a blog about elvis presley's music and the records it can be found on
IN 1964, the Gold Standard Series was used by RCA to expose the old Elvis to the new and younger record buyers brought to the stores by the Beatles and the rest of the British Invasion—which in early 1964 was basically the Fab Four and the Dave Clark 5. [Continue reading]
WHY ARE THEY SO RARE? When were these records released with these bloody orange labels? How many titles were released? How many copies of each were manufactured? These questions have puzzled Elvis collectors for years—they certainly baffled me as editor of the O’Sullivan Woodside record collectors price guides way back when. [Continue reading]
THIS DISCOGRAPHY and price guide to In The Ghetto is a listing of various pressings of the record and its accompanying picture sleeve from around the world. It is a follow-up to “The importance of In The Ghetto” and “On the importance of In The Ghetto part 2.″ [Continue reading]
THIS SECOND PART of “The Importance of ‘In the Ghetto’ ” is a follow-up to the previously published “The importance of In The Ghetto.” This piece here is a sort of addendum of bits and pieces that can be associated with In The Ghetto the record. [Continue reading]
IN EARLY 1969, following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr and the Holy Week Uprising and then the assassination of Robert Kennedy and the police riot at the Democratic National Convention, Elvis Presley chose to record a message song about racism. [Continue reading]
MY RESPONSE when first seeing the picture sleeve for Elvis Presley’s new single Spinout / All That I Am in the summer of ’66 was befuddlement. He looked ridiculous and almost didn’t look like Elvis Presley! His face was puffy and round, he was wearing make-up, and he had the most outlandish, “retro” hair-do imaginable? [Continue reading]
AROUND THE WORLD, Elvis records were issued as Compact 33 Singles that were not issued domestically. Oddly, far more Compact 33 Doubles were issued, many offering either unique cover art or content. The Japanese especially embraced this format and kept issuing them into 1967. [Continue reading]
IN EUROPE, the compact 33 rpm single lasted into 1962, and like the rest of this wonderful world of ours, Elvis records were issued as Compact 33 Singles and Doubles there that were not issued domestically. [Continue reading]
IN JAPAN, the seven-inch, 33 rpm format lasted into the second half of the ’60s. Elvis records were issued as Compact 33 Singles and Doubles there that were not issued domestically. Japanese record buyers were apparently not even given the opportunity to appreciate the slower speed singles, as I could not find any reference to that country releasing any singles at 33 rpm. [Continue reading]