ELVIS PRESLEY S/T LP RARE FIRST PRESSING MONO VINYL LPM-1254 G2 PP1282-6S

$

150

ARTIST: Elvis Presley
TITLE: S/T
FORMAT: LP
LABEL: RCA Victor
PRODUCT #: LPM-1254

RECORD CONDITION: VG- HAS VARIOUS SCRATCHES & SURFACE SCRATCHES BUT PLAYS BETTER THAN IT LOOKS! TEST PLAYED WITH NO SKIPS! COMES WITH BRAND NEW POLY SLEEVE. SEE PICTURES (PRICE ADJUSTED ACCORDINGLY)
JACKET CONDITION: G+ HAS VARIOUS STAINS/DISCOLORATION, SCRATCHES ON FRONT, CREASE ON BACK BOTTOM LEFT CORNER, AND SPLIT SEEMS THAT GO ABOUT HALF WAY THROUGH ON BOTTOM AND TOP EDGES. SEE PICTURES (PRICE ADJUSTED ACCORDINGLY)

DESCRIPTION: RARE FIRST PRESSING IN MONO! SAYS "LONG PLAY" ON LABEL, "NEW ORTHOPHONIC" ON FRONT TOP RIGHT JACKET AND ON LABEL, AND ALSO SAYS CAMDEN, NJ ON LABEL. 

SIDE A LABEL SAYS: LPM 1254 (G2PP-1282)

SIDE B LABEL SAYS: LPM 1254 (G2PP-1283)

SIDE A MATRIX SAYS: G2 PP1282-6S

SIDE B MATRIX SAYS: G2 PP1283 5S

A MUST OWN FOR ALL ELVIS COLLECTORS!

"Today it all seems so easy -- RCA signs up the kid from Memphis, television gets interested at around the same time, and the rest is history. The circumstances surrounding this album were neither simple nor promising, however, nor was there anything in the history of popular music up to that time to hint that Elvis Presley was going to be anything other than "Steve Sholes' folly," which was what rival executives were already whispering. So a lot was unsettled and untried at the first of two groups of sessions that produced the Elvis Presley album -- it wasn't even certain that there was any reason for a rock & roll artist to cut an album, because teenagers bought 45s, not LPs. The first of Elvis' RCA sides yielded one song, "Heartbreak Hotel," that seemed a potential single, but which no one thought would sell, and a few tracks that would be good enough for an album, if there were one. But no one involved knew anything for sure about this music. Seventeen days later, "Heartbreak Hotel" was released, and for about a month it did nothing -- then it began to move, and then Elvis appeared on television, and had a number one pop single. The album Sholes wanted out of Elvis came from two groups of sessions in January and February, augmented by five previously unissued songs from the Sun library. This was as startling a debut record as any ever made, representing every side of Elvis' musical influences except gospel -- rockabilly, blues, R&B, country, and pop were all here in an explosive and seductive combination. Elvis Presley became the first rock & roll album to reach the number one spot on the national charts, and RCA's first million dollar-earning pop album." - Bruce Eder & allmusic.com

"Elvis Presley may be the single most important figure in American 20th century popular music. Not necessarily the best, and certainly not the most consistent. But no one could argue with the fact that he was the musician most responsible for popularizing rock & roll on an international level. Viewed in cold sales figures, his impact was phenomenal. Dozens upon dozens of international smashes from the mid-'50s to the mid-'70s, as well as the steady sales of his catalog and reissues since his death in 1977, may make him the single highest-selling performer in history. More important from a music lover's perspective, however, are his remarkable artistic achievements. Presley was not the very first white man to sing rhythm & blues; Bill Haley predated him in that regard, and there may have been others as well. Elvis was certainly the first, however, to assertively fuse country and blues music into the style known as rockabilly. While rockabilly arrangements were the foundations of his first (and possibly best) recordings, Presley could not have become a mainstream superstar without a much more varied palette that also incorporated pop, gospel, and even some bits of bluegrass and operatic schmaltz here and there. His '50s recordings established the basic language of rock & roll; his explosive and sexual stage presence set standards for the music's visual image; his vocals were incredibly powerful and versatile." - Richie Unterberger & allmusic.com

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