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"Don't Be Cruel" is a song that was recorded by Elvis Presley and written by Otis Blackwell in 1956. [1] It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2004, it was listed #197 in Rolling Stone's list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time .
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).
Elvis Presley had five songs on the year-end top 50, the most of any artist in 1956, including "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Don't Be Cruel", the top two songs of the year. The Platters had three songs on the year-end top 50. This is a list of Billboard magazine's top 50 singles of 1956 according to retail sales. [1]
"Don't Be Cruel" 1978 — — — 24 Elvis: The '56 Sessions, Vol. 1 "It's Only Love" / "Beyond the Reef" 1980 — — — 3 Elvis Aron Presley "Santa Claus Is Back in Town" — — 25 41 — "The Sound of Your Cry" 1982 — — — 59 The Sound of Your Cry "Green Green Grass of Home" 1984 — — — 76 I Can Help and Other Great Hits "The ...
"The Elvis Medley" is an Elvis Presley medley arranged and produced by David Briggs. [1] ... "Don't Be Cruel (to a Heart That's True)" (Elvis Presley, Otis Blackwell)
The legendary music maker Elvis Presley served consumers of his original best-selling hits, including "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock," with a mixture of country, rhythm and blues and rock ‘n ...
The first four discs present the Elvis masters in chronological session order. Disc one commences with "My Happiness", a private test demo from the summer of 1953 at Sun Studio and the first recording ever made by Presley, and continues with the complete Sun Records masters through track 19.
When on "Don't Be Cruel", Presley "slides into a 'mmmmm' that marks the transition between the first two verses," he shows "how masterful his relaxed style really is." [ 343 ] Marsh describes the vocal performance on "Can't Help Falling in Love" as one of "gentle insistence and delicacy of phrasing", with the line " 'Shall I stay' pronounced as ...