WHAT SERIES OF ELVIS SINGLES receives even less attention from collectors than the “new black” label Gold Standard singles from the late ’70s? The Collectables Records titles! In fact, most Elvis collectors have dismissed the idea of even adding Collectables 45s and LPs to their want-lists. This is a shame as there are a lot of interesting pieces to pursue, as this article makes evident.
And Collectables has been a part of the marketing of Elvis for a long time—nine years after Elvis died, RCA began leasing his recordings to the tiny reissue company. So it’s about time serious Elvis collectors became acquainted with their line of Presley platters.
There are more than a hundred Elvis 45s and LPs on Collectables Records, many on colored vinyl or with attractive picture sleeves.
While RCA had leased Presley’s masters to other companies in the past, it was always for special compilation albums. In this case, RCA was allowing Collectables to issue 45 rpm singles at the same time as their Gold Standard Series of Elvis reissues was still in print. That is, they were allowing another company to compete with them for sales.
Below you will find the most complete discography of Elvis Presley’s Collectables Records on the internet! That said, I assume that I am missing a few titles, label variations, and colored vinyl variations. If you have any of these, please let me know. 1
The title song for Girls! Girls! Girls! was always a fave of mine and helped turn me on to the original version by the Coasters. I was pleased to see that Collectables had released it as a single. This is an original poster for the 1962 movie Girls! Girls! Girls! that was used in Italy. (“Cento Ragazze E Un Marinaio” translates as “A Hundred Girls And A Sailor.”)
A most complete discography
Collectables was founded in 1980 by Jerry Greene, who was previously associated with the sister Lost-Nite Records and the Times Square Record Shop. Collectables Records is the largest reissue company in the US and leases masters from a variety of companies. It now has thousands of titles available on vinyl and compact disc.
In terms of vinyl, Collectables is the most active record company in the country when it comes to Elvis Presley 45 rpm singles. The company began releasing Presley product in 1986 and continues to sell it today. Oddly, almost all of these records were released in three batches:
• In 1986, Collectables released twenty-three Elvis singles.
• In 1997, Collectables released thirty-three Elvis singles.
• In 2001, Collectables released forty-six Elvis singles.
They were released on three catalog number series: the 4500 series, the 4700 series, and the 80000 series. In the discography below, I listed the year the series first appeared as the year of release for each title in that series. It’s possible that later numbers in each series were released sometime after the first title in that series was released.
Now let’s look at the sleeves that most of the records were issued with . . .
1980–2020
Early 1980s (both sides)
1980s (front and back)
1980s (front and back)
1980s (front and back)
1990s (front and back)
1990s (front and back)
1990s (front and back)
Company sleeves
Collectables Records issued their singles in plain white paper sleeves and in specially manufactured company sleeves. There are various designs the company used on the front and back of those sleeves. I found eleven variations and paired them up and assigned an approximate date to each pairing. As to which sleeve is the most appropriate for each series of Elvis records, I don’t know.
1986
Top: Collectables 4500, Good Rockin’ Tonight / I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine, was pressed on six different colors of vinyl: blue, gold, pink, purple, red (pictured above), and white. Bottom: This is a standard Collectables Records 45 rpm single in the 4500 series. Note in the upper right that DPE1-1001‑A is above 4501, which is also in parentheses. The former is the matrix number while the latter is the catalog number.
The 4500 series
Released in 1986, the first series of Elvis titles consisted of twenty-three records (4500–4522) with one number added later (4564). Each record has what appears to be two catalog numbers, one in the DPE1-1000 series and another in the 4500 series. On the record labels, the DPE number is listed first with the 4500 number below it and in parentheses.
The DPE number is the matrix number while the 4500 number is the catalog number. Buyers and sellers refer to the records by both numbers, so be careful when buying that you are not buying duplicates.
• First pressings from 1986 are on black vinyl.
• Later pressings from 1992 are on gold vinyl.
Collectables 4500 was pressed on six different colors of vinyl, each issued in a plain white sleeve. The six were initially sold as a set and shipped in a plain cardboard box. Eventually, all six colors were sold individually.
All records were issued in plain white sleeves or in Collectables Records sleeves (see “Company Sleeves” below).
