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is the last american elvis 78 preposterously undervalued by collectors?

WHAT’S THE RAREST ELVIS RECORD of the ’50s that was re­leased com­mer­cially in the US? I don’t mean a mis­take of some kind (such as a mis­pressing or a record with­drawn from cir­cu­la­tion). RCA Victor 20-7410, I Got Stung / One Night, was the last Amer­ican Elvis 78 rpm record and just may be that record! [Read more] “is the last american elvis 78 preposterously undervalued by collectors?”

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elvis found alive (a movie review)

ELVIS FOUND ALIVE is, de­spite its pre­tense and tack­i­ness, ba­si­cally a bi­og­raphy of the man. It com­piles facts and quotes from var­ious sources and links them to­gether, more or less chrono­log­i­cally, of­fering no new fac­tual data and no in­ter­esting opin­ions or in­sights. You pretty much know it’s a “moc­u­men­tary” of some sort from the get-go. [Read more] “elvis found alive (a movie review)”

elvis’ number ones and golden hits

SELLING ELVIS PRESLEY was never that dif­fi­cult. Even during his low pe­riods, each new record gen­er­ally sold hun­dreds of thou­sands of units (al­though few were number ones) while his back cat­alog sold mil­lions. Be­cause of that, RCA took Presley for granted and failed to issue quality com­pi­la­tions and prop­erly pro­mote the ones they did release. [Read more] “elvis’ number ones and golden hits”

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“elvis movies” is a work-in-progress

MY APOLO­GIES IF YOU ARE HERE looking for some­thing to read about Elvis’ movies. I started writing some notes for a se­ries of mini-reviews of each of Pres­ley’s movies—trying for some “ob­jec­tivity” about the movie and its sound­track music in each review—and ac­ci­den­tally pressed the Pub­lish button in­stead of the Save Draft button. [Read more] ““elvis movies” is a work-in-progress”

Elvis SPD

is the “country & western jukebox promotion kit” for spd-15 more fake news?

RCA VICTOR SPD-15, a col­lec­tion of ten un­ti­tled records, were known only by their group cat­alog number for decades. The ten 45 rpm extended-play (EP) records con­tain forty tracks by ten country artists, in­cluding four by Elvis Presley. The records were made for juke­boxes and are now in­cor­rectly re­ferred to as the “Jukebox Pro­mo­tion Kit.” [Read more] “is the “country & western jukebox promotion kit” for spd-15 more fake news?”