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LP ‘Elvis Presley‘ (released #otd in 2012)
On March 23, 1956, Elvis Presley”s first album was released by RCA in the United States. It spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the charts and was the first rock and roll album to reach the position of honor and to exceed one million sales. Chet Atkins and Scotty Moore on guitar, Bill Black on bass, Shorty Long on piano and D.J. Fontana on drums participated as musicians and Steve Sholes produced.
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It”s not the Bible. In fact, judged from today’s perspective, the initial shock is over, Elvis Presley”s first LP is a tremendously inconsistent work. The songbook was made from several sessions: seven songs were recorded in early 1956, just before its release, but five tracks were out takes recorded in ’54 and ’55 on Sam Phillips’ Sun Records label, before RCA signed the Memphis label. The affected voice of the version of “I’ll never let you go (Little Darlin’)” recorded at Sun, borders on self-parody; the irony is that at that time Elvis did not yet have a public image to mock. And here’s a curious fact: although it is on all CD reissues, the original edition of the vinyl did not contain “Heartbreak Hotel”, the song that catapulted a 21-year-old who had achieved some notoriety to world stardom in just a few weeks.
Of course there is magic in this album, and a lot of it; The truth is that there have been revolutions that started for much less. The album opens with his version of “Blue Suede Shoes” that eclipsed that of its author, Carl Perkins, a new disciple of Sam Phillips and called to succeed Presley. The white gospel of “I’m counting on you” and the nervous rhythm of Ray Charles’ “I got a woman” knock you out at first. On “Trying to Get to You,” Presley is halfway between a small-town boy and a flamboyant singer, and the R&B classic “I’m going to sit right down and cry (over you)” gets a country and western treatment with D.J. Fontana’s drums scoring a 2/4. At the end we find the melancholic version of “Blue Moon”. It is a reference album. And so is the cover. It is believed to have been taken by photographer William “Red” Robertson, on July 21, 1955, at a concert in Tampa (Florida), and it is one of the most representative snapshots ever taken of Elvis. In 1979, The Clash imitated his design in “London Calling”.
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Elvis Presley – Blue Moon
Written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
Recorded August 14, 1954
Blue Moon
Blue moon,
You saw me standing alone,
Without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own.
Blue moon,
You knew just what I was there for.
You heard me saying a pray for
Someone I really could care for.
Blue moon,
You saw me standing alone,
Without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own.
Blue moon…
Without a love of my own.