Elvis 56 by Elvis Presley (CD, Apr-1996, RCA)(US version)

Album Features
UPC:	078636681726
Artist:	Elvis Presley
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1996
Record Label:	RCA
Genre:	Oldies, Rock 'N' Roll

Track Listing
1. Heartbreak Hotel
2. My Baby Left Me
3. Blue Suede Shoes
4. So Glad You're Mine
5. Tutti Frutti
6. One-Sided Love Affair
7. Love Me
8. Anyplace Is Paradise
9. Paralyzed
10. Ready Teddy
11. Too Much
12. Hound Dog
13. Any Way You Want Me (That's How I Will Be)
14. Don't Be Cruel
15. Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
16. Shake Rattle and Roll - (alternate take 8)
17. I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
18. Rip It Up
19. Heartbreak Hotel - (previously unreleased, alternate take 5)
20. I Got a Woman
21. I Was the One
22. Money Honey

Details
Playing Time:	51 min.
Contributing Artists:	Scotty Moore, The Jordanaires, Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, Bill Black, D.J. Fontana
Distributor:	BMG (distributor)
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Mixed
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
ELVIS '56 is a compilation of the best material that Presley recorded that year. The release of this album commemorates the 40th anniversary of Elvis Presley's first hit single, "Heartbreak Hotel," and features a previously unreleased alternate take of that track. ELVIS '56 will be available in a standard jewel box, as well as a collector's edition with enhanced packaging.Personnel: 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).The Jordanaires: Gordon Stoker (piano, background vocals); Hugh Jarrett, Neal Matthews, Hoyt Hawkins (background vocals).Compilation producers: Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Sermon.Recorded at RCA Studios, Nashville, Tennessee; RCA Studios, New York, New York and Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California between January 10 and September 3, 1956. Includes liner notes by Alfred Wertheimer.The Collector's Edition includes twenty-four pages of personal photos from the Alfred Wertheimer Collection in a hard-bound, CD-size book.Personnel: Elvis Presley (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano); Chet Atkins, Scotty Moore (guitar); Gordon Stoker (piano, background vocals); Floyd Cramer, Shorty Long, Marvin Hughes (piano); Bill Black (bass); D.J. Fontana (drums); The Jordanaires, Ben Speer, Brock Speer, High Jarrett, Neal Matthews, Hoyt Hawins (background vocals).Producer: Steve SholesCompilation Producers: Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Sermon.Recorded in 1956 at RCA Studios, Nashville, Tennessee; RCA Studios, New York, New York; Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California.Digitally remastered by Dick Baxter and Dennis Ferrante.Personnel: 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).The Jordanaires: Gordon Stoker (piano, background vocals); Hugh Jarrett, Neal Matthews, Hoyt Hawkins (background vocals).Compilation producers: Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Sermon.Recorded at RCA Studios, Nashville, Tennessee; RCA Studios, New York, New York and Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California between January 10 and September 3, 1956. Includes liner notes by Alfred Wertheimer.All tracks have been digitally remastered.1956 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.No 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.

Editorial Reviews
8 (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...
NME