It's Midnight (song)
| "It's Midnight" | ||||
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| Single by Elvis Presley | ||||
| from the album Promised Land | ||||
| A-side | "Promised Land" | |||
| B-side | "It's Midnight" | |||
| Released | October 1974 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Recorded | 1973 | |||
| Length | 3:20 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
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| Elvis Presley singles chronology | ||||
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"It's Midnight" is a 1974 song by Elvis Presley.
It was written together by Jerry Chesnut and Billy Edd Wheeler.
Elvis Presley recorded it during his December 10–16, 1973 recording sessions at Stax Records in Memphis. The session produced three more charting songs: "Promised Land", "If You Talk in Your Sleep" and "Help Me" ("If You Talk in Your Sleep"'s B-side).
The song was first released in October 1974 as a B-side to a cover of Chuck Berry's "Promised Land". (While the Goldmine Standard Catalog of American Records indicates "Promised Land" as the A-side, different pressings have "It's Midnight" as the A-side and "Promised Land" as a B-side and vice versa.)
"Burning Love" rose to number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, while the two sides together (as "It's Midnight / Promised Land") and "It's Midnight" on its own charted on the Hot Country Singles chart. "It's Midnight" peaked on it at number 9 in January 1975.
Billboard in its review of the album Promised Land (in the January 18, 1975 issue) picked "It's Midnight" as one of the best cuts on the album.
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