Description WE CURRENTLY HAVE  MORE THAN 200  LISTED ITEMS Click here to see ALL our ROCK auctions Our PSYCH & PROGRESSIVE  auctions Our PUNK & NEW WAVE  auctions Our  JAZZ auctions Our BLUE NOTE JAZZ auctions  Our BLUES auctions Our CLASSICAL auctions Our COUNTRY auctions Our FUNK auctions Our LATIN auctions Our METAL auctionsOur REGGAE auctions Our SOUL auctions Our STILL SEALED ITEMS  Our PROMO auctions Our ACETATE  auctions Our TEST PRESSING  auctions  Our AUDIOPHILE auctions · ELVIS PRESLEY – FOR LP FANS ONLY – ELVIS PRESLEY’S FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM – 1958 RCA RECORDS MONO LP LPM-1990 · GENUINE  U.S. PRESSING *** INSANELY RARE (MOST LIKELY ONE-OF-A-KIND) COVER MISPRINT WHICH HAS ELVIS'S FRONT COVER PHOTO ON BOTH SIDES (THE SAME PHOTO APPEARS ON BOTH FRONT AND BACK SIDE), INSTEAD OF THE EXPECTED PHOTO OF ELVIS IN ARMY UNIFORM ON THE FLIP SIDE *** · VERY EARLY PRESSING CIRCA 1964/65 ON  BLACK RCA VICTOR LABEL WITH "WHITE TOP" [RCA VICTOR’S NAME IS IN WHITE LETTERS], AND ‘DOGGIE’ LOGO ON TOP CENTER OF THE LABEL (“MONAURAL” INSCRIPTION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LABEL) · RARE ORIGINAL MONO PRESSING, MANY TIMES RARER THAN FAKE (“ELECTRONICALLY RECHANELLED”) STEREO · DEEP GROOVE PRESSING · THIS IS NOT AN IMPORT, RECORD CLUB RELEASE OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING. · ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE); SECOND VERSION OF THE COVER WITH THE BLACK BLURB WITH ALBUM TITLE NEXT TO ELVIS' PHOTO. · COVER IS STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK (CELLOPHANE) WRAP · CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS · THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING · MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD · MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-1S/-7S'.  ON SOME LABELS,  SUFFIX '–1' DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING)  (PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW) (Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you'll get.  GUARANTEED!) OK, to be fair, For LP Fans Only is no more a real Elvis Presley album than, say, Yesterday and Today was a real Beatles album -- Elvis was nine months through his two-year hitch in the army and RCA needed to get something "new" in the way of an LP out on him, so they threw together a quartet of sides from his Sun Records singles that had never been on album, five of his early RCA sides (which don't sound too different from the Sun stuff stylistically) that had similarly missed being put onto long-player, and one odd song off of the Love Me Tender soundtrack EP, and voila -- a new Elvis LP!. It doesn't sound like much from that description, but in its time For LP Fans Only was (along with its follow-up, A Date With Elvis) one of the choicest of all Elvis Presley albums. From 1959 until 1976, unless you wanted to try hunting down the original singles, this was the only way that any listeners got to hear the King's Sun Records singles "That's All Right," "Mystery Train," and "My Baby Left Me," and the only album to offer such early RCA sides as "Shake, Rattle & Roll" as well. Maybe it could all have been done better and more coherently but all RCA was trying to do was get some Elvis Presley material out there -- they didn't get interested in the history or the particulars of the music until about 20 years later, and considering their obliviousness, they did astonishingly well. At least the songs were out there -- a lot of listeners wore out copies of this album just lending them around to the uninitiated -- and taken on its own terms, there weren't five more exciting rock & roll albums than this that you could buy in 1959 (or a lot of years after). It still holds up as one of the best rock & roll albums ever released, and for anyone who wants to remember (or find out) how most listeners discovered Elvis' early stuff during the 1960s and 1970s, this is one place to start. (REVIEW REPRINTED COURTESY OF BRUCE EDER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/) TO SEE IF WE HAVE OTHER LISTED ITEMS BY THIS GROUP OR ARTIST   CLICK HERE · CONDITION: · THE RECORD  (IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight) (a) WE GRADE THE VINYL AS EXCELLENT. This is one of those albums that are somewhat difficult to grade. It is somewhere between VG++ and NEAR MINT, just a notch below NEAR MINT. A few light abrasions ARE visible, but they are extremely shallow, superficial  and only moderately visually distracting (nothing significant).For the most part, the vinyl looks impeccable without any MAJOR visual flaws or imperfections. Much of the original luster is intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.(THE ONLY THING THAT'S PREVENTING US FROM GRADING THIS DISC NEAR MINT IS THE LONG, BUT TOTALLY SUPERFICIAL PARALLEL SCUFF ON ONE TRACK ("I WAS THE ONE") WHICH ALMOST CERTAINLY WILL NOT BE AUDIBLE) (b) The record has a "deep groove" (an indent in the label about 1/2-inch from the edge of the label, which on SOME labels is associated with very early or first pressings). (c) The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording! (d) Mono pressing of this title is much rarer, and by far more  preferable to its FAKE ("electronically rechannelled") stereo counterpart. We estimate that FAKE stereo copies of this album outnumber monos by a ratio of at least 10:1. (e) Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!! · THE COVER COVER IS STRONG NEAR MINT,  STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover: - Cover has a light "wrinkle" (crease)  in one of the corners. (VISIBLE ON FRONT SIDE ONLY) - Cover has two corners slightly dinged (BARELY VISIBLE) - Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.  (BARELY VISIBLE) NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER POSTAGE & SHIPPING: We offer THREE postage rates for both Domestic and International Mail: Media Mail, Priority Mail and Express Mail for domestic, and First Class, Priority International Mail, and Express International Mail for international orders. 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