Collectables 4500
Good Rockin’ Tonight / I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine
• Black vinyl
• Blue vinyl
• Pink vinyl
• Purple vinyl
• Red vinyl
• White vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4501
Milkcow Blues Boogie / You’re A Heartbreaker
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4502
Baby Let’s Play House / I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4503
I Got A Woman / I’m Counting On You
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4504
I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You) / I’ll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin’)
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4505
Tryin’ To Get To You / I Love You Because
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4506
Money Honey / One Sided Love Affair
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4507
Too Much / Playing For Keeps
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4508
A Big O’ Hunk Love / My Wish Came True
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4509
Stuck On You / Fame And Fortune
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4510
Wild In The Country / I Feel So Bad
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4511
She’s Not You / Jailhouse Rock
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4512
One Broken Heart For Sale / (You’re The) Devil In Disguise
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4513
Bossa Nova Baby / Such A Night
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4514
Love Me / Flaming Star
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4515
Follow That Dream / When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables DPE1-1016 (4516)
Frankie And Johnny / Love Letters
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables DPE1-1017 (4517)
U.S. Male / Until It’s Time For You To Go
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4518
Old Shep / You’ll Never Walk Alone
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4519
Poor Boy / An American Trilogy
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4520
How Great Thou Art / His Hand In Mine
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4521
Big Boss Man / Paralyzed
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4522
Fools Fall In Love / Blue Suede Shoes
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables 4564
The Elvis Medley / Always On My Mind
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables Records offered twenty-three Elvis records for sale as a “complete set.” With this set, all the records were on black vinyl and were in plain white sleeves. They were shrink-wrapped together without any special packaging. Thanks to Dave Reynolds (Elvis Rare Records) for sending me these images and special thanks to Elvis Rare Records’ Executive Secretary-Photographer, Rena Atienza, who actually took the photos!
The “complete set” of 4500s
In 1986, Collectables offered a “complete set” of extant Elvis singles on the 4500 series. This set consisted of twenty-three records on black vinyl, each in a white paper sleeve. Collectables did not have a special package designed but simply shrinkwrapped the twenty-three records together in a lump.
Assuming the photos of the set submitted to me for this article are representative of all the sets that Collectables shipped, each set had “Complete Set” written in felt-tip pen on the shrinkwrap.
Each set included a piece of photocopy paper with the titles of the songs of all the singles. The titles were typed using an old-fashioned, manual typewriter face (complete with damaged type). The title of the first record is erroneously listed as “A Big Hunk O’ Money.”
1997
This is a standard Collectables Records 45 rpm single with the matrix number (DRE11900) above the catalog number (COL04764) in the upper right. The block of text on the right refers to the record as a “compilation”—an odd choice for two sides of a single—and states that it was manufactured by BMG Special Products.
The 4700 series
Released in 1997, the second series consisted of a mere five records. I’m not sure if the 4700 series is a continuation of the 4500s or not but most sites give a release date of 1997 to these records. These records were issued in plain white sleeves or in Collectables Records sleeves (see “Company Sleeves” below).
Collectables COL-4738
Ask Me / The Girl Of My Best Friend
Collectables COL-4743
Girls! Girls! Girls! / Ain’t That Loving You Baby
• Black vinyl
• Gold vinyl
Collectables COL-4744
It’s Only Love / Beyond The Reef
Collectables COL-04763
Merry Christmas Baby / Santa Claus Is Back In Town
Collectables COL-04764
Spinout / Witchcraft
Above are four different records from the 80000 series (80006, 80012, 80017, and 80021), each from the collection of Bernard Roughton. He scanned each record using the same scanner with the same settings. As can be seen, the variations of the term “gray marbled vinyl” are more than minor. In fact, as each record pressed would be at least slightly different than the one before and after, no two records are exactly alike in the same number. A collector could spend years collecting thousands of gray-marbleized Collectables 80000 Elvis singles!
The 80000 series
Released in 1997, the third Elvis series was the most adventurous: It consisted of twenty-nine records, each pressed on at least two different colors of vinyl, although gray-marbleized vinyl is the most common. Because of the random nature of the way in which marbleized vinyl records are made, no two are exactly alike, even with the same catalog number record.
