a blog about elvis presley's music and records
ELVIS ON RECORD is a catch-all category for articles that cover a broad expanse of Presley’s career. Here you will find such articles as those that list his hit records from around the world, or reviews of boxed CD sets that collect sides from the 1950s though the ’70, or the latest updates on his RIAA Gold and Platinum Record Awards.
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WHAT WERE ELVIS’ BEST ALBUMS OF THE ’70s? That’s actually a fairly easy question to answer: the ones recorded in 1970. There is no questioning that the quality of Presley’s recordings diminished dramatically after 1971. This was due to his deteriorating physical and mental health along with artistic turn towards melodrama and bombast. [Continue reading]
THE PLUS OF QUORA is that it gives me prompts for a series of answers there that I can turn into short articles here. There’s nothing like a blog being constantly fed fresh content to keep readers and search engines happy! [Continue reading]
THE QUORA FORUM’S question and answer set-up has been keeping me busy of late. Despite what people think about Elvis and the Internet, there seems to be an abiding interest in the man both personally and artistically. [Continue reading]
IN THE YEAR 2000, instead of Y2K we got THE BEATLES 1, an album that collected Beatles’ number one hits around the world. Despite recycling endlessly recycled sides, it sold more than 10,000,000 copies in its first twelve months of release! [Continue reading]
THE FIRST DELUXE ELVIS boxed compact-disc set was KING OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL – THE COMPLETE 50’s MASTERS, issued in 1992 to great fanfare. It contained five discs that featured the complete studio recordings of Presley from 1954-1958. [Continue reading]
Lawdymissclawdy, but I accidental like pushed “Publish” instead of “Save Draft” and so I sent this article out onto the worldwide web well before it was completed. So I have to apologize and tell you that I’ll finish it lickety-split and get it back up here where it belongs! [Continue reading]
ELVIS DIED WITH ONLY 28 GOLD RECORDS. That is, he collected only twenty-eight official RIAA Gold Record Awards during his career. He also moved to that mansion on the hill without a single Platinum Record Award on his wall! [Continue reading]
EVERY FEW YEARS the folks in charge of Elvis Presley’s recordings either get it right or just get lucky with their handling of the archival material. The big one was 30 #1 HITS, which hit #1 on the Billboard LP chart in 2002. [Continue reading]
IN 1976, the Gold Standard Series was revamped for the fourth and final time with a new ‘retro’ look. Along with the rest of the RCA catalog, the modern look and layout of the previous orange and red labels was jettisoned and the company opted for a retro look: black was back and so was Nipper! [Continue reading]