ELVIS PRESLEY Heartbreak Hotel 45 1956 HMV GOLD 1st
  £   97
  $   129

 


£ 97 Sold For
May 31, 2008 Sold Date
May 26, 2008 Start Date
£   3 Start price
19   Number Of Bids
  Great Britain Country Of Seller
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On offer here is a VERY rare single (especially in this condition!!!!) by Elvis Presley called "Heartbreak Hotel" and is an ORIGINAL 1956 UK 1st Pressing on the 1st Press HMV GOLD label!!!!  The B side is called 'I Was The One'.  THIS 45 IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!!!!  THIS WAS ELVIS PRESLEY'S FIRST SINGLE EVER - AND IS ONE OF HIS RAREST HMV GOLD SINGLES YOU CAN POSSIBLY FIND!!!!  JUST TRY AND FIND ANOTHER ONE!!!!  BACK IN 1956 WHEN THIS 45 WAS FIRST RELEASED - VIRTUALLY EVERYONE WAS STILL BUYING 78s, AND SINGLES WERE ONLY SELLING IN ABSOLUTELY TINY AMOUNTS!!!!  AS A RESULT FINDING A 1ST PRESSING OF THIS ULTRA RARE 45 IS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE!!!!  BUT WHAT MAKES THIS 45 EVEN RARER STILL IS THAT IT IS ONE OF THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSINGS EVER MADE!!!!  BECAUSE, NOT ONLY DOES IT HAVE 1ST PRESS 1N/1N MATRIX ENDINGS, BUT AMAZINGLY IT HAS 1/H 1/T MOTHER & STAMPER CODINGS - CLEARLY SHOWING THAT THIS IS ONE OF THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSINGS EVER MADE - AND ONE OF THE FIRST 2000 COPIES EVER PRESSED!!!!  THIS 45 ALSO HAS THE CORRECT 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESS 'RT' TAX CODE STAMPED IN THE RUN OFF GROOVES - DATING IT EXACTLY TO THE 'DAY OF RELEASE' BACK IN 1956!!!!  AND  ALL OF THESE IMPOSSIBLY RARE 1ST PRESS DETAILS HAS TO MAKE THIS ONE OF THE RAREST ELVIS PRESLEY RECORDS TO COME UP FOR SALE - EVER!!!!  JUST FINDING THIS 45 AS A STANDARD 1ST PRESSING IS INCREDIBLY HARD - BUT FINDING ONE OF THE 'EARLIEST' 1ST PRESSINGS EVER MADE (WITH ALL THE ULTRA RARE 1ST PRESS DETAILS LISTED ABOVE!) IS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE!!!!  NOT ONLY THAT BUT THIS SINGLE IS IN GREAT CONDITION - AND IS 100% COMPLETE WITH ITS ORIGINAL 1ST PRESS COMPANY SLEEVE (SO OFTEN MISSING!)!!!!  THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1956 UK HMV GOLD 1ST PRESSING ON THE ORIGINAL 1ST PRESS HMV PURPLE LABEL (WITH 'GOLD' PRINT!), 1ST PRESS 1N/1N MATRIX ENDINGS, ONE OF THE 'EARLIEST POSSIBLE' MOTHER & STAMPER CODINGS IT IS POSSIBLE TO GET (1/H 1/T!), AND A 1ST PRESS HMV COMPANY SLEEVE!!!!  PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT THE HMV COMPANY SLEEVE IS A 100% GENIUNE HMV COMPANY SLEEVE - AND NOT A RE-PRO!!!!  THIS SINGLE IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS ULTRA RARE OPPORTUNITY!!!!  This is the ORIGINAL HMV UK 1st Pressing from 1956 and is in GREAT condition!!!!  The record is pressed on THICK quality vinyl!!!!  This is the ORIGINAL 1956 HMV UK MONO 1st Pressing on the 1st Press HMV Gold label and the Cat No is 7M 385.  

The record labels are in GREAT condition (see pictures) with NO writing (apart from an absolutely TINY and ULTRA faint 'R' on 1 label), only some slight fading to the B side label, barely ANY wear AT ALL, and only a few light spindle marks!!!!  The record is in GREAT condition!!!!  Most of these 50s singles had been to a lot of wild parties and are usually found totally worn out, and almost unplayable. This record is NOT and has NO scratches, only a few MEGA light hairlines, only 2 or 3 VERY light scufflines, and only a few of the lightest paper scuffs only visible under light!!!!  THE RECORD STILL RETAINS ITS ORIGINAL 'JUST PRESSED' LOOK!!!!  It is GREAT to find that the record plays as STUNNINGLY as the visual with NO pops, NO jumps, NO sticks, and only some INCREDIBLY low level touches of background crackle in a VERY few places (NO nasty 'frying bacon' type crackle - GUARANTEED!)!!!!  The sound quality is simply SUPERB with NO distortion and NO groovewear either!!!!  This single must grade Very Good (PROPERLY graded, NOT trashed) if not better!!!!  Believe me this record is NOT overgraded in ANY way!!!!  I use STRICT RC grading standards - it is not in my interest not to!!!! Brillant!!!!  This record comes with an ORIGINAL 1st Press HMV Company Sleeve which is in GREAT condition (NO edge splits, etc)!!!!  THIS SINGLE IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS ULTRA RARE OPPORTUNITY!!!!

HAVE A LOOK AT MY PICTURES - I DO MY BEST TO SHOW THE RECORD FROM ALL ANGLES AND MAKE THE PICTURES AS CLEAR AS POSSIBLE - THERE IS NOTHING TO HIDE!!!!  It really is a great looking record and it is truly rare to find any copies of this MEGA RARE single!!!!  THIS WILL BE YOUR ONLY CHANCE TO BUY AN ORIGINAL 1956 UK MONO 1ST PRESSING OF "HEARTBREAK HOTEL" BY ELVIS PRESLEY, IN GREAT CONDITION!!!!  Dont forget to take a look at all my other items including many other TOP LPs and contact me with any queries you may have. P&P £1.50 in the UK, £2 Europe, £3 Rest Of The World.  Paypal, Bank Transfers, Cheques, International Money Orders, and Postal Orders accepted. Thanks for looking! Cheers!!!!!

 

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