French EP's

During all of my years of collecting Elvis I have found few countries with an equally interesting catalogue of Elvis EP's than the french one. France is probably the only country in the world were the EP's are more common than the standard 45 single. This is absolutely true for the early years up until the mid 60's. During this period most singles (standard 45 tours) were made for jukebox purposes and the EP's (super 45 tours) was prefered by the general public. From the mid 60's the regular 45 singles became more and more common and at the end of the 60's all new releases was regular singles. The EP backcatalogue were discontinued in 1970 and replace by the well known "Hit parade" series with their famous hard covers that we all love because of the great picture sleeves. Another interesting aspect when collecting the french EP catalogue is all those different picture sleeves that are quite uniqe for this country. Even those that has an US counterpart are often different, with another backgound colour or a completely different layout. And if this isn't enough some of the reissues do sometimes appear with a completetly new design. And if you are a label freak like me you can collect for years as most EP's if not all can even be found on the orange RCA label (1969/1970). The prices are still affordable even though they have been rising quite a bit the last 5 years. Happy hunting!!.















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Titel Cat.no. Label Rel.Date
Rock'n'roll no.2 75.309 Black AREA1956
Elvis Presley no.1 75.319 Black AREA1956
Elvis Presley no.2 75.320 Black AREA1956
Elvis Presley no.3 75.309 Black AREA1956
Elvis Presley no.4 75.347 Black AREA1956
Elvis Presley no.5 75.348 Black AREA1956
Le Cavalier du crépuscule 75.364 Black AREA1957
Elvis Presley no.6 75.405 Black AREA1957
Loving you no.1 75.406 Black AREA1956
Loving you no.2 75.415 Black AREA1956
Jailhouse rock 75.432 Black AREA1956
Elvis Presley- Don't etc. 75.445 Black AREA1956
King creole vol.1 75.474 Black AREA1958
King creole vol.2 75.475 Black AREA1958
Elvis Presley- One night etc. 75.513 Black AREA195?
Nöel avec Elvis 85.249 Purple AREA1959
Le retour d' Elvis no.1 75.607 Yellow 1960
Le retour d' Elvis no.2 75.608 Yellow 1960
It's now or never 75.619 Yellow 1960
Nöel avec Elvis 86.249 Blue 1961
G.I. blues 86.285 Blue 1961
Le retour d' Elvis no.1 86.286 Blue 1961
Le retour d' Elvis no.2 86.287 Blue 1961
It's now or never 86.288 Blue 1961
Elvis Presley no.1 86.290 Blue 1961
Elvis Presley no.2 86.291 Blue 1961
Elvis Presley no.3 86.289 Blue 1961
Elvis Presley no.4 86.292 Blue 1961
Elvis Presley no.5 86.293 Blue 1961
Le Cavalier du crépuscule 86.294 Blue 1961
Elvis Presley no.6 86.295 Blue 1961
Loving you no.1 86.296 Blue 1961
Loving you no.2 86.297 Blue 1961
Jailhouse rock 86.298 Blue 1961
Elvis Presley- Don't etc. 86.299 Blue 1961
King creole vol.1 86.300 Blue 1961
King creole vol.2 86.301 Blue 1961
Elvis Presley- One night etc. 86.302 Blue 1961
Surrender 86.303 Blue 1961
Surrender 33.001 33Green 1961
Little sister 86.304 Blue 1961
El Blue Hawaii 86.305 Blue 1962
Follow that dream 86.306 Blue 1962
Kid Galahad 86.307 Blue 1962
Good luck charm 86.308 Victor1 1962
Girls! girls! girls! 86.309 Victor1 1963
One broken heart for sale 86.310 Victor1 1963
Bossa nova baby 86.352 Victor1 1963
Love in Las Vegas 86.372 Victor1 1964
Elvis sings Kissin' cousins 86.393 Victor1 1964
Ain't that loving you baby 86.411 Victor1 1964
Do the clam 86.434 Victor1 1965
Tickle me 86.458 Victor1 1965
Blue river 86.508 Victor? 196?
Peace in the valley 86.535 Victor2 1966
Spinout 86.538 Victor2 1966
Paradise hawaiian style 86.557 Victor2 1967
Easy come easy go 86.563 Victor2 1967
Elvis sings double trouble 86.574 Victor2 1967
Chante avec Elvis CF 513 Orange 1976