Modified: May 6, 2012

It's Now Or Never / A Mess Of Blues 

         Release: RCA Victor 47-7777 It's Now Or Never / A Mess Of Blues (45)
              Artist: Elvis Presley
Release Date: 7/5/1960

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Cover: picture sleeve front and back.

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Disc: (7/1960)1 Black label, dog on top.
Matrix numbers: L2WW-0100-25S / L2WW-0085-6S (Hollywood pressing)

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Disc: (7/1960) Black label, dog on top.
Matrix numbers: L2WW-0100-3S / L2WW-0085-9S (Rockaway pressing)(Without piano track. See note below.)2
Matrix numbers: L2WW-0100-4S / L2WW-0085-9S (Rockaway pressing)(Without piano track. See note below.)3
Matrix numbers: L2WW-0100-11S A4 / L2WW-0085-2S B7 (Indianapolis pressing)
Matrix numbers: L2WW-0100-20S B2 / L2WW-0085-9S A2 (Rockaway pressing)
Matrix numbers: L2WW-0100-21S A1 / L2WW-0085-4S D2 (Rockaway pressing)4
Matrix numbers: L2WW-0100-22S A1 / L2WW-0085-9S A2 (Rockaway pressing)

It's Now or Never had no piano on the master.5 A rare variation of this single exists where this version of It's Now or Never was pressed without the piano track. Presleyana V identifies this variation as having a Hollywood pressing label, however, a couple of eBay auctions have confirmed that it is a Rockaway pressing. This is confirmed by the visual identification of the matrix number on the record or the item description and the label of other Rockaway labels.

This was also released in stereo It's Now Or Never / A Mess Of Blues in 1960.
Re-released by RCA Records on 45 RPM as It's Now Or Never / A Mess Of Blues on the Gold Standard Series label.

  1. Date from Elvis Presley Taking Care Of Business. "BiogrDiscography." 4 February 2011. ↩
  2. eBay reference 360386602031 (August 20, 2011) ↩
  3. Jerry Osborne, Presleyana V (Port Townsend: Osborne Enterprises, 2002), p. 54. ↩
  4. Matrix numbers from the collection of Roberto. ↩
  5. "An Audio Review in the Spirit of Steve Sholes: ELVIS 30 #1 Hits." Master & Session (www.elvisrecordings.com). 22 August, 2011. ↩