Elvis Presley Blue Suede Shoes (1956)

Elvis first album was rapidly assembled to capitalize on the gathering success of the single. The album included three tracks from the Nashville session, four more from a followup series in New York, and five previously unreleased Sun sides, including everything from decorative ballads like I Love You Because, Blue Moon, and Ill Never Let You Go to Trying To Get To You, which might well have been the Aside of Elvis next Sun single, had he remained with the company. It is on balance a phenomenally diverse group of songs, and while it was almost entirely ignored by the cultural mainstream, it went straight to Number One on the charts, eventually selling more than 300, 000 copies and becoming RCAs alltime bestselling album up to that time. Even the cover was an almost immediate iconic classic, showcasing a tonsilsout publicity photo that Colonel Parker had commissioned in Tampa in July 1955.