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It's just another one of the lame, uninspired, overly commercial RCA recordings along with Jailhouse Rock, Heartbreak Hotel etc. He slowly went downhill after he left Sun. Listen to Mystery Train then play Little Sister. Like everything else it became about the $$$.
That he went downhill after leaving Sun is only partly true, in my opinion. I’m of the opinion that Elvis’ seventies were his greatest decade. Not his most important or most influential, but definitely the decade where he made his most emotionally charged and most personal music. He didn’t care about anything other than singing his heart out in the seventies. His life was in shambles and the songs he chose reflected that. I worship everything about him, but the stuff that hits me the hardest and that I most often return to is his stuff from the seventies. That his seventies are underrated is the biggest and most tragic understatement in pop music history.
His voice now is both deep er (should help in the first part) and stronger (should help in the final part). If he can do Home is a ? and Love is on its way out, then I think he can do this one too now.
Who debuted first? Elvis or Gene, Eddie Cochran or Perkins?
Elvis was first out of all of them but listen to Bill Haley and the Saddlemen do Rock the Joint. That was like '52 so the debate of who invented rockabilly is still open.
Jimmy Preston recorded that song in the late 40’s. It sounds very little like rockabilly, but it’s definitely rock’n’roll or at least ‘proto-rock’. Like an early version of the type of rock Bill Haley later made. It’s important to remember that there is a difference between rocknroll and rockabilly.
