Roy Stuart

This box features 75 Elvis songs from 1954 to 1960. These songs already existed before Elvis adopted them as his own. We collected 177 original versions of songs, which Elvis interpreted and compared them to the versions from Elvis. Both, popular songs and rarities are featured in this box. You are going to be surprised. Most of the Elvis fans do not even know that Elvis covered so many songs, he owned a huge record collection with records from various genres. Some people even think that "Blue Suede Shoes" is an Elvis song. You can also find the chart position of the American single charts from both, the original song and Elvis´ interpretation. To be on the safe side, we marked some songs with "probably" or "possibly", when the similarity is not too obvious. In some cases, it is more or less obvious that Elvis used a certain song as a draft, but we never talked to Elvis to confirm this.

This 10 CD box set features 180 original songs that would later be covered and become hits for the likes of Elvis Pressley, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Buddy Holly, Bill Haley & His Comets, Pat Boone, Johnny Cash and others. It includes classic tracks such as Chan Romero - "Hippy Hippy Shake", Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - "The Twist", Barbie Gaye - "My Boy Lollipop", Chuck Berry - "Bye Bye Johnny", Chuck Berry - "Sweet Little Sixteen", Pete Seeger - "If I Had A Hammer", Sonny Dae & His Knights - "Rock Around The Clock ", Bo Diddley - "Mona", Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys - "Blue Moon of Kentucky", Carl Perkins - "Blue Suede Shoes", Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton - "Hound Dog" and many others.

Less up-tempo, frantic and danceable - and considerably more melodic - than regular 60s Soul, the roots of SOUTHERN SOUL can be dated back to the mid-50s.This 60-track, 2-CD set comprehensively explores the birth of Southern Soul, from the point where Gospel, R&B and even rural Country began to merge.Many of the genre's biggest names are featured herein, notably Ray Charles, Bobby Bland, Sam Cooke, Ted Taylor, Ivory Joe Hunter, Brook Benton, Solomon Burke, Arthur Alexander, Irma Thomas, Johnny Adams, Little Willie John, Betty Lavette, Little Esther Phillips, etc.Also included are deep Soul cuts from James Brown, Otis Redding, Roy Brown, Ruth Brown, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, William Bell, The Tams, Barbara Lynn, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Joe Tex, etc., names perhaps more readily associated with regular R&B and/or 60s Soul.This is a unique and irresistible collection of hits and collectors' obscurities, many of the latter unavailable elsewhere on CD.

This 60th Anniversary 60-CD Deluxe Edition celebrates RCA Victor's signing of Elvis Presley-The King of rock 'n' roll. Features all of the albums Elvis recorded and RCA released in his lifetime: studio, soundtrack, and live. It also includes compilations released that featured unreleased songs or songs new to the LP format.