Elvis #1 Singles (Coll) (Dlx) (Spkg) [Box set, Collector's Edition, Limited Edition]

Elvis Presley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 24, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 20
• Format: Box set, Collector's Edition, Limited Edition
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Bmg / Elvis
• ASIN: B000DZ7Y3S
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #157,985 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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RCA Records introduced the 45 record format in 1949, but it took six years for the seven-inch, two-sided single to gain popularity. And, coincidentally, it was soon after Elvis Presley signed with the label and released "Heartbreak Hotel," the first of his 21 chart-topping hits over the next 16 years. To celebrate the half-century since that hip-quaking debut, this tidy box set repackages every song--with its original B-side--on 20 CD singles, each designed to look like a 45 record and tucked into a colorful cardboard picture sleeve that closely replicates the original single. Elvis rocks ("All Shook Up," "Jailhouse Rock") and croons ("Love Me Tender," "Teddy Bear") through the early years, all chronicled with dates and credits in an accompanying booklet, and reinvents himself for late-‘60s hits ("In the Ghetto," "Burning Love" and the still-fresh "Suspicious Minds"). Grouped with such star power, the B-sides could get overlooked. But mostly undiscovered jewels like "That's When Your Heartaches Begin" (1957), "Lonely Man" (1961) and "Any Day Now" (1969) provide bonus tracks to casual fans of the King, and remind his greatest devotees that the Elvis legacy looms far deeper than his #1 singles. --Scott Holter

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal DSD sound, simply puts other Elvis collections to shame!, March 23, 2006

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Bill Porter "thenexte" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Elvis #1 Singles (Coll) (Dlx) (Spkg) (Audio CD)

First of all, the sound on these tracks is simply mind-blowing and definitely the best these tracks have ever sounded! Gone is all the mindless brickwall limiting exercised on such collections as "30#1 Hits" or "2nd to None", instead with the help of DSD mastering we are getting the original mixes reproduced as faithful as possible. The sound has noticeably more air, more definition, and the dynamic range has not been tampered with. One simply has to wonder whether BMG did not miss a golden opportunity here by not compiling these forty tracks onto a *killer* double-disc set at a more affordable price point. They definitely deserve a much wider exposure beyond the limited edition box set format they were released in.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Box set of singles, January 29, 2006

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Henri Bronsgeest (Nevada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Elvis #1 Singles (Coll) (Dlx) (Spkg) (Audio CD)

This box set is in reponse to the English box set. There the singles came out one week at a time and actually many of them became number one again!! They were so populat that all throughout the world these singles were sold and garnered big prices on eBay. Now the US has done the same thing. But you get all the singles in one box, not issued one at a time. There propably is no radio station that would bother playing them. After all, American Rock n Roll is more appreciated in other countries than in their homeland.

BMG/Sony did a very nice job with these. They are the correct sleeves, and for once the correct versions of the songs. If you remember Elv1s 30 had four wrong versions on it. These are the right ones. I also noticed that Hit Story also corrected their Elv1s with the correct versions. For the first time in over a decade we get the correct version of BIG HUNK o' LOVE that's worth the price alone!!!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Some great high points, August 10, 2006

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Elvis Is In Me (Hull, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Elvis #1 Singles (Coll) (Dlx) (Spkg) (Audio CD)

This set has its ups and downs. On the plus side, the 50's hits NEVER sounded better, and I'm one of those chumps that keep buying the same songs over and over in different compilations hoping for a sonic revelation. The packaging is nice as well. On the down side, we get the same lousy stereo mix of "Return To Sender" as we've been getting through every CD version I know. I do have it in a great stereo version on "The Great Performances" CD I bought back in the 1980's, albeit muffled. Finally, BMG was not totally faithful as most of the 60's singles were only released in mono, which I was hoping for. Instead, they are here in stereo.