Favorite #1 hit by ELVIS PRESLEY? (Part 1 of 2)

[NightTrain]

Between 1956 and 1969, Elvis had seventeen #1 singles. The first nine are listed below.

Dates indicate when a song reached #1 on the Billboard pop chart. As "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" was a double-sided chart-topper, both songs hit #1 simultaneously.

[Southsideirish]

1. "Are you lonesome tonight, do you miss me, tonight?" (n/t)

[ForrestGump]

3. Came later (1960)...from these ones, I chose "Jailhouse Rock"

Classic, written in the studio by Lieber and Stoller within a few minutes as a joke and nailed in five takes by Elvis.

[1monster]

2. Don't know if it was a number 1 song, but his best, in my opinion, was

While I Can Dream.

[truthseeker1]

4. Where is part 2?

I'm waiting to vote for Kissin' Cousins or Little Sister :)
(or maybe Suspicious Minds)

[El Supremo]

5. Love Me tender - It was made into a popular movie about the Civil War. n/t

[Hemprus]

6. Elvis..

is everywhere, by Mojo Nixon
When I look out into your eyes out there,
When I look out into your faces,
You know what I see?
I see a little bit of Elvis
In each and every one of you out there.
Lemme tell ya...
Weeeeeeeeeellllllll...
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Elvis is everywhere, man!
He's in everything.
He's in everybody...
Elvis is in your jeans.
He's in your cheesburgers
Elvis is in Nutty Buddies!
Elvis is in your mom!
He's in everybody.
He's in the young, the old,
the fat, the skinny,
the white, the black
the brown and the blue
people got Elvis in 'em too
Elvis is in everybody out there.
Everybody's got Elvis in them!
Everybody except one person that is...
Yeah, one person!
The evil opposite of Elvis.
The Anti-Elvis
Anti-Elvis got no Elvis in 'em,
lemme tell ya.
Michael J. Fox has no Elvis in him.
And Elvis is in Joan Rivers
but he's trying to get out, man!
He's trying to get out!
Listen up Joanie Baby!
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Man, there's a lot of unexplained phenomenon
out there in the world.
Lot of things people say
What the heck's going on?
Let me tell ya!
Who built the pyramids?
ELVIS!
Who built Stonehenge?
ELVIS!
Yeah, man you see guys
walking down the street
pushing shopping carts
and you think they're talking to allah,
they're talking to themself.
Man, no they're talking to ELVIS!
ELVIS! ELVIS!
You know whats going on in that Bermuda Triangle?
Down in the Bermuda Traingle
Elvis needs boats.
Elvis needs boats.
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis needs boats.
Aahh! The Sailing Elvis!
Captain Elvis!
Commodore Elvis it is.
Yeah man, you know people from outer space,
people from outer space they come up to me.
They don't look like like Doctor Spock.
They don't look like Klingons,
all that Star Trek jive.
They look like Elvis.
ELVIS!
Everybody in outer space looks like Elvis.
Cause Elvis is a perfect being.
We are all moving in perfect peace and harmony towards Elvisness
Soon all will become Elvis.
Everything everywhere will be Elvis.
Why do you think they call it evolution anyway?
It's really Elvislution!
Elvislution!
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
That's right ladies and gentlemen,
The time has come!
Time has come to talk
To that little bit of Elvis inside of you.
Talk to it!
Call it up!
Say "Elvis, heal me!"
"Save me, Elvis!"
"Make me be born again
in the perfect Elvis light"
That's right!
You've got that Elvis inside of ya
and he's talkin to ya
He says he wants you to sing!
Everybody's got to sing like the king!
Like the king
Get that leg going now
Get your lip too.
Not no fool Billy Idol lip either
Everybody!
Yeah, we're rockin now!
Elvis is with us.
He's with us and he's speaking to us.
He says "Peoples!"
"Peoples!"
"Everybody!"
"Everybody got to sing!"
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Elvis!

[johnnie]

7. Love them all, but.....

I have to go with "I want you..."
I have the 78 of "All shook up" though..lol

[NightTrain]

8. I know that 78 RPMs were manufactured in the U.S. until 1960...

...but it's still difficult for me to imagine artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Bo Diddley stamped into the fragile grooves of a 78!

[ForrestGump]

9. Find a 78 version of one of those Yellow Sun Records From (Memphis)

and you'll be set!

