presented in order of how strong I appreciate each track nowadays, after fourty years of returning in periods to Presley.
Every song here I must have heard more than twenty rounds (including
versions), some of them around hundred times since pre-school, some
discovered very recently.
For each tune I
mention one person or constellation, who's associated with its
background, may be a composer and/or lyricist and/or original performer
Much
qualities are also thanks to choires such as The Jordanaires and other
musicians, even if ELVIS is the king of everything here.
1. THE WONDER OF YOU
Baker Knight
2.
(NO) ONE-SIDED LOVE AFFAIR
Bill Campbell
3. KENTUCKY RAIN
Eddie Rabbitt
4. FOOLS RUSH IN (where angels fear to tread)
Bloom & Mercer
5. I GOT A WOMAN
Ray Charles
6. STUCK ON YOU
Schroeder & McFarland
7. IT'S NOW OR NEVER
Eduardo di Capua
8. RETURN TO SENDER
Scott & Blackwell
9. UNTIL IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GO
Buffy Sainte-Marie
10.
DON'T CRY DADDY
Mac Davis
11. LIFE ("Somewhere out in empty space, long before the human race")
Shirl Milete
12. TRYIN' TO GET TO YOU
McCoy & Singleton
13. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE ("to ask a baby not to cry")
Armando Manzanero
14. GENTLE ON MY MIND
John Hatford
15. MARY IN THE MORNING
Cymbal & Rashkow
16. SWEET CAROLINE
Neil Diamond
17. SHE'S NOT YOU
Doc Pomus
18. (Now and then there's) A FOOL SUCH AS I
Hank Snow
19. SNOWBIRD
Gene MacLellan (Anne Murray)
20. LONESOME COWBOY
Bennett & Tepper
21. I WAS THE ONE ("who taught her to kiss")
Peppers, Demetrius and more
22. ANYWAY YOU WANT ME (THAT'S HOW I WILL BE)
Aaron Schroder
23. THE GIRL OF MY BEST FRIEND
Bobrick & Ross
24. SUSPICION
Pomus & Shuman
25.
WOODEN HEART
Bert Kaempfert and more
26. SOLITAIRE
Neil Sedaka
27. (IT'S ONLY) WORDS
Bee Gees
28. JUST TELL HER JIM SAID HELLO
Leiber & Stoller
29. MY BABY LEFT ME
Arthur Crudup
30. LOVE LETTERS
Heymann & Young
31. LET ME
Presley & Matson
32. LAWDY MISS CLAWDY
Lloyd Price
33. YOU'RE THE DEVIL IN DISGUISE
Kaye, Giant & Baum
34. WEAR MY RING AROUND YOUR NECK
Carroll & Moody
35. (MARIE'S THE NAME of) HIS LATEST FLAME
Pomus & Shuman
36. SOLDIER BOY
Jones & Williams Jr.
37. HEART OF ROME ("in every fountain")
Howard & Blaikley & Stephens
38. BLUE SUEDE SHOES
Carl Perkins
39. THE NEXT STEP IS LOVE
Evans & Parnes
40. FEVER
Blackwell & Cooley
41. I GOT STUNG
Schroeder & Hill
42. GOT A LOT O' LIVIN' TO DO
Schroeder & Weisman
43. I'M GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN AND CRY
Joe Thomas & Howard Biggs
44. (YOU'RE SO SQUARE) BABY, I DON'T CARE
Leiber & Stoller
45. (LET'S HAVE A) PARTY
Jessie Mae Robinson
46. SUCH A NIGHT
Lincoln Chase
47. FLAMING STAR
Sid Wayne
48. SURRENDER
Pomus & Shuman
49. I'LL BE HOME ON CHRISTMAS DAY
Michael Jarrett
50. INDESCRIBABLY BLUE
Darrell Glenn
51. CRYING IN THE CHAPEL
Artie Glenn
52. SUSPICIOUS MINDS
Mark James
53. I JUST CAN'T HELP BELIEVING
Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
54. INHERIT THE WIND
Eddie Rabbitt
55. EARLY MORNIN' RAIN
Gordon Lightfoot
56. OLD SHEP ("if dogs have a heaven")
Red Foley
57. ANYTHING THAT'S PART OF YOU
Don Robertson
58. LOVE ME TENDER
Elvis Presley & Vera Matson
59. HARD-HEADED WOMAN
Claude Demetrius
Dolores Fuller and more
61. DOUBLE TROUBLE
Pomus & Shuman
62. TUTTI FRUTTI
Little Richard
63. SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL
Jesse Stone
64. SWING DOWN SWEET CHARIOT
traditional spiritual
65. GOOD LUCK CHARM
Schoeder & Gold
66. LONG-LEGGED GIRL (WITH THE SHORT DRESS ON)
Scott & McFarland
67. AND THE GRASS WON'T PAY NO MIND
Neil Diamond
68. IF I CAN DREAM
Walter Earl Brown
69. WILD IN THE COUNTRY
Peretti & Creatore
70. LOVING YOU
Leiber & Stoller
71. ASK ME
Domenico Modugno
72. I'LL NEVER KNOW
Wayne & Weisman
73. ALWAYS ON MY MIND
Mark James and more
74. TODAY, TOMORROW AND FOREVER
Kaye, Giant & Baum
75. I NEED YOUR LOVE TONIGHT
Sid Wayne & Bix Reichner
76. TEDDY BEAR
Mann & Lowe
77. LOVE SONG OF THE YEAR
Chris Christian
78. I GOTTA KNOW
for Cliff Richard
79. LITTLE SISTER
Pomus & Shuman
80. POOR BOY
Presley & Matson
81. IN THE GHETTO
Mac Davis
Mac Davis
82.
MONEY HONEY
Jess Stone
83. KING CREOLE
Leiber & Stoller
84. ALL SHOOK UP
Otis Blackwell & Elvis Presley
85. BOSSA NOVA BABY
Leiber & Stoller
86. TREAT ME NICE
Leiber & Stoller
87. PARALYZED
Otis Blackwell
88. READY TEDDY
Little Richard
89.
BLUEBERRY HILL
Fats Domino
90. MILKCOW BLUES BOOGIE
based on Kokomo Arnold
91. U.S. MALE
Jerry Reed
92. BLUE MOON
Hart & Rodgers
93. I LOVE YOU BECAUSE
Leon Payne
94. FOOL
Carl Sigman from James Last
95. MOODY BLUE
Mark James
96. THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING
Dallas Frazier
97. FROM A JACK TO A KING
Ned Miller
98. KISS ME QUICK
Pomus & Shuman
99. I LOVE ONLY ONE GIRL (ONE IN EVERY TOWN)
Bennett & Tepper
100. CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE
Peretti & Creatore
101. HEARTBREAK HOTEL
Axton & Durden
102.
I FEEL SO BAD
Chuck Willis
103. YOU'RE RIGHT, I'M LEFT, SHE'S GONE
Taylor & Kesler
104.
NEVER AGAIN
Chestnut & Wheeler
105. MAMA LIKED THE ROSES
Johnny Christopher
106. RAGS TO RICHES
Yuri Shchetkov
107. BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER
Simon & Garfunkel
108. MEMORIES
Mac Davis & Billy Strange
109. ALL THAT I AM
Bennett & Tepper
110. YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELIN'
Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
111. I'VE LOST YOU ("I can't reach you anymore")
Ken Howard & Alan Blaikley
This last was earlier one I loved most
