Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel (Tommy Dorsey Show - Feb 11, 1956)

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Elvis Aaron (or Arona) Presley (January 8, 1935 August 16, 1977) was an American musician and actor. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".

Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of 13. He began his career there in 1954 when Sun Records owner Sam Phillips, eager to bring the sound of African American music to a wider audience, saw in Presley the means to realize his ambition. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was one of the originators of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country and rhythm and blues. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage the singer for over two decades. Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", released in January 1956, was a number one hit. He became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of network television appearances and chart-topping records. His energized interpretations of songs, many from African American sources, and his uninhibited performance style made him enormously popular—and controversial. In November 1956, he made his film debut in Love Me Tender.

Conscripted into military service in 1958, Presley relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially successful work. He staged few concerts, however, and, guided by Parker, proceeded to devote much of the 1960s to making Hollywood movies and soundtrack albums, most of them critically derided. In 1968, after seven years away from the stage, he returned to live performance in a celebrated comeback television special that led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of profitable tours. In 1973, Presley staged the first concert broadcast globally via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii, seen by approximately 1.5 billion viewers. Prescription drug abuse severely compromised his health, and he died suddenly in 1977 at the age of 42.

Presley is regarded as one of the most important figures of 20th-century popular culture. He had a versatile voice and unusually wide success encompassing many genres, including country, pop ballads, gospel, and blues. He is the best-selling solo artist in the history of popular music. Nominated for 14 competitive Grammys, he won three, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36. He has been inducted into four music halls of fame.

Inspired by the suicide of a young man who left a note with the line, "I walk a lonely street", songwriters Tommy Durden, then a steel-guitarist in Smiling Jack Herring and his Swing Billies,[2] and Mae Boren Axton, a teacher in Jacksonville, Florida, wrote Heartbreak Hotel in thirty minutes in 1955. She was a publicist for Hank Snow whose manager, Colonel Tom Parker, would later also manage Presley.

So sure that the song would be a hit, Axton presented it to Presley's then manager, Bob Neal, and insisted it would be his first million-seller. On November 10, 1955, upon hearing the demo for the first time,[4] Presley agreed and promised to record the song. Axton offered Presley a third of the royalties if he made the song his first single release from his new label, RCA. Presley first performed the song in Swifton, Arkansas on December 9, 1955 and declared it his "first hit".

The song was the second recorded by Presley at RCA Victor on January 10, 1956 during his debut session at 1525 McGavock Street in Nashville, at that time owned by the United Methodist Television, Radio and Film Commission .[6] He arrived at the studio with the song ready to record without seeking approval from RCA and, although producer Steve Sholes was worried, he recorded the song taking it on faith that Presley knew what he was doing. Most others at RCA Victor believed that it was a mistake, especially after hearing that the finished recording sounded nothing like Presley's previous recordings at Sun Records. As well as being accompanied by his regular band of Scotty Moore, Bill Black, and D.J. Fontana, Presley was joined by established RCA musicians Chet Atkins on guitar, and Floyd Cramer on piano.

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[musickiid05]

so elvis is the one who invented the STANKY LEG?! @ 1:30

[John1948FourC]

@musickiid05 Elvis also invented rockabilly in 1955 with That's Alright Mama!

[cazonetta]

Okay, as a female, I'm going to be one of the many to say Elvis had an awesome voice and was pretty damn cute, and that I could stare at him forever. But seriously, I wish those stupid girls would just SHUT UP. I can hardly hear him above all that prepubescent screaming.

[John1948FourC]

@cazonetta Then you should get the studio recording and listen to that. There's a big difference between live shows and studio productions. This clip is history.

[John1948FourC]

@ThunderX19 Yeah - sad isn't it?

[ThunderX19]

first there came elvis, then the beatles, then the jonas brothers, now justin beiber

[disdatshit1]

He scared me at the end :/

[OROCHIMETALLICA]

ese es el rey

[mesha4598]

@rodrigo95ify elvis was an amazing guitarist! listen to blue suede shoes

[mesha4598]

@cazonetta not trying to start something but if you were at an elvis show, youd be screaming y our friggin head off too

[mesha4598]

here is the heart of all good music. I am so subscribing to your vids

[cards1985]

The greatest preformance ever!

[sexybrunetteify]

Elvis you will never be forgotten !!!! happy birthda to the KING

[geneemia]

Happy birthday Elvis!! -3

[oldodger]

Was number 1 in Feb 1954...

[Qcumber]

If only the stupid females could stop shrieking away!