[NightTrain]

10. Memphis? I thought Sun records came from Nashville!

Geez, you can't even trust the Lovin' Spoonful anymore! :P

[ForrestGump]

16. Don't you believe in magic?

I think it's time you make up your mind. :P

[Kat45]

11. I can't pick just one--so I didn't vote.

They're all good ones.

[NightTrain]

12. Our presidential caniddates should present us with such a "problem!"

;)

[Kat45]

15. No shit!

:-)

[Red State Rebel]

13. One Night With You - raw sexuality unleashed....

My Mom was an Elvis fan so we heard plenty of his music growing up and I love it too.

[NightTrain]

14. Unfortunately, it was not a #1 hit.

If memory serves, "One Night" peaked at #4. Still a terrific record, though!

[ForrestGump]

17. Yeah, "One Night" is incredible

He originally tried (sort of a stuio jam during the soundtrack session for his 1957 movie, Loving You a less intense, slower, and unbowdlerized version ("One Night Of Sin") that included lyrics basically stating that he was paying for a night of youknowwhat.

It goes something like this from memory:

One night of sin,
Is what I'm now paying for
The things I did and I saw
Would make the Earth stand still

And here's the other version's equivalent lyric:

One night with you
Is what I’m now praying for
The things that we two could plan
Would make my dreams come true

Another from the original lyrics:

Don't call my name
It makes me feel so ashamed
I lost my sweet helping hand
I got myself to blame

And its sanitized (somewhat, though the entire song was smutty by 1957 standards):

Just call my name
And I’ll be right by your side
I want your sweet helping hand
My love's too strong to hide

The original 1959 single release (recorded a bit later in '57) was cleaner lyrically, basically censored, but more savage in delivery. And that 12-string guitar intro is a classic. In the 1968 TV special tapings he did excellent live versions that mixed lyrics from the two versions, as he also did during those tapings on "Hound Dog" when he included lyrics from Ma Rainey's original slow version. The song was really a highlight of his later concerts, too, being infrequently performed but great right up 'til it's last airing in Madison, WI, on his last tour.

Cool.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

18. "Kentucky Rain" and "In The Ghetto" were better

I'm forced to vote none of the above.

[ForrestGump]

19. They were from 1969

and neither hit #1 Stateside. "Suspicious Minds," from the same Memphis sessions, did, though.

[elperromagico]

20. Yeah. "Suspicious Minds" was his last #1 pop hit.

He came close in '72 with "Burning Love," but was kept out of the #1 position by another rock-and-roll pioneer, Chuck Berry, with "My Ding-A-Ling." :eyes:

He had several top ten pop or country hits during the seventies:

"The Wonder of You" (1970; #9 Pop)
"There Goes My Everything" (1971; #9 Country)
"Burning Love" (1972; #2 Pop)
"I've Got a Thing About You, Baby" (1974; #4 Country)
"Help Me" (1974; #6 Country)
"It's Midnight" (1974; #9 Country)
"Hurt" (1976; #6 Country)
"Moody Blue" (1976; #1 Country)
"Way Down" (1977; #1 Country)
"My Way" (1977; #2 Country)
"Unchained Melody" (1978; #6 Country)
"Are You Sincere" (1979; #10 Country)
"There's A Honky Tonk Angel (Who Will Take Me Back In)" (1979; #6 Country)

I think that, had Elvis lived into the eighties, he probably would have gone further down the country route in his singles. I just can't imagine Elvis doing the synthesized pop that was so prevalent in the '80s... any more than I can imagine Hendrix doing disco.

[ForrestGump]

21. I agree with the likely direction of his career (more gospel, too)

"Burning Love" was #1 in the US according to Cashbox, just not on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. He also hit #1 on other of Billboard's charts, as you show, and certainly overseas (e.g., "Way Down," his last single, was a UK #1 before he died as was "The Wonder Of You" in 1970) and, of course, the remix of "A Little Less Conversation" took the US Biullboard #1 spot for a few weeks in 2001.

[elperromagico]

22. "Way Down" has that great, spooky bass vocal by J. D. Sumner.

I think it's in the Guinness Book of World Records for being one of the lowest (in terms of pitch) recorded vocals.

"Way on down, way - on - dowwwwwwnnnnn."

[mithnanthy]

23. Loving You.....

is my favorite, ever! It always brings me to tears. So simple...so touching.

[jus_the_facts]

24. Love Me Tender........

.....oh my darlin' I love you and I always will! :loveya: