[ RCA Records / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 28 June 2004
Beyond essential, this collection includes all 5 of Elvis' original Sun singles (A & B sides) and rare alternate takes.
That's All Right" was rock 'n' roll's Big Bang. It was July 5, 1954 and Elvis Presley had just begun a 17-month association with Sun Records that ultimately changed both popular music and popular culture forever. That day, Elvis synthesized everything he knew into an entirely new life-form, an achievement that has been so analyzed and chronicled that it takes the re-release of his original Sun recordings to remind us just how remarkable it was.
July 5, 2004 marked the 50th Anniversary of the recording of "That's All Right" at Sun Studios in Memphis. This milestone event is an anniversary considered to be the "birth of rock 'n' roll." In these recordings, Elvis discovered what he was placed on this earth to do. Rock. With Sam Phillips at his side, over the course of a few months in the mid-1950s, he invented the sound and the look of rock 'n' roll.
This comprehensive single-disc set follows the formative early career of Elvis Presley and his transcendent body of work at Sun Records. Beyond essential, this collection includes all 5 of Elvis' original Sun singles (A & B sides) and rare alternate takes.
• The most comprehensive single-disc collection of Elvis' classic Sun sides.
• 19 tracks including all of Elvis' original Sun singles and rare alternate takes.
• Beautiful packaging with rare Elvis photos.
• Detailed track-by-track commentary by Elvis authority Ernst Mikael Jørgensen.
• Introduction by Sam Phillips' son Knox Phillips.
• Every effort has been made to replicate the sound of the original Sun records. For Sun recordings not originally released by Sun, but later released by RCA, the sound of the original session tapes has been faithfully reproduced.
1. Harbor Lights
2. I Love You Because (Alternate Take 2)
3. That's All Right
4. Blue Moon Of Kentucky
5. Blue Moon
6. Tomorrow Night
7. I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin')
8. Just Because
9. Good Rockin' Tonight
10. I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine
11. Milkcow Blues Boogie
12. You're A Heartbreaker
13. I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone (Slow Version)
14. I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone
15. Baby Let's Play House
16. I Forgot To Remember To Forget
17. Mystery Train
18. Trying To Get To You
19. When It Rains It Really Pours