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