LPM-3989 Speedway

Modified: October 13, 2025

Artist: Elvis Presley
Release: RCA Victor LPM-3989 Speedway (LP)
Release Date: 6/25/1968

Side 1

  • Speedway
  • There Ain’t Nothing Like A Song
  • Your Time Hasn’t Come Yet Baby
  • Who Are You (Who Am I)
  • He’s Your Uncle Not Your Dad
  • Let Yourself Go

Side 2

  • Your Groovy Self
  • Five Sleepy Heads
  • Western Union
  • Mine
  • Goin’ Home
  • Suppose

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Cover Front: RCA Victor logo top center and catalog number at bottom left. Likely to have a sticker affixed to the shrink-wrap.
Cover Back: Catalog number upper right corner.

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Disc: Monaural. Black label, RCA logo is white, other label print is silver.

Matrix numbers
Side 1: WPRM-1034-1S / Side 2: WPRM-1035-1S (machine stamped) (Indianapolis pressing)1

The last Elvis album issued simultaneously on both the monaural and stereo labels is also the final monaural release by Elvis on RCA Records. It is not known how many mono copies were printed or how many remain, though many surviving examples have clipped corners. At least two sealed copies are known: one sold on eBay2 and another offered by Heritage Auctions3 Each is easily identifiable by the distinctive angle of the “Special Bonus” sticker affixed to the shrink-wrap.

The shipping date is generally believed to have been June 25, 1968. This estimate is based on the Billboard review published June 29, 1968 (page 103) and its chart appearance on July 6, 1968—approximately one week later. RCA’s standard Tuesday release schedule supports this reasoning, and the official Listing Notice also places the title in June 1968.

So elusive was this monaural issue that it went undocumented in early discographies. In 1976, Ron Barry wrote, “…as far as can be ascertained, no monaural pressings were ever made.”4 Likewise, it was not mentioned in Paul Lichter’s 1978 *The Boy Who Dared to Rock: The Definitive Elvis* (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978, p. 238).

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Sticker
Red and white, reads: “Special Bonus, for a limited time only, full color photo of Elvis.”

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Insert
Color 8″ x 10″ Elvis (circa 1962) photo, signed “Sincerely, Elvis Presley.” Back lists other RCA Elvis records.

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

Also released in stereo as LSP-3989 Speedway.

  1. HA Lot 30243 (April 5, 2008)
  2. eBay reference 260733486425 (February 13, 2011).
  3. HA Lot 7068 (August 14, 2012).
  4. Barry, Ron. *The Elvis Presley American Discography.* Phillipsburg, NJ: Spectator Service, Maxigraphics, 1976, p. 77.