Track Listing
1. Heartbreak Hotel
2. I Was The One
3. Blue Suede Shoes
4. I'm Counting On You
5. I Got A Woman
6. One Sided Love Affair
7. I Love You Because
8. Just Because
9. Tutti Frutti
10. Trying To Get To You
11. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry Over You
12. I'll Never Let You Go Little Darlin'
13. Blue Moon
14. Money Honey
15. Shake Rattle And Roll
16. My Baby Left Me
17. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
18. I Want You I Need You
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Sony Music/Arvato Services | | Recording Mode: | Mono |
Album Notes
This 1999 reissue contains six bonus tracks not on the original release.Personnel: Elvis Presley (vocals, guitar); Scotty Moore, Chet Atkins (guitar); Floyd Cramer, Shorty Long, Marvin Hughes (piano); Bill Black (bass); D.J. Fontana, Johnny Bernero (drums); Ben Speer, Brock Speer, Gordon Stoker (background vocals).Reissue producers: Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Semon.Engineers: Sam Phillips, Bob Ferris, Ernie Oehlrich.Includes liner notes by Colin Scott.All tracks have been digitally remastered.When Elvis first broke on the national scene, nobody--not RCA, not Elvis' manager Colonel Tom Parker, and certainly not Elvis himself--had any idea how long his popularity would last. Most assumed that rock and roll was a passing fad and that Presley would soon be relegated to the "where are they now?" bin. Unsurprisingly, RCA rushed Presley's first album to market before Elvis had recorded enough new material for an entire record. The result, ELVIS PRESLEY, is a cut-and-paste job consisting of seven RCA recordings and five older tracks licensed from Sun Records, Presley's first label. Still, this is a monumental record in the history of rock and roll, from its iconic cover (which The Clash later paid homage to on the cover of LONDON CALLING) to the twelve great tracks to its unprecedented sales figures (it topped the Billboard album charts for 20 weeks). The RCA material includes Elvis' arrangement of "Blue Suede Shoes" and covers of R&B hits "Money Honey," "Tutti Frutti," and "I Got a Woman." The record is short (29 minutes) and the material it contains is available on lots of other discs, but if you must have the record that started a revolution, this is the one to get.
Editorial Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - ...The likes of 'Blue Moon' and 'Heartbreak Hotel' still bristle with groundbreaking punkish enthusiasm...
Q (12/01/2000)
Included in Q Magazine's 100 Greatest Albums Ever
Q (01/01/2003)
Included in Q Magazine's 100 Greatest Albums EverQ (12/00, pp.148,151) - 4 stars out of 5 - ...The likes of 'Blue Moon' and 'Heartbreak Hotel' still bristle with groundbreaking punkish enthusiasm...
Q (01/01/2003)
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