An American Trilogy / The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 

Modified: October 31, 2012

Artist: Elvis Presley
Release: RCA Victor 74-0672 An American Trilogy / The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (45)
Release Date: 4/4/1972

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Cover: (4/1972) picture sleeve front and back.

From ELVIS’ “Standing Room Only” Album for summer release is the advertisement in the bottom strip of the cover for the song An American Trilogy. This album was not released until 37 years later, in 2009 by Follow That Dream (“FTD”) Records.

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Disc: Yellow label, NOT FOR SALE. On the THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE side, Vocal accomp. by on one line and The Nashville Edition and on one line. On the AN AMERICAN TRILOGY side, Pub. Inc., on own line and BMI on own line.1

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Disc: (4/1972) Orange label. On the THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE side, Vocal accomp. by on one line and The Nashville Edition and on one line. On the AN AMERICAN TRILOGY side, Pub. Inc., on own line and BMI on own line.2
Matrix numbers: BPKS-1147-5S A5 / APKS-1255-5S A2 (Indianapolis pressing)3

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Disc: (4/1972) Orange label. On the THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE side, Vocal accomp. by The Nashville Edition on one line. On the AN AMERICAN TRILOGY side, Pub. Inc., BMI on shared line.
Matrix numbers: BPKS-1147-6S-A2A / APKS-1255-6S-A1E (hand etched) (Rockaway pressing)

  1. Images from a collection of Internet images that date back to 1998. ↩
  2. Images from the collection of Roberto. ↩
  3. Matrix numbers from the collection of Roberto. ↩