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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SPOILER ALERT! I am about to divulge information that could change the way you look at collectible records. And if you wheel and deal in old records, it might affect the way that you buy and sell records. At least, it might change the way that you look at ads offering Elvis Gold Standard singles. [Read more] “don’t ignore that hodgepodge lot of elvis records on ebay”
WHEN RCA VICTOR STRUCK GOLD with Elvis in 1956, the only medium that mattered to the people most likely to buy his records was the 45 rpm single. In the first twelve months after signing Presley in November 1955, the record company released an unbelievable sixteen singles in the United States! [Read more] “super rare version of 1957 elvis album found!”
WHILE I CONTINUE TO SLAVE AWAY over the rewriting of the nine previously published articles (with discographies and price guides) for the Elvis Gold Standard Series catalog, I do occasionally take a break and pay attention to other things. Such as Quora. The question that just appeared there is “How many Elvis albums are there.” [Read more] “just how many elvis albums have been released?”
COMING SOON!
TO A SCREEN NEAR YOU
An all NEW series of updated and rewritten articles about the Elvis Presley Gold Standard Series of 45 rpm singles and EP albums!
NEW discographies – NEW labelographies – NEW photos of some really rather rare records!
Plus an all NEW, up-to-date price guide!!! [Read more] “coming soon! a new series about elvis’ gold standard 45s”
DUELING POP CHARTS existed during most of the heyday of rock & roll music. Due to the weird ways in which the various magazines compiled their charts, there were often major differences in where a record found itself on any given week. Records reached #1 on one chart but pooped out at #3 on the others. [Read more] “elvis was the king of the double-sided hit (1956-1968)”
WHAT WERE ELVIS’ BEST ALBUMS OF THE ’70s? That’s such an easy question to answer: those recorded in 1970. There is no questioning that the quality of Presley’s recordings diminished after 1970 due to his deteriorating health along with an artistic turn toward melodrama and bombast. [Read more] “what were the best elvis albums of the ’70s?”
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! The minus of Quora is that it keeps me from other, lengthier projects, some of which have been gathering virtual dust for some time. [Read more] “(can anyone say) what was elvis’ single greatest performance?”
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. While some of the questions are silly—some are just plumb dumb!—most [Read more] “I’ll be trying to get to you any day now (on elvis and soul)”
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! And then it kept on selling: it is certified by the RIAA for sales of 11,000,000 in the US alone. [Read more] “elvis’ fifty worldwide number one hits”
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a blog about Elvis Presley’s music and records
Mystically liberal Virgo enjoys long walks alone in the city at night in the rain with an umbrella and a flask of 10-year-old Laphroaig who strives to live by the maxim, “It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble; it’s what you know that just ain’t so.
I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a college dropout (twice!). Occupationally, I have been a bartender, jewelry engraver, bouncer, landscape artist, and FEMA crew chief following the Great Flood of ’72 (and that was a job that I should never, ever have left).
I am also the final author of the original O’Sullivan Woodside price guides for record collectors and the original author of the Goldmine price guides for record collectors. As such, I was often referred to as the Price Guide Guru, and—as everyone should know—it behooves one to heed the words of a guru. (Unless, of course, you’re the Beatles.)
