LPM-1515 Loving You 

Modified: May 6, 2022

Artist: Elvis Presley
Release: RCA Victor LPM-1515 Loving You (LP)
Release Date: 7/1/1957

Track Listings: (click here to expand / collapse)

Side 1

Mean Woman Blues
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
Loving You
Got A Lot O’ Livin’ To Do
Lonesome Cowboy
Hot Dog
Party

(All the above songs are from “Loving You”)

Side 2

Blueberry Hill
True Love
Don’t Leave Me Now
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
I Need You So

(None of the above songs are from “Loving You”)

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Cover Front: RCA Victor logo and number at upper right. Photo: Bud Fraker lower left corner. Copyright RCA and Printed in U.S.A. lower right corner. (7/1957)
Cover Back: Catalog number upper right corner and lower left corner. Printed in U.S.A. lower right corner. Copyright bottom center. “New Orthophonic” and Beware the Blunted Needle! box lower right corner. Song titles aligned left on top.

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Disc: Long Play. Black label, All print on label print is silver. “NEW ORTHOPHONIC” HIGH FIDELITY on right side. Camden N.J. on edge. (7/1957)

Matrix numbers
Side 1: H2WP-2762-1S A1 / Side 2: H2WP-2763-1S A1 (Indianapolis pressing)
Side 1: H2WP-2762-1S D2 / Side 2: H2WP-2763-1S D1 (Indianapolis pressing)
Side 1: H2WP-2762-7S C2 / Side 2: H2WP-2763-10S D2 (Indianapolis pressing)1
Side 1: H2WP-2762-9S / Side 2: H2WP-2763-7S (Rockaway pressing)2

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Disc: Long Play. Black label, All print on label print is silver. “NEW ORTHOPHONIC” HIGH FIDELITY on right side. No Camden Camden N.J. on edge. Different font. (7/1957)

Matrix numbers
Side 1: H2WP-2762-2S A / Side 2: H2WP-2763-2S A (Hollywood pressing)

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Disc: Long Play. Black label, All print on label print is silver. “NEW ORTHOPHONIC” HIGH FIDELITY on right side. With Camden Camden N.J. on edge. All credits are first and last name. (7/1957)1

Matrix numbers
Side 1: H2WP-2762-2S A / Side 2: H2WP-2763-2S A (Hollywood pressing)4

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Disc: Long Play. Black label, All print on label print is silver. “NEW ORTHOPHONIC” HIGH FIDELITY on top. Camden N.J. on edge. On Side 2 below Track 5, ELVIS PRESLEY is in all caps and the Jordanaires credits is on two lines.(7/1957)

Matrix numbers
Side 1: H2WP-2762-5S A2 / Side 2: H2WP-2763-3S A1 (Rockaway pressing)
Side 1: H2WP-2762-5S A1 / Side 2: H2WP-2763-3S A3 (Rockaway pressing)5
Side 1: H2WP-2762-10S A2 / Side 2: H2WP-2763-11S A1 (Rockaway pressing)6

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Disc: Long Play. Black label, All print on label print is silver. “NEW ORTHOPHONIC” HIGH FIDELITY on top. Camden N.J. on edge. LOVING YOU title is aligned to the left. On Side 1 below track 7, ELVIS PRESLEY is in all caps. On Side 2 below Track 5, Elvis Presley is not in all caps and the Jordanaires credits is on three lines. (Resembling the Hollywood label) (7/1957)

Matrix numbers
Side 1: H2WP-2762-8S B1 / Side 2: H2WP-2763-4S C1 (Rockaway pressing)

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Disc: Long Play. Black label, All print on label print is silver. “NEW ORTHOPHONIC” HIGH FIDELITY on top. Camden N.J. on edge. LOVING YOU title is aligned to the left. On Side 1 below track 7, Elvis Presley is not in all caps. On Side 2 below Track 5, ELVIS PRESLEY is in all caps and the Jordanaires credits is on two lines. (Resembling the Hollywood label) (7/1957)

Matrix numbers
Side 1: H2WP-2762-8S B2 / Side 2: H2WP-2763-4S C1 (Rockaway pressing)

This variation is interesting for several reasons. The misalignment of the LOVING YOU title occurred between known properly aligned pressings. The label on the back resembles the Hollywood pressing from the viewpoint of the song title alignment and artist credits on the bottom, rather than the labels used on pressings before and after this pressing. A conclusion that may be drawn is that the Rockaway plant may have run out of labels and had to alter the Hollywood label to conform to the standards used at the Rockaway pressing plant. In doing so, the misalignment was made in the title on both sides. This would be corrected when a reorder of labels would be fulfilled. This conclusion is only my speculation based on only what can be read from the matrix numbers. Another interesting observation is that this is a transitional label combination that will lead to the following labels below, where both sides have Elvis Presley credited not in all caps.

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Disc: Long Play. Black label, All print on label print is silver. “NEW ORTHOPHONIC” HIGH FIDELITY on top. Camden N.J. on edge. LOVING YOU title is aligned to the left. On Side 1 below track 7, Elvis Presley is not in all caps. On Side 2 below Track 5, Elvis Presley is not in all caps and the Jordanaires credits is on three lines. (7/1957)

Matrix numbers
Side 1: H2WP-2762-8S B3 / Side 2: H2WP-2763-7S A1 (Rockaway pressing)

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Cover Front: RCA Victor logo top right corner. Catalog number lower left corner. Copyright RCA and Printed in U.S.A. with RE on right side. No Photo credentials lower left corner. Song titles on front cover. (11/1963)
Cover Back: From left to right. Catalog number upper right corner and lower left corner. Printed in U.S.A. lower right corner. Copyright bottom center. “New Orthophonic” and Beware the Blunted Needle! box lower right corner. Song titles aligned left on top.7 Catalog number upper right corner with RE. Copyright and Cover Photo info lower right corner. Important info about monophonic records lower left corner. Song titles aligned from center to right.

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Disc: MONO. Black label, All print on label print is silver. (11/1963)8

Matrix numbers
Side 1: H2WP-2762-12S / Side 2: H2WP-2763-14S (Hollywood pressing)9

Disc: Monaural. Black label, RCA logo is white, other label print is silver. (10/1964) Side 1, track 4 on two lines.10

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Disc: Monaural. Black label, RCA logo is white, other label print is silver. (10/1964) Side 1, track 4, on one line.

Matrix numbers
Side 1: H2WP-2762-14S B1 (partially hand etched) / Side 2: H2WP-2763-17S A1 (Rockaway pressing)

Inner Sleeves To identify the inner sleeve that is most appropriate for each release, look at the Inner Sleeves page on this site.

Re-released in electronically reprocessed stereo as LSP-1515 (e) Loving You in 1962.

  1. Matrix numbers from the collection of PIOTRULA (of Poland) ↩
  2. Matrix numbers from the collection of Francesc Lopez. ↩
  3. Matrix numbers from the collection of PIOTRULA (of Poland) ↩
  4. Images from the collection of PIOTRULA (of Poland) ↩
  5. eBay reference 220906635558 (March 26, 2012) ↩
  6. Matrix numbers from the collection of Roberto. ↩
  7. eBay reference 260712825688 (January 2, 2011) ↩
  8. Images from the collection of Antti V. ↩
  9. Matrix numbers from the collection of Antti V. ↩
  10. eBay reference 370097189671 (December 30, 2011) ↩