Elvis Presley TEST PRESSING Made Directly from 1953 Acetate of 1st Recording

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1,900

LISTING THIS FOR THE LAST TIME

BEFORE THIS GOES TO THE GRACELAND AUCTION

THIS IS AN AUTHENTIC TEST PRESSING OF THE FIRST TWO SONGS ELVIS EVER RECORDED IN HIS LIFE AT SUN RECORDS.

I ATTACHED A PHOTO OF THE STORY DIRECTLY FROM THE GRACELAND SITE AND ALSO ATTACHED THE STORY ABOUT JACK WHITE BUYING THAT LEGENDARY ACETATE FOR $300,000 AT THE GRACELAND AUCTION. 

UP FOR SALE IS THE ACTUAL TEST PRESSING MADE DIRECTLY FROM THAT ACETATE THAT SOLD FOR $300,000 WHICH FUTURE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAMER JACK WHITE RELEASED THROUGH HIS VERY OWN "THIRD MAN RECORDS."

WHAT'S UNIQUE ABOUT THIS TEST PRESSING IS THAT ITS A FACSIMILE TEST PRESSING WHERE YOU GET AND CAN SEE ALL THE DETAILS FROM THE ACTUAL LEGENDARY ACETATE.

IN OTHER WORDS, THEY DID NOT JUST CAPTURE THE SOUND–THEN PRESS IT ONTO RECORDS. THEY ACTUALLY CLONED THE ORIGINAL SO YOU CAN SEE EVERY SINGLE DETAIL AND MARKING THAT'S ON THAT LEGENDARY ACETATE. THEY CLEANED UP THE SOUND, BUT NOT TOO MUCH IN ORDER TO PRESERVE THE VINTAGE AUDIO CHARACTERISTICS OF HANDS-DOWN THE MOST LEGENDARY RECORDING IN HUMAN HISTORY. 

THIS IS THE RECORD THAT GAVE BIRTH TO ROCK & ROLL. 

NOTE: THE A-SIDE IS HAND-DATED WITH THE CATALOG NUMBER, ARTIST NAME AND TITLE. THIS INFO IS COVERED IN THE LAST PHOTO TO PREVENT BOOTLEGGERS. THIS IS THE REAL THING!

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FULL STORY FROM ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE:

In January, the first recording by Elvis Presley – a 1953 acetate disc featuring “My Happiness” and “That’s When Your Heartaches Begin” – sold at auction for $300,000 to “an undisclosed buyer.” It turns out the secret purchaser wasn’t just any deep-pocketed Elvis fan: Jack White has revealed that it was his winning bid that landed the 10-inch recording, and that he plans to reissue the single on vinyl for this coming Record Store Day.

Billboard details how a mysterious man with a black briefcase accompanied the “My Happiness” single from Memphis to the Third Man Records headquarters in Nashville, where White told employees about the record’s history and his plans to reissue it on Record Store Day. Recorded by an 18-year-old Presley on July 18th, 1953 at Sam Phillips’ Memphis Recording Service for $4, the one-copy-only pressing was given to Elvis’ friend Ed Leek; over 60 years later, it was Leek’s daughter who auctioned off the recording, which White secretly purchased.

White will go through painstaking details in order to recreate the original 1953 10-inch 78rpm disc, “from reproducing the typewritten labels (printed on the reverse of extra Prisonaires labels that happened to be laying around Sun Records in July 1953) to being packaged in a plain, nondescript, of-the-era sleeve, the utmost attention to detail has been paid in order to create an object so close to the historic original as to almost be indistinguishable from one other.” The limited edition reproductions will arrive on Record Store Day, April 18th. Later in the year, Third Man will release a widely available version of Presley’s single with newly restored sound. “Working from a transfer done by industry expert Alan Stoker at the Country Music Hall of Fame, the audio will be as clean as modern technology can make it without losing the feeling and soul that makes these two songs both haunting and breath-taking,” Third Man writes.

CONDITION: LOOKS MINT. MUST HAVE ONLY BEEN PLAYED BETWEEN 1 & 3 TIMES IF THAT TO TEST. IT'S VERY SHINY.

FULL INSURANCE PAID BY BUYER:THIS IS A GLOBAL AUCTION AND WILL ONLY SHIP VIA FEDEX WITH FULL INSURANCE PAID BUY WINNING BIDDER.INSURANCE COST WILL BE ADDED TO THE FINAL WINNING BID PRICE AND WILL APPEAR ADDED TO THE SHIPPING COST.

"THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH." –ELVIS