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RCA LPM-1515 Loving You (Elvis Presley)
Posted by megocollector
The July 1957 release of Elvis Presley’s Loving You album was in monaural only with catalog number LPM-1515. The album charted on the Billboard album chart for 29 weeks and spent 10 weeks at number one. The monaural issues were reissued throughout the 1960s up until 1968.
Many guides depict variations in record labels, but there is very little information for collectors to reference when it comes to the covers, particularly the backs.
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By the Late 1960’s record labels were making the transition from monaural to stereo releases. RCA began phasing out the monaural album releases sometime around 1968. These releases were generally released as LPM for Long Play Monaural and LSP for Long-Playing Stereo Popular. In some cases, albums were released only as LPM, in the remaining cases the LPM releases were released in more limited runs than their LSP counterparts. Thee may be cases where the LSP release may not have a LPM counterpart. For collectors, the albums beginning with the prefix LPM-3900 and LPM-4xxx are highly collectible.
The August 1958 release of Elvis Presley’s King Creole was in monaural only with catalog number LPM-1884. The stereo release did not come to light until February 1962 as LSP-1884. Various guides have depicted the use of the same front cover from 1962 to as late as 1971. The back had a couple of changes, throughout the years. I have researched this cover in depth for only a short period of time and have uncovered as many as six distinctively unique back covers and two covers throughout this same period. There is even variations from transition to the new 1971 front cover used through to 1977. This transition uses the new front cover, however, with older back covers. For what can be certain is that not all cover variations have been accounted. As I continue to monitor this record, updates will be available as often as needed. Since collecting Elvis records can get expensive at times, I may resort to current and past sales of King Creole for images to fill in the blanks until I can upgrade the images.
Early Elvis Presley releases on the RCA Victor label either had the generic paper inner sleeve featuring the RCA Victor logo or I have seen LPM-1254 with the rice paper inner sleeve. In the late 1950’s, RCA inner sleeves depicted various releases from various artists including a few sleeves with Elvis releases. By 1959, Elvis records contained inner sleeves featuring the Elvis Presley catalog. This format would last throughout the rest of Elvis’ career.
