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Elvis Presley (Spkg) [Box set, Limited Edition]

Elvis Presley | Format: Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (22 Aug 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Box set, Limited Edition
  • Label: Follow That Dream
  • ASIN: B000FZERTA
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 475,446 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Elvis album beautifully restored 1 Sep 2006
By Marc Haegeman
Format:Audio CD
A key reissue of a key album: Elvis Presley's first LP (with the black and white photo and the lilac and green fonts, and succinctly named "Elvis Presley") was released in March 1956 to spend, to everybody's surprise, ten weeks on the number 1 spot on the album charts - the first rock 'n' roll album ever to reach that spot. Listening to it now, five decades after date, it proves still revelatory by its raw energy, uncouth sound, and Elvis' sheer vocal range. Combining in its original guise five songs cut at the Sun Studios with seven new numbers recorded during Elvis' first studio sessions for RCA in January/February 1956, there wasn't a weak moment on the album. Drawing on Elvis' various musical influences and having sterling songs like "Trying To Get To You" or the haunting "Blue Moon" together with "Blue Suede Shoes", "Money Honey" and "I Got A Woman" was as hard to beat an act as any.

For this reissue the original album has been augmented with six singles released in those genuinely inspired months of early 1956 when Elvis was unleashing his own musical revolution and possibly couldn't do no wrong: the unsurpassed "Heartbreak Hotel", "I Was The One", "Lawdy, Miss Clawdy", "Shake, Rattle and Roll", "My Baby Left Me", and "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" are all among the most significant early rock 'n' roll recordings. The producers have chosen to include all outtakes (known at this date) of the Jan/Feb. 1956 sessions, and they prove fascinating from start to end. From Floyd Cramer's still hesitant piano solo in the earlier takes of "Heartbreak Hotel" to the evolving phrasing in "I Was The One" and "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You". Disc two is concluded by a short interview with Elvis by Don Davis probably from early 1956 about how it all started.... Read more ›
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Rock n Roll masterpiece 8 Sep 2006
By Mr. N. Thompson
Format:Audio CD
OK everyone has either got the original album or at least heard the songs; or as Dave Marsh once said if you haven't you really have got some catching up to do! The sound quality is superb on this set and the out takes though not all previously unreleased are very good too. Best to use the Random button on your player to avoid overkill mind you! The inclusion of the Dry Reverb take of I'm Counting on You is a stunner too as Elvis 21 year old voice slides effortlessly up and down the scale! Really if it were possible this should have 6 stars!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Elvis In 56 - Enough Said! 9 Oct 2006
By Calsam
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Elvis in 1956, the year of his global break through - ok the original album (and obviously this one)included the left-overs from Sun too, including the great 'Trying To Get To You, the unique intrepretation of 'Blue Moon', the haunting 'I'll Never Let You Go' (ruined to some degree by the change in tempo at the end) and arguably the two weakest Sun recordings of I Love You Becuase and 'Just Because'. But its the recordings from the first four RCA sessions which make this essential for any fan of rock and pop music. Yes, everyone has them a hundred times but the sound quality is superb, plus the bonus of out-takes of the utterly brilliant 'Lawdy Miss Clawdy'and 'Heartbreak Hotel'. Notwithstanding the sheer greatness of 'Heartbreak Hotel' and 'Money Honey', the real highlights are from the two New York sessions, which thankfully unlike the first meant no Speers or Stoker. 'Blue Suede Shoes', Lawdy Miss Clawdy'and 'My Baby Left Me' - what can you say other than the work of a true genius.
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