ELVIS PRESLEY "ELVIS" RCA LPM-1382 RARE ORIG 1956 LP AD BACK EX/EX CONDITION
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ELVIS PRESLEY~"ELVIS"~RCA LPM-1382~RARE ORIG 1956 LP~AD BACK~EX/EX CONDITION!! ELVIS PRESLEY~"ELVIS"~RCA LPM-1382~RARE ORIG 1956 LP~AD BACK~EX/EX CONDITION!!
Elvis Presley ?– Elvis
RCA Victor ?– LPM-1382
"Long Play" at bottom.
"NEW ORTHOPHONIC" HIGH FIDELITY centered above the spindle hole.
Camden, N.J. location in rim text
Track A6 credits Otis Blackwell only.
Ad-back rear sleeve, yellow area above 4 albums, states "Listen to these musical favorites in many moods!"
COVER IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH VERY LIGHT WEAR!!
NO SPLITS OR DAMAGE TO THE EDGES!
HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH LIGHT SURFACE SCUFFS AND SMALL SCRATCHES!
AMAZING CONDITION FOR THIS ORIGINAL ALBUM FROM 1956 - 60 YEARS AGO!
BY FAR THE BEST CONDITION ON THIS ALBUM WE'VE EVER SEEN!!!
If Elvis isn't quite as important historically as the Elvis Presley album that preceded it, that's only because it came second -- musically, it's a more confident and bolder work than his debut, and in any other artist's output it would have been considered a crowning achievement. At the sessions for his first album, the singer and all concerned were treading into unmapped territory and not sure what they were doing or if they were ready for it -- by September of 1956, when the three days of sessions behind the Elvis album took place, he was on top, a national phenomenon of a kind that hadn't been seen in music since Frank Sinatra a dozen years earlier, and he had some more experience recording. And with that confidence came better singing. The songs here were, for the most part, material that he knew well, with one new submission by Otis Blackwell. He slides through them seemingly effortlessly, transforming the 1940s country number "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again" into a smooth rocker; roaring through the Little Richard numbers "Long Tall Sally," "Ready Teddy," and "Rip It Up"; returns to his blues roots with a killer rendition of Arthur Crudup's "I'm So Glad You're Mine" (a leftover, amazingly enough, from his first RCA session); and shows how refined his voice was becoming on the ballad "First in Line" and the sentimental favorite "Old Shep."
Tracklist
A1 Rip It Up
A2 Love Me
A3 When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
A4 Long Tall Sally
A5 First In Line
A6 Paralyzed
B1 So Glad You're Mine
B2 Old Shep
B3 Ready Teddy
B4 Anyplace Is Paradise
B5 How's The World Treating You
B6 How Do You Think I Feel
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