On March 26, 1968 RCA Victor released "We Call On Him" / "You'll Never Walk Alone", even though the king's previous single was still in the top 40. "You'll Never Walk Alone" entered Billboard's "Hot 100" on April 20th at number 90, but never climbed any higher and vanished into thin air after just two weeks. The supposed a-side didn't chart at all. Obviously it was planned to repeat the success of "Chrying In The Chapel", but with global sales of 500,000 copies "We Call On Him" was a staggering 3.25 million units behind the paragon. According to the RIAA the equivalent of paid streams for this sales disaster is 75,000. At least Elvis received some artistic recognition when the Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences nominated his performance of "You'll Never Walk Alone" for a Grammy Award. In the present "You'll Never Walk Alone" remains the more popular track. On Spotify it clocks in at 17 million streams (plus another million for the remake from the album "Where No One Stands Alone") while "We Call On Him" barely found 1.4 million listeners.

The cover photo showed the king in formal style (the picture had been made by MGM to promote the movie "Speedway"), the backside advertised the gospel albums "His Hand In Mine" (1960) and "How Great Thou Art" (1967) as well as the gospel ep "Peace In The Valley" (1957).

The single is not available on the streaming platforms, but Sony Music Entertainment has included the tracks on the digital version of the album "How Great Thou Art" (1967). They are also available on the budget release "You'll Never Walk Alone" (1972). However, the latter one is available in cd quality only, not in hi-res.

Fred Karger, Ben Weisman and Sid Wayne had written the ersatz-hymn for the movie "Easy Come, Easy Go", but finally it wasn't used for the project. And so Elvis recorded it on September 11, 1967 at RCA Studio B in Nashville/Tennessee for next year's Easter release. The king did the best he could, but even he wasn't able to raise "We Call On Him" above the level of an average movie tune. CAMDEN used the track in 1971 on the budget album "You'll Never Walk Alone".

You won't be surprised to read that CAMDEN released the song on the same album. Elvis recorded "You'll Never Walk Alone" right after "We Call On Him" and delivered one of his very best performances. He seems to loose himself in the song, his voice is full of emotion and he sounds absolutely stunning. The master is a splice of takes 1 and 8. "You'll Never Walk Alone" was written by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II in 1945 for a musical called "Carousel". In the same year Frank Sinatra also recorded a version of this classic.