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Boy from Tupelo - Elvis Presley

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Somewhere, Colonel Tom Parker is smiling -- the Starbucks-released Boy from Tupelo is yet another collection of Elvis Presley's seminal Sun Records singles, a surefire moneymaker the world needs as badly as it needs...well, another Starbucks. At least this exercise in redundancy is beautifully packaged, complete with new liner notes by Elvis authority Peter Guralnick, and the potency of the material remains undeniable. For all the endless reissuing, recycling, and repackaging of Elvis' Sun material (his earliest, dating from 1954 to 1956, is still among his least known to general audiences), Starbucks customers who know only the fluff recorded during the King's Hollywood years will be floored by the sheer intensity and invention of these 15 songs that forged his reputation and changed everything. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

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Elvis Presley (57 Albums)

  • King Creole
  • Paradise, Hawaiian Style
  • Love Letters from Elvis
  • From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee
  • Elvis Now
  • Elvis in Concert
  • How Great Thou Art
  • Harum Scarum
  • A Date with Elvis
  • Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite
  • Back in Memphis
  • Blue Hawaii
  • Clambake
  • Double Trouble
  • Elvis Country
  • Elvis Is Back!/Something for Everybody
  • Elvis Presley [1956]
  • Elvis Presley: Live!
  • Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis
  • Elvis Sings
  • Elvis [1956]
  • Elvis [1973]
  • Elvis as Recorded at Madison Square Garden
  • Elvis for Everyone!
  • Elvis in Person at the International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Elvis' Christmas Album
  • For LP Fans Only
  • Frankie and Johnny
  • From Elvis in Memphis
  • From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis
  • Fun in Acapulco
  • G.I. Blues
  • Girl Happy
  • Girls! Girls! Girls!
  • Good Times
  • He Touched Me
  • His Hand in Mine
  • It Happened at the World's Fair
  • Kissin' Cousins
  • Loving You
  • Moody Blue
  • NBC-TV Special
  • NBC-TV Special ['68 Comeback]
  • On Stage
  • Pot Luck with Elvis
  • Promised Land
  • RE:Versions: Elvis Presley First Remix Album
  • Raised on Rock
  • Roustabout
  • Something for Everybody
  • Speedway
  • Spinout
  • That's the Way It Is
  • Tickle Me
  • Today
  • Viva Elvis: The Album
  • Viva Las Vegas
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