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Fantastic Early Elvis!!

Louie Bourland | Garden Grove CA | 07/04/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"To commemorate 50 years since the young Elvis Presley stepped into Sun Records to make his initial recordings (and indeed, the birth of Rock and Roll), RCA has released yet another compilation of The King's historic Sun sessions.
There has already been countless questionable reviews on "Elvis at Sun" which state this collection isn't comprehensive enough or is missing key tracks. While this collection doesn't offer every note recorded during Elvis's priceless Sun sessions, it does offer an excellent sampling of this piece of musical history.
The sound quality and remastering done to the original session tapes is outstanding and gives the music an overall restored clarity. Just listen for those percussive slaps on Bill Black's bass and you'll see what I mean.
Overall, this is a great CD which display Elvis's budding talents in their best quality yet. Sure, there may be a few tracks missing but the outer label says 'most comprehensive' not 'most complete'.
Fantastic Historic Elvis and A Must For Any Fan of The King!!"

About the track "I Love You Because"

Reinaldo F. Jnr | 03/04/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Hi folks, I just wanted to let you know that the track "I Love You Because" in this CD is the original version as recorded at Sun Studios. The famous master take which has been the subject of controversy here at amazon is the version released by RCA after Elvis left the Sun label. RCA edited the song by making a split of takes 2 and 4, leaving out the spoken part. Hence, if you want the RCA version, buy the remastered Elvis Presley (1956) album. Don't be fooled by people who haven't really purchased this CD and haven't taken their time to read the great booklet that brings all this information. This IS indeed the ultimate Elvis Sun Sessions masters album. Top quality!!!"

The definite definite

Soulboogiealex | Netherlands | 04/19/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"We could mope about RCA's money machine al we want to. We could complain that this is the Nth re-release of Elvis' Sun recordings. Bitch about how this is probably not the end of it. Yes, this is reissue one-million and one. And yes, there are probably going to be others. Let's just focus on the music.



The Sun recordings were truly Elvis' greatest recordings ever. They earned him his legendary status while he was alive. His later RCA works pales in comparison. It was at RCA where Elvis would soon be grinded in the commercial machine until he would (almost) be no better than Pat Boone. Sure he recorded some great sides at RCA, but it takes a lot digging in the enormous amount of movie fluff and comeback albums to discover them. Elvis often sounded bored and tiresome after he arrived at RCA.



Here we get Elvis at his most impressive. At times the music is oozing with pure sexual energy. At others it is moving and melancholic. Always it's committed, raw and full of energy. The fact that he managed to accomplish this with very little instrumentation is stellar. Some fifteen years down the road rock 'n roll would need towers of amplifiers to create the same exiting buzz.



Aside from the obviously legendary tracks, the sound on this disc is unbelievable. Every single one of them sounds like they have been recorded yesterday. Although the crisp sound does strip it of some of its romance and nostalgia, you could suddenly imagine That's All Right Mama shooting up the charts once more. Making this truly the "definite" definite Sun recording. No matter what RCA will decide to fire at us in the future. Stick with this one!

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