On November 29, 1976 a new single of the king hit the market. To promote the release some units were pressed on white, red, gold, green and blue vinyl. Billboard listed "Moody Blue" on the "Hot 100", starting on December 25th at number 82. Within its run of 13 weeks the single climbed to number 31. On the "Hot Country Singles Charts" the record stayed 16 weeks and became a number one hit. On Elvis' 42nd birthday "Moody Blue" also entered the "Easy Listening Chart". Here it had a run of 14 weeks and peaked at number 2. Until the end of July 1977 RCA Records sold 1.3 million copies, which was average for a Presley single these days. However, when the singer died the sales rose to 3 million units, which translates to 450 million paid streams. In the present "Moody Blue" belongs to the 35 most requested songs on Spotify and was streamed around 42 million times. "She Thinks I Still Care" is far less popular and accumulates no more than 2.8 million streams.

Because even several touch ups couldn't hide the decline of the singer, RCA Records now went back to using old pictures on the record covers. This time they picked one from the summer of 1972.

On the streaming platforms the tracks can be found on the "Moody Blue" album.

Mark James wrote and recorded the song in 1974, but it wasn't successful at all. On February 4, 1976 Elvis put the song on tape in the den of his "Graceland" mansion within 10 takes. Later Felton Jarvis added bass (February 15, 1976), drums (February 17, 1976), guitars (February 24, 1976) and strings (February 24, 1976). He also shortened the recording of 1.5 minutes. Here the singer struggles with his relationship with an inconsistently acting lady. He does it in form of a popsong with disco elements, which was quite popular back then. The style is atypical for Elvis, but works very well.

"She Thinks I Still Care" was first released in 1962 by George Jones. In Dickey Lee's song the narrator was left by his lady, but refuses to admit that he still loves her. On February 2, 1976 Elvis toiled through 19 takes (because the numbers 2 and 12 were used twice the official master take is number 17), but still the final version includes several vocal shortcomings. Nevertheless the king sounds impressive at times and delivers the country ballad in a very emotional and believable way.