The Rocker

Nice vinyl with minor marks housed in a smart clean cover

A&R director Gregg Geller took over stewardship of the Elvis Presley catalog at RCA in time to orchestrate a series of releases marking Presley's 50th birthday (January 8, 1985). This compilation put together 12 of Presley's hottest rock & roll tracks from 1956-1957, including his versions of standards like Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally," and Carl Perkins's "Blue Suede Shoes," Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog," and numbers written for him, such as "Jailhouse Rock." Unlike the similar, but ill-fated I Was the One, which attempted to modernize '50s rock tracks with technology and overdubbing, this album was "digitally remastered from original monophonic master tapes," and it sounded great.