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  • Way Down
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  • Gramophone record
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  • eng
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  • Irish Singles Chart number-one singles
  • Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one singles
  • RPM Country Tracks number-one singles
  • Elvis Presley songs
  • European Hot 100 Singles number-one singles
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  • %22Way Down%22 is a song recorded by Elvis Presley. Recorded in October 1976, it was his last single released before his death on August 16, 1977. The song was written by Layng Martine, Jr. and was later covered by Status Quo and Cliffhanger. Elvis recorded the song at his home studio in Graceland in late October, 1976.Released as a single (with %22Pledging My Love%22 on the B-side) on June 6, 1977, it was his current single when he died. It initially peaked at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated August 6, 1977 and had fallen to number 53 on the chart for the week ending August 27, 1977. Thereafter it reversed direction and reached an even higher peak at #18 on 24 September - 1 October 1977. %22Way Down%22 reached #1 on the American Country chart the week he died. Overseas, the song hit the UK Singles Chart a few weeks later, almost seven years after his previous UK #1 single, %22The Wonder of You%22, in 1970. His previous single, %22Moody Blue%22, had been a #1 hit on the US Country Charts earlier in 1977. %22Way Down%22 was reissued in April 2005 and reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart.The recording also featured J.D. Sumner singing the words %22Way on down%22 at the end of each chorus, repeating the phrase at the end of the song while hitting a double low C note (three octaves below middle C). According to the Guinness Book of World Records it is the lowest recorded note ever produced by the human voice, first accomplished by Sumner in a 1966 recording of the hymn %22Blessed Assurance.%22
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  • Layng Martine, Jr.
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  • USRC17601898
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  • Felton Jarvis
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  • english
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  • RCA Records
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  • --10-29
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  • Way Down
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