Elvis Presley: Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits, Vol. 1 (4 LP Box Set,1970,Mono) NEW
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This is really a rare find! You are bidding on a sealed vinyl copy of "Elvis Presley's 1970 4 Record Set, "Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits, Vol. 1" containing 50 Elvis hits. This is an Vinyl 4 RECORD set. This set starts with "Heartbreak Hotel," (his first RCA Single) and ends with "Kentucky Rain." All in glorious Mono. The set comes in what we would call a "box set" vinyl size 12" box.
This set is brand new, still sealed in the box, and has no visible defects what so ever. RCA Catalogue # RCA LPM-6401. See photos of actual item being sold.
Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits Vol. 1 is a compilation box set by Elvis Presley. The four-album set was released in August, 1970, as his 38th album. The set peaked at number 45 on the Billboard 200 and at number 25 on the country chart.[1] It was certified Gold on February 13, 1973, Platinum on March 27, 1992 and 2x Platinum on June 17, 1992 by the Recording Industry Association of America.[2] Of the 51 tracks featured, four make their album debut in this collection: "Viva Las Vegas", "Suspicious Minds", "Don't Cry Daddy", and "Kentucky Rain".
AllMusic Review
Elvis Presley was first on a lot of fronts -- not just in terms of chart action, but also the range and nature of his releases; he was the first rock & roller to generate a second volume of hits, and then a third, and a fourth, and a fifth. And in 1970, he was the first rock artist to earn a classical-style box set reissue of his hits. Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits, Vol. 1 was four full LPs packaged in a handsome set of a kind never before seen in rock music, much less rock & roll. What's more, the set actually showed some care in the production area as well, with all of the early single sides mastered in real mono, as opposed to the rechanneled stereo that had become standard on previous Elvis Presley compilations. The set was a revelation at the time for those who associated Presley with his weaker singles of recent years, or his lackluster movies of the '60s -- Rolling Stone, no less, raved about it, and it did remind older rock listeners, as well as inform their younger compatriots, of what Elvis had meant across the first 14 years of his career at RCA. One can either trace the obvious decline of the artist into entertainer, or marvel at how good the bad stuff sounds in context. Million-selling B-sides and EPs that most assuredly had topped the seven-digit figure but were routinely ignored by most compilations are also included. If all you want in your collection from Elvis are the most obvious hits, this set is the one to go with.
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