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 the music on this album were neither simple nor promising, however, nor was there ...more
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His first RCA LP is certainly a great moment in rock history (the Clash would imitate its cover for their London Calling )--and yes the 50's Box set makes it somewhat redundant. Nevertheless, the modern pop era arguably begins here. ...more
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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 ...more
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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 ...more
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Elvis Presley Elvis Presley Platinum: A Life in Music RCA The first sound you hear is a hiss. Next, the rasp of an ancient recording gives way to someone strumming a few rudimentary chords on a guitar. A voice quivers out of the murk. ''If you find ...more
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Elvis Presley's third non-soundtrack, post-Army album is, in many ways, his most interesting from those years, though nowhere near his best. Something for Everybody offers a tamer body of songs than Elvis Is Back!, but also shows the effect of Presley's ...more
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In the late 1960s, Elvis Presley revitalized his career both by looking backward -- notably during the off-the-cuff performances of his old songs on his 1968 television special -- and by looking forward and beginning to perform new songs growing out of ...more
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Elvis Presley's movie music of the 1960s does not have a high reputation even though, as annotator Charles K. Wolfe points out, much of it was popular at the time and the movies themselves were box-office hits that continue to appeal to fans today. The ...more
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Time-Life's The Elvis Presley Collection mail-order series is largely organized by musical style, with titles devoted to rock & roll, country, gospel, etc. Understandably, this one, devoted to Presley's recordings of R&B music, is one of the best. ...more
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Since an earlier volume in Time-Life's mail-order series The Elvis Presley Collection is subtitled Rock 'n' Roll, it's worth asking what distinguishes it from this one, subtitled The Rocker. The answer, in general, is that Rock 'n' Roll contains ...more
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The original Elvis' Golden Records, Vol. 3 was, like its predecessors, an unprecedented release -- no one in rock & roll up to that point, other than Elvis, had ever legitimately earned a second greatest-hits volume, much less a third. This is also the ...more
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