ELVIS PRESLEY"BLUE MOON"1956HMV"GOLD PRINT"+CLEAN COVER

	£		66
	$		87

AN ORIGINAL MONO MIX 1956 1ST EMI/HIS MASTER'S VOICE UK GOLD PRINT PRESSING OF THE ELVIS PRESLEY  45"BLUE MOON"

HIS HYPNOTIC VERSION WHICH PEAKED AT UK#9 IN 1956 WHEN THE MAJORITY BOUGHT THE BREAKABLE 78RPM VERSIONS WITH HARDLY ANY COPIES ON 45RPM SURVIVING IN 2010, 54 YEARS LATER IN PLAYABLE CONDITION! 

 1N/1N MATRIXES 

REALLY NICE LABELS!SEE BOTH PHOTOS! 

DECENT PRINT!

HARDLY ANY SPINDLE WEAR!

APART FROM SOME GROOVE HISS AT THE VERY START OF THE"A"SIDE,5 SECONDS ON THE RUN IN GROOVE AND JUST THE 1ST 3 SECONDS OF THE TRACK + A LITTLE DISTORTION AT THE "SHRILL PEAKS",IT PLAYS VERY NICELY.

EVEN NEAR MINT COPIES HAVE DISTORTION ON THIS TRACK DUE TO THE HIGH PITCH POINTS!

THE DAMAGED GROOVE IS VISIBLE BUT THE OTHER SURFACE MARKS ARE LIGHT!

NO DEEP SCRATCHES!

NO CLICKS! NO JUMPS! NO STICKS!

THE"B"SIDE PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY AND IN MY OPINION IS THE BETTER SIDE=

"I DON'T CARE IF THE SUN DON'T SHINE" 

GENERALLY THE SOUND IS VERY CLEAR AND THE ACTUAL SURFACE NOISE IS MINIMAL TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE AGE AND THE FACT THAT MOST COPIES THAT SURVIVE ARE UNPLAYABLE OR IF THEY ARE DO NOT GIVE A DECENT SOUND.

SOME SLIGHT DISTORTION AT SOME OF THE SOUND PEAKS OF THE"A"SIDE(I ALWAYS LISTEN WITH THE TREBLE FULLY ON)HOWEVER WITH A SLIGHT ADJUSTMENT OF THE TREBLE CONTROL AND IT IS LESS NOTICABLE.

THOSE OF YOU LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE A MONO SWITCH,WOULD PROBABLY FIND THAT"TOP END"MINOR "FIZZ"WOULD BE"LOST". 

THE VINYL IS FLAT,NO WARPS OR DENTS! 

THE VERY EARLIEST PRESSING!

NO OTHER PRESSING EXISTS BEFORE THIS ONE!

ONE OF THE VERY FIRST OFF THE UK PRINT RUN!!!!

PROBABLY ONLY A FEW THOUSAND MADE AS AGAINST THE MANY THOUSANDS OF 78 VERSIONS! 

EMI PRESSED HMV 45-POP 272.

THE SLEEVE IS ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES I HAVE EVER SEEN-MOST TURN UP WITH PIECES MISSING,BADLY TORN,OR IN MOST CASES NO COVER AT ALL!

THE PAPER USED WAS WAFER THIN AND VERY DELICATE AND NATURALLY MOST BUYERS WOULD PLAY THIS GROUNDBREAKING 45 A LOT,RESULTING IN THE CONSTANT REMOVAL AND RETURNING TO THE COVER OF THE DISC.

THIS ONE HAS A FEW TINY CREASES  BUT IS VERY CLEAN AND BRIGHT, WITH NO WRITING,NO TEARS,NO REPAIRS OR STAINING!!!!

NOT A NASTY REPRO LIKE SO MANY AROUND OR EVEN WORSE A LATER ONE-THIS IS THE ORIGINAL AND CORRECT DESIGN WHICH ENDED JUST A FEW MONTHS LATER!!!

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A VERY RARE ELVIS 45 -THIS COULD BE THE ONE FOR YOU!

AN EARLY 1ST EDITION WHICH WAS VERY LIMITED AND RARE TO FIND OVER 53 YEARS ON AND AN ESSENTIAL PART OF ANY ELVIS PRESLEY COLLECTION!

JUST TO EXPLAIN, THE UK CONTRACT FOR ELVIS PRESLEY RECORDINGS ONLY LASTED LESS THAN TWO YEARS WITH EMI's H.M.V.LABEL.

