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Elvis Presley A Date With Elvis

Release: 1988 BMG 18560-3 German Club Edition Germany 35 € Release: 1989 BMG 2011-2-R   USA 18 € Release: 1989 BMG ND 90360 14 tracks Germany 18 € Release: 1989 BMG 2011-2-R Erased "Nipper" / 10 tracks UK 18 € Release: 1990 BMG BVCP-5014   Japan 25 € Release: 1990 BMG ND 90360 14 tracks Germany 13 € Release: 1991 BMG 2011-2-R   USA 13 € Release: 1991 BMG ND 90360 14 tracks Australia 22 € Release: 1992 BMG BVCP-5014   Japan 25 € Release: 1993 BMG ND 90360 14 tracks Germany 12 € Release: 1994 BMG 2011-2-A   Brasil 25 € Release: 1994 BMG ND 90360 14 tracks Germany 15 € Release: 1995 BMG ND 90360 14 tracks Germany 12 € Release: 1996 BMG ND 90360 14 tracks Germany 12 € Release: 1996 BMG 2011-2-R   USA 12 € Release: 1997 BMG 2011-2-A   Brasil 20 € Release: 1999 BMG 74321 90609 2 The Original EP Collection EU 12 € Release: 2001 BMG BVCM-37189 Paper Sleeve Collection Japan 28 €   Collectors note: The releases from Germany and Australia comes with tracks, which were not on the original US vinyl album, but on the Australian LP. See also: A Date With Elvis (FTD)   A Date with Elvis is the eighth album by Elvis Presley, issued on RCA Victor Records (LPM 2011) in July 1959. It is a selection of previously unreleased material from an August 1956 recording session at 20th Century Fox Stage One, two from Radio Recorders in Hollywood, and multiple sessions at Sun Studio. The album reached #32 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. After Presley's induction into the army on March 24, 1958, RCA Victor and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, were faced with the prospect of keeping his name before the public for two years with no possibility of live performances, no movies, and with few unissued marketable recordings in the vault. A recording session was arranged for two days in June, which yielded enough items for five more single sides, singles being the commercial focus for rock and roll in the 1950s. Four of those tracks would be issued on 45s in 1958 and 1959 during his absence while doing military service. Presley, however, also did well in the albums market, all but one of his previous seven LPs charting no lower than #3, and RCA Victor wished to continue issuing albums by Presley given his sales record. Much of Presley's material had not been released on LP, and for this album RCA Victor collected material previously unavailable on album. Like its predecessor For LP Fans Only, this album featured tracks that had been issued on Sun Records with limited release, and were almost impossible to locate beyond certain parts of the south. However all 5 Sun singles were reissued by RCA Victor in November 1955 and remained in print through the 1970s. The remaining five tracks derived from three different EPs issued in 1956 and 1957. Even by the standards of the late 1950s and early 1960s, where long-playing albums often ran to only about 35 minutes, this was a very short album at twenty-three minutes, and as such became the lowest charting Presley LP of the decade. RCA Victor would squeeze one more album in 1959 out of previously issued material, the second singles collection, but it too would be a lower seller by previous standard. Presley would return from overseas in 1960 to commence proper recording again. This album also folds out to be a calendar for the year 1960. A different version of the album, duplicating six tracks from the American release, but expanding the track list to a healthy fourteen, was issued in Australia on vinyl in September 1959. (wikipedia )