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50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong
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Greatest hits album by Elvis Presley
Released November 13, 1959
Recorded September 1956 – June 1958
Genre Rock and roll, pop
Label RCA Victor
Producer Steve Sholes
Elvis Presley chronology
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50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong: Elvis' Gold Records – Volume 2 is the ninth album by Elvis Presley, issued by RCA Victor (LPM 2075) in November 1959. It is a compilation of hit singles released in 1958 and 1959 by Presley, from two recording sessions in June 1958 at RCA Studios in Nashville and three at Radio Recorders in Hollywood. The album peaked at number 31 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart.[1] It was certified Gold on November 1, 1966 and Platinum on March 27, 1992 by the Recording Industry Association of America.[2]

Content

Gold Records Vol. 2 comprises every single, both A-sides and B-sides, released by Presley during 1958 and 1959, with the exception of "Hard Headed Woman" backed with "Don't Ask Me Why," both of which having been previously issued on King Creole. The singles all made the Top Five on the Billboard Hot 100, and the b-sides all charted in the Top 40 independently of the hit sides. In the 1950s, a gold record awarded for a single referred to sales of one million dollars gross to the company, different from the definition in use by the late 1970s for albums, where a gold record came to mean shipped sales of 500,000 units. Exact sales figures from the RIAA for each record, however, are difficult to confirm.

The original 1984 compact disc issue in reprocessed (fake) stereo sound was quickly withdrawn and reissued in original monophonic. The July 15, 1997 reissue doubles the number of tracks to 20, adding the b-side "Playing for Keeps" from a single issued on Elvis' first singles compilation. The remaining bonus tracks derive from albums and EP singles released in the decade, with "Peace in the Valley" released on both EP and Elvis' Christmas Album. The bonus tracks are interspersed within the original tracks, with the running order to the album substantially altered. The album was reissued again with the bonus tracks removed and the original running order restored.

Although RCA executive Steve Sholes was the in-house A&R man for Presley, and nominally in charge of his recording sessions at RCA, accounts by Presley historian Peter Guralnick and Presley discographer Ernst Mikael Jorgensen indicate that Presley himself acted as the producer for his RCA sessions in the 1950s.

The unified Billboard Hot 100 singles chart was not created until August, 1958. Chart positions for records prior to this date would be taken from the "Best Sellers In Stores" chart, although early measurement of rock and roll records also came from the "Most Played In Jukeboxes" chart. Chart position for bonus album tracks taken from Billboard Top Pop Albums.

Homage

The famous cover photo, of multiple images of Elvis wearing the gold lamé suit designed by Nudie's of Hollywood,[3] has been copied many times. Album covers so inspired include:

The meme has also been adopted to other media, such as:

  • The 1982 bootleg Elvis' Greatest Shit, a compilation of tracks and out-takes that the bootlegger considered among Presley's worst recordings, is subtitled "50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can Be Wrong".
  • The second album by the group Dread Zeppelin, which is fronted by an Elvis impersonator, from 1991 is titled 5,000,000 in reference to this album; the footnote says "Tortelvis Fans Can't Be Wrong." The cover more obviously parodies Led Zeppelin's fourth album.
  • The title used verbatim in the lyrics to "The Thanksgiving Song", by Adam Sandler in 1993.
  • The 1997 documentary by Joe Franklin 50,000,000 Joe Franklin Fans Can't Be Wrong.
  • Marilyn Manson's 1998 book The Long Hard Road Out of Hell contains a chapter entitled "Fifty Million Screaming Christians Can't Be Wrong".[4]
  • Mindless Self Indulgence's song "You'll Rebel To Anything" from their 2005 album of the same name contains the lyrics, "you're telling me that 50,000,000 screaming fans are never wrong, I'm telling you that 50,000,000 screaming fans are fucking morons".
  • Die! Die! Die!'s self-titled debut features a song named "Franz (17 Die! Die! Die! Fans Can't Be Wrong)" in 2006.
  • Stephen Pastis, author of comic strip Pearls Before Swine, released a collection in 2010 titled "50,000,000 Pearls Fans Can't Be Wrong."
  • In 2013, the band Supersuckers released a free digital EP entitled 50,000 Middle Fingers Can't Be Wrong.[5]
  • Doc Yewll references this album while talking with T'evgin in the Defiance 3rd season episode, The Last Unicorns.

Title meanings

The cover to Welcome to New York, a 1970s Rolling Stones bootleg, is a cartoon by William Stout, showing the Stones against a graffitied wall which includes the phrase "50,000,000 flies can't be wrong - eat shit!"

The title is itself a reference to the hit song of 1927, "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong", by Willie Raskin, Billy Rose, and Fred Fisher, most notably performed by Sophie Tucker. It is also supposed to be an estimate of the number of singles that Presley sold worldwide by late 1959.

