Modified: January 13, 2012

EPA-821 Heartbreak Hotel 

         Release: RCA Victor EPA-821 Heartbreak Hotel (EP)
              Artist: Elvis Presley
Release Date: 4/20/1956

Side 1: Heartbreak Hotel / I Was the One
Side 2: Money Honey / I forgot to Remember to Forget

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Cover: picture sleeve front and back.

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Disc: (4/1956)1 Black label, dog on top without horizontal line.
Matrix numbers: G2PH-2942-2S / G2PH-2943-2S B3 (Indianapolis pressing)

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Disc: (4/1956) Black label, dog on top without horizontal line. Small bold fonts.2
Matrix numbers: G2PH-2942-4S / G2PH-2943-?S (Hollywood pressing)

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Disc: (4/1956) Black label, dog on top with horizontal line. Sides are spelled out, "Side One" and "Side Two".3
Matrix numbers: G2PH-2942-3S A1 / G2PH-2943-3S A1 (machine stamped) (Rockaway pressing)4

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Disc: (4/1956) Black label, dog on top with horizontal line. Sides are numerical, "Side 1" and "Side 2".5

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Disc: (4/1956) Black label. No dog on top with horizontal line.6

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Disc: (1965) Black label, dog on side.
Matrix numbers: G2PH-2942--9S / G2 PH2943-10S A2 (machine stamped) (Indianapolis pressing)7

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Cover: (1968) picture sleeve front and back. No song titles on front. Copyright front left corner. EPA-821 upper right corner.8.

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Cover: (1968) picture sleeve front and back. No song titles on front. No copyright on front left corner. No EPA-821 upper right corner. No picture of Elvis on back, different layout.9

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Disc: (1968) Orange label.8
Matrix numbers: G2PH-2942-9S / G2 PH2943-10S A2 (machine stamped) (Indianapolis pressing)7

  1. Date from "Elvis Presley: Discography | The Official Elvis Presley Site." Elvis The Music. Sony Music Entertainment. January 25, 2011. ↩
  2. eBay reference 200693495450 (January 4, 2012) ↩
  3. Images from the collection of Christian (of France). ↩
  4. Matrix numbers from the collection of Christian (of France). ↩
  5. eBay reference 330665029058 (January 8, 2012) ↩
  6. Images courtesy of Boija, John. "First pressings of US Elvis Presley EPs." John Boija's Home Page. 8 September 2011. ↩
  7. Matrix numbers from the collection of Christian (of France) ↩
  8. Images from the collection of Christian (of France) ↩
  9. eBay reference 250969944619 (January 13, 2012) ↩
  10. Images from the collection of Christian (of France) ↩
  11. Matrix numbers from the collection of Christian (of France) ↩