Fun in Acapulco  Elvis Presley   RCA Victor LPM 2756  - Near Mint

Year:  December 1963

NEAR MINT CONDITION

Record - Black Label “ Mono” at bottom

PPRM4434

Cover – Front RCA logos at upper right and left, number at lower left. Back contains 13 color photos from film.

Inner Sleeve – Turquoise, black and white. Front Elvis LP Catalog with most recent record “ It Happened At The Worlds Fair’. Back – Elvis EP's and 45’s

This auction is for Elvis Presley  “Fun In Acapulco”.  This is original 1963 release, which is over 46 years old.

Fun in Acapulco is the nineteenth album by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2756, in November 1963 - the November 1 date is disputed. Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on January 22 and 23, 1963, and at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 26 and 27, 1963. It peaked at #3 on the Top Pop Albums chart.

The third of his tropical travelogue films for Paramount Pictures after Blue Hawaii and Girls! Girls! Girls! finds Elvis frolicing south of the border. The standard stable of songwriters for Presley delivered songs to match, with titles like "Marguerita," "El Toro," "You Can't Say No in Acapulco," and "The Bullfighter Was A Lady." Included as well was the old standard "Guadalajara" by Pepe Guizar from the 1930s. With the change from the normal routine, and with the addition of trumpet players Rudolph Loera and Anthony Terran, Presley engaged the material with greater enthusiasm than on recent soundtrack outings. Four of these songs would be included on the 1995 compilation of soundtrack highlights: the title track, "Mexico," "Marguerita," and the song released as the lead single, "Bossa Nova Baby."

"Bossa Nova Baby" arrived in stores one month prior to the soundtrack, coupled with the track "Witchcraft" by rhythm and blues songwriter and arranger Dave Bartholomew and a hit for The Spiders in 1956. The fact that the bossa nova craze of the 1960s was a Brazilian phenomenon rather than a Mexican one mattered little, as the single peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Compensating for the skimpy ten-track It Happened at the World's Fair album, the Colonel insisted on making Fun in Acapulco a good value. Two additional tracks, "Love Me Tonight" and "Slowly But Surely" were pulled from the aborted album sessions of May, 1963, and added here to bring the running order up to thirteen tracks.

Songs Include:

• Fun in Acapulco
• Vino Dinero y Amor  
• Mexico
• El Toro
• Marguerita
• The Bullfighter Was A Lady  
• No Room to Rhumba in A Sports Car 
• Think I'm Gonna Like It Here
• Bossa Nova Baby
• You Can't Say No in Acapulco  
• Guadalajara Pepe
• Love Me Tonight
• Slowly But Surely

Condition:

Record, Cover and Inner sleeve are all in NEAR MINT CONDITION

The record is in near mint condition, has lots of gloss and shine,  no cuts or scratches. Visual only.

Cover is near mint with no rips, cuts or binding separation. Bright colors.

The Inner sleeve is near mint with very little fading with no rips, slight cut at bottom of sleeve approximately 3 inches .(see photo)

This package is valued  by Osborne: $150.00 (Mint)

Grading System

Records are graded using the Jerry Osborne grading system. 

MINT - Absolutely perfect

NEAR MINT – May   have one or 2 minor flaws that do not distract from record playability or overall cover appearance.

VERY GOOD  - Have a minimum of visual or audible imperfections

GOOD  - The record over cover is good enough to fill your collection until something better comes along.

Notes:

As records become harder to find and Near Mint pieces cannot be found, Very Good may be the best available. (For full information regarding grading please see “Presleyana VI, Osborne, Osborne Enterprises, 2007)