Its evolution of the phrase into a snowclone – as expressed in the Simpsons pastiche "Fifty million smokers can't be wrong," for example – ironically ridicules argumentum ad populum, the misconception that popularity or consensus equals validity.

Track listing

Chart positions for LPs and EPs from Billboard Top Pop Albums chart; positions for singles from Billboard Pop Singles chart

Original release

Side one
No. Song title Writer(s) Recorded Catalogue Release date Chart peak Time
1. 0"I Need Your Love Tonight" Bix Reichner and Sid Wayne June 10, 1958 47-7506b March 10, 1959 4 2:04
2. 0"Don't" Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller September 6, 1957 47-7150 January 7, 1958 1 2:48
3. 0"Wear My Ring Around Your Neck" Bert Carroll and Moody Russell February 1, 1958 47-7240 April 1, 1958 2 2:13
4. 0"My Wish Came True" Ivory Joe Hunter September 6, 1957 47-7600b June 23, 1959 12 2:33
5. 0"I Got Stung" David Hill and Aaron Schroeder June 11, 1958 47-7410b October 21, 1958 8 1:49
Side two
No. Song title Writer(s) Recorded Catalogue Release date Chart peak Time
1. 0"One Night" Dave Bartholomew, Pearl King, Anita Steiman February 23, 1957 47-7410 October 21, 1958 4 2:29
2. 0"A Big Hunk O' Love" Aaron Schroeder and Sidney Wyche June 10, 1958 47-7600 June 23, 1959 1 2:12
3. 0"I Beg of You" Rose Marie McCoy and Cliff Owens February 23, 1957 47-7150b January 7, 1958 8 1:50
4. 0"(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such As I" Bill Trader June 10, 1958 47-7506 March 10, 1959 2 2:36
5. 0"Doncha' Think It's Time" Luther Dixon and Clyde Otis February 1, 1958 47-7240b April 1, 1958 15 1:54

1997 reissue with bonus tracks

No. Song title Writer(s) Recorded Catalogue Release date Chart peak Time
1. 0"A Big Hunk O' Love" Aaron Schroeder and Sidney Wyche June 10, 1958 47-7600 June 23, 1959 1 2:12
2. 0"My Wish Came True" Ivory Joe Hunter September 6, 1957 47-7600b June 23, 1959 12 2:33
3. 0"(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such As I" Bill Trader June 10, 1958 47-7506 March 10, 1959 2 2:36
4. 0"I Need Your Love Tonight" Bix Reichner and Sid Wayne June 10, 1958 47-7506b March 10, 1959 4 2:04
5. 0"Don't" Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller September 6, 1957 47-7150 January 7, 1958 1 2:48
6. 0"I Beg of You" Rose Marie McCoy and Cliff Owens February 23, 1957 47-7150b January 7, 1958 8 1:50
7. 0"Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me)" Aaron Schroeder and Claude DeMetrius September 7, 1957 LOC 1035 October 15, 1957 1 1:54
8. 0"Santa Claus Is Back In Town" Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller September 7, 1957 LOC 1035 October 15, 1957 1 2:22
9. 0"Party" Jessie Mae Robinson January 21, 1957 LPM 1515 July 1, 1957 1 1:26
10. 0"Paralyzed" Otis Blackwell and Elvis Presley September 2, 1956 LPM 1382 October 19, 1956 1 2:23
11. 0"One Night" Dave Bartholomew, Pearl King February 23, 1957 47-7410 October 21, 1958 4 2:29
12. 0"I Got Stung" David Hill and Aaron Schroeder June 11, 1958 47-7410b October 21, 1958 8 1:49
13. 0"King Creole" Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller January 23, 1958 LPM 1884 September 19, 1958 2 2:08
14. 0"Wear My Ring Around Your Neck" Bert Carroll and Moody Russell February 1, 1958 47-7240 April 1, 1958 2 2:13
15. 0"Don'cha Think It's Time" Luther Dixon and Clyde Otis February 1, 1958 47-7240b April 1, 1958 15 1:54
16. 0"Mean Woman Blues" Claude DeMetrius January 13, 1957 LPM 1515 July 1, 1957 1 2:15
17. 0"Playing for Keeps" Stan Kesler September 1, 1956 47-6800b January 4, 1957 21 2:50
18. 0"Hard Headed Woman" Claude DeMetrius January 15, 1958 47-7280 June 10, 1958 1 1:53
19. 0"Got a Lot o' Livin' to Do" Aaron Schroeder and Ben Weisman January 12, 1957 LPM 1515 July 1, 1957 1 2:31
20. 0"(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley (For Me)" Thomas A. Dorsey January 13, 1957 EPA 4054 April 1, 1957 3 3:22

