For LP Fans Only

Infobox Album |
Name = For LP Fans Only
Type = compilation
Artist = Elvis Presley


Released = February 6, 1959
Recorded = July 1954-October 1956
Genre = Rock
Length = 23:28
Label = RCA LPM 1990
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5zsyxdfbjoly link]
Last album ="King Creole"
(1958)
This album = "For LP Fans Only"
(1959)
Next album ="A Date With Elvis"
(1959)

"For LP Fans Only" is the seventh album by Elvis Presley, issued on RCA Records, LPM 1990, in February of 1959. From an August, 1956 recording session at 20th Century Fox Stage One and a September, 1956, session at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, sessions on January 10 and 11 at RCA Studios in Nashville, two more at RCA Studios in New York, and multiple sessions at Sun Studio, it is a compilation of material issued previously in the United States, although it should be noted that this album marked the debut release of the track "That's All Right", Elvis' first commercial recording, in Great Britain, where the song was never issued as a single during Presley's lifetime. The album reached #19 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart.

Content

After Presley's induction into the army on March 24, 1958, RCA and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, were faced with the prospect of keeping his name before the public for two years with no possibility of live performances, no movies, and with few unissued marketable recordings in the vault. A recording session was arranged for two days in June, which yielded enough items for five more single sides, singles being the commercial focus for rock and roll in the 1950s. Four of those tracks would be issued on 45s in 1958 and 1959 during his absence while doing military service.

Presley, however, also did well in the albums market, every one of his previous six LPs charting no lower than #3, and RCA wished to continue promoting albums by their hot commodity given his sales record. Much of Presley's material had not been released on LP, and for this album RCA collected nine tracks previously available in single form only, as well as "Poor Boy," a track from the "Love Me Tender" EP. Four of the tracks had been issued on Sun Records with limited release, and were very difficult to come by outside of the south. Four more tracks were duplicated from Presley's debut album.

Compact disc versions of the album by RCA have been done since 1988. Audiophile CD recordings are available on import in the United States, including the recent version from Japan in 2005 with a truncated track list.

Collective Personnel

* Elvis Presley – vocal, guitar
* Scotty Moore – guitar
* Chet Atkins - guitar
* Floyd Cramer - piano
* Shorty Long - piano
* Gordon Stoker - piano, backing vocals
* Bill Black – bass
* D.J. Fontana - drums
* Jimmie Lott – drums
* Johnny Bernero – drums
* The Jordanaires - backing vocals
* Ben Speer - backing vocals
* Brock Speer - backing vocals

Track listing

"Chart position for EPA 4006 from Billboard Top Pop Albums chart; positions for singles from Billboard Pop Singles chart"

ide One

ide Two

References

*Jorgenson, Ernst (1998). Elvis Presley: A Life In Music - The Complete Recording Sessions. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-18572-3