ELVIS PRESLEY FIRST ALBUM RCA 1254 RARE ORIGINAL MONO LP FROM 1956 ??????

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  ELVIS PRESLEY FIRST ALBUM RCA 1254 RARE ORIG MONO LP








A MINT MINUS/VG++ ORIGINAL LP ON RCA LPM 1254

FROM 1956 THE SELF TITLED FIRST ALBUM IN MONO

THIS IS THE RARE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE COVER WITH A BOXED GREEN AND PINK RCA LOGO IN UPPER RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THE FRONT COVER AND WITH ELVIS IN PALE PINK LETTERS ON LEFT SIDE FRONT COVER

A DEEP GROOVE PRESSING WITH THE ORIGINAL SILVER RCA Victor LOGO AT TOP OF LABEL WITH THE NIPPER DOG

WITH Long Play INSCRIPTION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LABEL

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING

THIS IS THE AMONG THE FIRST FIRST ROCK'N'ROLL/ROCKABILLY ALBUMS EVER RELEASED AND IT IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ROCK ALBUMS IN HISTORY. MOST OF THE MATERIAL HERE COMES FROM ELVIS' LEGENDARY "SUN" SESSIONS AND ONLY A FEW NEW RCA RECORDINGS WERE ADDED

WITH SONGWRITING CREDITS FOR THE SONG ‘JUST BECAUSE’ ARE GIVEN TO SHELTON-SHELTON-ROBIN, NOT P.D. (PUBLIC DOMAIN).

12 TRACKS INCLUDE BLUE SUEDE SHOES, I'M COUNTING ON YOU, I GOT A WOMAN, ONE-SIDED LOVE AFFAIR, I LOVE YOU BECAUSE, JUST BECAUSE, TUTTI FRUTTI, TRYIN' TO GET TO YOU, I'M GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN AND CRY, I'LL NEVER LET YOU GO, BLUE MOON, MONEY HONEY

COVER STOCK WITH RUB AND RING WEAR AND AGE DISCOLORATION. CORNERS WITH SMALL ROUGH SPOTS AND OUTER LAYER LOSSES ON POINT. TOP RIGHT CORNER JUST STARTING TO SPLIT ABOUT HALF AN INCH. SOME VERY LIGHT FRAYING OF THE SPINE EDGE TOWARDS BOTTOM. NOTWITHSTANDING, A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, SO PLEASE DO LOOK AT THE COVER PHOTOS TO ASCERTAIN COVER CONDITION.

SPINDLE HOLE EACH SIDE WITH A VERY FAINT AND SMALL RUB MARK. THE HIGH LUSTER VINYL BLANK AT FIRST GLANCE OUT OF THE SLEEVE APPEARS UNUSUALLY PRISTINE AND TO HAVE NOT BEEN PLAYED, MUCH LESS TOUCHED, BEFORE NOW. UNDER BRIGHT ANGLED LIGHT AND ASSIDUOUS EXAMINATION A FEW LIGHT SURFACE RUBS AND OR SURFACE PAPER SLEEVE CONTACT IMPRESSIONS. SIDE TWO WITH A FAINT RUB SCUFF MARK ACROSS THE FIRST TWO TRACKS IN THE 6 POSITION (AND THE REASON FOR ADDING VG++ TO THE GRADE). WE''VE TEST PLAYED THIS LP ON A PROFESSIONAL SOUND SYSTEM WITH A VPI TURNTABLE WITH A GRADO REFERENCE 1 WOOD CARTRIDGE AND IT WAS A WONDERFUL PLAY WITHOUT NOTICE OF THE ABOVE AND SOUNDING QUITE FINE HERE. CLEAR, PRESENT AND VIBRANT THROUGHOUT.

RARELY SEEN LP WHICH NOW FETCHES 500 PLUS WHEN SEEING THE LIGHT OF DAY

FROM A NOTED JAZZ REVIEWER'S PRIVATE COLLECTION ?PLEASE NOTE THE VINYL DESCRIPTION IS ONLY A VISUAL INSPECTION UNLESS OTHERWISE MENTIONED. HERE IS A FEW WORDS ABOUT MY GRADING SYSTEM AND IS IN ADDITION TO ANYTHING WRITTEN ABOVE AND SUPERSEDES ANY OTHER GRADING SYSTEM, INCLUDING GOLDMINE: ALL RECORDS ARE VISUALLY GRADED AND THE RED GRADE ABOVE REFERS ONLY TO THE STATE OF VINYL......YOU PLAY THE VINYL AND NOT THE COVER....COVER IS NOTED SEPARATELY. IF I'VE TEST PLAYED THE LP IT WILL BE NOTED. MINT INDICATES PRISTINE VINYL WITHOUT ANY MARKS ON THE VINYL BLANK. MINT MINUS MAY CONTAIN A FEW VERY LIGHT SURFACE RUB MARKS FROM HANDLING & SLEEVE WEAR OR A FEW PLAYS. IF YOU ARE A REAL VINYL AFICIONADO AND COLLECTOR YOU'LL KNOW THAT EVEN A FACTORY SEALED LP OCCASIONALLY HAS SOME LIGHT RUB OR SLEEVE MARKS FROM TRANSPORT AND SHELVING. ANYTHING IN THE VG CATEGORY WOULD CONTAIN SOME LIGHT AND FINE SURFACE PLAY LINES AND EVIDENCE OF PLAY WEAR THAT IS EASILY SEEN. SELDOM IS ANYTHING OFFERED IN THE "G" STATE.

FROM THE ALLMUSIC.COM WEBSITE:
Review
by Bruce Eder
Today it all seems so easy -- RCA signs up the kid from Memphis, television gets interested at around the same time, and the rest is history. The circumstances surrounding this album were neither simple nor promising, however, nor was there anything in the history of popular music up to that time to hint that Elvis Presley was going to be anything other than "Steve Sholes' folly," which was what rival executives were already whispering. So a lot was unsettled and untried at the first of two groups of sessions that produced the Elvis Presley album -- it wasn't even certain that there was any reason for a rock & roll artist to cut an album, because teenagers bought 45s, not LPs. The first of Elvis' RCA sides yielded one song, "Heartbreak Hotel," that seemed a potential single, but which no one thought would sell, and a few tracks that would be good enough for an album, if there were one. But no one involved knew anything for sure about this music. Seventeen days later, "Heartbreak Hotel" was released, and for about a month it did nothing -- then it began to move, and then Elvis appeared on television, and had a number one pop single. The album Sholes wanted out of Elvis came from …  » Read more


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