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| | Elvis at Sun | | | Music Artist : | | Elvis Presley | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Bmg / Elvis | | Release Date : | | 2004-06-22 | | Store Price : | | $8.99 | | Artistopia's Price: $8.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. 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
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Great, not perfect.
Submitted on: 2009-11-01 |
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| I've been huge fan of Elvis' Sun music ever since I first purchased an LP of it back in the 70's. RCA has frustratingly released it every 5 or ten years and it still needs the definitive release in my opinion. For a while "The Sun Sessions" CD was good, but that lacked a few tracks that the LP version had. "Sunrise" was great when it came out and I was pretty happy with that, but glad to know the sound was improved with this release. My small complaint with this release is they left off the full version of "When It Rains.." The Sunrise CD set included the intro false take and it's awesome to hear the conversation and the restart of the song - I think it would have been nice to have that on this CD. A smaller complaint is the order. I understand the chonological aproach, but every great Sun collection starts with "That's All Right". "Harbor Lights" is nice, but too slow song for starting off such an important CD. Last minor complaint - "Sunrise" separated the two versions of "I'm Left...". It's just slightly annoying hearing the same song twice in a row. |
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 essential Elvis
Submitted on: 2009-07-16 |
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Go back to the beginning if you want to understand the greatness of Elvis as a singer and performer. This is it here. These are the first songs a teenage truck driver named Elvis recorded in Memphis with Sun Records owner Sam Phillips. Whatever the exact date and place of the birth rock 'n' roll music (somewhat debated by historians), these recordings mark the beginning of Elvis's career and of rock 'n' roll as the popular culture phenomenon that changed the world forever. And to younger readers- go back to this Elvis. Get past the popular obsession with 1970s Vegas Elvis -no offense to fans- but aside from the '68 comeback special the 1950s Elvis is where it's at... The Elvis in these recordings made little white kids throughout the world feel like they was bustin' outta jail. Many went on to their own storied careers in music and they never would have if it weren't for Elvis. This music freed their imaginations to new possibilities.
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The definitive Elvis album
Submitted on: 2009-01-25 |
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For those of you who want to get Elvis 56 or his self-titled album, I have to say, what's wrong with you? I usually am positive about just about anything, but I have to say that after Elvis left Sun Records, he kept getting worse and worse. However, this album was done before he was signed to RCA.
Sun Records' later stuff was more country-based, and the earlier stuff was far more blues-based. This was what lead to the later stuff, but it's primarily in the middle. I can't give Elvis all of the recognition. This album is definitely much more of a group project.
Sam Phillips was the one who signed Elvis, and produced the tunes. Sam Phillips wanted someone who would do a blend of country and blues, and this is what the album was. An interesting fact, however, is that Sam Phillips believed that Howlin' Wolf had the most beautiful voice he'd ever heard, and it also took about a year before Sam Phillips felt convinced to sign Elvis. This is all according to only one source that I checked.
I have to say that Elvis had more of a Bing Crosby-type voice than anything else, but his voice worked with the blend of country and blues. Sam Phillips is definitely not your typical producer taking the edge out of peoples music. Sam Phillips is one of the only producers who really brings out what the artists had, but that was also due to the fact that he signed blues and country artists.
I would say that Scotty Moore deserves just as much recognition as Elvis. It was actually the chemistry between Scotty Moore's guitar playing and Elvis Presley's singing that made all of this music what it was and still is.
Again, I have to recommend this album, and say that anything after the Sun Records years is good pop, if you want something cheesy, but Sam Phillips is one of the best producers ever. I would put Sam Phillips up there with George Martin, Rick Rubin, Phil Specter, Jimmy Page, and Bob Rock.
In comparison to Elvis 56, the album that I wrote my worst review ever on, I should comment that Elvis at Sun is both much better, in my opinion, and also much more affordable than Elvis 56. The only reason that I got Elvis 56 was because my mom was looking for an Elvis Sun Records album and couldn't find it, so she got Elvis 56 instead. |
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Absolute Perfection! A revelation in sound! Historical!
Submitted on: 2009-01-02 |
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| There, I guess I've said enough. I've had these historical recordings in many forms over the years including cassette, Cd's and even LP's back in the day, but these are without a doubt the finest sounding Sun recordings I have ever heard. They are pure and pristine. Just listen to "Blue Moon", which shows Elvis' eclectic tastes. It is a catharsic experience. There are others that may want to say contributed to the birth of rock and roll and there are many that did, but it was Elvis who truly codified it and rolled it into one big package for the world to consume. Considered country recordings when they first came out, Elvis' appeal soon topped the charts in pop and R&B as well as country. His appeal would become pervasive and these are the recordings that started it all. Essential and no rock collection is complete without it. |
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Elvis At Sun
Submitted on: 2007-11-29 |
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This CD is exactly what I thought it was ,
all the early songs that RCA never promoted when Elvis was becoming popular. They are just as I remembered them. These are the beginning endeavors of a super star. The recording technology wasn't anything to write home about, but the music was the sound of things to come. Anybody ( and I was one of them )that thought he was going to be a "flash in the pan" had to recognize his talent sooner or later. This CD belongs in the collection of all Elvis fans. |
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