Modified: January 26, 2012

LPM-1707 Elvis' Golden Records 

         Release: RCA Victor LPM-1707 Elvis' Golden Records (LP)
              Artist: Elvis Presley
Release Date: 3/21/1958

Track Listings: (click here to expand / collapse)

Side 1

Hound Dog
Loving You
All Shook Up
Heartbreak Hotel
Jailhouse Rock
Love Me
Too Much

Side 2

Don't Be Cruel
That's When Your Heartaches Begin
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
Love Me Tender
Treat Me Nice
Anyway You Want Me(That's How I Will Be)
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You

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Cover Front: RCA Victor logo and number at upper right. Title in any varying pitch of blue. Contents not printed on front. Stock may be either flat or glossy.
Cover Back: Catalog number upper right corner. Contents two rows across the top. Three columns of text. Title and artist centered across the top. The first release March 21, 1958 has the number LPM-1707 and the later 1958 pressing LPM-1707 RE.

Other than the addition of the "RE" to the back, there is a significant and distinctive difference between the LPM-1707 and LPM-1707 RE. From the LPM-1707 back, the beginning of the last sentence of the first (left) column begins "After thirty-one grueling "takes" a satisfactory master was finally made, and at this point the boys took a coffee break." On the back of the LPM-1707 RE, the same sentence reads, "After several rehearsal "takes", a satisfactory master was finally made, and at this point the boys took a coffee break." The difference is "thirty-one grueling" was replaced with "several rehearsal".

1707 lpm insert side1 small LPM 1707 Elvis Golden Records (Elvis Presley)

Insert: Known as the "Fabulous Offer!" It measures 7"x7" and has a blank bank. The stock is paper. This is an order form to purchase an Elvis photo booklet. It has been found in some copies of this release.

1707 lpm 1958 long play 1st side1 small LPM 1707 Elvis Golden Records (Elvis Presley)1707 lpm 1958 long play 1st side2 small LPM 1707 Elvis Golden Records (Elvis Presley)

Disc: Long Play. Black label, All print on label print is silver. "NEW ORTHOPHONIC" HIGH FIDELITY on top. (3/1958)

Matrix numbers
Side 1: H2WP-8398-3S A1 / Side 2: H2WP-8399-5S B1 (Rockaway pressing)

1707 lpm 1958 side1 h small LPM 1707 Elvis Golden Records (Elvis Presley)1707 lpm 1958 side2 h small LPM 1707 Elvis Golden Records (Elvis Presley)

Disc: Long Play. Black label, All print on label print is silver. "NEW ORTHOPHONIC" HIGH FIDELITY on right side. (3/1958) Credits either full names or first initial and last name. All tracks with from the film credits are preceeded by song writer credits.1

Matrix numbers
Side 1: H2WP-8398-6S / Side 2: H2WP-8399-6S A (Hollywood pressing)
Side 1: H2WP-8398-6S A / Side 2: H2WP-8399-6S A (Hollywood pressing)2

1707 lpm 1958 side1 r small LPM 1707 Elvis Golden Records (Elvis Presley)1707 lpm 1958 side2 r small LPM 1707 Elvis Golden Records (Elvis Presley)

Disc: Long Play. Black label, All print on label print is silver. "NEW ORTHOPHONIC" HIGH FIDELITY on right side. (3/1958) Credits last name only. All tracks with from the film credits are preceded by song writer credits.

A copy of LPM-1707 with this label, the first cover without the RE on back, and original insert sold on eBay for $223.50 including shipping on January 24, 2012.3

Matrix numbers
Side 1: H2WP-8398-14S A2 / Side 2: H2WP-8399-13S B1 (Rockaway pressing)
Side 1: H2WP-8398-18S A4 / Side 2: H2WP-8399-16S A1 (Indianapolis pressing)
Side 1: H2WP-8398-20S A1 / Side 2: H2WP-8399-20S B1 (Rockaway pressing)
Side 1: H2WP-8398-20S A2 / Side 2: H2WP-8399-20S B1 (Rockaway pressing)4
Side 1: H2WP-8398-20S A3 / Side 2: H2WP-8399-21S A1 (Rockaway pressing)

Side 2, track 2, That's When Your Heartaches Begin is credited to Raskin-Hill-Fisher or as Raskin-Brown-Fisher. Billy Hill wrote as pseudonym George Brown to prevent the reversal of his name to "Hill Billy".5

1707 lpm cover front re2 small LPM 1707 Elvis Golden Records (Elvis Presley)1707 lpm cover back re2 small LPM 1707 Elvis Golden Records (Elvis Presley)

Cover Front: RCA Victor logo top right corner. Catalog number lower left corner. Title in white letters. Contents printed across the top. RE on right side next to Printed in U.S.A. (11/1963)
Cover Back: Catalog number upper right corner with RE2. Contents two in two columns aligned to the right. Three columns of text. Title and artist aligned to the left across the top.

