This is the original Underground Records label ![]()
This is the original RCA Special Products label
Underground Records (a Toronto-based label) was licensed by RCA Canada (like the Collectables label in the U.S.) to re-issue some Elvis 45s. The first five in the list below were issued on the yellow Underground Records label (pictured above) in 1985. In December 1985 RCA Canada re-issued these five and subsequently added 14 more, all on the above RCA Special Products label.
URC 1079 My Wish Came True A Big Hunk Of Love URC 1080 Stuck On You Fame And Fortune URC 1081 Too Much Love Me URC 1082 Bossa Nova Baby Follow That Dream URC 1083 One Broken Heart For Sale U.S. Male URC 1102 Such A Night The Elvis Medley URC 1103 Wild In The Country I Feel So Bad URC 1104 Love Letters King Of The Whole Wide World URC 1112 Hawaiian Wedding Song Blue Hawaii URC 1113 The Girl Of My Best Friend Ask Me URC 1114 It Hurts Me Is It So Strange URC 1115 Girls Girls Girls Spinout URC 1116 G.I. Blues Flaming Star URC 1127 You Gave Me A Mountain Rags To Riches URC 1128 Young And Beautiful Ain't That Loving You Baby URC 1159 One Night Playing For Keeps URC 1160 They Remind Me Too Much Of You Frankie And Johnny URC 1163 Are You Lonesome Tonight When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again URC 1164 Kentucky Rain If I Can Dream
This record was not issued in the U.S. There is no known picture sleeve or promo copy for these records
Thank you to Worldwide Elvis-On-Vinyl collector Andre Helling of Germany for providing 13 of the above records and confirming 1 other; Barry McLean of Grande Prairie, Alberta for providing 1 and confirming 6; and Robert Racicot of Grandy, Mass., for confirming 2.
A very special thanks to Canadian collector Johnny Pisana who identified 3 more of these UGR records, provided the entire history of them and corrected an error of the songs on #1159.
And a special thanks to Swiss collector Urs Mosimann for the Underground label scan