ELVIS PRESLEY My Happiness 78rpm THIRD MAN Jack White RECORD STORE DAY RSD
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BRAND NEW - SEALED
Elvis Presley - My Happiness
Vinyl 10"
Record store day 2015 Release
HISTORY OF THE RECORD
In July of 1953, Elvis went to Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, to make a record for his mother. "He paid $4 for a one-off recording," said Jay McDowell, of Nashville's Musicians Hall of Fame.
"The studio owner wasn't even there that day so the secretary ran the machine to cut the record." McDowell said.
Move the needle forward to 2015:
White, a multi-Grammy winner and owner of Third Man Records in Nashville, secretly snagged Elvis' first record during a Graceland Auction in January.
The ten-inch, 78-rpm disc containing two songs, "My Happiness" on one side and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin" on the other, set White back $300,000. Now he'd like to share it with fans, in the most authentic form possible.
The labels on the reissue, produced on a typewriter, are identical to those "that happened to be laying around Sun Records in July 1953" and the record has been packaged in a nondescript sleeve that was typical of the era, according to Third Man Records.
"The utmost attention to detail has been paid in order to create an object so close to the historic original as to almost be indistinguishable from one other," a statement on Jack White's website said.
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