These records were issued in plain white sleeves or in Collectables Records sleeves (see “Company Sleeves” below).
Collectables 80000
(Now And Then There’s A) A Fool Such As I / I Need Your Love Tonight
• Gray marbled vinyl
• Salmon marbled vinyl
Collectables 80001
Separate Ways / Always On My Mind
• Gray marbled vinyl
• Green marbled vinyl
Collectables 80002
An American Trilogy / Until It’s Time For You To Go
• Gray marbled vinyl
• Salmon marbled vinyl
Collectables 80003
Crying In The Chapel / Believe In The Man In The Sky
• Gray marbled vinyl
• Pink marbled vinyl
Collectables 80004
Don’t / I Beg Of You
• Gray marbled vinyl
• Purple marbled vinyl
• Red marbled vinyl
Collectables 80005
Don’t Cry Daddy / Rubberneckin’
• Black marbled vinyl
• Salmon marbled vinyl
Collectables 80006
Good Luck Charm / Anything That’s Part Of You
• Gray marbled vinyl
• Salmon marbled vinyl
Collectables 80007
Guitar Man / Hi-Heel Sneakers
• Gray marbled vinyl
Collectables 80008
Hard Headed Woman / Don’t Ask Me Why
• Greenish marbled vinyl
• Purple marbled vinyl
Collectables 80009
Heartbreak Hotel / I Was The One
• Gray marbled vinyl
• Purple marbled vinyl
Collectables 80010
I Forgot To Remember To Forget / Mystery Train
• Gray marbled vinyl
• Purple marbled vinyl
Collectables 80011
I Got Stung / One Night
• Gray marbled vinyl
Collectables 80012
I Really Don’t Want To Know / There Goes My Everything
• Black marbled vinyl
• Gray marbled vinyl
Collectables 80013
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You / My Baby Left Me
• Green marbled vinyl
• Purple marbled vinyl
• White marbled vinyl
Collectables 80014
If I Can Dream / Edge Of Reality
• Gray marbled vinyl
Collectables 80015
Kentucky Rain / My Little One
• Gray marbled vinyl
Collectables 80016
Kiss Me Quick / Suspicion
• Gray marbled vinyl
Collectables 80017
Kissin’ Cousins / It Hurts Me
• Gray marbled vinyl
Collectables 80018
Little Sister / (Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame
• Black marbled vinyl
• Gray marbled vinyl
• Green-gray marbled vinyl
Collectables 80019
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear / Loving You
• Gray marbled vinyl
• Pink marbled vinyl
• Purple marbled vinyl
Collectables 80020
The Wonder Of You / Mama Liked The Roses
• Gray marbled vinyl
Collectables 80021
Memories / Charro
• Gray marbled vinyl
• Green marbled vinyl
Collectables 80022
My Boy / Thinking About You
• Black marbled vinyl
Collectables 80023
Way Down / My Way
• Multi-color marbled vinyl
Collectables 80024
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me / Patch It Up
• Gray marbled vinyl
Collectables 80025
Surrender / Lonely Man
• Pink marbled vinyl
Collectables 80026
That’s All Right / Blue Moon Of Kentucky
• Black vinyl
• Gray marbled vinyl
• Purple marbled vinyl
• Red marbled vinyl
Collectables 80027
Wear My Ring Around Your Neck / Doncha’ Think It’s Time
• Gray marbled vinyl
• Pink marbled vinyl
Collectables 80028
Puppet On A String / Wooden Heart
• Gray marbled vinyl
A Touch Of Marble
In 1997, Paul Dowling assembled a boxed set of twenty-nine 45 rpm singles and sold it through his Worldwide Elvis website. A Touch Of Marble was a limited edition box of 1,000 copies (pictured above) that contained all the records in the 80000 series above. Paul obtained permission from RCA for the project and purchased the pre-existing gray-marbleized records from Collectables.
He had the boxes along with a unique picture sleeve and a certificate of authenticity (numbered #1 through #1,000) manufactured locally and assembled the pieces into the boxed set.
To read more on A Touch Of Marble, click HERE.
