The Sun Sessions CD

Elvis Presley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000002W9S
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,660 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. That's All Right

2. Blue Moon of Kentucky

3. Good Rockin' Tonight

4. I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine

5. Milkcow Blues Boogie

6. You're a Heartbreaker

7. Baby, Let's Play House

8. I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone

9. Mystery Train

10. I Forgot to Remember to Forget

11. I Love You Because

12. Blue Moon

13. Tomorrow Night

14. I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin')

15. Just Because

16. Trying to Get to You

17. Harbor Lights [Outtake]

18. I Love You Because [Take 2][Outtake]

19. That's All Right [Outtake]

20. Blue Moon of Kentucky [Outtake]

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hell, that's different!, November 19, 2005

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sun Sessions CD (Audio CD)

This is a collection of Elvis Presley's Sun Records recordings. It should be pointed out that the track listing here on Amazon is not correct. They have the track listing for a CD that is a reissue of an LP from the early '70s that was the first album to compile Elvis' Sun recordings. The CD that is pictured here features all the tracks listed here, plus an additional 12 tracks. Most of the additional tracks are alternate takes of songs already on the CD. These are the most important recordings of the early days of rock and roll. Highly recommended.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the greatest record of all time, February 1, 2004

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Henrik (Malmö, Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sun Sessions CD (Audio CD)

This is a good compilation of the greatest sessions ever recorded. The cd "Sunrise" gives you fewer alt. takes but instead feature live recordings.
For any musiclover interested in the development of the greatest singer ever in the history of recorded music, this is a musthave. Some of the best songs from the Sun sessions are included on the cd "Elvis Presley" but this cd includes the complete sessions beginning with "that's all right". As an interesting bonusaddition, Ernst has added the original recording of "That when your heartache beginns" which Elvis recorded as a demotape and which he recorded again four years later.
Go out and get this cd or "Sunrise".

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The beginning, September 28, 2004

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Steve Trowbridge - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sun Sessions CD (Audio CD)

I'll agree with the other reviewers that Elvis was never exactly like this again, but I don't agree that he never scaled the same heights later.
In these sessions, unlike most all others, he actually created what we're hearing, turning previously recorded songs into something completely new. The result is a freshness, passion and rawness that one never tires of hearing.
To those who think it was all downhill from here, I would encourage them to listen to 'Reconsider Baby', 'One Night' or any number of other R&B masterpieces. Look at what he did with 'Jailhouse Rock': this would be a novelty song in anyone else's hands and he turns in one of the most amazing performances in rock history. Or check out the '68 TV special, where something is on the line again, and where he delivers down and dirty rock like very few others are capable of.
Unfortunately, his greatest works are buried among moutains of dross, but he was the greatest talent ever in rock, despite all that, and searching out his best moments, like this one, is to be thrilled by rock-and-roll again.