Follow That Dream re-issue

Disc 1 Disc 2
LP Masters:
No. Title Length
1. "I Need Your Love Tonight"   2:04
2. "Don't"   2:43
3. "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck"   2:13
4. "My Wish Came True"   2:33
5. "I Got Stung"   1:49
6. "One Night"   2:32
7. "A Big Hunk O’ Love" (splice 3/4) 2:12
8. "I Beg Of You"   1:53
9. "(Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I"   2:36
10. "Doncha’ Think It’s Time" (splice 40/39 – LP version) 1:54
Bonus Masters:
No. Title Length
11. "Your Cheatin’ Heart"   2:24
12. "Ain’t That Loving You Baby"   2:22
13. "Doncha’ Think It’s Time" (splice 47/40/48 - original single master) 1:54
February 1958 Session:
No. Title Length
14. "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck" (undubbed) 2:13
15. "Your Cheatin’ Heart" (alternate take 9) 2:24
16. "Doncha’ Think It’s Time" (take 39) 1:54
17. "Doncha’ Think It’s Time" (take 40) 1:57
18. "Doncha’ Think It’s Time" (take 47) 1:55
19. "Doncha’ Think It’s Time" (take 48) 1:54
June 1958 Sessions:
No. Title Length
20. "A Big Hunk O’ Love" (take 1, pb)  
21. "A Big Hunk O’ Love" (take 2, pb)  
22. "A Big Hunk O’ Love" (take 3, pb)  
23. "A Big Hunk O’ Love" (take 4, pb)  
24. "Ain’t That Loving You Baby" (take 1, pb)  
25. "Ain’t That Loving You Baby" (take 2, lfs)  
26. "Ain’t That Loving You Baby" (take 3, fs)  
27. "Ain’t That Loving You Baby" (take 4, m)  
28. "Ain’t That Loving You Baby" (take 5, fs)  
29. "Ain’t That Loving You Baby" (take 6, lfs)  
30. "Ain’t That Loving You Baby" (take 7, lfs)  
31. "Ain’t That Loving You Baby" (take 8, lfs)  
32. "Ain’t That Loving You Baby" (take 9, lfs)  
33. "Ain’t That Loving You Baby" (take 10, lfs)  
34. "Ain’t That Loving You Baby" (take 11, lfs)  
June 1958 Sessions:
No. Title Length
1. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 1, lfs, starts with part of demo)  
2. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 2, fs)  
3. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 3, fs)  
4. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 4, pb)  
5. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 5, pb)  
6. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 6, incomplete)  
7. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 7, pb)  
8. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 8, incomplete)  
9. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 9, pb)  
10. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 10a, pb)  
11. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 10b, incomplete)  
12. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 11, lfs)  
13. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 12, fs)  
14. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 13, pb)  
15. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 14, pb)  
16. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 15, pb)  
17. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 16, lfs)  
18. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 17, fs)  
19. "I Need Your Love Tonight" (take 18, m)  
20. "(Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I" (take 1, Fs)  
21. "(Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I" (take 2, Fs)  
22. "(Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I" (take 3, Pb)  
23. "(Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I" (take 4, Fs)  
24. "(Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I" (take 5, Pb)  
25. "(Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I" (take 6, Fs)  
26. "(Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I" (take 7, Fs)  
27. "(Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I" (take 8, Pb)  
28. "(Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I" (take 9, M)  
29. "I Got Stung" (take 1, lfs)  
30. "I Got Stung" (take 2, fs)  
31. "I Got Stung" (take 3, lfs)  
32. "I Got Stung" (take 4, fs)  
33. "I Got Stung" (take 5, fs)  
34. "I Got Stung" (take 6, fs)  
35. "I Got Stung" (take 7, fs)  
36. "I Got Stung" (take 8, pb)  
37. "I Got Stung" (take 9, fs)  
38. "I Got Stung" (take 10, pb)  
39. "I Got Stung" (take 11, pb)  
40. "I Got Stung" (take 12, pb)  
41. "I Got Stung" (take 13 fs, fs)  
42. "I Got Stung" (take 14, pb)  
43. "I Got Stung" (take 15, lfs)  
44. "I Got Stung" (take 16, pb)  
45. "I Got Stung" (take 17, fs)  
46. "I Got Stung" (take 18, lfs)  
47. "I Got Stung" (take 20, pb)  
48. "I Got Stung" (take 21, fs)  
49. "I Got Stung" (take 22, pb)  
50. "I Got Stung" (take 23, lfs)  
51. "I Got Stung" (take 24, m)  
Elvis Sails EP:
No. Title Length
52. "Press Interview With Elvis Presley" (At Brooklyn Army Terminal) 5:26
53. "Elvis Presley's Newsreel Interview"   2:20
54. "Pat Hernon Interviews Elvis" (In the Library of the U.S.S. Randall at Sailing) 2:15

References

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  3. ↑ Beard, Tyler. (2001). 100 Years of Western Wear, p. 72. Gibbs Smith, Salt Lake City. ISBN 0-87905-591-X.
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