Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley (Mono, 125g)
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Elvis Presely - vocals, acoustic guitar, piano (B1) [click here to see more vinyl featuring Elvis Presley]
Backing vocals - Gordon Stoker, Ben Speer, Scotty Moore
Bill Black – bass
D. J. Fontana – drums (A1-6, A9, B2, B5-9)
Chet Atkins – acoustic guitar (A4, B5)
Doug Poindexter – percussion/guitar (A8)
Johnny Bernero – drums (B1)
Written by Elvis Presley (A1), Mae Axton (A1), Tommy Durden (A1), Aaron Schroeder (A2), Claude Demetrius (A2), Hal Blair (A2), Bill Peppers (A2), Carl Perkins (A3), Don Robertson (A4), Ray Charles (A5), Bill Campbell (A6), Leon Payne (A7), Bob Shelton (A8), Joe Shelton (A8), Sid Robin (A8), Dorothy La Bostrie (A9), Richard Penniman (A9), Rose Mary McCoy (B1), Charles Singleton (B1), Howard Biggs (B2), Joe Thomas (B2), Jimmy Wakely (B3), Richard Rodgers (B4), Lorenz Hart (B4), Jesse Stone (B5), Charles Calhoun (B6), Lloyd Price (B7), Arthur Crudup (B8), Lou Kosloff (B9), George Mysels (B9)
1 LP, standard sleeve
Limited Edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 125g Virgin Vinyl
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Mono
Studio
Record Press : unspecified
Label : Simply Vinyl - S125 Series
Original Label : RCA Victor
Recorded July 5, 1954 – January 31, 1956 at RCA Studio B, Nashville ; RCA Victor Studio, New York City ; Sun Studio, Memphis
Engineered by Bob Ferris, Ernie Oehlrich, Sam Phillips
Original sessions produced by Sam Phillips, Stephen H. Sholes
Compiled by Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Semon
Remixed and remastered by Dennis Ferrante
Liner Notes by Colin Escott
Originally released in March 1956
Reissued in 2001
Tracks :
Side A:
- Heartbreak Hotel
- I Was the One Blue Suede Shoes
- I'm Counting on You
- I Got a Woman
- One-sided Love Affair
- I Love You Because
- Just Because
- Tutti Frutti
Side B:
- Tryin' to Get to You
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (over You)
- I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin')
- Blue Moon
- Money Honey
- Shake, Rattle and Roll
- Lawdy Miss Clawdy
- My Baby Left Me
- I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
Reviews :
« Today it all seems so easy -- RCA signs up the kid from Memphis, television gets interested at around the same time, and the rest is history. The circumstances surrounding this album were neither simple nor promising, however, nor was there anything in the history of popular music up to that time to hint that Elvis Presley was going to be anything other than "Steve Sholes' folly," which was what rival executives were already whispering. So a lot was unsettled and untried at the first of two groups of sessions that produced the Elvis Presley album -- it wasn't even certain that there was any reason for a rock & roll artist to cut an album, because teenagers bought 45s, not LPs. The first of Elvis' RCA sides yielded one song, "Heartbreak Hotel," that seemed a potential single, but which no one thought would sell, and a few tracks that would be good enough for an album, if there were one. But no one involved knew anything for sure about this music. Seventeen days later, "Heartbreak Hotel" was released, and for about a month it did nothing -- then it began to move, and then Elvis appeared on television, and had a number one pop single. The album Sholes wanted out of Elvis came from two groups of sessions in January and February, augmented by five previously unissued songs from the Sun library. This was as startling a debut record as any ever made, representing every side of Elvis' musical influences except gospel -- rockabilly, blues, R&B, country, and pop were all here in an explosive and seductive combination. Elvis Presley became the first rock & roll album to reach the number one spot on the national charts, and RCA's first million dollar-earning pop album. » AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder
Ratings :
Discogs : 4,45 / 5 , AllMusic : 5 / 5