Track Listing

1. That's All Right
2. Blue Moon of Kentucky
3. Good Rockin' Tonight
4. I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine
5. Milkcow Blues Boogie
6. You're a Heartbreaker
7. Baby, Let's Play House
8. I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone
9. Mystery Train
10. I Forgot to Remember to Forget
11. I Love You Because
12. Blue Moon
13. Tomorrow Night
14. I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin')
15. Just Because
16. Trying to Get to You
17. Harbor Lights [Outtake]
18. I Love You Because [Take 2][Outtake]
19. That's All Right [Outtake]
20. Blue Moon of Kentucky [Outtake]
21. I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine [Outtake]
22. I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone (My Baby's Gone) [Take 9][Outtake]
23. I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin') [Outtake]
24. When It Rains, It Really Pours [Outtake]
25. I Love You Because [Take 3][Alternate Take][#]
26. I Love You Because [Take 5][Alternate Take][#]
27. I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone (My Baby's Gone) ... [Take 7]
28. I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone (My Baby's Gone) ... [Take 12]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47162 in Music
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
This is the Big Bang of rock & roll, the moments when Elvis Presley, guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black first twanged up their R&B and heated up their C&W, igniting an explosion that created the world we now inhabit. Rock & roll has never been as elemental, as jubilant or desperate, as the versions here of Arthur Crudup's "That's All Right" and Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon Of Kentucky." And just as significantly, on "I Love You Because" and "Blue Moon," The Sun Sessions include the beginnings of Elvis' earnest ballad style that would soon be nearly as influential as his creation of rockabilly. --David Cantwell

Customer Reviews

Hell, that's different!
This is a collection of Elvis Presley's Sun Records recordings. It should be pointed out that the track listing here on Amazon is not correct. They have the track listing for a CD that is a reissue of an LP from the early '70s that was the first album to compile Elvis' Sun recordings. The CD that is pictured here features all the tracks listed here, plus an additional 12 tracks. Most of the additional tracks are alternate takes of songs already on the CD. These are the most important recordings of the early days of rock and roll. Highly recommended.

the greatest record of all time
This is a good compilation of the greatest sessions ever recorded. The cd "Sunrise" gives you fewer alt. takes but instead feature live recordings.
For any musiclover interested in the development of the greatest singer ever in the history of recorded music, this is a musthave. Some of the best songs from the Sun sessions are included on the cd "Elvis Presley" but this cd includes the complete sessions beginning with "that's all right". As an interesting bonusaddition, Ernst has added the original recording of "That when your heartache beginns" which Elvis recorded as a demotape and which he recorded again four years later.
Go out and get this cd or "Sunrise".

The beginning
I'll agree with the other reviewers that Elvis was never exactly like this again, but I don't agree that he never scaled the same heights later.
In these sessions, unlike most all others, he actually created what we're hearing, turning previously recorded songs into something completely new. The result is a freshness, passion and rawness that one never tires of hearing.
To those who think it was all downhill from here, I would encourage them to listen to 'Reconsider Baby', 'One Night' or any number of other R&B masterpieces. Look at what he did with 'Jailhouse Rock': this would be a novelty song in anyone else's hands and he turns in one of the most amazing performances in rock history. Or check out the '68 TV special, where something is on the line again, and where he delivers down and dirty rock like very few others are capable of.
Unfortunately, his greatest works are buried among moutains of dross, but he was the greatest talent ever in rock, despite all that, and searching out his best moments, like this one, is to be thrilled by rock-and-roll again.