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Elvis Presley
A rare page of lyrics in Elvis Presley's hand for Blue Jean Bop, circa 1959, the words and music for the song credited by Presley to Gene Vincent, the arrangement details however credited by Elvis to himself ..add. arrangements Elvis Presley, the twenty-two lines in blue ink showing a number of deletions and amendments, the up-tempo song Blue jean baby with your big blue eyes don't like you lookin' at other guys Gotta make you give me one more chance but I can't stand still so I wanna dance Blue jean baby thats the bop for me... annotated with guitar and piano accompaniment details including [Guitar break E.P.] - Piano break [E.Dad] inscribed after three lines of the chorus ..You flip your hip, free your knee wheel on you heel, babe 1.2.3. Blue jean bop is the bop that just wont stop.., a further instruction and signature ..Quick stay fade out E.P, Elvis Presley scoured out at the foot of the page, the lyrics in common mount with a black and white machine-print photograph of Elvis playing guitar whilst in the U.S. army -- 10 3/8x9in. (26.4x22.8cm.), overall measurements -- 15¾x22¾in. (40x63cm.) framed; and a letter concerning the provenance from Andy Schröer author of Private Elvis -- The Missing Years 1958-1960 attached to the reverse and visible through an opening at the back of the frame

来源

Andy Schröer obtained these lyrics from Mrs Pieper, Elvis Presley's landlady in Germany who rented her house to the Presleys at Goethestrasse 14, Bad Nauheim, Germany in 1959 during Elvis' army service.

出版

STAMBLER,I The Encycolpedia of Pop, Rock & Soul, London: Macmillan, 1989, p.720

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See colour illustration p.

拍品专文

These lyrics and the two sets sold through these rooms on June 6th, 1996 and May 29th, 1997 came from Presley's personal notebook which he left behind in Germany with his landlady when he returned to the States in 1960. Elvis apparently used to rehearse in the living room of the house he rented from Mrs Pieper, and it would appear from the annotations on these lyrics that at times his father accompanied him on their hired piano, whilst Presley played the guitar.

Bluejean Bop! was a hit for Gene Vincent in 1956. Presley never actually recorded this song or any other Vincent number. Capitol Records found Gene Vincent when he won a talent contest they had sponsored in their search for a counterpart to RCA's new star, Elvis. The two young singers were clearly comparable in 1956 for apparently when Elvis' mother Gladys Presley first heard Vincent's debut record Be-Bop-a-Lula on the radio at the time of it's release she congratulated her son on his new hit!