THIS 45 WAS RELEASED IN 1956 AND DELETED LESS THAN A YEAR LATER!!!!!

IT IS MUCH, MUCH HARDER TO FIND THAN THE LATER (1957)HMV 45s, WHICH ACTUALLY SOLD BETTER, PROBABLY DUE TO HAVING MORE BUYERS FOR 45s BY 1957, WHICH OF COURSE IS HARD TO BELIEVE IN 2010,BUT BACK IN 1957, ONLY A FEW YOUNG FANS HAD 45RPM PLAYERS!!!

THE HMV DEAL WOULD CHANGE ONLY WHEN RCA TOOK OVER A FEW MONTHS LATER IN MID-1957. 

RCA DECIDED TO SWITCH TO DECCA IN MID 1957,WHO WERE HAPPY TO START UP A SEPERATE RCA LABEL RESULTING IN THE H.M.V.ISSUES TO BE DELETED,LESS THAN A YEAR AFTER RELEASE!

DON'T BE CONFUSED BY THE MANY"BOOTLEG"REISSUES COPYING THE H.M.V. LABEL-THEY WILL NOT EVER INCREASE MUCH IN VALUE AND ARE MERELY NOVELTY ITEMS!

THIS IS THE GENUINE ARTICLE! 

MOST COPIES THAT SURVIVE ARE IN DREADFUL UNPLAYABLE CONDITION.

THIS COPY HAS SEEN A NUMBER OF PLAYS WITH SOME SURFACE MARKS,AND A LITTLE ,GENERAL MINOR SURFACE NOISE BUT SOUNDS VERY NICE APART FROM SOME SLIGHT DISTORTION AT THE SOUND "PEAKS"OF"BLUE MOON"AND THAT VERY BRIEF GROOVE HISS AT THE VERY START OF THE TRACK

(A MERE 3 SECONDS OF THE MUSIC!!!!!).

DESPITE THIS, THERE ARE NO NASTY LOUD CLICKS,NO JUMPS,NO STICKS AND  THE COVER WILL BE HARD TO BEAT AND WILL PROVIDE A VERY DECENT,PLAYING EXPERIENCE!

ALMOST EVERY COPY, I HAVE FOUND HAS AT LEAST ONE N ASTY LOUD CLICK OR OFTEN JUMPS OR EVEN STICKS,BUT THIS ONE HASN'T ANY SUCH FAULTS!

IN 1956,SO OFTEN THE EQUIPMENT USED WOULD RUIN ANY DELICATE 45 RPM DISC WITHIN JUST A COUPLE OF PLAYS!!!

EVEN 78 RPM NEEDLES WERE SOMETIMES USED! 

YOU CANNOT BEAT SEEING THAT "REGAL"LOOKING HIS MASTER'S VOICE LABEL SPINNING ON YOUR RECORD DECK!

IT IS MOSTLY LIGHT SURFACE MARKS-NO NASTY BIG AUTOCHANGER TYPE SCUFFS,AND WITH SOME SLIGHT ADJUSTMENT OF THE TONE CONTROLS THE MINOR DISTORTION PEAKS ON"BLUE MOON" ARE LESS NOTICABLE AND THE SOUND IS SPLENDID.

ON AN OLDER DECK OR THE USE OF A MONO FILTER SWITCH WOULD PROBABLY MAKE AN EVEN BIGGER DIFFERENCE!

YOU MIGHT HAVE A COPY BUT IT IS MORE THAN LIKELY NOT AS GOOD AS THIS ONE!

THIS COULD BE AN IDEAL MIX AND MATCH OPPORTUNITY!

MINT COPIES TEND TO FETCH AROUND £150 SO A £20 START FOR A VERY STRONG VERY GOOD CONDITION COPY IS WELL WORTH GOING FOR!

DON'T FORGET THE SOUND OF THIS RECORD IS A VERY STRONG,VERY GOOD CONDITION TESTED WITH VERY STRICT GRADING IN MIND!!

I HAVE BOUGHT AND SOLD PROBABLY ABOUT A DOZEN COPIES OVER THE LAST 25 YEARS AS A DEALER AND COLLECTOR AND FOR ACTUAL SOUND-IT IS ONE OF THE BETTER ONES!

