On August 31, 1956 RCA Victor released eight singles in one swoop. Besides "Shake, Rattle & Roll" / "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" the label also issued all tracks of the album "Elvis Presley". The most successful one was "Blue Suede Shoes" / "Tutti Frutti", which didn't chart but sold more than a million copies in the US and was certified Platinum by the RIAA. The other ones didn't even came close to this number, but nevertheless the label sold several 100,000 units of each single. Just as back in 1956 both tracks are not all that popular today. On Spotify none of them passed the million mark.

The records were sold in simple brown paper sleeves, nobody bothered to design proper covers. The whole idea was to generate some extra money by releasing the tracks in another format. 

The single is not available on the streaming platforms since the tracks can be found on the album "Elvis Presley".  

In 1933 Richard Rogers and Lorenz Heart wrote a song called "Prayer (Oh Lord, Make Me A Moviestar)" for a movie named "Hollywood Party". When it was decided not to use it, the duo turned it into "It's Just That Kind Of Play" and tried to get it into the film "Manhattan Melodrama". It was rejected, but another re-write (this time named "The Bad In Every Man") finally made it into the movie. Now it was released, but unfortunately not successful by any means. And so Lorenz Heart wrote a fourth version by the name of "Blue Moon". It was recorded by Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra and later covered by many other artists. One of them was Elvis Presley, who taped his version on August 15 and 19, 1954 at SUN Records. Take 9 was selected as the master. In general I'm not a fan of the king's early ballads, because he lacked the voice, the depth and the technique to perform them in a believable way. However, "Blue Moon" is one of the big exceptions, because he manages to convince me of his sadness and loneliness and the sparse arrangement is nothing but great.

In the song his girlfriend regards herself something better, so the singer decides to leave her. In the 1970s Elvis would have presented such a story in form of a mourning country ballad, but here he doesn't even appear to be sad. Elvis' version was recorded on September 10, 1954 at SUN Records.  "Just Because" was written by Sydney Robin and first released in 1929 by Nelstone's Hawaiians.