Elvis Presley - Twenty Days and Twenty Nights - 7 August 1970 - Stage rehearsal with RCA audio

It appears that Elvis only performed ’Twenty Days and Twenty Nights’ once on stage and that was during the dinner show of 12 August 1970 (), show four of the season. Elvis had recorded it in the studio just two months earlier on 4 June 1970 in Nashville and the song has the distinction of being the very first song recorded on the very first day of what would become known as ’The Nashville Marathon’. This recording session produced some of the best recordings of Elvis’ career and would produce three albums two of which are considered by many mainstream critics as two of his finest - Elvis Country and That’s The Way It Is, the album in which ’Twenty Days’ appeared. In my opinion, as much as the song is not really hit material but more of an album track, it exemplifies what was the new mature Elvis Presley. Having reinvented himself through the ’Singer Presents Elvis’ TV special, the Memphis 69 sessions and two seasons in Las Vegas his voice had now fully matured and now the material