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Elvis Presley Elvis 56 (DSD Remastered) (1956)
Elvis 56 (DSD Remastered)\n2003 RCA/BMG Heritage\n\nOriginally Released March 5, 1996 (April 16, 1996)\nDSD Remastered CD Edition Released January 7, 2003\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Sure the music on here's great. How could it not be? It has 22 of his hottest tracks from his first year at RCA, including not only the hits "Heartbreak Hotel," "Hound Dog," "Don't Be Cruel," and "Too Much," but such noted early rockers as "My Baby Left Me," "Blue Suede Shoes," "Money Honey," and "So Glad You're Mine." From a collector's viewpoint, though, you have to wonder whether it was really necessary. The only previously unreleased item is a sparser earlier take of "Heartbreak Hotel." Everything else has been widely available (even on CD) for years, and it's a good bet that many of the Elvis fans who buy this already have virtually all of the contents on the King of Rock'n'Roll box set. -- Richie Unterberger\n\nAmazon.com Editorial Review\nThe organizing principle of Elvis 56 is simple: that's the year Presley recorded these 22 tracks (including an alternate take of "Heartbreak Hotel," the opening track, recorded on January 10, 1956). It's also the year that Presley would become the biggest pop phenomenon since Frank Sinatra by kicking up a fuss as a red-hot regular on TV variety shows. In the studio, Presley's first recordings for RCA drew from the same pool of rhythm & blues tunes that he'd been interpreting at Sun Records. 1956 was the year Presley sang great songs by Otis Blackwell ("Don't Be Cruel," "Paralyzed," "Ready Teddy") and the Leiber-Stoller team ("Hound Dog," "Love Me"). He also essentially swiped Carl Perkins's "Blue Suede Shoes," and tried to do the same with such other contemporary hits as "Lawdy, Miss Clawdy" and "Shake, Rattle, and Roll." Note that on the same day he recorded the galvanizing "Heartbreak Hotel," Presley also cut a most Sun-like (and wholly appropriate) "Money Honey." The compilation chronicles a remarkable year in which every song rang true; the booklet includes exquisite period photos of Presley taken by Alfred Wertheimer. A video of the same title that chronicles the year in pictures is highly recommended. --John Milward \n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nThe REAL Elvis, February 22, 2006\nReviewer: GoSox-BoSox (Boston - more or less)\nIt's wonderful to hear these early Elvis recordings, when he was still raw and new and amazing, when he was still singing real music, before The Colonel turned him into a movie star singing songs like "Do The Clam". Even if you've heard all these before, and even if you already have most of them, this is still a great collection. Everything on this CD was recorded in the same year, and all I can say is that 1956 must have been amazing! (I was only 6 years old, so I can't really say much from personal experience.) \n\nMy only complaint isn't with the music, only with the liner notes, or rather the lack of liner notes. The booklet that comes with the CD is beautifully designed, with some very evocative photgraphs by Alfred Wertheimer - LordyLordy, Elvis was certainly somethin' to look at back then! But I would have enjoyed a little more discussion about the music - who wrote it, who recorded some of it before Elvis, how he took some of the repertoire of the black blues and R&B artists of the time and made it accessible to the white audiences of the time, what the rest of the popular music world was like at the time and how Elvis totally changed the landscape, and how that all really started in 1956. But unfortunately, that one run-on sentence I just wrote is more information than you'll get with this CD. \n\nYeah, well, liner notes would have been nice, but really it's all about the music. And the music on this CD is awesome!\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nElvis's Best Year in the 1950's , November 28, 2005\nReviewer: Outer Limits (East Tennessee)\nThis CD is a good sample of much of the best of 1950s Elvis. Though it covers only 1956, that was his biggest year in that decade. This is mostly a combination of his original albums ELVIS PRESLEY and ELVIS, minus the Sun Studio recordings of 1954-55 that were on those albums (which you can get separately). At 22 tracks it's quite sizable, and emphasizes rock and blues along with a few slower ballads. It's also got a nicely-done booklet with many photos. There's not a lot of unusual material here if you've already got most of his '50s stuff, but of the alternate takes of "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" and "Heartbreak Hotel," the latter is especially interesting. Sound quality is unusually clear, and the packaging is attractive. This album gives good evidence why the Beatles were huge Elvis fans in the '50s.