ELVIS PRESLEY- The 100 Most Essential Songs (#6). 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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ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT?

In 1960, Elvis was in RCA’s Nashville studio early in the morning to record a song especially requested by his manager Colonel Tom Parker. The latter had never asked Presley to record a song before, but he believed that this 1926 Al Jolson song could be a hit once again. For this recording, Elvis widened his musical horizons by tackling a song written by 2 vaudevillian composers: Roy Turk and Lou Handman. The source material resulted in airplay on radio stations that had previously not played songs by Presley. During the session, Elvis felt that his rendition was not good enough. Co-producer Steve Sholes encouraged him to persist. The single features Elvis’ first and only take. As far as his fans were concerned, this was obviously considered good enough, as the public took the disc to the top in America (for 6 weeks), Britain (4 weeks), Australia, Canada and other countries. Part of its appeal was the spoken portion where Elvis paraphrased William Shakespeare.