Elvis Presley - A Legendary Performer Volume and similar items

Catalog Number: CPL1-0341 Condition Details: 12-page book included. Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded). Die cut wood-grain embossed cover looks great; light-scuffing, slight discoloration with tiny darker discoloration spots (front/back). Inner-sleeve is original (photos/credits). Spine is easy-to-read with mild-wear. Minor shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge; slight wear to corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use. 1974 pressing with black label. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: That's All Right I Love You Because Heartbreak Hotel Elvis (Excerpt From Interview Held September 22, 1958) Don't Be Cruel Love Me Trying To Get To You Love Me Tender (There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me) Elvis (Excerpt From Interview Held September 22, 1958) (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I Tonight's All Right For Love Are You Lonesome To-Night? Can't Help Falling In Love About The Record: A Legendary Performer Volume 1 is a compilation album by Elvis Presley. It features 14 tracks, which includes twelve songs and two interviews with Presley. It was certified Gold on January 8, 1975, Platinum and 2x Platinum on July 15, 1999 and 3x Platinum, by the RIAA on March 8, 2018. Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 1 opens with his first recording from 1954, That's All Right, the song that started his recording career at Sun Records. Ultimately, four volumes devoted to Presley were released over the next decade in RCA's A Legendary Performer series, the only RCA Victor recording artist other than Glenn Miller to have multiple volumes issued in that series. The series is also notable for the first release of several previously un-issued recordings by Presley, with each successive volume containing increasing amounts of unreleased material. This first volume included previously un-issued live performances of several songs from Presley's 1968 TV special, an alternate version of his first known recording for Sun Records (I Love You Because), and the first American release of Tonight's All Right for Love, previously available only on European pressings of the G.I. Blues album. The two interview recordings were originally issued by RCA Victor in 1958 as the EP, Elvis Sails. Although RCA Victor had released a few alternate takes of Presley studio recordings in the past?for example, two different takes of the song Old Shep from his second LP Elvis from 1956, and two different takes of the song Lover Doll from the soundtrack to the film King Creole were released on the official 1958 soundtrack album and the reissue EP King Creole Volume 1?this was the first time the company began seriously issuing such material, although releases of alternate takes and unissued recordings by Presley would not begin on a large scale until after his death in August, 1977. Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 3 issued in November, 1978, consisted almost entirely of previously unreleased recordings.