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Elvis Sings The Wonderful World Of Christmas (first pressing)

 
Three panel fold-out digipak

Title:		Elvis Sings The Wonderful World Of Christmas
Label:		Follow That Dream (FTD)
Catalog number:		506020-975031 Sony Mucic Entertainment
Matrix:		CD 1: IFPI L551 d:centia FTD102 A0101872544-0102 11 A00  IFPI 94V4 CD 2: IFPI L555 d:centia FTD102 A0101872548-0202 15 A00  IFPI 94V6
GTIN:		5060209750316
Release date:		12/2011
Playing time:		65:57 / 65:40
Recording type:		Studio recordings and outtakes
Location::		RCA's Studio B, Nashville
Date:		May 15, 16 & June 10, 1971
Track listing:		Disc 1 The Original Album 01 O Come, All Ye Faithful 02:50 02 The First Noel 02:13 03 On A Snowy Christmas Night 02:51 04 Winter Wonderland 02:20 05 The Wonderful World Of Christmas 02:00 06 It Won't Seem Like Christmas 02:45 07 I'll Be Home On Christmas Day 03:51 08 If I Get Home On Christmas Day 02:55 09 Holly Leaves And Christmas Trees 02:15 10 Merry Christmas Baby 05:46 11 Silver Bells 02:32   Bonus Songs   12 I'll Be Home On Christmas Day (remake master) 03:49         First Takes   13 It Won't Seem Like Christmas (takes 1-3) 04:36 14 If I Get Home On Christmas Day (take 1) 03:37 15 I'll Be Home On Christmas Day (takes 1-3) 07:53 16 Holly Leaves And Christmas Trees (takes 1,2) 03:13 17 Silver Bells (takes 1,2) 04:41 18 I'll Be Home On Christmas Day (remake - takes 1,2) 05:50                     DISC 2     01 I'll Be Home On Christmas Day (take 4) 04:57 02 If I Get Home On Christmas Day (takes 2,3) 03:51 03 Holly Leaves And Christmas Trees (take 3) 02:26 04 I'll Be Home On Christmas Day (remake take 3) 04:23 05 It Won't Seem Like Christmas (takes 4,5) 03:03 06 O Come, All Ye Faithful (take 2) 04:28 07 If I Get Home On Christmas Day (take 5) 02:59 08 The Lord's Prayer 03:01 09 I'll Be Home On Christmas Day (takes 5,6) 04:26 10 Holly Leaves And Christmas Trees (take 4) 02:35 11 It Won't Seem Like Christmas (take 6) 03:13 12 Merry Christmas Baby (take 1, unedited version) 08:28 13 I'll Be Home On Christmas Day (takes 4-9) 07:24 14 If I Get Home On Christmas Day (take 7) 02:56 15 Holly Leaves And Christmas Trees (takes 5-8) 03:38 16 Winter Wonderland (takes 7,8) 03:52
Notes:		This is a special collector edition housed in a 7" (17,5 cm) triple-fold-out cover. Includes a 12 pages booklet. Other known matrix: CD 1: IFPI L551 d:centia FTD102 A0101872544-0102 11 A01 IFPI 94K7 CD 2: IFPI L555 d:centia FTD102 A0101872548-0202 15 A01 IFPI 94K8
Liner notes:		It may be surprising that RCA had placed a new Christmas album an the top of their priority list for the sessions Elvis was to undertake in March 1971. With Elvis' new found success and credibility, starting with the NBC TV special, the legendary Memphis recordings, the return to live performances, and most recently the brilliant and critically acclaimed THAT'S THE WAY IT IS and ELVIS COUNTRY albums, it seems the last thing Elvis needed was a Christmas album. But in reality, maybe the most surprising element was that RCA hadn't been bombarding Elvis with such a request many years earlier. By early 1971 the original 1957 Christmas album was very close to sales of two million copies in the US alone, and a scaled down version released the previous year on the budget-priced Camden label, was on to a promising start and would eventually become Elvis' biggest selling album, with more than 10 million copies certified by the RIAA. As for credibility and success, Elvis had taken a dive between RCA's request and the actual release of ELVIS SINGS THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF CHRISTMAS (4 consecutive singles that didn't make the top 30, and lukewarm reviews of the preceding album LOVE LETTERS FROM ELVIS), but when the Christmas album came out in October of that year, it proved RCA right with US sales of more than three million copies over the next decades, with several additional millions to all the tracks as they were re-released on Christmas compilations one after die other. In the early 1970s, Christmas albums weren't listed on Billboard's pop album charts, but on its special Christmas album chart it peaked at # 2 in 1971, and topped the chart in both 1972 and 1973.

Elvis Sings The Wonderful World Of Christmas (second pressing)

 
Three panel fold-out digipak

Title:		Elvis Sings The Wonderful World Of Christmas
Label:		Follow That Dream (FTD)
Catalog number:		506020-975031 Sony Mucic Entertainment
Matrix:		CD 1: IFPI L553 d:centia FTD102 A0101872544-0102 33 A00 IFPI 94K4 CD 2: IFPI L554 d:centia FTD102 A0101872548-0202 24 A00 IFPI 946P
GTIN:		5060209750316
Release date:		2019 (?)
Playing time:		65:57 / 65:40
Recording type:		Studio recordings and outtakes
Location::		RCA's Studio B, Nashville
Date:		May 15, 16 & June 10, 1971
Track listing:		Same content as on the first release.
Notes:		No seen differences in the print to the 1st issue.