In January of 2015, 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 revealed that it was his winning bid that landed the 10-inch recording. Jack went on to commission a reissue of the single on vinyl.
This is one of the limited addition pressings.
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, non-descript, 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.
Note, this is a 10-inch 78rpm disc, so it will not on any old record player.