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nHelping To Jump-start Americans Towards Change!, November 2, 2002\nReviewer: Greg McDowell (Tacoma,WA) \nBesides The Complete Sun Sessions, this is the best Elvis Presley compilation I've ever heard! By focusing on his most influential - and honest - work, it becomes apparent that his success exposed much of our people to - Ye Gods! - some of the multitude of talented black recording artists working at that time. By covering songs by Little Richard, Big Joe Turner, etc., Presley simultaneously validates and pays homage to these great talents, who still had to use "Coloreds Only" restrooms in 17 of our grand old 50 states! Rock & roll didn't create the civil rights movement, but it DID start people questioning policies that had been blandly accepted for generations as the staus quo. And Elvis Presley started that change.\nThis is the Elvis we should all remember, who rips through "Paralyzed", "My Baby Left Me" and "Ready Teddy" as if his very life depended on each performance. Sure, he made a lot of money off of these records, but nobody had taken these kinds of risks - at least before a WHITE audience - ever before. This was a golden moment in Elvis's life, and for our country as well. It reminds me that there actualy WAS a time when popular musicians created works that reflected their own convictions, and so reflected the lives of their audience back to them in some fashion. \n\nHalf.com Details \nContributing artists: Bill Black, Chet Atkins, The Jordanaires \n\nAlbum Notes\nPersonnel: Elvis Presley (vocals, guitar, piano); Scotty Moore, Chet Atkins (guitar); Shorty Long, Marvin Hughes (piano); Bill Black (bass); D.J. Fontana (drums); Ben Speer, Brock Speer (background vocals).\n\nThe Jordanaires: Gordon Stoker (piano, background vocals); Hugh Jarrett, Neal Matthews, Hoyt Hawkins (background vocals).\n\nCompilation producers: Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Sermon.\n\nRecorded at RCA Studios, Nashville, Tennessee; RCA Studios, New York, New York and Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California between January 10 and September 3, 1956. \n\nThe Collector's Edition includes twenty-four pages of personal photos from the Alfred Wertheimer Collection in a hard-bound, CD-size book.\n\nIncludes liner notes by Alfred Wertheimer.\nAll tracks have been digitally remastered.\n\n1956 was the year that altered American pop music forever. With the exception of Bill Haley's 1955 hit "Rock Around the Clock," the American pop charts of the early 1950s were dominated by the likes of Mitch Miller, Nelson Riddle, and Frank Sinatra. Then came Elvis, and everything changed. From April 7, 1956, when "Heartbreak Hotel" topped the charts, until the end of the year, Elvis held the number one chart position for 25 weeks. Furthermore, the coattail effect of Presley's massive popularity opened the charts to fellow rockers Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, and many others.\nNo innocuous pop star, Presley set off a national debate with his libidinal gyrations and racially ambiguous music (when Presley first broke, many DJs in the segregated South refused to play his music because they didn't believe he was white). ELVIS 56, which collects 22 of Presley's early recordings (including a previously unreleased alternate take of "Heartbreak Hotel"), makes clear what all the fuss was about. Raw, raucous, sexy, and always brilliant, Presley's 1956 recordings are quite simply among the best rock records of all time.\n\nIndustry Reviews\n8 (out of 10) - ...in 1956 Elvis meant everything, and everything is exactly what's on ELVIS 56....a blissfully obvious compilation with the bulk of its 22 tracks to be found lurking at the back of your parents' record collection....Remember him this way...\nNME (05/04/1996)
This rock cd contains 22 tracks and runs 50min 42sec.
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