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!!!
I have been busy completely revamping the series of nine articles I wrote about Elvis’ Gold Standard singles and picture sleeves and the new articles will be so, so, so much better:
More complete.
More accurate.
More interesting.
And I have more help from more collectors this time. Here are a few images to tease you into wanting more:
This is the browser box used to display the first Elvis Gold Standard original release, Kiss Me Quick / Suspicion, released in April 1964. The box also displays the special reissues of five older Gold Standard singles, each in a brand, spanking new picture sleeve. The box and records above are from the collection of Jules Thibault, which is why each of the records and picture sleeves are in protective, plastic outer sleeves. He purchased this box in like-new condition on eBay a few years ago and he graciously took photos of it for these articles.
This is the super-rare red label reissue of I Feel So Bad / Wild In The Country. When I wrote the original Gold Standard Series articles four years ago, I couldn’t even prove this record existed! But another gracious collector sent me these photos and two others of an equally rare red label record.
WHO ARE THESE GUYS?!!?
Read the articles as I publish them and find out. There will be at least ten articles in the series. I’d tell you more but—Hell’s Belles!—I haven’t even decided on a collective title for them.
PS: If you have been redirected here from one of my older articles about Elvis’ Gold Standard 45s, it’s because I don’t want you reading old and misleading information.
well, the world is waiting!
Yes: The world is in a constant state of anticipation. Alas, we so often disappoint and leave it waiting.
(Thanks.)
I’m waiting to read more about those rare 5 GSS singles and the values. Love to read more about Elvis Records.
SHEILA
Thanks for the comment.
Right now, I have eleven articles addressing the Elvis Gold Standard Series records in various stages of completion. I put them temporarily aside for a variety of reasons including but not limited to changing hosts for my blogs, updating those blogs with new plugins (which I think I completed yesterday), health issues (pandemic-related and just-plain-getting-old-related), etc.
So hang in there, please …
NEAL
Thank you for writing back!! I really love collecting Elvis Records. In fact, I have those 5 GSS white label promos with sleeves. Factory new!! You will not believe what I paid for! So, I’m excited to learn more about them records and other Elvis great records.
S
Which five GSS are you referring to?
N
The five with picture sleeves and white label promos—the five that are hard to get.
Also have “Kiss Me Quick” / “Suspicion.”
S
Do you mean the following:
447-0604 “Blue Moon of Kentucky” / “That’s All Right”
447-0602 “Good Rockin’ Tonight” / “I Don’t Care if The Sun Don’t Shine”
447-0605 “Heartbreak Hotel” / “I Was The One”
447-0608 “Hound Dog” / “Don’t Be Cruel”
447-0618 “All Shook Up” / “That’s When Your Heartaches Begin”
If so, the last time I saw anything resembling MINT copies of these picture sleeves was when I saw them in the browser box in Woolworths or McCrory’s in the Summer of 1964. These sleeves are not rare but very, very hard to find without ringwear and are—in my opinion—absurdly undervalued in NM condition.
The white label promos are much easier to find in NM.
The WLP record and the picture sleeve for 447-0639, “Kiss Me Quick” / “Suspicion,” are also relatively easy to come by in NM.
N
Yep! All have no ring wear!
S
Wow! Can you scan them or take photos of them and send the to me so I can use them here?
N
How do I post photos?
S
I replied via email (it’s the one that says “Just a Hello!”) and made suggestions about sending me photos.
N
NEAL
447-0610 “I Got A Woman” / “I’m Counting On You”
447-0611 “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry” / “I’ll Never Let You Go”
447-0612 “Trying To Get To You” / “I Love You Because”
The above three Gold Standard Series 45s are the rarest of the rare. They sold so poorly they were deleted by 1963 and you will NOT find them listed in any RCA catalog or back cover listing Elvis Presley singles.
Thank you.
COLIN
I have been working on updating the discography and price guide for the Elvis Gold Standard series 45s for several years and hope to publish it soon. While the three numbers you listed are among the rarest of the original black label pressings with Nipper and “RCA Victor” on top, they don’t come close to how rare any of the orange label Gold Standards are (which have been $100+ records for decades) and many of the red labels (one of which sold for more than $500 in the past 18 months).
And we remain baffled by the so-called “new black” label Gold Standards, of which there are so many variations — such as labels with and without “Gold Standard”; labels with “Gold Standard” on the top, the bottom, or the side; and records pressed on vinyl or on styrene.
All I gotta do is get off my widening behind, finish the project, and post it!
Keep on keepin’ on!
NEAL