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A Boy From Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings

A Boy From Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings

Released: Jul. 28, 2017

Available as a 3CD deluxe box set and a digital collection, A Boy From Tupelo - The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings is the most comprehensive collection of early Elvis recordings ever assembled, with many tracks becoming available for the first time as part of this package and one performance--a newly discovered recording of "I Forgot To Remember To Forget" (from the Louisiana Hayride, Shreveport, Louisiana, October 29, 1955)--being officially released for the first time ever.

A Boy From Tupelo – The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings includes--for the first time in one collection--every known Elvis Presley Sun Records master and outtake, plus the mythical Memphis Recording Service Acetates--"My Happiness"/"That's When Your Heartaches Begin" (recorded July 1953) and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"/"It Wouldn't Be the Same (Without You)" (recorded January 4, 1954)--the four songs Elvis paid his own money to record before signing with Sun. The collection also includes every Elvis live performance and radio recording known to exist from the period, and a 120-page book formatted as an illustrated travelogue and datebook chronicling the genesis of Elvis’ early career via facts, anecdotes, memorabilia and many rare photos.

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1. My Happiness
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2. That’s When Your Heartaches Begin
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3. I’ll Never Stand in Your Way
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4. It Wouldn’t Be the Same (Without You)
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5. Harbor Lights
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6. I Love You Because (unprocessed master edit)
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7. That’s All Right (45 rpm master)
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8. Blue Moon of Kentucky (45 rpm master)
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9. Blue Moon
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10. Tomorrow Night
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11. I’ll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin’)
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12. I Don’t Care If the Sun Don’t Shine
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13. Just Because
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14. Good Rockin’ Tonight
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15. Milkcow Blues Boogie
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16. You’re a Heartbreaker
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17. I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone (slow version)
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18. Baby, Let’s Play House
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19. I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone
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20. I Forgot to Remember to Forget
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21. Mystery Train
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22. Tryin’ to Get To You
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23. When It Rains It Pours
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24. That’s All Right (RCA single version)
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25. Blue Moon of Kentucky (RCA single version)
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26. I Love You Because (RCA LP version)
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27. Tomorrow Night (RCA LP version)
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1. Harbor Lights (takes 1-2, 3/M)
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2. Harbor Lights (take 4)
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3. Harbor Lights (takes 5-8)
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4. I Love You Because (takes 1-2)
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5. I Love You Because (take 3)
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6. I Love You Because (takes 4-5)
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7. That’s All Right (takes 1-3)
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8. Blue Moon of Kentucky (slow tempo outtake)
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9. Blue Moon (takes 1-4)
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10. Blue Moon (take 5)
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11. Blue Moon (takes 6-8)
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12. Blue Moon (take 9/M)
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13. Dialogue (fragment before “Tomorrow Night”)
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14. I’ll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin’) (incomplete take)
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15. Good Rockin’ Tonight (fragment from vocal slapback tape)
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16. I Don’t Care if the Sun Don’t Shine (takes 1-3/M)
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17. I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone (slow version, take 1)
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18. I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone (slow version, take 2)
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19. I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone (slow version, take 3)
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20. I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone (slow version, take 4-5)
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21. I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone (slow version, takes 6-7)
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22. How Do You Think I Feel (guitar slapback tape, rehearsals + take 1)
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23. When It Rains It Pours (vocal slapback tape, take 1)
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24. When It Rains It Pours (vocal slapback tape, take 2 – rehearsal 1 – takes 3-4)
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25. When It Rains It Pours (vocal slapback tape, take 5/M)
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26. When It Rains It Pours (vocal slapback tape, take 6-8)
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1. That’s All Right (Live from the Louisiana Hayride, Shreveport, Louisiana) – 1954
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2. Blue Moon of Kentucky – Live
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3. Shake, Rattle And Roll
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4. Fool, Fool, Fool
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5. Hearts of Stone – Live
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6. That’s All Right (Live from the Louisiana Hayride, Shreveport, Louisiana) – January 15, 1955
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7. Tweedlee Dee (Live from the Louisiana Hayride, Shreveport, Louisiana) – January 15, 1955
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8. Shake, Rattle and Roll – Live on WJOI Radio
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9. KSIJ Radio commercial with DJ Tom Perryman
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10. Money Honey – Live
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11. Blue Moon of Kentucky – Live from the Louisiana Hayride, Shreveport, Louisiana
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12. I Don’t Care if the Sun Don’t Shine
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13. That’s All Right (Louisiana Hayride, Shreveport, Louisiana) – January 22, 1955
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14. Tweedlee Dee – Live from the Louisiana Hayride, Shreveport, Louisiana
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15. Money Honey
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16. Hearts of Stone
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17. Shake, Rattle and Roll
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18. Little Mama
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19. You’re a Heartbreaker
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20. Good Rockin’ Tonight
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21. Baby, Let’s Play House – Live from Eagles’ Hall, Houston, Texas
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22. Blue Moon of Kentucky
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23. I Got a Woman
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24. That’s All Right – Live from Eagles’ Hall, Houston, Texas
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25. Tweedlee Dee
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26. That’s All Right – Live from the Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Festival, Meridian, Mississippi
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27. I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone
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28. Baby Let’s Play House
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29. Maybellene
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30. That’s All Right
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31. Interview with Bob Neal
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32. I Forgot To Remember To Forget
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