Track Listing
1. Blue Suede Shoes
2. I'm Counting On You
3. I Got A Woman
4. One Sided Love Affair
5. I Love You Because
6. Just Because
7. Tutti Frutti
8. Trying To Get You
9. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You)
10. I'll Never Let You Go
11. Blue Moon
12. Money Honey
13. Heartbreak Hotel (bonus track)
14. I Was The One (bonus track)
15. Lawdy Miss Clawdy (bonus track)
16. Shake Rattle And Roll (bonus track)
17. My Baby Left Me (bonus track)
18. I Want You I Need You I Love You (bonus track)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Sony Music/Arvato Services | | Recording Mode: | Mono |
Album Notes
Includes six bonus tracks.Personnel: Elvis Presley (vocals, guitar); Chet Atkins, Scotty Moore (guitar); Floyd Cramer, Marvin Hughes, Shorty Long (piano); Bill Black (double bass); DJ Fontana, Johnny Bernero (drums); Ben Speer, Gordon Stoker, Brock Speer (background vocals).Engineers: Sam Phillips; Bob Ferris; Ernie Oelrich.Liner Note Author: Colin Escott.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
Ranked #55 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time - ...Revved-up country music with the most irresistibly sexy voice anyone had ever heard...Q (1/03, p.56) - 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...Mojo (p.115) - 4 stars out of 5 - [H]e'll remain ever youthful, a mind's-eye hip-twister...
Rolling Stone (12/11/2003)
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