Tryin’ To Get To You / I Love You Because 

Modified: May 20, 2018

Artist: Elvis Presley
Release: RCA Victor 20-6639 Tryin' To Get To You / I Love You Because (78)
Release Date: 8/31/1956

20-6639-side120-6639-side2

Disc: (8/1956)1. Black label, dog on top2
Matrix numbers: F2WB-8039-1S / G2WB-1086-1S3

20-6639-side1-r20-6639-side2-r

Disc: (8/1956) Black label, dog on top. Catalog number on right side. “NEW ORTHOPHIC” HIGH FIDELITY on left side.4
Matrix numbers: F2 WB8039- 2S A1 / G2 WB 1086 2S A1 (machine stamped) (Rockaway pressing)5

Released in 1956 by RCA Records on 45 RPM as Tryin' To Get To You / I Love You Because.
Re-released by RCA Records on 45 RPM as Tryin' To Get To You / I Love You Because on the Gold Standard Series label.

  1. Date from Elvis Presley Taking Care Of Business. “BiogrDiscography.” 4 February 2011. ↩
  2. Images courtesy of Boija, John. “First pressings of US Elvis Presley 78 rpm singles.” John Boija’s Home Page. 3 February 2011. ↩
  3. Jerry Osborne, Presleyana V (Port Townsend: Osborne Enterprises, 2002), p. 69. ↩
  4. Images from the collection of Christian (of France). ↩
  5. Matrix numbers from the collection of Christian (of France). ↩