The Sun Sessions (Elvis Paper Sleeve Collection Mini LP 24 Bit 96 khz) [Import, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered]

Elvis Presley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 29, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
• Label: Bmg Int'l
• ASIN: B00003E43W
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #627,004 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. That's All Right

2. Blue Moon Of Kentucky

3. I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine

4. Good Rockin' Tonight

5. Milkcow Blues Boogie

6. You're A Heartbreaker

7. I'm Left You're Right She's Gone

8. Baby Let's Play House

9. Mystery Train

10. I Forgot To Remember To Forget

11. I'll Never Let You Go

12. I Love You Because (1st Version)

13. Trying To Get To You

14. Blue Moon

15. Just Because

16. I Love You Because (2nd Version)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars That's Alright!, February 22, 2001

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Philip Lathby (Wausau, WI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sun Sessions (Elvis Paper Sleeve Collection Mini LP 24 Bit 96 khz) (Audio CD)

I'm not much of an ELVIS fan. I originally bought this CD because of the unusual version of "Blue Moon" that it contains. I was pleasantly surprised to find the rest of the album just as if not more enjoyable than that particular track. A young elvis, walks in to Sun Studio hoping to be discovered, and lays down some of the best pure rockabilly/blues stuff you'll ever hear. To describe it as "raw" doesn't do it justice...it's beyond raw, it's minimalist, it's spare, it's beautiful. Buy this album. You don't have to like ELVIS to appreciate the sound heard here.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Elvis before "Heartbreak Hotel", February 1, 2003

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Neal C. Reynolds (Indianapolis, Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sun Sessions (Elvis Paper Sleeve Collection Mini LP 24 Bit 96 khz) (Audio CD)

This is the really young Elvis, before most of us ever heard of him. As such, this CD is a must for those who really want to know the whole Elvis. This shows his raw and undeveloped talent.

He's presented here as the inventor of rock 'n roll. That may be arguable, but his importance to the genre isn't. He popularized a style which was part R&B, part country, and a whole lot more.

I've read comments by naysayers claiming he stole the music from the black musicians, but what I've researched indicates that he always gave credit to the writers and first performers of the songs he performed, and it sure appears that he gave this music national exposure which ordinarily it would never have received given the repression that was rampant at the time.

Anyway, the important thing for the listener is that this is good music, and that songs like "That's All Right", "Good Rockin' Tonight", "Milkcow Blues Boogie", "Mystery Train", and "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" preceded his phenomonal nationwide fame.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A valuable piece of Americana, October 8, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Sun Sessions (Elvis Paper Sleeve Collection Mini LP 24 Bit 96 khz) (Audio CD)

I've never been much of a fan of Elvis, but there is no question in my mind of the huge impact of his singing style and personality on North American culture. I've always believed that the earliest recorded Elvis was the best Elvis, and this collection confirms my belief, although there are some of my favorite tunes from his early career that are not included in this collection, probably because they were recorded somewhere other than Sun Records -- I'm thinking of Heartbreak Hotel; Hound Dog; Lawdy, Lawdy, Lawdy Miss Claudie; and Mean Woman Blues, all of them songs which go against the grain of the whitewashed image of Elvis created for him by Colonel Tom Parker and RCA Records. The tunes on this collection are a valuable record of the first emergence of this overwhelmingly important American cultural phenomenon. The liner notes to this collection, with several important quotes from Sam Phillips of Sun Records, help to evoke the musical and social atmosphere in Memphis when Elvis first appeared on the scene, and also provide insight on the extremely shy and introspective personality of the young Elvis.

Once ordered, the album arrived with unexpected speed from dk Collectables.