ELVIS PRESLEY - 78RPM Surrender. RCA 10"
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Nov 8, 2011 Sold Date
Nov 1, 2011 Start Date
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ELVIS PRESLEY.

Surrender (Torna Surriento*) / Lonely Man (from "Wild In The Country").


RCA  71.400 S.A. pressed 10"   78 rpm shellac record.

I was previously unaware that this 1961 pressing existed!
Plays wonderfully! A terrific opportunity to acquire this ultra-rare edition!

*THIS FROM WIKIPEDIA:

“Torna a Surriento” is a Neapolitan song said to have been composed in 1902 by Ernesto De Curtis to words by his brother, Giambattista. The song was copyrighted officially in 1905; it has since become wildly popular, and has been sung by performers as diverse as Beniamino Gigli, Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Meat Loaf, Mario Lanza, Franco Corelli, Robertino Loreti, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Muslim Magomayev, Francesco Albanese, Jerry Adriani, Roberto Carlos, and Anna Calvi. Sergio Franchi covered the song in debut Billboard Top 200 album (17th)in 1963 (Romantic Italian Songs}.[1]

Claude Aveling wrote the English lyrics, which are titled “Come Back to Sorrento.” Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman re-arranged it and wrote a new set of lyrics for Elvis Presley (“Surrender”).

The song was supposedly written at the request of a friend of Giambattista's, Guglielmo Tramontano, who was mayor of Sorrento in 1902 when the prime minister of Italy, Giuseppe Zanardelli, stayed at his hotel in that town; it was claimed that the piece was meant to celebrate Zanardelli's stay. More recent research indicates that the song may merely have been reworked for the occasion; family papers indicate that the brothers deposited a copy with the Italian Society of Authors and Editors in 1894, eight years before they claimed to have written it.



Has superficial surface marks that do not appreciably affect play.
Presented in laminated original RCA company sleeve.
Manufactured by Teal, Johanesburg.
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Will be suitably packed.
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