Modified: November 28, 2011

EPB-1254 Elvis Presley 

         Release: RCA Victor EPB-1254 Elvis Presley (EP)
              Artist: Elvis Presley
Release Date: 3/23/1956

Side 1: Blue Suede Shoes / I'm Counting on You
Side 2: I Got a Woman / One-Sided Love Affair
Side 3: Tutti Frutti / Tryin' to Get to You
Side 4: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry / I'll Never Let You Go

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Cover Front : Titles at top in black print on white back. Catalog number upper right corner.

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Cover Back: Enjoy these other BEST SELLERS! Counter-clockwise Music for Relaxation, Fox Trots, Mambo, Gone with the Wind, and Beautiful Garden of Prayer. (4/1956).
Cover Back: More musical favorites to choose from! Counter-clockwise Music for Dining, Glenn Miller, Inside Sauter-Finegan, Sunday Band Concert, Waltzes (4/1956).
Cover Back: Hear these other best sellers! Counter-clockwise The Family All Together, Rhapsody in Blue, The Student Prince, Victory at Sea, With Love from a Chorus (4/1956)
Cover Back: No other RCA releases listed on back. Song titles incorrect order. No "New Orthophonic" High Fidelity Recording paragraph (1956)

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Cover Gatefold: Featuring picture of Elvis Presley with song titles to the left and several paragraphs on the right.

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Disc: (3/1956)1 Black label, dog on top. Without line.
Matrix numbers: G2WH-1850-5S A1 / G2WH-1851-6S A5 / G2WH-1852-6S B2 / G2WH-1853-5S (Indianapolis pressing)

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Disc: (3/1956) Black label, dog on top. With line. Side 1 and Side 4 without dog.2

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Disc: (3/1956) Black label, dog on top. With line.3

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Disc: White label promotional. (1970's)

The RCA Victor Record Prevue is a counterfeit bootlegged in the 1970s. EPB-1254 was never originally released on the RCA Victor Record Prevue label. This bootleg can be found with no other RCA releases listed on back.4

Side 1: Blue Suede Shoes / I'm Counting on You / I Got a Woman
Side 2: One-Sided Love Affair / I Love you Because / Just Because
Side 3: Tutti Frutti / Tryin' to Get to You / I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry
Side 4: I'll Never Let You Go / Blue Moon / Money Honey

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Cover Front : Titles at top in black print on white back. Catalog number upper right corner.5
Cover Back: Blank back.

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Disc: (1956) Black label, dog on top.6

  1. Date from "Elvis Presley: Discography | The Official Elvis Presley Site." Elvis The Music. Sony Music Entertainment. January 25, 2011. ↩
  2. eBay reference 250886643650 (September 7, 2011) ↩
  3. Images courtesy of Boija, John. "First pressings of US Elvis Presley EPs." John Boija's Home Page. 8 September 2011. ↩
  4. The images are mock-ups of images eBay reference 320612171818 (ending November 9, 2010) ↩
  5. Mockup of eBay reference 250844844559 (July 2, 2011) using several images from a collection of internet images that date back to 1998. ↩
  6. eBay reference 250844844559 (July 2, 2011) ↩