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Elvis Presley performed "Love Me Tender" on The Ed Sullivan Show on September 9, 1956, shortly before the single's release and about a month before the movie, Love Me Tender, was released (for which the reworded song had been written). After that, RCA received more than a million advance orders, making it a gold record before it was even released.
Love Me Tender is an EP by Elvis Presley, containing the four songs from the motion picture of the same name. It was released by RCA Victor in November 1956. The EP peaked at No. 9 on Top Pop Albums chart with sales of over 600,000, [ 2 ] as well as making it to No. 35 on the singles chart .
The New York Times panned the first side of Love Me Tender, calling it "bland, countrypolitan elevator music," but thought more highly of side two's "first-rate after-hours blues." [7] The Globe and Mail wrote that "the singing is lugubrious, the playing is by rote, and the sound is so lush that King can barely be heard above it." [8]
Love Me Tender premiered on November 15, 1956, at the Paramount Theatre in New York City, and was released nationally on November 21. [3] Though studios typically released were only 200-300 prints, 20th Century Fox released a record-breaking 575 prints.
"Love Me Tender" (song), a 1956 song by Elvis Presley, adapted from the tune of the 1861 American Civil War song "Aura Lee" Love Me Tender, a 1956 film featuring Elvis Presley, named after the song Love Me Tender, an EP by Elvis Presley, containing songs from the above-mentioned 1956 film Love Me Tender
Love Me Tender; Don't Be Cruel; One Night with You; Always on My Mind; Good Luck Charm; Can't Help Falling in Love; Surrender; You Don't Have to Say You Love Me; In the Ghetto; The Wonder of You; Return to Sender; Young and Beautiful; Are You Lonesome Tonight? She's Not You; Crying in the Chapel; Devil in Disguise; I Want You, I Need You, I ...
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