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Digitally remastered by Joe Lopes (September 1988, RCA Recording Studios, New York). In 1959, Elvis was in the middle of his two-year military stint. RCA Records, with no fresh material to offer Presley's public, cleaned out its vaults to come up with the material for two albums, FOR LP FANS ONLY and A DATE WITH ELVIS. Tracks for these albums were drawn from Elvis' early Sun recordings, songs from movie soundtracks, and extended play singles. Despite the circumstances under which they were created they are remarkable albums, if only for the fact that they exposed the general public to a number of Presley's seminal 1954 and 1955 Sun recordings for the first time: these recordings would not appear together on a single non-bootleg release until 1975's SUN SESSIONS. A DATE WITH ELVIS includes some of the best Sun material (unfortunately 'enhanced' by RCA with added reverb), including "Blue Moon of Kentucky," "Baby Let's Play House," and "Good Rockin' Tonight." Also among the tracks are the gospel song "We're Gonna Move," "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care," and from the "Jailhouse Rock" soundtrack, "I Want to Be Free." Like many albums of its time, A DATE WITH ELVIS is extremely short, clocking in at just over 23 minutes.
