On February 7, 1976 the second volume of "A Legendary Performer" hit the market. Billboard listed it on their "Top LPs Chart" for 17 weeks, the peak position was number 46. During its initial sales period the longplayer sold 600,000 copies. In the course of the king's demise "A Legendary Performer - Volume 2" entered the "Hot Country LPs Chart" on September 10, 1977, stayed for 22 weeks and peaked at number 9. In October 1977 the RIAA certified the domestic sales with a Gold Award, in July 1999 the status was updated to Double Platinum. The lp also earned the king a Golden Boot Award. Worldwide the album sold 3.5 million copies, which translates to 525 million paid streams of the complete album or 5.3 billion paid streams of individual tracks. Compared to "Elvis Today", the king's latest album with current recordings, this meant an increase of sales by 75%. And because of the buyout deal, the label hadn't to pay the king for his performances. Elvis only earned money through his shares in the publishing companies.

The packaging was as elaborate as the one of the first volume. The longplayer was housed in a booklet of 12 pages, which could be seen through a hole in the cover. Later editions were packaged in a cheaper way. The booklet was missing and the part, that could be seen on the outside, was printed on the sleeve.

The album is not available on the streaming platforms, because all the tracks can be found elsewhere.

Once again Joan Deary compiled fan's favorites, outtakes and unreleased live performances of well known songs. This time she even presented two tracks, that were completely unknown. The compilation has a running time of 26:38 minutes.

On July 5, 1954 Elvis recorded eight takes of Habor Lights at SUN Records. Sam Phillips selected the 3rd attempt for release, but in the end he left the song in the vaults. RCA also saw no potential in the track and kept it where it was. "Habor Lights" was written by J. Kennedy and H. Williams, it was first recorded on January 29, 1937 by The Roy Fox Orchestra and their vocalist Barrie Gray.

Here we have a short interview with Elvis, that was recorded in April 1956 in Wichita Falls.

The fans knew the ballad from the a-side of the king's second RCA single, but instad of the master (which is a splice of the takes 14 and 17) the label now presents the previously unreleased take 15. At one point Elvis mixes up the lyrics and sings "I need you, I want you, I love you".

Here we have another gem for the fans and collectors, because this performance was taped during the 8:00 p.m. show on June 27, 1968 in connection with the television special "SINGER presents Elvis" and was unreleased at the time.

This is the version, the fans knew from "Elvis' Christmas Album" and and some single releases. The king's seasonal recordings were quite popular, so it was a clever choice to include his best known one.

Another classic, once again the regular version.

The same applies to this track. But this one is also an important piece of history, because "It's Now Or Never" / "A Mess Of Blues" had been the most successful single release of the 1960s.

Some fans might have remembered the song from the movie "Flaming Star" (1960). RCA had never released it on a record before, so it was the second new song of this album. "A Cane And A High Starched Collar" was written by Roy C. Bennett and Sid Tepper and recorded by Elvis on August 8, 1960 at Radio Recorders in Hollywood/California. The master is a splice of take 6 and instert-take 6, which was a re-recording of the song's finale.

On March 25, 1961 Elvis received several awards. The clip was unreleased at the time.

This track isn't the recording from the chart breaking soundtrack album, but a re-recording Elvis did on January 14, 1973 for the US broadcast of his television concert "Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite". Unfortunately the king sounds rather tired than romantic.

Here we have another alternate version of a well-known song. Instead of the master take "A Legendary Performer - Volume 2" featured the previously unreleased takes number 2 and 3.

This performance was known from the album "Elvis", the soundtrack of the king's first tv special.

Once again we get the regular version, but Elvis' gospel songs were just as popular as his Xmas recordings and therefore it made some commercial sense to include the hymn.

The album closes with the finale of the tv special "SINGER presents Elvis".