Mystery Train / I Forgot to Remember to Forget 

Modified: May 31, 2014

Artist: Elvis Presley
Release: Sun 223 Mystery Train / I Forgot to Remember to Forget (45)
Release Date: 8/6/1955

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Disc: (8/1955)1. Yellow label, SUN. Credits Elvis Presley on one line, Scotty and Bill on another. Catalog number on bottom.2
Matrix numbers: 45-U-156x 20 / 45-U-157x 20 (machine stamped)

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Disc: (8/1955) Yellow label, SUN. Credits Elvis Presley on one line, Scotty and Bill on another. Catalog number on right side.3

May have M.S.I. in the dead wax. M.S.I Company was a Philadelphia pressing plant which, along with overflow orders from Sun, also pressed East Coast Imperial and Specialty label records. Phillips used M.S.I for many pressings in the later 1950’s.4.

Sleeve: Originally issued in generic brown.

Released in 1955 by Sun Records on 78 RPM as Mystery Train / I Forgot to Remember to Forget.
Released in 1955 by RCA Records on 45 RPM as Mystery Train / I Forgot to Remember to Forget.
Released in 1955 by RCA Records on 78 RPM as Mystery Train / I Forgot to Remember to Forget.
Released in 1959 by RCA Records on 45 RPM as Mystery Train / I Forgot to Remember to Forget on the Gold Standard Series label.

  1. Date from “Sun Record Company.” 4 February, 2011.
  2. Images are from a collection of Internet images that date back to 1998.
  3. Images from the collectino of Christian (of France).
  4. eBay reference 310298483479 (February 27, 2011)