ELVIS PRESLEY "LOVING YOU" Orig. 1957 U.S.RCA mono LPM-1515 black lbl. VG/M-
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ELVIS PRESLEY "LOVING YOU" 1957 original U.S. RCA Victor mono LP. LPM-1515. Soundtrack recording for Elvis' 2nd film w/"(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" & 11 more classic rockers. VG/M-.
Purporting to be the soundtrack to Elvis' second film, this album collects songs used in the film on one side with new material on the other. If you think of Loving You as simply an Elvis Presley album rather than a somewhat misleadingly packaged soundtrack, it was actually one of his more coherent and cohesive long-players, assembled from sessions all conducted in the first two months of 1957. By this time, he was doing precious little that was wrong, and his range and control were growing geometrically -- thus, amid some powerful rock & roll, including "Mean Woman Blues" (later a hit for Roy Orbison which could almost have passed for one of his Sun tracks), "Party" (which later became Wanda Jackson’s signature song), the electric guitar-driven "Got a Lot 'o Livin' to Do" and Ivory Joe Hunter's "I Need You So," the King does some brilliant ballad singing on Leiber & Stoller‘s title song "Loving You" and belts out a neat little upbeat number with their "Hot Dog” which had previously been recorded by Young Jessie. Elvis branches into Sons of the Pioneers territory with the hauntingly beautiful Western ballad, "Lonesome Cowboy" and he doesn't do badly with Fats Domino’s "Blueberry Hill" either.
11 tracks- Mean Woman Blues, (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear, Loving You, Got A Lot O’ Livin’ To Do, Lonesome Cowboy, Hot Dog, Party, Blueberry Hill, True Love, Don’t Leave Me Now, Have I Told You Lately That I Love You & I Need You So.
Glossy cover is intact & retains its original look & sheen w/no writing or split seams. Only slight age wear along the edges & back cover & minor corner wear on the top right could be considered as detriments but it still quite presentable. Overall the cover rates a strong VG grading. The record looks & plays great w/very few plays in near-MINT condition. The black RCA "dog on top" labels have "Long33 1/3Play" in the bottom center proving that it is an original 1957 pressing. There is slight sticker residue on the label on side 1 & a few faint spindle marks. This is an original monaural copy of the 1957 LP with the correct catalog number (LPM-1515) of the soundtrack to Elvis' 2nd film- his first for Hal Wallis & the first time he was seen in color.
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