Release Date: 07 April 2023
Label: American Jazz Classics
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436563184444
Genres: Pop
Release Date: 09 February 2024
Label: Waxtime In Color
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436563185069
Genres: Pop
Description
Collectors' Limited Edition - 180g green vinyl - the complete album + 6 bonus tracks.
In a time when rock & roll hits were released on 45rpm discs, Elvis' debut LP, titled Elvis Presley, was the first rock album to reach number one on the charts, and RCA's first million dollar-earning pop album. It contained such classics as "Blue Suede Shoes", 'Tutti Frutti', and Elvis' version of 'Blue Moon'. The original album is issued here in its entirety with the addition of six bonus tracks.
Elvis Presley, vocals and guitar.
With: Scotty Moore (g), Shorty Long (p), Bill Black (b), D. J. Fontana (d).
Chet Atkins (g), Floyd Cramer (p), Bill Black (b).
Backing vocals by Gordon Stoker, Ben Speer & Brock Speer. Doug Poindexter.
Sessions recorded between 1954 and 1956 in Memphis, New York, and Nashville.
Description
The complete classic self-titled Elvis Presley debut album + 4 bonus tracks presented here as a special Limited Edition Picture Disc on 180-gram coloured vinyl.
Elvis' debut LP, titled Elvis Presley, was the first rock album to reach number one on the charts. Intriguingly, his first long play LP demonstrates that RCA had no idea what to do with the singer, even though it had paid what was then a king's ransom to buy his contract from Sam Phillips' Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
The album was produced by Steve Sholes (head of RCA's Country and Western and Rhythm and Blues division) and released in mono in March 1956. The recording sessions took place on January 10 & 11 at RCA recording studios in Nashville, and on January 30 & 31 at the label's studios in New York. Additional material originated from sessions at Sun Studio in Memphis, on July 5, August 19, and September 10, 1954, and on July 11, 1955.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Thelonious Monk
Ella Fitzgerald
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson
Miles Davis
Miles Davis
George Russell
Teddy Wilson Trio
Duke Ellington
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
