Four Elvis Presley King Creole Vol. 2 RCA EPA-4321 45 EP 3 Label Variations
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Description
Artist: Elvis Presley
Release: RCA Victor EPA-4321 King Creole, Vol. 2 (EP)
Release Date: 7/29/1958
Side 1: Trouble / Young Dreams
Side 2: Crawfish / Dixieland Rock
Four copies of the Soundtrack 45 EP from the 1958 Elvis Presley movie King Creole Vol. 2. No seam splits. Two covers have darkened with age. Three different label variations. Covers, labels and vinyl all VG+ or better.
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With its growlingly aggressive Leiber-Stoller title track, the first EP from the movie sold a very respectable 500,000 copies (the same as the first Loving You EP). At the same time, the idea of releasing a single and two EPs in quick succession, with no LP initially planned, seemed to reflect Colonel Parker’s misgivings about the musical mix, which, with its emphasis on a heavily brass-influenced New Orleans sound, he felt tended to overshadow Elvis’ voice. On the other hand, it may just have been a negotiating ploy in his ongoing skirmishes with RCA.
The second movie EP led with an even more growlingly aggressive Leiber-Stoller lead track, this one modeled on Muddy Waters’ “Hoochie Coochie Man.” It sold as well as the first, perhaps bearing out the Colonel’s strategy.
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