THIS IS PROBABLY THE ONLY HALF-DECENT COPY ON EBAY IN MANY MONTHS-JUST COMPARE WITH OTHER COPIES ADVERTISED WITH TOTALLY WRECKED COVERS,AND EVEN STATEMENTS ADMITTING MAJOR JUMPS AND NASTY DEEP CLICKS-SUCH COPIES ARE OF NO INTEREST TO SERIOUS COLLECTORS AND ACT AS MERE"BETTER THAN  NOTHING"GAP FILLERS!

MAKE NO MISTAKE,THIS IS NOT AN EXCELLENT CONDITION EXAMPLE BUT BEARING IN MIND IT'S SCARCITY IS FAR,FAR BETTER THAN MOST COPIES AND COVERS THAT YOU WILL SEE IN 2010! 

TIME FOR A LITTLE ABOUT ME! FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH ME ON EBAY SINCE 2002 AND INDEED ELSEWHERE BEFORE SINCE 1986, WILL PROBABLY KNOW I HAVE BEEN A RESPECTED DEALER,  MUSIC EXPERT AND COLLECTOR FOR MANY YEARS CALLED UPON BY RADIO,TV AND PRICE GUIDES FOR MY ADVICE AND KNOWLEDGE ESPECIALLY REGARDING THE 1950s AND 1960s!!! 

AN ORIGINAL MONO 1ST EDITION FROM 1956 OF THE WONDERFUL 45 ISSUED ON THE UK EMI PRESSED H.M.V. GOLD PRINT LABELS .               

GOLD PRINT different to the LATER SILVER PRINT REpressings from a few months later and much later reissues ON THE RCA LABEL .This ESSENTIAL  45 pressed within the first few WEEKS of issue from 1956 when ELVIS was starting to go totally global in popularity!

HE WOULD INFLUENCE MILLIONS OF OTHER MUSICIANS.

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AN INCREDIBLE 45 THAT STILL SOUNDS EXCITING 54 YEARS ON! 

MOST COPIES THAT SURVIVE ARE IN POOR CONDITION-THIS ONE IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION WITH MOSTLY SURFACE MARKS AND THE DISTORTION PEAKS HERE AND THERE+ THAT GROOVE HISS AT THE VERY START BUT THAT IS BEING STRICT AND HONEST!

I DO NOT NORMALLY SELL 45s WITH SURFACE MARKS AND GROOVE DAMAGE  UNLESS THEY ARE VERY RARE LIKE THIS ONE AND BEING A FIRST PRESSING IS BOUND TO BE ACCEPTABLE TO MANY AS A VERY DECENT GAP FILLER BUT YOU MAY HAVE TO WAIT A LONG TIME TO FIND ANOTHER ONE OR PAY A LOT MORE!!

Copies of this single were being sold in tiny quantities asa 45 and so how many survive IN PLAYABLE CONDITION??!!!!!!

MOST THAT TURN UP ARE TOTALLY WRECKED AND HAVE NO COVERS AT ALL. 

THIS ONE COULD WELL BE IN THE VERY FIRST FEW WEEKS OF ISSUE! 

In those early days with LIMITED exposure on Radio and TV, POP 45s were carefully considered and saved for items,many fans not getting THIS 45 until it was reissued on the RCA label much later.  

 Vinyl is still the best way to hear Elvis and always will be!  

I TEST ALL THE WAY THROUGH WITHOUT FILTERING OR A MONO SWITCH.

I HAVE PLAYED IT THREE TIMES TO CHECK FOR ANY FAULTS.

There is HARDLY ANY spindle wear!!!

EVERY COPY I HAVE SEEN HAS HAD SOME BUT THESE LABELS ARE QUITE STUNNING!!!!!! 

NO WRITING/NO STICKER REMOVAL/NO WORN PRINT!!!

SEE BOTH PHOTOS.NOTHING TO HIDE!!!! 

Look elsewhere on ebay and you MIGHT see other copies-Look closer and you will find they are often reissues or lower grade copies with all manner of major faults. 

MOST RECORDS ON EBAY ARE IN DIABOLICAL, BAD CONDITIONS ATTEMPTED TO BE  SOLD BY PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW HOW TO GRADE OR BOTHER TO ACTUALLY PLAY THEM FOR AN ACURATE DESCRIPTION!

This is A POSSIBLE UPGRADER COPY-EXAMINE YOURS AND IT MAY NOT BE AS GOOD AS YOU THINK!

