Elvis Presley

A Date with Elvis +`4 Bonus Tracks - 180 Gram (771841 LP)

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A Date with Elvis +`4 Bonus Tracks - 180 Gram

Elvis Presley

Waxtime

8436542012546

LPS 135971

771841 LP

ROCK AND ROLL

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INCLUDES 4 BONUS TRACKS

Elvis was in the middle of his two-year military stint in 1959. RCA Records, with no fresh material to offer Presley's public, cleaned out its vaults to come up with the material for two albums, For LP Fans Only and A Date with Elvis (originally released in July 1959). Tracks for these albums were drawn from Elvis' early Sun recordings, songs from movie soundtracks, and extended play singles. Despite the circumstances under which they were created they are remarkable albums, if only for the fact that they exposed the general public to a number of Presley's seminal 1954 and 1955 Sun recordings for the first time. These recordings would not appear together on a single nonbootleg release until the 1975 Sun Sessions. A Date with Elvis includes some of the best Sun material ('enhanced' by RCA with added reverb), including “Blue Moon of Kentucky”, “Baby Let's Play House”, and “Good Rockin' Tonight”. Included among the tracks are the gospel song “We're Gonna Move”, “(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care”, and “I Want to Be Free”, from the Jailhouse Rock soundtrack. The album left varying impressions on different generations of Elvis Presley fans.

Listening to it 50 years after its release, one is still hard-put to find too many albums that are more viscerally exciting. In the words of All Music Guide critic Bruce Eder, “It is a reminder of how those Sun sides were best known for the first two decades after their release, and how they first got out to most of us. It's a keeper in any form.” In addition to this sensational LP, we have included 4 bonus tracks from the same period. All of these original gems - which have been brilliantly remastered to achieve the most pristine sound -are simple
two-and-a-half-minute-long songs that convey all the sheer power and emotion of rock & roll. Don’t get left in the rush for A DATE WITH ELVIS!

PERSONNEL:

ELVIS PRESLE
Y: vocals and guitar, plus:
Scotty Moore (guitar),
Bill Black (bass)
D.J. Fontana (drums)
Mike Stoller, DudleyBrooks (piano),
The Jordanaires (backing vocals), among others.

Recorded between 1954 and May 1957.

SIDE 1

01. BLUE MOON OF KENTUCKY
02. YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL
03. (YOU’RE SO SQUARE) BABY I DON’T CARE
04. MILKCOW BLUES BOOGIE
05. BABY LET’S PLAY HOUSE
06. PARALYZED *
07. ONE NIGHT *

SIDE 2
01. GOOD ROCKIN’ TONIGHT
02. IS IT SO STRANGE
03. WE’RE GONNA MOVE
04. I WANT TO BE FREE
05. I FORGOT TO REMEMBER TO FORGET
06. I’M LEFT, YOU’RE RIGHT, SHE’S GONE *
07. LAWDY, MISS CLAWDY *

BONUS TRACKS