Each record below has a link to the primary article about that record (the aforementioned Sun reissues do not). So, each of the four important records addressed below is the subject of at least one separate article of its own. This project began simply to answer the question What was the first record that RCA Victor released with an Elvis recording on it? It grew into a series of articles that eventually touched on related records so, as I publish this article, there are at least twenty somewhat related articles in the series! The exact day of the month that each record was shipped is not known, so only the month and year are given. The records are listed below in the order in which I believe they were shipped from RCA Victor to either radio stations for airplay or to the public for purchase. The company released the other four Sun singles (RCA Victor 6380, 6381, 6382, and 6383), which were almost certainly on store shelves around the country by the last week of January. RCA Victor enjoyed immediate success with the first Presley platter, I Forgot To Remember To Forget / Mystery Train (20-6357 and 47-6357), which was a reissue of Sun 223. This article addresses those four records along with four others we know were not the first but fit in the time frame-the reissues of the second, third, fourth, and fifth Sun singles. Through the years, Elvis collectors have considered four records to have been the first record that RCA Victor released featuring a Presley recording: one single, one set of EP records, and two LP records. Four of the photos were heavily cropped and used on the back cover of his first albums. On December 1, 1955, RCA Victor photographed Elvis posing in their New York studio, although he didn’t record a thing. From these sources, I can glean some information.Īs for memories-no matter how well someone thinks they have pressed them between the pages of their mind, I rarely rely on them for anything except conversation.Īs someone once famous once said: “ It isn’t so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren’t so.” I can inspect thousands of records and I can access thousands of issues of Billboard and Cash Box online.
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