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First Elvis single On RCA Released January 27, 1956 Here the Rare version of first edition, black RCA Victor label with horizontal silver line. It's the end of 1955 Elvis has been with RCA since the end of November. They don't quite know what to do with him yet and therefore release the latest Sun single "Mystery Train" on RCA again. It does nothing at all, while Carl Perkins, with Blue Suede Shoes in January 1956 scored the first national hit for the Sun label. Something Elvis himself couldn't have done The RCA bosses even think they have contracted the wrong one !! Elsewhere in Florida, also in late 1955, there is a photo in the newspaper of a dead man with the question. Who knows this man? The only thing that could be found on the body was a piece of paper with the text "I walk a Lonely street". The musician Tommy Durden, who is reading the article, is intrigued, talks about it with his girlfriend Mea Axton, also a musician and songwriter. They decide to write a song together and half an hour later the "Heartbreak Hotel" is finished. The strongest part of the song; Well, if your baby leaves you You got a tale to tell Well, just take a walk down Lonely Street To Heartbreak Hotel It will be recorded on January 10 and 11 and released by RCA on January 27 The recording has a kind of imitated Sun echo that Elvis was not really happy with, and Elvis would now produce his own records. Only at the beginning of March does the album arrive on the Billboard. A month and a half later, after a few appearances on the Milton Berle NBC TV Show, it's a No. 1 hit. The rest is, as they say, "History". http://www.youtube.com/user/Joehilllouistwo#p/f/5/PotB76gi2_4 Joe .
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