Elvis Presley

The Album Collection (2016)







60CD Box Set 1956-2016

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Genre: Rock, Blues, Pop, Folk, World, & Country, Stage & Screen

Style: Country, Folk



Type: Album + Compilation

Packaging: Box

Status: Official

Language: English



Labels: Legacy 88875114562 RCA 88875114562

Release Events: United Kingdom 2016-03-18

Barcode: 888751145627

Format:  60×CD

Length:  33:58:37



Box is released and promoted as a 60CD Box set containing all the RCA albums released during Elvis' lifetime, including 3 CD's of bonus material, along with Hard backed book.



CD-Numbers 16 / 17 / 24 / 25 / 29 / 30 / 32 / 35 / 36 / 41 / 45 have a Mini-Card Replica or Photo Replica from original Inserts.



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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine allmusic.com:



Back in 2010, Legacy released The Complete Elvis Presley Masters, a 30-disc box that rounded up all existing Elvis masters along with many relevant rarities; in other words, it was as complete as it could get. Six years later, Legacy covered similar ground with The Album Collection, a 60-CD box offering replications of every album Presley released during his lifetime, supplemented with three bonus discs called "From the Vaults" containing miscellaneous non-LP cuts, some released during his lifetime, some not. Bonus tracks taken from singles, sessions, and EPs are also scattered throughout, so this winds up having nearly every cut Elvis released during his lifetime (there are some alternate single versions and other strays missing, but nothing major). The trick is, Elvis Presley's discography isn't necessarily easy to navigate album by album. His earliest long players often recycled singles -- standard procedure for most pop music in the '50s but RCA relied on the practice even more once Elvis entered the Army in 1958 -- and most of the '60s was devoted to soundtracks to his movies. Even after he refocused his energies on albums in 1968, RCA issued a live album nearly every year and their budget branch, Camden, littered the market with compilations of leftovers. All of these are here, presented in handsome cardboard sleeves and accompanied by a hardcover book filled with release details, because it's not only the easiest way to get all of Elvis at once, but this is how the music was presented during his lifetime. Posthumous reissues usually cover this same music according to session order, offering collections that are often more coherent than the original albums, but listening to all the LPs does provide some revelations, particularly in regard to how Presley was presented at the time. RCA moved swiftly to push Elvis into the pop market and the product was often careless, assembled without much regard for coherence or taste (the epitome of this may be Singer Presents Elvis' "Flaming Star," a title that doesn't bother to hide its place on assembly line). That said, there's a period charm in immersing yourself in Elvis this way. You'll realize that, even at his mature peak in the late '60s and early '70s, the label cranked out nonsense like I Got Lucky -- a record with a jumpsuited Presley on the cover comprised of nothing but uncollected soundtrack tunes. Despite all of this, his music endures such crass packaging. Certainly Elvis hit some bumps along the way -- the snazzy silver screen charm of the initial soundtracks tarnishes by the mid-'60s, the early '70s live albums often play to Vegas' middle of the road -- but in each phase, Presley could achieve transcendence. By the end of this lengthy set, it's hard not to marvel at the length of his career and how well his music endures; it feels like a bedrock of the American century.







Contents:



▶CD 1: Elvis Presley

▶CD 2: Elvis

▶CD 3: Loving You

▶CD 4: Elvis’ Christmas Album

▶CD 5: Elvis’ Golden Records

▶CD 6: King Creole

▶CD 7: For LP Fans Only

▶CD 8: A Date With Elvis

▶CD 9: 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can’t Be Wrong: Elvis’ Gold Records, Volume 2

▶CD 10: Elvis Is Back!

▶CD 11: G.I. Blues

▶CD 12: His Hand in Mine

▶CD 13: Something for Everybody

▶CD 14: Blue Hawaii

▶CD 15: Pot Luck

▶CD 16: Girls! Girls! Girls!

▶CD 17: It Happened at the World’s Fair

▶CD 18: Elvis’ Golden Records, Volume 3

▶CD 19: Fun in Acapulco

▶CD 20: Kissin’ Cousins

▶CD 21: Roustabout

▶CD 22: Girl Happy

▶CD 23: Elvis for Everyone!

▶CD 24: Harum Scarum

▶CD 25: Frankie and Johnny

▶CD 26: Paradise, Hawaiian Style

▶CD 27: Spinout

▶CD 28: How Great Thou Art

▶CD 29: Double Trouble

▶CD 30: Clambake

▶CD 31: Elvis’ Golden Records, Volume 4

▶CD 32: Speedway

▶CD 33: Singer Presents Elvis Singing Flaming Star and Others

▶CD 34: Elvis (NBC TV Special)

▶CD 35: From Elvis in Memphis

▶CD 36: From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis

▶CD 37: Let’s Be Friends

▶CD 38: On Stage

▶CD 39: Almost in Love

▶CD 40: That’s the Way It Is

▶CD 41: Elvis Country “I’m 10,000 Years Old”

▶CD 42: Love Letters From Elvis

▶CD 43: C’mon Everybody

▶CD 44: I Got Lucky

▶CD 45: Elvis Sings the Wonderful World of Christmas

▶CD 46: Elvis Now

▶CD 47: He Touched Me

▶CD 48: As Recorded at Madison Square Garden

▶CD 49: Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite

▶CD 50: Elvis (Fool)

▶CD 51: Raised on Rock / For Ol’ Times Sake

▶CD 52: Good Times

▶CD 53: Elvis as Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis

▶CD 54: Promised Land

▶CD 55: Today

▶CD 56: From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee

▶CD 57: Moody Blue

▶CD 58: From the Vaults: 50’s

▶CD 59: From the Vaults: 60’s

▶CD 60: From the Vaults: 70’s







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