ELVIS PRESLEY-"ROCK 'N' ROLL" - HMV 1ST PRESS CLP.1093 1956 - NICE CLEAN COPY

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        ELVIS PRESLEY-"ROCK 'N' ROLL"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           TYPE SINGLE LP - MONO LABEL/PRESSING INFO

HMV - 1ST PRESS WITH MATRIX NUMBERS: 2XAV 255-1N 2XAV 256-1N and EMI STAMPERS 1H/1O

CATALOGUE NUMBER CLP 1093 YEAR OF RELEASE 1956 COUNTRY OF RELEASE U.K. SLEEVE TYPE SINGLE FULLY LAMINATED WITH SCALLOPED FLIPBACKS INSERTS/EXTRAS

NONE

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EXCELLENT (REALLY GREAT RECORD. musically I mean, put it on and out of nowhere get hit with the opening bars of Blue Suede Shoes and away you go, Rock n Roll. Condition is pretty good too, only, black and shiny VERY LIGHT playwear and a bit of LIGHT surface marking, none of which has any effect on the reproduction, which is crisp and clear with no clicking or background noises.)....and would you believe that a 63 year old record, and remember, they were all taken to wild parties and jumped on and kicked around the floor, would still have slivers of vinyl from the pressing process attached to the edge of the disc,well this one has. Perhaps this copy went to church social gatherings.

LABELS                  

EXCELLENT (CLEAN   LABELS  with  NO writing rips tears     with LIGHT spindleusage and       LIGHT handling  storage and ageing marks)

SLEEVE VERY GOOD  (Clean sleeve with NO writing stickers or removal marks, the majority of the boards are fine with a bit storage wear and ageing, the opening, mostly on the frontside  is ragged with a small clear tape repair about 1/2 way down, the spine edges flipbacks and edges are all ok. INNER /EXTRAS

N/A

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Today it all seems so easy -- RCA signs up the kid from Memphis, television gets interested at around the same time, and the rest is history. The circumstances surrounding this album were neither simple nor promising, however, nor was there anything in the history of popular music up to that time to hint that Elvis Presley was going to be anything other than "Steve Sholes' folly," which was what rival executives were already whispering.                                   

So a lot was unsettled and untried at the first of two groups of sessions that produced the Elvis Presley album -- it wasn't even certain that there was any reason for a rock & roll artist to cut an album, because teenagers bought 45s, not LPs. But no one involved knew anything for sure about this music. Seventeen days later, "Heartbreak Hotel" was released, and for about a month it did nothing -- then it began to move, and then Elvis appeared on television, and had a number one pop single.                                    

The album Sholes wanted out of Elvis came from two groups of sessions in January and February, augmented by five previously unissued songs from the Sun library. This was as startling a debut record as any ever made, representing every side of Elvis' musical influences except gospel -- rockabilly, blues, R&B, country, and pop were all here in an explosive and seductive combination.                                    

Elvis Presley became the first rock & roll album to reach the number one spot on the national charts, and RCA's first million dollar-earning pop album.                                                                                       

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