Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley (1st Album)
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Music CD Cover Artist: Elvis Presley Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Import, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 1999-05-18 Music Label: RCA Victor Europe Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Elvis Presley (1st Album) Album
Free Music Review: The Birth of Rock 'n Roll
Hit: 4 Stars
Rock 'n Roll basically is a fusion between (white) country and (black) rhythm & blues. Elvis was the first to perfect this combination and perform it in such a way that both strands were equally cherished and not used for commercial gain.
Elvis had a genuine love of black music and his first recordings are definite odes to that music style that he grw up with in Memphis, and not a ploy to tap black music to make more money in the white market (aka Pat Boonism).
The choices for covers are for songs that were already big hits in the r&b field and important already. Ray Charles' 'I Got A Woman', Llord Price's 'Lawdy Miss Clawdy', Little Richards' 'Tutti Frutti' are all great examples. He also sings 'Shake, Rattle & Roll' which another white singer had done before him, but where Bill Haley takes all the sex out of the song Elvis leaves some in.
It's not the collected Sun Sessions who are truely remarkable. There are some shimmers here already of the schmalzy pop singer he would become, but his versions of 'Blue Moon' and 'Heartbreak Hotel' are historic.