a blog about elvis presley's music and records
I FEEL SO BAD was Elvis’ fifth single of the new decade, and was a worldwide smash—or at least it or the flip-side was a smash somewhere. At this time (1961–62), RCA Victor was issuing Presley’s new singles in the US as both standard 45 rpm records and also as 33⅓ rpm records. [Read more] “I Feel So Bad compact 33 single and picture sleeve”
SURRENDER was Elvis’ fourth single of the new decade, and was a worldwide smash. At this time (1961–1962), RCA Victor was issuing Presley’s new singles in the US as both standard 45s and as 33⅓ rpm records. The latter was a new format that the company dubbed Compact 33 Singles. Surrender [Read more] “Surrender compact 33 single in living stereo”
SURRENDER was Elvis’ fourth single of the new decade and was a worldwide smash. At this time (1961–1962), RCA Victor was issuing Presley’s new singles in the US as both standard 45s and as 33⅓ rpm records. The latter was a new format that the company dubbed Compact 33 Singles. [Read more] “Surrender compact 33 single and picture sleeve”
THE FIRST RECORDS to reach a large audience and keep that audience for several generations were 10-inch records that played at approximately 78 revolutions per minute. The original format featured only one song on one side, hence it was known as a single. The name stuck to the format when it was made into a two-sided medium with one song per side. [Read more] “introduction to 33 rpm singles and doubles”
HARD UP FOR NEW RELEASES while their cash cow was in the Army, in 1959-1960, RCA Victor issued three volumes of EP albums titled A TOUCH OF GOLD. I had always liked that title and had subsequently used it as the title for my second Elvis Presley price guide. [Read more] “the avid record collector’s price guide to A Touch Of Gold albums”
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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.)
