ELVIS PRESLEY ``ELVIS´´ w/ALTERNATE TAKE "OLD SHEP"
  $   199

 


$ 199 Sold For
May 16, 2009 Sold Date
May 6, 2009 Start Date
$   25 Start price
17   Number Of Bids
  France Country Of Seller
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Rip It Up ; Love Me ; When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again ;
Long Tall Sally ; First In Line ; Paralyzed ; So Glad You’re Mine ; Old Shep ; Ready Teddy ; Anyplace Is Paradise ; How’s The World Treating You ;
How Do You Think I Feel


• THIS IS THE SECOND ELVIS’ LP, ISSUED IN LATE 1956 WITH A LARGE VARIATION OF LABELS AND BACK COVERS... MONSTROUSLY RARE MISPRESSING THAT MAKES THIS ALBUM EXTREMY TOUGH TO FIND ! NO ONE REALLY KNOWS HOW IT OCURRED BUT AN ALTERNATE TAKE OF “OLD SHEP” WAS INCLUDED HERE INCLUDED AND SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FROM THE REGULAR TAKE ISSUED ON THE PREVIOUS (AND SUBSEQUENT) RELEASES ... ELVIS RECORDED “OLD SHEP” IN HOLLYWOOD ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1956. HE DELIVERED THE MASTER RECORDING ON THE VERY FIRST TAKE BUT WENT ON TO RECORD THROUGH FOUR MORE TAKES AND ONE OF THESE (TAKE 5) WAS MISTANKENLY RELEASED LATER... BOTH VERSIONS ARE BASICALLY THE SAME BUT THERE’S JUST ONE WORD (“AND”) THAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE. MATRIX NUMBERS STAMPED IN THE TRAIL-OFF DEAD WAX ARE : G2PP 15S / G2PP 17S. THE COVER IS IN VERY NICE SHAPE WITH LIGHT AGEING MARKS ON THE REAR BUT NOTHING MAJOR, FREE OF WRITING... FRONT SIDE SHOWS A BIT OF WHITING AT TOP AND BOTTOM CENTER. THE DISC HAS NICE LUSTRE AND SOME SCATTERED SUPERFICIAL MARKS, PLAYS NICELY WITH A COUPLE OF POPS HERE AND THERE...SOME PRINTING DEFAULT TO LABEL OF SIDE 2 •



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