Category: Rock and Roll

  About The Song When Elvis left the army in March 1960, no one knew that “Stuck on You” would be his next single record release. In its March 7, 1960, issue, Billboard reported the following: “RCA Victor has devised a most elaborate piece of distributive machinery for handling what is expected to be a smash hit—but the…

About The Song Rather than a rousing rock song, the kind of tunes that helped Elvis Presley gain popularity, the King of Rock and Roll released a dramatic ballad called “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You” in 1956. Still, the song quickly became a hit, becoming Presley’s second No. 1 single…

About The Song In September 1953, Herman “Junior” Parker entered Sun Studios in Memphis to record the follow-up to “Feelin’ Good”, which had been a top five R&B chart hit for him earlier that year. Parker, 21, was a gifted singer, harmonica-player and songwriter who had been discovered by Ike Turner (then a talent…

About The Song – “Today, Tomorrow and Forever” is a song written by Bernie Baum, Florence Kaye and Bill Giant and based on a classical piano piece titled “Liebestraum” by Franz Liszt. Elvis Presley performed the song in the 1964 MGM film Viva Las Vegas.– Elvis Presley recorded the song in two versions, as…

About The Song We define home depending on what we feel or where we want it to be. Sometimes home can be a physical place where you stay, and feel safe and happy, while for others, home can be a person. Certain people define home as where your heart may be. But, are we…

About The Song “Too Much,” released in January 1957, was Presley’s fifth regular single record issue on the RCA Victor label. It followed “Love Me Tender” and preceded “All Shook Up,” both mega #1 hits for Elvis. Perhaps one of the reasons “Too Much” has been given little respect is that, unlike all of…

– This was the theme song to the first of 31 Elvis movies. The movie was titled The Reno Brothers before it was renamed to capitalize on the song. About The Song – Originally, Elvis had just a small role in the movie, but during filming it became apparent that he was a really…

About The Song In 1956-57 Presley continued his chart-topping ways with “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You”, “Hound Dog”, “Don’t Be Cruel”, “Love Me Tender”, “Too Much”, “All Shook Up”, “Jailhouse Rock” and “(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear” all climbing to #1. The B-side to “(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear”…

About The Song – “Let’s Have a Party” is a 1957 song written by Jessie Mae Robinson and recorded by Elvis Presley for the movie Loving You. It was released as a single in the United Kingdom under the title “Party” and peaked at #2 in the UK Singles Chart. – Wanda Jackson recorded this…

About The Song Don Gibson wrote I Can’t Stop Loving You in 1957 in a mobile home in Knoxville, Tennessee. His recording (RCA 47-7133) hit number one on the country chart in 1958 sold over a million copies (as did the flip side, Oh Lonesome Me). Kitty Wells’s version (Decca 30551) also charted in…