ACL-7007 Frankie and Johnny 

Modified: March 3, 2015

Artist: Elvis Presley
Release: Pickwick Records ACL-7007 Frankie and Johnny (LP)
Release Date: 1976

The copyright on the back of the cover reads 1975. Presleyana VII “1 and other price guides dates this release in 1976. However, there are two indicators that this may have been released in late 1977. Two copies of the record have the dates written into the trail-off area, 8/77 and 11/77. Another indicator is a published discography2 from 1976 covering Elvis records through May 1976 and with an introduction dated December 1976 does not list this title. Although these are logical indicators that the album was released in 1977, no concrete evidence has been presented to suggest 1976 is not the correct date. A collector has a specific memory of this release as being 1976 as it coincided with Hurt / For the Heart.3 A copy has 2/76 in the trail-off was found on eBay 4

Track Listings: (click here to expand / collapse)

Side 1

Frankie and Johnny
Come Along
What Every Woman Lives For
Hard Luck
Please Don’t Stop Loving Me

Side 2

Down By The Riverside / When The Saints Go Marching In
Petunia, the Gardner’s Daughter
Beginner’s Luck
Shout It Out

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Cover Front: Pickwick logo upper left corner. Catalog number upper right corner.
Cover Back: Catalog number upper left corner. Pickwick info bottom center. May have a “4” next to Elvis’ knee bottom right picture.

This compilation is reorganized and omits three tracks from the original release: Chesay, Everybody Come Aboard, and Look Out, Broadway.

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Disc: Black label. Rainbow swirl around center hole. Pickwick on top. No address on top. Warning below the rainbow swirl.

Matrix numbers
Side 1: AKACL-7007A 2 / Side 2: AKAVL-7007B 1
Side 1: ACL-7007A / Side 2: ACL-7007B 2/7646

Disc: Black label. Rainbow swirl around center hole. Pickwick on top. No address on top. No warning below the rainbow swirl. (unconfirmed)
Disc: Black label. Rainbow swirl around center hole. Pickwick on top. Address on top. Warning below the rainbow swirl.7

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Disc: Black label. Rainbow swirl around center hole. No Pickwick on top or Camden on bottom. Warning below the rainbow swirl.

Matrix numbers
Side 1: ACL-7007-A 1-1-11 @PA 8-77 / Side 2: ACL-7007-B-M (TM) Rd 8/77 1-1 (unknown pressing W PRC)

Inner Sleeve
Generic white, generic Pickwick or none.

Originally released as LSP-3553 Frankie and Johnny and in monaural as LPM-3553 Frankie and Johnny in 1966.

  1. Jerry Osborne, Presleyana VII (Port Townsend: Osborne Enterprises, 2012), p. 157. ↩
  2. Barry, Ron. The Elvis Presley American Discography. Phillipsburg, NJ: Spectator Service, Maxigraphics, 1976. ↩
  3. Detail provided by Greg A. ↩
  4. eBay reference 261783663721 (February 22, 2015) ↩
  5. eBay reference 261783663721 (February 22, 2015) ↩
  6. Details from the collection of Samuel K. ↩
  7. eBay reference 380378560338 (November 4, 2011) ↩