猫王首张专辑拍得30万美元

    The first record Elvis Presley ever made has sold at auction for US$300,000.

    An unnamed buyer placed the winning bid online for the 78 rpm recording of “My Happiness,” the first time it has come up for public sale.

    Presley recorded the ballad in 1953 when he was 18 years old.

    He wanted to find out what his voice sounded like on record and paid US$4 for the session to record “My Happiness” and “That’s When Your Heartaches Begin.”

    Presley was said to have made the recording partly as a present for his mother.

    But the family did not have a record player, so he took it to his friend Ed Leek’s house to listen to the results of the session and left it there.

    Leek kept the record in a safe for 60 years and after he and his wife died their niece Lorisa Hilburn inherited it.

    Hilburn from Florida was surprised but “very happy” with how much the record sold for.

    “There was adrenaline beforehand ... but when it was over, I was numb,’’ she said. “It was surreal*.”

    She plans to use some of the money to put her sons through college.

    (SD-Agencies)