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🎙️ Elvis Presley - "Just Tell Her Jim Said Hello"Fifty-five. That's the modest peak this Leiber and Stoller composition ...
09/14/2026

🎙️ Elvis Presley - "Just Tell Her Jim Said Hello"

Fifty-five. That's the modest peak this Leiber and Stoller composition reached on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962, a quiet showing considering the writing team behind it had already penned some of Elvis's biggest hits. Recorded March 19, 1962 at RCA Studio B in Nashville during the same session that produced its A-side, "She's Not You," the song was tucked away as a B-side and largely overlooked on release.

Decades later, fans and critics alike have come to view it differently, often calling it a "forgotten masterpiece" that slips through the cracks whenever classic Elvis deep cuts get discussed, alongside other overlooked B-sides like "It Hurts Me" and "A Mess of Blues." With The Jordanaires providing backing vocals, the smooth, silky delivery has earned it a quiet cult following, a song that never charted high but never stopped finding devoted listeners.
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🎙️ Elvis Presley - "I Just Can't Help Believin'"Zero. That's how many times this song was ever released as a single in t...
09/13/2026

🎙️ Elvis Presley - "I Just Can't Help Believin'"

Zero. That's how many times this song was ever released as a single in the United States, despite becoming a genuine hit everywhere else Elvis toured the airwaves, climbing to No. 6 in both the UK and South Africa and No. 4 in the Netherlands. Written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, the song had already been a hit for B.J. Thomas earlier in 1970 before Elvis recorded his own version on June 8 that year at RCA Studio B in Nashville, opening his album "That's the Way It Is."

What makes the recording even more striking is a technical detail buried in the session notes, according to Elvis historian Ernst Jorgensen's book, there were no overdubs on the track at all, every instrument and vocal layer heard on the finished song happened live in that one take. Elvis performed it roughly 20 times during his famous 57-show run at the Las Vegas International Hotel that summer, yet American fans never got the chance to buy it as its own 45. 🎵
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Elvis's live version of "I Just Can't Help Believin'" reached #6 on the UK singles chart in November 1971, more than a ...
09/13/2026

Elvis's live version of "I Just Can't Help Believin'" reached #6 on the UK singles chart in November 1971, more than a full year after the original album came out. Nobody quite explains why RCA never bothered releasing it as its own single in the United States at all, despite fans consistently naming it one of the standout tracks from That's the Way It Is. A rehearsal version of the song was reportedly left out of a later special edition of the album, something longtime fans suspect came down to a quiet copyright dispute. B.J. Thomas, who'd had the original hit with the song in 1970, came back to it decades later, re-recording it as a duet with Vince Gill in 2013. 🎙️ A song beloved enough to chart in the UK a year late somehow never got its own American release at all.
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🎸 Elvis Presley - "In Your Arms"Three guitarists on one track. When Elvis recorded this song on March 12, 1961 at RCA's ...
09/13/2026

🎸 Elvis Presley - "In Your Arms"
Three guitarists on one track. When Elvis recorded this song on March 12, 1961 at RCA's Studio B in Nashville, the session lineup included Hank Garland and Scotty Moore on guitar, plus Elvis himself picking up a guitar too, alongside Bob Moore on bass and both Buddy Harman and D.J. Fontana sharing drum duties. Written by Wally Gold and Aaron Schroeder, the song ended up tucked away as an album track on "Something for Everybody" later that year, never released as its own single. Some fans still argue it had single potential that got overlooked amid a stacked album of quality material. 🎶
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🎯 Hard Headed Woman - Elvis Presley (1958)By the time Elvis actually boarded a ship for Germany to begin his Army servic...
09/12/2026

🎯 Hard Headed Woman - Elvis Presley (1958)
By the time Elvis actually boarded a ship for Germany to begin his Army service, this song had already faded from its peak. On September 22, 1958, the same day he departed Brooklyn aboard the USS General Randall, "Hard Headed Woman" had slipped all the way down to number 56 on the Billboard chart, just weeks after it had spent two full weeks sitting at number one.
The song itself leans entirely on biblical figures to make its joke, Adam warning Eve away from the apple tree, Samson telling Delilah to keep her hands off his hair, a king undone by the "evil Jezebel," all building toward a punchline about how uppity women have been giving men trouble since the world began. It became the first rock and roll single ever certified Gold by the RIAA, even as the BBC restricted its airplay in Britain over those exact biblical references.
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Stan Kesler had already been writing songs for Elvis for over a decade by the time Elvis cut "If I'm a Fool (For Loving ...
09/12/2026

Stan Kesler had already been writing songs for Elvis for over a decade by the time Elvis cut "If I'm a Fool (For Loving You)" in February 1969. Kesler wrote "Playing for Keeps" back in 1957, right after Elvis moved from Sun to RCA, and "Thrill of Your Love" for 1960's Elvis Is Back!, the singer's first album after the Army. This song came out of the same legendary American Sound Studio sessions that also produced "Suspicious Minds" and "Kentucky Rain," yet it got shelved as a leftover, only surfacing in 1970 on the budget compilation Let's Be Friends. 🎙️ A songwriter's decade-long relationship with Elvis produced one final song that barely got released at all.
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🎤 My Way - Elvis Presley (1977)Written by Paul Anka (with a French melody by Claude François and Jacques Revaux) and mad...
09/12/2026

🎤 My Way - Elvis Presley (1977)
Written by Paul Anka (with a French melody by Claude François and Jacques Revaux) and made famous by Frank Sinatra in 1969, Elvis first recorded his own version for "Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite" in 1973. He performed it live again on June 21, 1977, at Ann Arbor's Market Square Arena - just weeks before his death that August - and that final live recording became one of the last songs released while he was still alive, the single arriving the same year as "Way Down."
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Written by Sid Wayne and Bix Reichner, Elvis recorded this June 10, 1958 at RCA Studio B in Nashville - one of the last ...
09/11/2026

Written by Sid Wayne and Bix Reichner, Elvis recorded this June 10, 1958 at RCA Studio B in Nashville - one of the last songs he cut before shipping out to Germany for his Army service, part of a final session meant to stockpile enough material to keep singles coming out while he was away. He didn't step back into a studio until spring 1960. Paired as a double A-side with "A Fool Such as I," it reached #4 on the Hot 100 and hit #1 in the UK for five weeks.
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"Lover Doll" turned out to be the last recording where it was just Elvis, Scotty Moore, and Bill Black playing together,...
09/11/2026

"Lover Doll" turned out to be the last recording where it was just Elvis, Scotty Moore, and Bill Black playing together, the same trio that had started it all at Sun Records years earlier. Elvis cut the track on January 16, 1958, just weeks before his draft notice, and the Jordanaires' vocal harmonies weren't added until that June, after Elvis was already in the Army. Producer Steve Sholes liked the simple, acoustic feel of the original take enough to reinforce it with those overdubs rather than change anything else. It became part of the King Creole soundtrack, one of the last pieces of new Elvis material banked before his two-year absence began. 🎸 The trio that built his sound from the beginning played together one final time without even realizing it.
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Written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who nearly ignored the assignment entirely - they'd thrown the film script in ...
09/11/2026

Written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who nearly ignored the assignment entirely - they'd thrown the film script in a corner and spent their first weeks in New York enjoying jazz clubs instead, until publisher Jean Aberbach personally showed up at their hotel room and refused to leave until they wrote something. Elvis sang it as straightforward rock and roll, seemingly not noticing lines gender scholars have long flagged as a genuine q***r wink - inmate Number 47 telling Number 3, "you're the cutest jailbird I ever did see." Recorded April 30, 1957, it became one of the earliest music videos ever made and later entered the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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