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Elvis Presley - The Sun Sessions CD (1956)

Track listing:
  1. That's All Right 1:56
  2. Blue Moon Of Kentucky 2:04
  3. Good Rockin' Tonight 2:13
  4. I Don't Care Of The Sun Don't Shine 2:27
  5. Milkcow Blues Boogie 2:36
  6. You're A Heartbreaker 2:11
  7. Baby, Let's Play House 2:15
  8. I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone 2:36
  9. Mystery Train 2:26
  10. I Forgot To Remember To Forget 2:29
  11. I Love You Because 2:42
  12. Blue Moon 2:38
  13. Tomorrow Night 3:00
  14. I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin') 2:23
  15. Just Because 2:33
  16. Trying To Get To You 2:32
  17. Harbor Lights 2:37
  18. I Love You Because -- Take 2 3:29
  19. That's All Right outtakes 2:12
  20. Blue Moon Of Kentucky outtakes 1:05
  21. I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine outtakes 3:40
  22. I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone (My Baby's Gone) -- Take 9 2:40
  23. I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin') outtakes 1:05
  24. When It Rains, It Really Pours 4:04
  25. I Love You Because -- Take 3 3:32
  26. I Love You Because -- Take 5 3:26
  27. I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone (My Baby's Gone) -- Take 7 2:51
  28. I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone (My Baby's Gone) -- Take 12 2:36

Notes

RCA 6414-2-R
1987 BMG Music
Tracks 1-16: The Master Takes
Tracks 17-24: The Outtakes
This is it, your perfect starting point to understanding how Elvis — as Howlin' Wolf so aptly put it — "made his pull from the blues." All the source points are there for the hearing; Arthur Crudup's "That's All Right (Mama)," Roy Brown's "Good Rockin' Tonight," Kokomo Arnold's "Milkcow Blues Boogie," Arthur Gunter's "Baby, Let's Play House," and Junior Parker's "Mystery Train." Modern day listeners coming to these recordings for the first time will want to reclassify this music into a million subgenres, with all the hyphens firmly in place. But what we ultimately have here is a young Elvis Presley, mixing elements of blues, gospel and hillbilly music together and getting ready to unleash its end result — rock & roll — on an unsuspecting world.
Tracks 25-28: The Alternate Takes (Previously Unreleased) YEAR: 1987