I do believe that "The girl of my best friend" was released as an A side for single in 1976, and is therefore at it's place (even if it is a 1960 recording and it sounds weird in between the other songs).
The single was produced in the UK,Germany and even in Belgium.


Yep, I knew that. And I ...

Now that's pretty cool!
I guess the Finnish version was printed (coverwise/design) in lesser quantities, since it's a smaller market.
Either way, it's indeed a great good sounding set!


Agreed,it sounds good! Probably pressed using the same masters as the ones for Germany.

By the way, isn't ...

The label of the Finnish version.

Got this boxset a few years now.
The entries on Discogs are a mess and it looks like the box i have is mixed with others. (wich is not true, i bought it new).

https://www.discogs.com/master/473577-Elvis-The-Legend-Lives-On


Thank you JohanD for your post. That set is really nice,I have never ...

I bought this weird Portugese lp today from a record fair. I never knew that lp like this even existed before today

Discogs says it was released in 1986. Definitely a grey market release,nothing to do with RCA/BMG

What a great story,thank you J.R.! :) i felt like I was there with you in that store,just finding one treasure after another.:) I guess we all have those dream-comes-true collector's stories but that one is tough to beat. But I will share one of mine these days. It takes place in Arkansas of all ...

Thanks Bilbo!:Elvis seemed to be one of those artists that Bravo kept running stories about. I bought numerous issues in the 80's that had articles on Elvis and they aölways had great color photos and sometimes posters.

I think it is mentioned in the Elvis bootleg book that the tapes used by Laurel for the set were cassette copies dubbed from the mono sessions reels Vic Colonna had acquired from a former Radio Recorders engineer. Vic sent the tapes to Ger just before the FBI picked him up.


Was it so that the ...

In this post I will hand you an overview of all US labels used up to 1978 with some random examples from the photo database of my collection.

Thiank you Alexander for doing these posts and for listing the label variations. Much appreciated!

These posts were was really classic Alexander ...

Thanks Alexander for listing all of them here with images! Great to see the whole bunch.

Ah, the (bitter) sweet memories of Camdens... I sure was raised on them. Collection vol. 3 was my first Elvis lp, Return to Sender, Suspicious Minds and Heartbreak Hotel were among the first 10.

Sweet : they ...

LesterB wrote: September 19th, 2025, 11:47 am Hello all

I understand that many on this board are former FECC residents - thanks to Alexander and the London Flash for alerting me to this board.

Welcome Lester, nice to see you here!

I had the same feeling of excitement as you had Colin. Those were very good years, the late 80's and the 90's. These releases, the Double Features, Collector's Gold, etc etc. We still have to thank Ernst and his team for opening the vaults and taking care of Elvis' legacy. If it weren't for them ...

Sentimental

Movie Songs

Love Songs

Guitar Man

Elvis Gospels continued

On FECC,I posted an article about a bunch of lp's that were pressed in Sweden around 1977-81. Most of my text was based on the excellent FTD book "How RCE brought Elvis to Europe". Along the years, I have bought many of them and that collecting them all still an ongoing project of mine.

Continuing ...

Johan, I need to check if there is any indication on the dead wax of who mastered my green label HH. I'm not home right now but will back to you on that later.


Johan,I need to apologise! I don't have a green label of HH anymore. :( I checked my record collection, and it isn't there. I'm pretty ...

On the lates FTD 3cd set sessions, they redone the masters completely. It's still not what it should be, but it's milestones better then any version before (not counting the Double features).
But knowing that those newly done masters soon will turn up on this vinyl, it could be the best ...