Love Me Tender

Sixty years ago tonight—on September 9, 1956—Elvis Presley made his first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show performing "Love Me Tender".

Scotty Moore (1931-2016)

A video to mark the passing of Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley's original guitarist. Here he is with a Guitar solo on "Hound Dog",

Suspicious MInds

My favorite Elvis Presley song—"Suspicious Minds"—to mark that today would have been his 80th birthday.

Jerry Leiber (1933-2011)

A post to mark the passing Monday of lyricist Jerry Leiber. With music composer Mike Stoller, he was half of one of the most successful songwriting duos in the middle part of the 20th Century.

My 10/1/10 post contained what was their first big hits, Big Mama Thornton's original recording of "Hound Dog". Below are a couple more songs by Leiber and Stoller.

Elvis Presley later had a big hit with "Hound Dog", so, to give Elvis his due, here is his version of "Jailhouse Rock"



"Stand By Me" performed by Ben E. King




"Is That All There Is" performed by Peggy Lee

We Remember the King

Elvis Presley died 33 years ago today. To mark the date here is a 1985 video of Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Carl Perkins singing "We Remember the King". Of these four only Jerry Lee Lewis is still alive. I guess his last album was appropriately titled Last Man Standing.