Elvis Presley
CD and Vinyl
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ESSENTIAL
ELVIS VOLUME 1 - FIRST MOVIES Side One
* Front Cover Reads: Essential Elvis - The First Movies,
An Original Soundtrack Recording, Includes 10 Unreleased
Versions Of The Hit Songs From Elvis' First Three Movies Brief History : They scoured the vaults for material from Presley's first three films, Love Me Tender (1956), Jailhouse Rock (1957), and Loving You (1957). Their work produced a 23-track album containing nine recordings originally released from those films, plus 14 alternate takes or rarities, some of which were radically different from the better-known tracks. For example, there was a version of "Jailhouse Rock" with a prominent vocal overdub that had never been used. Also, there was a fast take of "Loving You" that found Presley giving the song a comic rock treatment. The album cracked open the door to the recording studio and gave fans a glimpse of how Presley's songs came together as he was recording them. RCA U.S. had sometimes picked up ideas from its international branches (a good example being the 1976 The Sun Sessions LP, which was an American version of the 1975 British album The Elvis Presley Sun Collection), and in January 1988, the label picked up Essential Elvis - The First Movies for domestic release. Semon's liner notes unabashedly called his creation "the most exciting single album release since [Presley's] untimely death," and when you looked over what had been released so far, you couldn't disagree. (Geller's major accomplishments were multi-disc sets.) The result was a new approach to posthumous Presley releases and, in short order, Semon and Jørgensen's taking over of the job of handling the Presley catalogue for RCA, a mandate they held into the next millennium and that included a series of other Essential Elvis releases. |
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Details : 1988 Gatefold Release Front Cover : Elvis photo. Title to the left. Catalogue number top right. Rear Cover : Elvis photos from 3 different recording sessions. Catalogue number top right. Printed in U.S.A. bottom right. Label : Black dog near top. *NOTE* Gatefold opens to show photos from Loving You, Jailhouse Rock & Love Me Tender. |
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ALTERNATE ALOHA Side One Side Two This is the complete recording of the dress rehearsal on January 12, 1973 at the Honolulu International Centre. The 3 bonus songs are from after the actual concert on January 14 and first appeared on Mahalo From Elvis in 1978. Cover Front: White background featuring an artist rendition
of Elvis. The text seen is from a sticker affixed to the
shrink wrap. Disc: Black label. Dog near top. Matrix numbers Inner Sleeve |
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Label: RCA – 6985-1-R Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Canada Released: 1988 Executive Producer – Don Wardell Barcode: 07863569851 |
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Label: RCA – PL86985, RCA – PL 86985 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Europe Released: 1988 Marketed By – RCA Records Printed in Germany by TOPAC Barcode: 0035628698513 |
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Elvis Aron Presley "Forever" Catalogue Number : PDL2 - 1285 Year Release : March 1988 Record One Side 1: Record One Side 2: Record Two Side 1: Brief History: These recordings have been digitally remastered. It was only sold by the Pair Record Company in conjunction with RCA Records, as part of their 1988 spring promotion. This album was only available for approximately one month in a few selected record stores and then deleted. Details : Non-Gatefold 1988 Release |
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"Good Rockin' Tonight" Catalogue Number : SVL2 - 0824 Year Release : March 1988 Country : Canada Side A: Side B: Side C: Side D: Brief History: This very rare album was only sold through an RCA television mail order ad! It was only available for a short time and then it was deleted. It contains 32 songs. Details : 1988 Release Produced And Annotated Bij Ed Osborne. Matrix / Runout (Side A): EVL2-0824A |
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Elvis In Nashville Catalogue Number : 8468 - 1 - R Year Release : October 1988 Country : USA Side A: Side B: Brief History: One of two albums assembled by the Country Music Foundation's Jay Orr (the other is Elvis Gospel), Elvis in Nashville is, as its title suggests, a sampler of material recorded by Elvis Presley in Nashville. Especially during the 1960s, when he was dividing his time between Tennessee and California, Presley took a different approach to his Hollywood and Nashville sessions, cutting the mediocre soundtracks to his movies in the West and aiming the Music City dates "at producing a hit single, an LP, or a batch of gospel or Christmas songs," as Orr puts it in his liner notes. The material and performances were a cut above the movie work, but the songs were also diverse and, again to quote Orr, "If any conclusion can be drawn from such a limited review (as this album provides), it is that Elvis, with his unique vocal gift and his inherited musical sensibilities, could prevail in any setting given the will to do so." But the same conclusion could be drawn from just about any sampling of his work, and while Elvis in Nashville features such classics as "I Got a Woman" and "Guitar Man," there is nothing musically that marks the tracks by their location of recording. At least in this compilation, the Presley Nashville sessions, while not undistinguished, are indistinguishable from those held in other cities. Details : 1988 Release *Note* SRC logo stamped in trail off wax which stands for
Specialty Records Corporation located in Olyphant, PA. Founded
in 1946 and renamed WEA Manufacturing Inc. in 1979. Records
that have the "SRC" logo in the runout 'deadwax'
were Processed & Pressed By Specialty Records Corporation,
but records that have the "SRC" logo along with
an "SPAR" etching "and" a "B-#####"-type
matrix number in the runout 'deadwax' indicates that the Plating
(Processing / Metalwork) was done at Specialty Records Corporation
but the record itself was actually Pressed at Allied Record
Company. In such cases with the "SPAR" and "B-#####"
etchings, add Specialty Records Corporation as 'Mastered At'
and also add Allied Record Company as 'Pressed By'. |
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Details : 1988 Release Front Cover : Photo of Elvis. Title to the left left. Rear Cover : All text back. Catalogue number top right. Printed in U.S.A. bottom. Label : Dark Orange. Flexible vinyl. Side A : RCA logo top. Side B : RCA logo top. Pressing Plant : Pennsylvania Matrix Number Side A : 8468 - 1 - R - A - 1-1 CMFTCB 4UE SRC (Hand Etched) Matrix Number Side B : 8468 - 1 - R - B - 1-1 SRC (Hand Etched) *Note* Different label variation. SRC logo stamped in trail off wax which stands for Specialty Records Corporation located in Olyphant, |
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Elvis 1954-1955 The Beginning Catalogue Number: MARVENCO - 101 Year Release: 1988 Side 1: Scotty Moore Tells The
Story Of The First Year (Biff Collie Interview) Brief History: U.S.A. release Authorized by RCA. According to research this Eagles Hall appearance is believed to the first ever recorded in Houston, Texas, March 1955. Only the 3 played on this. Details: 1988 Release Label: White with the photo of the 3 greats Also released in a black vinyl edition. It includes a copy of the contract signed by Elvis and his parents, and a booklet with photos and notes. |
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Details: 1988 Release Front Cover: Photo of Elvis, Scotty & Bill. Title top right. Rear Cover: 5 Black & White photos from the 50s. Label: Pink with the photo of the 3 greats |
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Elvis – 17 Number One Hits
Label: J & B Records – JB 328 Side 1: Side 2: Liner Notes – Glenn A. Baker Matrix / Runout (Side A - Etched): MX 300505
JB 328 1 |
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Elvis Presley – 17 No. 1's
Label: J & B Records – JB 628PD Licensed From – RCA, BMG Records Matrix / Runout (Side A): MX 300506 JB 328 1 |
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