Disc: Long Play. Black label, All print on label print is silver. "NEW ORTHOPHONIC" HIGH FIDELITY on right side. (Reference above.)

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Disc: Long Play. Black label, All print on label print is silver. "NEW ORTHOPHONIC" HIGH FIDELITY on right side. Variation, Side 2, Track 1, credits Blackwell-Presley. Side 2, Track 2, credits Raskin-Hill-Fisher. All tracks with from the film credits end with song writer credits.

Matrix numbers
Side 1: H2WP-8398-10S A / Side 2: H2WP-8399-10S A3 (Hollywood pressing)

1707 lpm 1963 mono side1 small LPM 1707 Elvis Golden Records (Elvis Presley)1707 lpm 1963 mono side2 small LPM 1707 Elvis Golden Records (Elvis Presley)

Disc: MONO. Black label, All print on label print is silver. (11/1963)

Matrix numbers
Side 1: H2WP-8398-10S A / Side 2: H2WP-8399-10S A3 (Hollywood pressing)

1707 lpm 1964 monaural side1 small LPM 1707 Elvis Golden Records (Elvis Presley)1707 lpm 1964 monaural side2 small LPM 1707 Elvis Golden Records (Elvis Presley)

Disc: Monaural. Black label, RCA logo is white, other label print is silver. (10/1964) On Side 2, track 2, Paramount on one line, film on another and track 5, (from the Avon prod., an on one line, M-G-M release on another. On Side 2, track 3, (from the Hal Wallis- on one line, Paramount film on another.; track 4, (from the 20th Century-fox CinemaScope prod. on one line.; track 5, (from the Avon production, an M-G-M on one line, release on another; track 6, on one line.; track 7, on one line.

Matrix numbers
Side 1: H2WP-8398-26S / Side 2: H2WP-8399-26S (Hollywood pressing)

1707 lpm 1964 side1 r small LPM 1707 Elvis Golden Records (Elvis Presley)1707 lpm 1964 side2 r small LPM 1707 Elvis Golden Records (Elvis Presley)

Disc: Monaural. Black label, RCA logo is white, other label print is silver. (10/1964) On Side 1, track 2, Paramount film on one line and track 5, (from the Avon production on one line, an M-G-M release on another. On Side 2, track 3, (from the on one line, Hal Wallis-Paramount film on another.; track 4, (from the 20th Century-fox on one line, CinemaScope prod. on another.; track 5, (from the Avon production on one line, an M-G-M release on another.; track 6, on two lines.; track 7, on two lines.

Matrix numbers
Side 1: H2WP-8398-28S A2 / Side 2: H2WP-8399-21S A3 (Rockaway pressing)

1707 lpm 1964 side1 i small LPM 1707 Elvis Golden Records (Elvis Presley)1707 lpm 1964 side2 i small LPM 1707 Elvis Golden Records (Elvis Presley)

Disc: Monaural. Black label, RCA logo is white, other label print is silver. (10/1964) On Side 1, track 2, Paramount film on one line and track 5, (from the Avon production on one line, an M-G-M release on another. On Side 2, track 3, (from the on one line, Hal Wallis-Paramount film on another.; track 4, (from the 20th Century-fox on one line, CinemaScope prod. on another.; track 5, (from the Avon production on one line, an M-G-M release on another.; track 6, on two lines.; track 7, on two lines.

Matrix numbers
Side 1: H2WP-8398-32S / Side 2: H2WP-8399-30S (Unknown pressing)

Inner Sleeves
To identify the inner sleeve that is most appropriate for each release, look at the Inner Sleeves page on this site.

Re-released in electronically reprocessed stereo as LSP-1707 (e) Elvis' Golden Records in 1962 and in digitally remastered mono as AFM1-5196 Elvis' Golden Records in 1984.

  1. Images from the collection of Christian (of France). ↩
  2. Matrix numbers from the collection of Christian (of France). ↩
  3. eBay reference 270895580638 (January 26, 2012) ↩
  4. eBay reference 230660533165 (August 15, 2011) ↩
  5. "The Last Round-Up A Tribute to Songwriter Billy Hill" American Music Preservation. 7 Oct. 2010. ↩