AT WORSE AND IN THE STRICTNESS OF POTENTIAL BUYERS,THE DISC IS IN A VERY GOOD  CONDITION. FAR BETTER THAN MOST PEOPLES USE OF THE "VERY GOOD"GRADING BUT IT IS DOWN TO MY STRICT GRADING POLICY.

ORIGINAL  CORRECT HMV SLEEVE.  

AN OUTER PVC COVER WILL BE SUPPLIED.

THE 45 ITSELF AS USUAL WILL BE REMOVED FROM IT'S COVER BEFORE SENDING AND PLACED IN A PVC LINED CARDBOARD COVER!   

REMEMBER I AM GRADING STRICTLY! PLEASE STUDY ALL THE PHOTOS!

IF YOU GO THROUGH MY FEEDBACK YOU WILL SEE MANY OTHER RARITIES -PAY NOTE TO THE FEEDBACK RESPONSES!! INFACT VERY HAPPY CUSTOMERS WHICH IS PROOF OF MY CAREFUL,DETAILED AND STRICT GRADING!!!! 

Realistic  £20 STARTING price with no annoying reserve. BUY IT NOW OFFERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED! 

THIS IS A GREAT CHANCE TO OWN A PIECE OF ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY. A GREAT INVESTMENT! 

Postage is FREE AND  RECORDED DELIVERY TO THE UK.YOU WILL GET IT IN FINE SHAPE!!

Outside UK extra depending on destination.£2 EUROPE £3 REST OF THE WORLD. PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO SEVERAL ITEMS OVERSEAS BEING"LOST", IF THE OPTION TO SEND INSURED IS REFUSED THEN I CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST ITEMS. I DO NOT DRAMATICALLY INCREASE POSTAGE ON SEVERAL ITEMS BOUGHT.Paypal or cheque within 7 days please.

CHEQUE WILL NEED TIME TO CLEAR BEFORE DELIVERY. 

SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES FOR SEVERAL ITEMS BOUGHT

DO NOT BID UNLESS YOU INTEND TO PAY.Feedback always left. BE AWARE!!!! NON PAYERS AND TIMEWASTERS WILL BE DEALT WITH AND REPORTED TO EBAY AS WELL AS CIRCULATED VERBALLY AND BY EMAIL TO MY MANY DEALER AND COLLECTOR FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!

Checkout my power seller status and my own feedback of OVER 10,000 comments of my standards and service many from some of the world's most respected collectors and dealers. BUY with confidence! Always adding quality Records, cd's and related items to ebay several times a week. Customers from all over the world regard my  ebay selections as the #1 for QUALITY,VARIETY AND SERVICE.

I HAVE BEEN A DEALER SINCE 1986 WITH OVER 7 YEARS ON EBAY.

I ACTUALLY LISTEN TO MY ITEMS ON GOOD QUALITY EQUIPMENT, USUALLY TWICE TO ENSURE THE VERY BEST POSSIBLE AND ACURATE GRADE-I WANT LONG TERM REGULAR CUSTOMERS WHO WANT TO RETURN TO BUY FROM ME WITH FAITH AND TRUST.

LOOK AT MY FEEDBACK AND SEE WELL KNOWN RESPECTED COLLECTORS AND DEALERS WHO BUY FROM ME OVER AND OVER-NOTE WHAT THEY SAY-PAGE AFTER PAGE OF GLOWING STATEMENTS! 

UK Customers are very welcome to collect ebay winnings  by prior email arrangement.  7 YEARS ON EBAY and many more before as a keen collector! Thanks for looking and good luck.

OTHER STYLES OF MUSIC ON EBAY FROM ME-SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE-LOOK NO FURTHER!!!!!

DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS OPPORTUNITY!

A VITAL PART OF ANY ELVIS PRESLEY COLLECTION!

IT COULD BE THE LAST COPY I WILL FIND FOR A LONG TIME!

I HAVE MENTIONED EVERYTHING BUT IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT OF ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE ASK.

KEEP WATCHING IN 2010!

THANKYOU FOR YOUR INTEREST!

GOOD LUCK!!

THE COUNTDOWN IS ON FOR YOUR CHANCE TO OWN A VERY,FIRST PRESSING OF AN EARLY ELVIS PRESLEY  45 ON THE GOLD PRINT H.M.V.LABEL!

SOME MORE RARE,ORIGINAL ELVIS PRESLEY 45sAND SOME EPs ENDING FROM ME SHORTLY BEFORE THIS ONE ENDS!