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1953 ACETATE 10" reproduction Vinyl Record for sale!

"MY HAPPINESS" + "THAT'S WHEN YOUR HEARTACHES BEGIN"

The condition of the record is VG/VG+, light surface hairlines.

Plays exactly like the 1953 original!

So officially released by the owner of this 1953 original, Mr. JACK WHITE, in 2015 on his THIRD MAN RECORDS label.

Elvis recorded the demo on July 18, 1953.

Released 2015 as a 100% copy of the original.

I mean, the sound, the look, the way Elvis recorded it.

Elvis' 1953 original was bought at auction for $300,000 by Mr. Jack White.

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Please read on:

On July 18, 1953, Elvis first went to the Memphis Recording Service at Sun Record Company, now commonly known as Sun Studio. He paid $3.98 to record the first of two double-sided demo acetates, "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin."

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MEMPHIS – An acetate recording of the ballad “My Happiness,” the first song Elvis Presley ever recorded, sold at auction Thursday night for $300,000.

An undisclosed Internet buyer placed the winning bid at Graceland, the museum and tourist attraction that was Presley’s former home. The auction was held on what would have been the late singer’s 80th birthday.

The 78 rpm record, with its tattered yellow label, sold for $240,000. But the total buyer’s price includes a premium of 25 percent, or $60,000, that goes to the auction house, Graceland Auctions. Bidding started at $50,000.

Other items in the auction included scarves worn by Presley at concerts, gold necklaces with the initials TCB (short for the slogan “Taking Care of Business”), prescription sunglasses made for Presley and his first driver’s license.

But the big prize was the “My Happiness” record, which is highly valued because of its place in the career of Presley, who died in Memphis in 1977. The record is playable.

Presley recorded the song in 1953 at Sun Records, the Memphis studio operated by Sam Phillips. Presley, then 18, paid $4 for the recording. As the story goes, Presley — whose family did not have a record player — left Sun and went to the home of friend Ed Leek to listen to it. But Presley left the record at Leek’s house.

Leek kept the record in a safe for six decades. After he and his wife died, their niece Lorisa Hilburn inherited it. Hilburn, of Rockledge, Fla., contacted Graceland, and it was offered for auction.

Hilburn said she did not expect the record to sell for such a large amount. She has already “splurged” on an iPad but plans to invest the rest of the $240,000, with some going to pay for college for her two sons.

“I’m very happy,” said Hilburn, who smiled widely after auctioneer Wendell Hanson banged his gavel and said “Sold!”

Before he became the “King of Rock ’n’ Roll,” Presley was a shy young man who had moved to Memphis from Tupelo, Miss., with his parents. He liked to sing and one day summoned up the courage to walk into Sun Records.

Phillips was not there that day, so Presley was helped by Phillips’ assistant, Marion Keisker. Presley sang the ballads “My Happiness,” which was the A-side of the record, and “That’s When Your Heartaches Begin,” which became side B. Both are slow-moving and stop short of suggesting a singer ready to help open the way for the emergence of rock ’n’ roll.

After the record was cut, Keisker wrote down Presley’s name and phone number and jotted a note that said he was a good ballad singer. In 1954, Presley recorded the more up-tempo “That’s All Right” at Sun Records. That song became Presley’s first hit.

The story about the “My Happiness” recording is told to visitors who take the tour of Sun Records, now a museum. Along with Presley, Phillips also recorded music legends Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins at Sun.

Before the auction, fans of Presley gathered outside Graceland in sub-freezing temperatures for a cake-cutting ceremony. Priscilla Presley, who was married to the singer, and their daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, attended the morning event.

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On 15-Sep-24 at 00:03:03 BST, seller added the following information:

{Update for UK buyers} I had to go to Germany, so I'll post the ELVIS record from here. FREE. Only it can take little longer to receive it.. THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDING! :)