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"Don't Be Cruel" is a song that was recorded by Elvis Presley and written by Otis Blackwell in 1956. [1] It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2004, it was listed #197 in Rolling Stone's list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time .
Otis Blackwell (February 16, 1931 – May 6, 2002) was an American songwriter whose work influenced rock and roll.His compositions include "Fever" (recorded by Little Willie John), "Great Balls of Fire" and "Breathless" (recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis), "Don't Be Cruel", "All Shook Up", and "Return to Sender" (with Winfield Scott; recorded by Elvis Presley), and "Handy Man" (recorded by Jimmy Jones).
"Don't Be Cruel" 2 "Hound Dog" 8 "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" 14 "Love Me Tender" 15 1957 "All Shook Up" 1 "Too Much" 9 "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" 14 "Jailhouse Rock" 16 1958 "Don't" / "I Beg of You" 3 "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck" / "Doncha' Think It's Time" 22 "Hard Headed Woman" / "Don't Ask Me Why" 49 1959 "A Big Hunk o' Love" 30
(1962), which aimed to serve as a comeback for Elvis Presley. Songwriter Otis Blackwell had already written several of Presley’s biggest hits, including "Don't Be Cruel" (1956) and "All Shook Up" (1957). Winfield Scott was a frequent collaborator with Blackwell, and writer of the hit song “Tweedle Dee” (1954). [5]
When on "Don't Be Cruel", Presley "slides into a 'mmmmm' that marks the transition between the first two verses," he shows "how masterful his relaxed style really is." [ 344 ] Marsh describes the vocal performance on "Can't Help Falling in Love" as one of "gentle insistence and delicacy of phrasing", with the line " 'Shall I stay' pronounced as ...
"Don't Be Cruel" (Elvis Presley, Otis Blackwell) – 1:53; Digital streaming releases display the following track list, but only 5 of them (1-4,12) play the correct song. [9] [10] For the rest, the track number of the song actually heard follows in brackets. "Out on the Side" "She Darkened the Sun" "Don't Come Rollin'" "Train Leaves Here This ...
"Don't Be Cruel" is a song by American singer Bobby Brown. Taken from his second studio album of the same name, the song was written and produced by the songwriting and production duo Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Antonio "L.A." Reid, with additional writing by Daryl Simmons.
All Shook Up is a 2004 American jukebox musical with music from the Elvis Presley songbook and with a book by Joe DiPietro.. The show concerns the repressed residents of an unnamed American town in the 1950s who experience an awakening when a leather-clad guitar-strumming roustabout rolls into town.