elvis tapes

howdy pop pickers

just another of them posts showcasing some needless acquisition or other, look you see. well, no, that's not fair, it cannot be entirely needless when it concerns The King, Elvis Presley who(m) hasn't been mentioned all that much on here of late. time, then to address that. 

recently, then, i picked up some tapes of The King, Elvis Presley. not just one, which would be north of the none i intended, not as few ("less") as two, and not nearly so many as four. so three (3), then. i believe i got "upsold" into taking an extra 2 (two) on top of the one which caught my eye, but there i was, here we are. 

provenance? a shop which was closing down. one i had done some business with before, a year or so ago, when on a whim i wished to procure a machine what did both video (actual) and disc. it is, or was, a shop that one would kindly call a "bric a brac" one, or if American "thrift" i suppose. junk shop is likely more accurate. still, i found things of interest there. 

i was on a stroll, making my way in the world as usual, when one of the tapes (actual) i ultimately purchased was in the window and caught my eye. rather than the above image, i draw your attention to the one below. the tape in the middle was the one i saw and thought "that actually looks class", and it being in the middle allows us to avoid any of that left or right nonsense. 

the tapes were £1 each, and no i am not going to convert that into various currencies as the market is rather volatile these days. when i went to pay for the one (1) that i wished for with a crisp (hello, Faye) £5 note, the bloke said he "only" had 2 (two) £1 coins, so would i rather like to buy at least two (2) more tapes. hence me also owning the ones to the left and right. now that i think, or look, the one on the right (the Love Songs one) is a really smart picture of Him, The King, Elvis Presley. 

certainly there is a degree of nostalgia, or if you will sentimental hygiene, behind the purchase. other than me being a compulsive shopper. probably the first tape of The King, Elvis Presley, i ever encountered was one my brother purchased. we were on holiday, i think Torquay 1983, when he purchased it. up until that point i don't think i was aware of him being a fan of His, and i am not sure he was aware of it either. from what i recall the "draw" was the cover promised it featured the "laughing version" of Are You Lonesome Tonight. i would speculate that neither i nor my brother at that point in our lives were particularly aware of any version of the song. 

which of these three (3) is the "best"? there is no such thing as a bad tape of The King, Elvis Presley. leaving that (obvious) statement aside, then the already mentioned Love Songs one seems to have the higher proportion of the most well known songs He gone done. think it just has the standard, as in not laughing, version of Are You Lonesome Tonight on it, along with Always On My Mind, Can't Help Falling In Love, Suspicious Minds (which i am not sure is a traditional love song), The Wonder Of You and more of that nature. it is all a bit more eclectic on the other two tapes (actual), with a sparser share of "well known" stuff. but, all the same, still all great songs. 

yes, i shall indeed actively seek out stuff of interest to write here for the next time. 

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