2001
Sun Records did not have the budget to spend an extra penny or two to include a picture sleeve with each of the records they released in 1954–1955. The sleeves above are the products of someone at BMG imagining how sleeves for the Presley records could have looked at that time. (These were issued with #1 Hit Singles Collection below.)
The reproductions
In 2001, Collectables released #1 Hit Singles Collection, a boxed set of twenty-three records pressed on red vinyl and housed in nicely made picture sleeves. They followed this with Hit Singles Collection Volume 2 in 2002. The records are well-made reproductions of the original Sun and RCA Victor 45s (except for being on red vinyl) using the appropriate label for each release.
Each picture sleeve is a facsimile of the original sleeve. They can be differentiated from the originals easily as they have a blurb on one side in either black or white print that states, “This is a replica of the original packaging.” (Lawdy Miss Clawdy but why anyone would use the word “packaging” instead of “picture sleeve” is beyond me.) 2
The person who compiled this first box relied exclusively on Billboard magazine’s charts for their #1 hits, apparently using their Top 100/Hot 100, Best Sellers In Stores, and Christmas surveys. The more reliable Cash Box pop chart wasn’t heeded nor were various UK charts.
#1 Hit Singles Collection
Sun 209
That’s All Right / Blue Moon Of Kentucky
• Issued with a picture sleeve designed especially for this release.
• Red vinyl
Sun 210
Good Rockin’ Tonight / I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine
• Issued with a picture sleeve designed especially for this release.
• Red vinyl
Sun 215
Milkcow Blues Boogie / You’re A Heartbreaker
• Issued with a picture sleeve designed especially for this release.
• Red vinyl
Sun 217
Baby Let’s Play House / I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone
• Issued with a picture sleeve designed especially for this release.
• Red vinyl
Sun 223
I Forgot To Remember To Forget / Mystery Train
• Issued with a picture sleeve designed especially for this release.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–6420
Heartbreak Hotel / I Was The One
• Issued with a picture sleeve designed especially for this release.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–6540
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You / My Baby Left Me
• Issued with a picture sleeve designed especially for this release.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–6604
Hound Dog / Don’t Be Cruel
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve with “Hound Dog! c/w Don’t Be Cruel.”
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–6643
Love Me Tender / Any Way You Want Me (That’s How I Will Be)
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original pink sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–6800
Too Much / Playing For Keeps
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–6870
All Shook Up / That’s When Your Heartaches Begin
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–7000
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear / Loving You
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–7035
Jailhouse Rock / Treat Me Nice
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–7150
Don’t / I Beg Of You
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–7280
Hard Headed Woman/ Don’t Ask Me Why
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–7600
A Big Hunk O’ Love / My Wish Came True
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–7740
Stuck On You / Fame And Fortune
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–7777
It’s Now Or Never / A Mess Of Blues
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–7810
Are You Lonesome Tonight / I Gotta Know
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–7850
Surrender / Lonely Man
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–7992
Good Luck Charm / Anything That’s Part Of You
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 447‑0720
Blue Christmas / Wooden Heart
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–9764
Suspicious Minds / You’ll Think Of Me
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
Hit Singles Collection Volume 2
RCA Victor 47–6636
Blue Suede Shoes / Tutti Frutti
• Issued with a picture sleeve designed especially for this release.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–7240
Wear My Ring Around Your Neck / Doncha’ Thinks It’s Time
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–7410
I Got Stung / One Night
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–7506
(Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I / I Need Your Love Tonight
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–7880
I Feel So Bad / Wild In The Country
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–7908
Little Sister / (Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–7968
Can’t Help Falling In Love / Rock-A-Hula Baby
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–8041
She’s Not You / Just Tell Her Jim Said Hello
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–8100
Return To Sender / Where Do You Come From
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–8134
One Broken Heart For Sale / They Remind Me Too Much Of You
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–8188
(You’re The) Devil In Disguise / Please Don’t Drag That String Around
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–8243
Bossa Nova Baby / Witchcraft
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–8360
Viva Las Vegas / What’d I Say
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–8440
Ask Me / Ain’t That Loving You Baby
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 447‑0643
Crying In The Chapel / I Believe In The Man In The Sky
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl 3
RCA Victor 47–8657
I’m Yours / (It’s A) Long Lonely Highway
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–9670
If I Can Dream / Edge Of Reality
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–9741
In The Ghetto / Any Day Now
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–9768
Don’t Cry, Daddy / Rubberneckin’
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–9791
Kentucky Rain / My Little Friend
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–9835
The Wonder Of You / Mama Liked The Roses
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 47–9916
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me / Patch It
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
RCA Victor 74–0769
Burning Love / Steamroller Blues
• Issued with a picture sleeve that is a facsimile of the original sleeve.
