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In 1960, "It's Now or Never" was a number-one record in the U.S. for Elvis Presley, spending five weeks at number one and the UK, where it spent eight weeks at the top in 1960 and an additional week at number one in 2005 as a re-issue, and numerous other countries, selling in excess of 20 million physical copies worldwide, Elvis Presley's ...
"A Mess of Blues" is a song originally recorded by Elvis Presley for RCA Records in 1960, and written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. Although released as the B-side to "It's Now or Never", "A Mess of Blues" reached number 32 in the U.S. It reached number 2 in the UK as an A-side. The song was published by Elvis Presley Music, Inc.
It's Now or Never: Eduardo di Capua, Aaron Schroeder, Wally Gold: 1960: Elvis' Golden Records Volume 3: It's Only Love: Mark James, Steve Tyrell: 1971: Elvis Aron Presley: It's Over: Jimmie F. Rodgers: 1973: Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite: It's Still Here: Ivory Joe Hunter: 1971: Elvis (1973 album) It's Your Baby You Rock It: Shirl Milete ...
Otis Blackwell (February 16, 1931 – May 6, 2002) was an American songwriter whose work influenced rock and roll.His compositions include "Fever" (recorded by Little Willie John), "Great Balls of Fire" and "Breathless" (recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis), "Don't Be Cruel", "All Shook Up", and "Return to Sender" (with Winfield Scott; recorded by Elvis Presley), and "Handy Man" (recorded by Jimmy Jones).
Little recognizable even to most Elvis fans, the song was recorded by Presley with the Mello Menin 1962 for the soundtrack to the film “It Happened at the World’s Fair” and was never ...
The rewritten version was entitled "It's Now or Never" and was a worldwide hit for Presley. When performing it in concert in the mid-1970s, Elvis would explain the origin of "It's Now Or Never" and have singer Sherrill Nielsen perform a few lines of the original Neapolitan version before commencing with his version.
With the special poised to celebrate its 55th anniversary this December, Binder lends his firsthand knowledge of how it all came together to the new documentary Reinventing Elvis: The '68 Comeback ...
The final song Elvis ever performed was "Can’t Help Falling in Love," whichis considered one of his most popular songs, even finding a place on Rolling Stone’slist of the 500 greatest songs ever.