

This was as startling a debut record as any ever made, representing every side of Elvis' musical influences except gospel - rockabilly, blues, R&B, country, and pop were all here in an explosive and seductive combination. Elvis On Television - 1956-1960 (MRS)+Live In The 50's Volume 3+Tape. The album Sholes wanted out of Elvis came from two groups of sessions in January and February, augmented by five previously unissued songs from the Sun library. Elvis presley recording sessions 1954 - 1976. Seventeen days later, "Heartbreak Hotel" was released, and for about a month it did nothing - then it began to move, and then Elvis appeared on television, and had a number one pop single. He continued his television performances in 1956 by. January 10, Two days after his twenty-first birthday, Elvis has his first recording session for RCA, held at their studio in Nashville. For his last Stage Show performance on March 24, Elvis sang Heartbreak Hotel and Money Honey. Recorded: 0, first released on Elvis Presley. Money, honey, If you want to get along with me. But no one involved knew anything for sure about this music. The women may come and the women may go, But before I say I love you so, I want. The first of Elvis' RCA sides yielded one song, "Heartbreak Hotel," that seemed a potential single, but which no one thought would sell, and a few tracks that would be good enough for an album, if there were one. The women may come and the women may go, But before I say I love you so, I want. So a lot was unsettled and untried at the first of two groups of sessions that produced the Elvis Presley album - it wasn't even certain that there was any reason for a rock & roll artist to cut an album, because teenagers bought 45s, not LPs. The sun may shine and the winds may blow. Elvis Presley recorded a cover version of Money Honey in 1956 for his debut. Money Honey Blue Moon Just Because (US) RCA 47-6640 (45) 20-6640 (78) Released: August 1956 Shake, Rattle & Roll Lawdy Miss Clawdy Shake Rattle And Roll. The circumstances surrounding this album were neither simple nor promising, however, nor was there anything in the history of popular music up to that time to hint that Elvis Presley was going to be anything other than " Steve Sholes' folly," which was what rival executives were already whispering. Money Honey is a song written by Jesse Stone,2 which was released in. Today it all seems so easy - RCA signs up the kid from Memphis, television gets interested at around the same time, and the rest is history.
