn" (originally recorded for W.A.S.P's previous album "Dominator", but not used for unknown reasons) and Chuck Berry's "Promised Land".
 Promised Land was also covered in 1973 by Elvis Presley, and it was Elvis' version that the band had in mind as demonstrated by the ending comment "How about one of them peanut butter & banana sandwiches."
"The Wabash Cannonball" is an American folk song about a fictional train, thought to have originated in the late 19th century.
 Its first documented appearance was on sheet music published in 1882, titled "The Great Rock Island Route" and credited to J. A. Roff.
 All subsequent versions contain a variation of the chorus:
The Promised Land: The Grateful Dead / Jerry Garcia Hebrew Project is a 2015 album by Sagol 59 and Ami Yares, featuring Hebrew language covers of songs by The Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia.
 It was released on April 17, 2015.
 The album was followed, in August 2015, by "The Promised Land Acoustic Sessions" EP, which contained four additional recordings: Hebrew renditions of "Ripple", "Brown Eyed Women", "Friend of The Devil" and "Ship Of Fools".
 "The Pita Tapes" followed in March 2016, containing two unreleased demo recordings of songs often covered by The Grateful Dead and Garcia (Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried" and Johnny Russell's "Catfish John").
 A nine-track limited edition Vinyl LP was released on April 2016.
 On August 1, 2016, studio recordings of "Deep Elem Blues" and "Half-Step Mississippi Uptown Toodeloo" were released digitally, to coincide with Garcia's birthday.
 A live show recording was released digitally in April 2017 as "The Promised Land at The Deanery, Brooklyn NY 3-23-2017".
 Live in Cafe Bialik, Tel Aviv, a soundboard concert recording, was released July 4th, 2017.