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MUSIC A have-to-have-it compilation of early Elvis 80
What happened in that room that summer was, by popular reckoning, the beginning of rock: not its musical genesis (some folks believe that started with the 1951 rhythm-and-blues hit Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston) but its first seismic stirrings into pop apotheosis. Elvis Presley didn't sound like...
That music -- 140 tracks, including My Happiness and That's When Your Heartaches Begin, the two tunes he cut that day back in 1953, as well as 14 performances never before released -- is available in this hefty, have-to- have-it compilation, which features a scrupulous discography, an excellent essay...
The people at RCA, along with the Presley estate, have long proved themselves experts in recycling Presley material: every scrap, jot and studio aside seems already to have been preserved and released in one form or another. It's a surprise then to discover that so much of the scarce...
At first hearing, the slickness of the sides from his Hollywood sound tracks contrasts joltingly with the joyous homespun soul of the Sun sessions and the easy virtuosity of the early RCA material. No matter. It soon comes clear that it was all the same: music. Elvis music. American music...