ELVIS PRESLEY HEARTBREAK HOTEL UK HMV PURPLE GOLD TEXT LABEL 7” EXCELLENT 7M 385
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A wonderful condition early UK press on HMV from 1956. This is the purple label with gold text. Original sleeve too.
I have play tested it and it is excellent, near mint.
I have added a video.
"Heartbreak Hotel" is a song recorded by the American singer Elvis Presley. It was released as a single on January 27, 1956, Presley's first on his new record label RCA Victor. It was written by Mae Boren Axton and Tommy Durden, with credit being given also to Presley. A newspaper article about the suicide of a lonely man who jumped from a hotel window inspired the song. Axton presented the song to Presley in November 1955 at a country music convention in Nashville. Presley recorded it on January 10, 1956, in a session with his band, the Blue Moon Boys, the guitarist Chet Atkins and the pianist Floyd Cramer. "Heartbreak Hotel" comprises an eight-bar blues progression, with heavy reverberation throughout the track, to imitate the character of Presley's Sun recordings.
"Heartbreak Hotel" was released as a single on January 27, 1956, with B-side "I Was the One", a song that was also recorded during Presley's RCA Victor debut sessions. Billboard magazine praised it as "a strong blues item wrapped up in his usual powerful style and a great beat". However, "Heartbreak Hotel" was less-than-warmly received by the British music press. The New Musical Express wrote that, "If you appreciate good singing, I don't suppose you'll manage to hear this disc all through." BBC, which held a monopoly on broadcasting in Britain at the time, didn't consider it fit for general entertainment and placed it on its "restricted play" list.
The song also became Presley's first charting single in the United Kingdom. It made its debut on the UK Singles Chart in May 1956; it peaked at number two the next month and stayed on the charts for 22 weeks.
Elvis Presley – Heartbreak Hotel Label: His Master's Voice – 7M 385 Format: Vinyl, 7", Single Country: UK Released: 1956 Genre: Rock, Blues Style:
A Heartbreak Hotel B I Was The One
7" with removable centre
This version credits "FRANK MUSIC", "B. F. WOOD" and "NCB/BIEM" for Heartbreak Hotel, another version (Heartbreak Hotel) only credits "MILLS" for Heartbreak Hotel.
Matrix / Runout: (Side A, stamped) 7XAV 1422-1N RTMatrix / Runout: (Side B, stamped) 7XAV 1423-1N RTRights Society: NCB/BIEM
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