11 November 2021

111 ELVIS Songs I Love Most

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

60. ROCK-A-HULA-BABY
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

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







ZYZ

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