Elvis Presley Jerry Osborne's Rockin' Records Special Elvis Edition

Magazine - 32 pages - english - b/w - numbered edition!
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INTRODUCTORY NOTES
This Rockin' Records Special Elvis Edition fulfills two needs that a flood of Elvis record collectors have been writing and calling us about.

FIRST: Record collectors and dealers who don't get involved in anything other than Elvis collectibles asked about the possibility of a separate guide, one that would contain all of the Elvis infor-mation that appears in Rockin' Records Reference Book & Price Guide, but without the information on other artists. Not only does this special edition contain all of the important Elvis data, exactly as prepared and printed in Rockin' Records, but the increased amount of space allows for larger type to be used, making this guide even easier to use. Naturally, it is also more convenient to carry with you when you go 'record hunting.' Noteworthy also is the savings to the Elvis collector, with this edi-tion priced considerably lower than the huge Rockin' Records.

SECOND: In the three years since the last Osborne Elvis guide, Presleyana Second Edition, a tremendous amount of new Elvis material has appeared. Surprisingly, a great deal of the newly discovered Elvis record collectibles are older releases. Some are even from the fifties! There has also been a great deal of recently issued product, most in conjunction with the Elvis 50th Anniver-sary Celebration. Everyone has been wanting all of this new information and no one wanted to wait until 1987, when our giant Elvis Collectors Guidebook is due, marking the 10th Anni-versary of the King's passing. This Special Collectors' Edition will surely satisfy both of these needs.

The Rockin' Records price guide format is one that was carefully devised to provide for the inclusion of over 100,000 records by thousands of pop and rock artists. It also enables us to include every type of recording in one multi- purpose guidebook: 7-Inch 45rpm singles, both 33rpm and 45rpm; 78rpm singles; 12-Inch singles, both 33rpm and 45rpm; Extended Play EPs; Long Play LPs, 10- Inch and 12-Inch; Compact Discs and more. The format is structured, under the artist heading, alphabetically by LABEL rather than by title. Listings for each label (which are mostly RCA Victor in the Elvis section) appear in numerical order! In many instances, listings that are numerical by catalog number are also chronological in sequence of release, but there are also many times where this isn't true. Since the year of release is also provided for each listing, the reader knows imme-diately the pattern being followed by the label at the time. 

The numerical listings generally utilize only that portion of the catalog number that designates that particular issue. Therefore, letter and number prefixes are not used UNLESS it is absolutely necessary to distinguish one release from another (such as an LSP album being reissued with an AFL1 prefix but with the same catalog number). This means that to locate RCA Victor 47-6357, look up only 6357. Finding EPA-994 requires looking for 994. SPS 33-347 will be found as 347. When you can only think of the title of the Elvis record you wish to locate in the guide, and the disc is not available to pick up a number from, refer to the handy TITLES/CATALOG NUM-BERS INDEX. This chapter preceeds the actual record listings section.

 Look for the title in either of the three catagories, Sin-gles, EPs or LPs, and you'll instantly know the original catalog number followed by any and all reissues. You then know exactly where to find the information you seek. The TITLES/CATALOG NUMBERS INDEX also represents the first time in print for this very useful compilation of recording information. Without a doubt, this chapter will provide an excel-lent addition to your Elvis library, apart from its usefulness within the confines of this edition.

Listing and pricing so many releases in Rockin' Records has forced us to economize on space, resulting in the listing of individual titles WHENEVER NECESSARY but not in those instances where it's possible to group a number of equally valuable releases together on one line. Again, ANYTIME we find it necessary to give a separate listing to a record in order to clearly and accurately present the information, we will do it. Because of its many complexities, the Elvis section does, in fact, require a tremendous amount of individual title separation.