ELVIS PRESLEY- The 100 Most Essential Songs (#9). Continues: tomorrow.   

Caffè Lattè presents:

THE 100 MOST ESSENTIAL SONGS BY

ELVIS

Elvis Aaron Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1935. His family relocated to Memphis, where the teenager absorbed the blues, gospel and country music. Young Elvis cut records for personal use and came to the attention of Sun Records. Sam Phillips recognized potential in the youth: a white singer with a ‘black’ sound. From these humble origins, Elvis influenced countless other white rockers and achieved sales that were unprecedented.

These 100 songs corroborate that Presley is the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll”…

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Hear the songs on the special Spotify playlist regularly updated as the countdown continues:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6KLsvwG7sBR45Xzq2WUWMD?si=1b8724d6f6744b89&pt=7a4da6b5756f5effebbb68199f80442e

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IN THE GHETTO

Elvis Presley knew what hardship and financial struggle was like. He had grown up poor with a father that spent time incarcerated. By the time Elvis recorded “In The Ghetto”, he had become a global superstar, far fremoved from his humble origins in Mississippi. Of all his recordings, this is the most political. It is as if The King recognizes that its story could easily have been his fate had rock ‘n’ roll not delivered him from poverty. Mac Davis, an unknown artist at the time, penned the poignant song. The single peaked at #3 in America and #2 in Britain. It reached #1 in parts of Europe, Australia and New Zealand.