It's Midnight

"It's Midnight"
Single by Elvis Presley
from the album Promised Land
A-side	"It's Midnight"
B-side	"Promised Land"
Released	September 27, 1974
Recorded	December 10, 1973
Studio	Stax Studios, Memphis
Genre	Country
Length	3:20
Label	RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)	Billy Edd Wheeler and Jerry Chesnut
Producer(s)	Felton Jarvis
Elvis Presley singles chronology
"If You Talk in Your Sleep" / "Help Me" (1974) "It's Midnight" / "Promised Land" (1974) "My Boy" / "Thinking About You" (1975)

"It's Midnight" is a 1974 song recorded by Elvis Presley. It was written by Jerry Chesnut and Billy Edd Wheeler.^[1]

Elvis Presley recorded it during his December 10–16, 1973, recording sessions at Stax Records in Memphis.^[2][3] The session produced three more charting songs: "Promised Land", "If You Talk in Your Sleep" and "Help Me".

The song was first released in October 1974 as a B-side to a cover of Chuck Berry's "Promised Land".^[2][4] (While the Goldmine Standard Catalog of American Records indicates "Promised Land" as the A-side,^[5] different pressings have "It's Midnight" as the A-side and "Promised Land" as a B-side and vice versa.)^[6]

"Promised Land" rose to number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100,^[2] 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.^[2] "It's Midnight" peaked on it at number 9 in January 1975.^[4][7]

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.

^* as "It's Midnight / Promised Land"

^** as "It's Midnight"