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''Elvis Presley'' (released in the UK as ''Elvis Presley Rock n' Roll''〔) is the debut studio album by Elvis Presley. It was released on RCA Victor, in mono, catalogue number LPM 1254, in March 1956. The recording sessions took place on January 10 and January 11 at RCA recording studios in Nashville, Tennessee, and on January 30 and January 31 at RCA studios in New York. Additional material originated from sessions at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, on July 5, August 19 and September 10 of 1954, and on July 11, 1955. The album spent ten weeks at number 1 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart in 1956, the first rock and roll album ever to make it to the top of the charts,〔''Billboard'', v. 108, Nr. 21, p. 106, May 25, 1996, retrieved on September 13, 2012〕 and the first million-selling album of that genre.〔 In 2003, it was ranked number 56 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.〔(Rolling Stone | News )〕 ''Elvis Presley'' was also one of three Presley albums accoladed in the reference book ''1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die'', the others being ''Elvis Is Back!'' and ''From Elvis in Memphis''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die ) Note: Enter search for "Presley, Elvis"〕 It was certified Gold on November 1, 1966 and Platinum on August 8, 2011 by the Recording Industry Association of America.〔 Note: Enter search for "Presley, Elvis" and go to pages 1 and 36〕 ==Content== By the second half of 1955, singles on Sun Records by Presley began making the national country and western singles chart, "Baby Let's Play House" and "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" going to number 5 and number 1 respectively.〔Sources: * * 〕 Colonel Tom Parker, the new manager of Presley, had extensive dealings with RCA through his previous client, singer Eddy Arnold, especially with the head of the Country and Western and Rhythm and blues division, Steve Sholes.〔Nash, Alanna. ''The Colonel''. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003; ISBN 0-7432-1301-7; pp. 107–111.〕 At the urging of Parker, on November 21, 1955, Sholes bought Presley's contract from Sam Phillips, the head of Sun Records and Studio, for the unprecedented sum of $35,000. Presley and rock and roll were still untested properties for the major labels in the music business, but this album, along with the number 1 single "Heartbreak Hotel", proved the selling power of both: it was RCA's first pop album to earn more than $1,000,000,〔 and in 1966 it had sold over one million units.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=%22Presley,+Elvis%22# )〕 Presley made appearances in four consecutive weeks on the Dorsey Brothers television program ''Stage Show'' in early 1956, on January 28, February 4, February 11, and February 18.〔Jorgensen, Ernst. ''Elvis Presley, A Life In Music''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998; ISBN 0-312-18572-3, p. 41〕 RCA wanted an album in the stores fast to capitalize both on the nationwide TV exposure and the success of his first hit single on the pop charts with "Heartbreak Hotel", swiftly climbing to the top after its release on January 27. At the same time, there had only been two series of Presley recording sessions for RCA by the end of the Dorsey stint, after which Presley and his band were back on the road. Those two sessions yielded an additional eleven tracks, almost enough to fill an entire LP, although some tracks had singles potential. In the 1950s, general practice dictated tracks having greater commercial potential to be released as singles, with tracks of lesser appeal placed on albums; as such, RCA neither took all eleven tracks and simply made an album, nor placed the already released and briskly-selling "Heartbreak Hotel" on it. The rights to the Sun Studio tapes had transferred to RCA with the sale of his contract, so five previously unreleased Sun songs, "I Love You Because", "Just Because", "Tryin' to Get to You", "I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin')", and "Blue Moon" were added to seven of the RCA sessions tracks to bring the running time of the album up to an acceptable length.〔 Phillips produced the sessions at Sun, and no producer was officially listed for the RCA sessions, leading to the belief that Presley himself produced them.〔Jorgensen, Ernst. ''Elvis Presley, A Life In Music''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998; ISBN 0-312-18572-3, pp. 35 and 38〕 As the Sun tracks were mostly country-styled, Elvis and RCA leavened the selections with covers of recent rhythm and blues songs. Two of these, "Money Honey" by Jesse Stone, known to Elvis from a version by Clyde McPhatter, and Ray Charles' 1955 hit "I Got a Woman", had been in Presley's live act for a year.〔Guralnick, Peter. ''The King of Rock 'n' Roll: The Complete 50s Masters'', 1992, insert booklet, p. 20.〕 A third was the frenetic announcement to the world of the existence of Little Richard in 1955, "Tutti Frutti". A rockabilly number that was believed to be a potential hit and could hold its own with the R&B material, "Blue Suede Shoes", was not initially released as a single from a promise by Sholes to Sam Phillips to protect the career of another Sun artist, Carl Perkins, the author of the song.〔Guralnick, Peter. ''The King of Rock 'n' Roll: The Complete 50s Masters'', 1992, insert booklet, p. 24.〕 Instead, it was diverted into being the opening track on the album. On August 31, 1956, RCA took the unusual step of releasing the entire album as singles, which undoubtedly kept the new single released simultaneously, "Shake, Rattle and Roll" backed with "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," from reaching the charts. However, "Blue Suede Shoes", released in single form as a part of this experiment by RCA, kept the promise to Phillips and Perkins by waiting over eight months since the song's release on Sun, and made it to number 20 on the singles chart. RCA first issued the original 12 track album in reprocessed (fake) stereo on compact disc in 1984. This issue was quickly withdrawn and the album was reissued in original monophonic sound. On May 18, 1999, it was reissued with an altered running order, adding on six bonus tracks from three non-album singles, including the chart-toppers "Heartbreak Hotel" and "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You." On January 11, 2005, Sony BMG reissued the album again, remastered using DSD technology with the six bonus tracks appended in standard fashion. A two-disc set was released on the Follow That Dream collectors label on August 15, 2006, with bonus tracks and numerous alternate takes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elvis Presley (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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