Kissin' Cousins

LSP-2894
Released: April 2, 1964

33 rpm, Mono
LP 12"

Side A
Matrix Side A: RPRS-0230--5S

01. Kissin' Cousins (No 2) [1:14] ³)
02. Smokey Mountain Boy [2:52] ³)
03. There's Gold In The Mountains [1:53] ³)
04. One Boy Two Little Girls [2:30] ³)
05. Catchin' On Fast [1:18] ³)
06. Tender Feeling [2:32] ³)

Side B
Matrix Side B: RPRS-0231--4S

01. Anyone (Could Fall In Love With You) [2:25] ³)
02. Barefoot Ballad [3:08] ³)
03. Once Is Enough [2:15] ³)
04. Kissin' Cousins [2:12] ³)
05. Echoes Of Love [2:37] ¹)
06. Long Lonely Highway [2:18] ²)

¹) Recorded: RCA Studios, Nashville, May 26, 1963
²) Recorded: RCA Studios, Nashville, May 27, 1963
³) Recorded: RCA Studios, Nashville, October 10, 1963

Kissin' Cousins is the twentieth album by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2894, in April 1964. Recording sessions took place at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 26 and 27, and September 29 and 30, 1963. These would be Presley's final recording dates before the arrival of Beatlemania. It peaked at #6 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. During the same week of its release, April 4, 1964, The Beatles held twelve positions on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, including the top five positions. It was evident that Elvis' musical output had become stale and stagnant and directionless and the emphasis of his career was firmly committed to making musical comedy motion pictures. With the astronomical success of The Fab Four, Elvis had become, in slightly less than a decade, an icon of the past.

Number 6 was the position this LP help on it's arrival on the Hot LP chart on April 11, 1964, and it remained on the chart for thirty weeks