ELVIS PRESLEY SILVER BOX RARE SEALED ORIG'80 #ED LTD EDIT RCA 8LP BOX SET w/BOOK

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·      ELVIS PRESLEY – ELVIS ARON PRESLEY: THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY: – RARE ORIGINAL 1980 RCA RECORDS MONO 8-LP BOX SET WITH RARE AND PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MATERIAL – ORIGINAL RCA VICTOR 1980 6-LP MONO BOX SET # CPL8-3699

·      (REGARDING THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING THE CORRECT SPELLING OF ELVIS' MIDDLE NAME: ELVIS' CORRECT MIDDLE NAME WAS ARON, NOT AARON).

·      ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·      THE 8-LP BOX SET CONTAINS NO LESS THAN 65 (SIXTY FIVE!) UNRELEASED PERFORMANCES!

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***

·      INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING INSERTS/EXTRAS:

(1)         8 FULL COLOR ELVIS PICTURE SLEEVES

(2)         20-PAGE ILLUSTRATED PHOTO BOOKLET

(3)         ELVIS AUTOGRAPH REPLICA EMBEDDED IN EACH OF THE 8 RECORDS

·      LIMITED, NUMBERED EDITION (THIS COPY IS # 017581)

·      GUARANTEED ORIGINAL CUSTOM SILVER RCA LABELS WITH A RAINBOW BANNER, UNIQUE TO THIS TITLE

·      THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL (BASED ON THE WEIGHT), THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

·      TWO “BREATHE” (AIR) HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP

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

·      ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (BOX)

·      COVER HAS A NIFTY 'HYPE' (ADVERTISEMENT) STICKER STILL AFFIXED TO THE SHRINK WRAP.

·      ORIGINAL "TEXTURED" (EMBOSSED/RAISED) COVER.

·      As far as we know, this album is currently out of print and unavailable on Compact Disc, or in any other format.

 (►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you’ll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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This eight-LP set is nothing less than essential, with just a couple of important caveats to consider, mostly based on its age. Released in 1980, Elvis Aron Presley -- which is often referred to informally as "The Silver Box" -- was the first attempt at a serious boxed set devoted to Elvis Presley. In keeping with the many other "firsts" in his career, it was also the first multi-disc, career-wide survey on a rock & roll star's music, concentrating on rarities and outtakes -- in other words, totally unknown territory for a major label. The box offers a treasure-trove of essential Elvis Presley sides that had never shown up legitimately before. The set opens with its strongest sides, the live performances from the Venus Room of the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas in the spring of 1956, and "the King"'s March 25, 1961, benefit performance from the Bloch Arena in Honolulu, HI. For all of the seeming indifference of the crowd at the Vegas appearance, those are first-rate live rock & roll performances and are also as good a cross-section of his work as you could get, pared down to four tracks: "Heartbreak Hotel," "Long Tall Sally," "Blue Suede Shoes," and "Money Honey." The Honolulu benefit had appeared on vinyl bootlegs during the 1970s, but never sounding this good -- there are still a few momentary drop-outs, and the noise of the screaming girls on the first numbers does suppress the music slightly (if George Martin could have heard this tape, it would have warned him of what he was in for in trying to record the Beatles in concert); but this is also about as idealized an early Elvis Presley live performance as we're ever likely to hear, backed not only by Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana, but also by Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland, Floyd Cramer, and Boots Randolph, which essentially means the best of his live band and his studio group combined. What's more, Elvis is remarkably relaxed here, joking with the crowd as he ranges across his entire career up to that point, from "That's All Right" to "It's Now or Never." The combination of the inevitable sound leakages, a few flubbed lines (on "One Night"), and Colonel Tom Parker's neglect of the musical side of Elvis' career precluded this show -- Elvis' last before a paying audience until 1969 -- from ever being released on its own, but by itself it's worth a good deal more than 25 percent of the cost of this set. It also makes for a fascinating snapshot of the King as he was metamorphosing musically from the young, lean, raw rock & roller into a mature, sophisticated (and genuinely great) singer. Disc two doesn't fare quite so well, its highlight being a series of ten delightful outtakes of various movie songs (some of them not always very good as songs) and what were then previously unreleased excerpts from the TV specials from 1968, 1973, and 1977. Those tracks have been supplanted by better releases since, though they still make great listening. Disc three's outtakes from his live late-'60s Las Vegas shows has, similarly, been made redundant by subsequent issues, and the "Lost Singles" selection was only useful at the time for gathering together nine '70s-era 45s that were out of print and not anthologized on extant albums at the time -- much more valuable is "Elvis at the Piano," depicting the King working through four numbers on his own, including the unedited version of the 1973 single "It's Still Here." Disc four contains representative excerpts from a June 1975 Dallas, TX, show, and like much of the live portion of disc three and the television broadcasts on disc two, it has been rendered somewhat superfluous. The producers have improved the sound significantly for the CD release, which was delayed until 1998 and also gave them time to improve the packaging, though there's surprisingly little formal musical information (dates, bandmembers, etc.) listed. So much of this box now seems redundant that 21st century listeners may hesitate to buy it, but it's still an extremely enjoyable compilation with at least 20 tracks that are an essential part of any serious collection of Elvis' music.

(REVIEW REPRINTED COURTESY OF BRUCE EDER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

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·      CONDITION:

·      THE RECORDS:

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)         THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them.

(a)         The box set comes with all three inserts listed above (the booklet, 8 Elvis picture sleeves, Elvis autograph replicas)

(b)         The records come in their original, custom, inner sleeves (color coded in the color spectrum array), which are UNIQUE to this album.

(c)         The records are apparently (based on weight) pressed on a RELATIVELY  thick, inflexible vinyl. This is NOT a thin, flimsy ('dynaflex' type),  vinyl, but not the thickest, most rigid vinyl, either.

(d)         Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·      COVER (BOX)

THE BOX IS STRONG NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP 

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-       The box has a small cutout saw-mark (an indent about 3-5 mm deep ) on the upper edge.

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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 (1) The year indicated in the title bar is the year of the original release,  NOT necessarily the year of the actual pressing; for the actual generation of the pressing, please see our item description (top section, the text in red letters). (2) Please do NOT bid based on the title bar, subtitle bar or item specifics box alone; instead, please read the entire description before bidding; (3) Absolutely NO order cancellations after the auction closes. ever, under any circumstances. We can ONLY cancel bids before the item closes. (4) We are unable to provide matrix-, stamper- or other pressing  information in the final 24 hours of the auction. (5) All disagreements and miscommunications can be - and will only be - solved in a civil and mutually respectful manner; please avoid puerile, offensive, abrasive or menacing language (6) This seller will accommodate all reasonable requests and - unless seriously molested - is generally a flexible, pragmatic and agreeable person.

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