Speedway (song)
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| name = Speedway
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| artist = Elvis Presley
| album = Speedway
| released = 1968
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| recorded = June 20, 1967
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| length = {{Duration|m=2|s=10}}
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| writer = {{hlist|Mel Glazer|Stephen Schlaks}}
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"Speedway" is a song first recorded by Elvis Presley as part of the soundtrack for his 1968 motion picture Speedway.{{cite book|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N0chAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Speedway%22+%22Glazer%22+%22Schlaks%22&pg=PA2122|year=1970|pages=2122–}}
Its first release on record was in 1968 on the soundtrack album Speedway.
Writing and recording
The song was written by Mel Glazer and Stephen Schlaks.{{cite book|title=Billboard|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_GgoEAAAAMBAJ|quote=Speedway Glazer Schlaks.|date=26 September 1998|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_GgoEAAAAMBAJ/page/n52 53]–|issn=0006-2510}}{{cite book|author=Jean-Jacques Jelot-Blanc|title=CAMION BLANC: ELVIS A HOLLYWOOD Presley fait son cinéma|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QcSZCwAAQBAJ&q=%22Speedway%22+%22Glazer%22+%22Schlaks%22&pg=PT140|date=3 January 2016|publisher=CAMION BLANC|isbn=978-2-35779-747-5|pages=140–}}{{cite book|author=George Batista Da Silva|title=Música E Ecran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e9lSBQAAQBAJ&q=%22Speedway%22+%22Glazer%22+%22Schlaks%22&pg=PA213|date=11 October 2006|publisher=Clube de Autores|pages=213–|id=PKEY:99031787}}{{cite book|author=George Batista Da Silva|title=Do Vitascope Ao Imax|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQUtBQAAQBAJ&q=%22Speedway%22+%22Glazer%22+%22Schlaks%22&pg=PA292|date=10 January 2008|publisher=Clube de Autores|pages=292–|id=PKEY:90119728}}{{cite book|author=James L. Neibaur|title=The Elvis Movies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u95XAwAAQBAJ&q=%22Speedway%22+%22Glazer%22+%22Schlaks%22&pg=PA227|date=4 April 2014|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4422-3074-3|pages=227–}}
Presley recorded it on June 20, 1967, at the soundtrack recordings for the MGM movie Speedway (that took place June 20–21, 1967 at the MGM Studios in Hollywood, California.){{cite book|author=Ernst Jorgensen|title=Elvis Presley: A Life In Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igH2AgAAQBAJ&q=%22Speedway%22+%22Glazer%22+%22Schlaks%22&pg=PT352|date=22 April 2014|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-1-4668-6855-7|pages=352–}}{{cite book|author1=Kevin Crouch|author2=Tanja Crouch|title=The Gospel According To Elvis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXb_AgAAQBAJ&q=%22Speedway%22+%22Glazer%22+%22Schlaks%22&pg=PT190|date=9 April 2012|publisher=Music Sales Group|isbn=978-0-85712-758-7|pages=190–}}
References
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{{Elvis Presley}}
{{Elvis Presley singles}}