ELVIS PRESLEY No 2 Very Rare Orig UK 1957 HMV LP

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Mar 21, 2010 Sold Date

Mar 14, 2010 Start Date

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Elvis Presley

Rock N Roll No. 2

Very Rare Original UK LP released on HMV Records in 1957. 1st UK pressing on the Mauve HMV label with Gold Writing, the sleeve is laminated on the front and back with half moon flipbacks on the rear.

Matrix no's

Side One - G2-WP-7207-2N

Side Two - G2-WP-7208-1N

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."

TRACKS ARE :-

Side One

1. Rip It Up

2. Love Me

3. When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again

4. Long Tall Sally

5. First In Line

6. Paralysed

Side Two

1. So Glad You're Mine

2. Old Shep

3. Ready Teddy