• Red vinyl
2002
Album collections
In 2002, Collectables released two boxed sets of albums, Top Album Collection Volume 1 (COL-0165) and Top Album Collection Vol 2 (COL-0166). Each box contains four single-record albums and one two-record album for a total of six records per set. Each record was pressed on 180-gram, red vinyl.
Top Album Collection Volume 1
RCA Victor LPM-1254
Elvis Presley
RCA Victor LPM-1382
Elvis
RCA Victor LSP-2370
Something For Everybody
RCA Victor LSP-2426
Blue Hawaii
RCA Victor APL2-2587
Elvis In Concert
Top Album Collection Vol 2
RCA Victor LPM-1515
Loving You
RCA Victor LOC-1035
Elvis’ Christmas Album
RCA Victor LSP-2256
G.I. Blues
RCA Victor LSP-2999
Roustabout
RCA Victor VPSX-6089
Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite
This is the facsimile of the original RCA Victor picture sleeve for Love Me Tender / Any Way You Want Me from 1956. It is easy to tell the original from the facsimile: On the bottom of the back of the reproduction is a line of text that begins, “This is a replica of the original packaging.”
Collectables Records price guide
With all the variations in the gray-marbleized records, there are literally—look that word up, folks—tens of thousands of Collectables variations for the avid collector to pursue! Although frankly, collecting one of each color should satisfy most reasonably sane collectors.
There’s really not a lot to say about Collectables Records as collectibles but here is a rule-of-thumb price guide for these records (and all values are for near-mint records, sleeves, and boxes):
• Most of the 45s on black vinyl sell for $3–6.
• Most of the 45s on marble vinyl sell for $4–8.
• Most of the 45s on red vinyl sell for $3–6.
• Most of the 45s on other color vinyl sell for $5–10.
• Most of the picture sleeves sell for $3–6.
• #1 Hit Singles Collection sells for $75–100.
• Hit Singles Collection Volume 2 sells for $75–100.
• Top Album Collection Volume 1 sells for $75–100.
• Top Album Collection Volume 2 sells for $75–100.
Many of the records listed above are being offered for sale in NM condition on Discogs at this very moment for less than $10 and are finding no buyers. Collectables Records still has some of these records (including the marble pressings and the red vinyl pressings) for sale on their website in brand-new condition. If you are interested in starting a collection of Elvis Collectables records, your best bet is to start there and then look for lot offers on eBay where you can buy several numbers at once for a few bucks apiece.
Eventually, collectors will start paying attention to these Collectables records and a few may even become genuinely collectible. 4
There are more than a hundred Elvis titles on Collectables Records, many on colored vinyl and many with attractive picture sleeves. Click To Tweet
FEATURED IMAGE: The photo at the top of the page was cropped from the original 1962 Italian poster for the movie Girls! Girls! Girls! (pictured above). I found the poster on the Heritage Auctions website, where it sold for a paltry $84. Heritage turns up a lot of excellent and even “exotic” Elvis collectibles and is worth paying attention to if you are a serious collector.
Thanks to Bernard Broughton, Paul Dowling (Worldwide Elvis), Craig LaPine, and Dave Reynolds (Elvis Rare Records) for their contributions to this article. Finally, I sent an email to Collectables Records requesting information for this project but have not, as yet, heard back from them.
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FOOTNOTES:
1 If you want to offer any input on this article, please offer it in the comments section below.
3 447‑0643 does not have the black label with “RCA Victor” on the side used in 1965 but the has the black label with “RCA” at the top used in 1976.
4 There may be a few variations—especially some of the colored vinyl singles—that are harder to find than the rest and consistently command a premium but at this time they haven’t been identified for a higher value to be assigned.
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.)
