Don't Be Cruel

...and panel discussions. For further information, please go to http://www.elvis.com. From the moment in early 1956 when Elvis' first string of hits on RCA Victor proclaimed his arrival on the old 'Top 100' - "Heartbreak Hotel," "Blue Suede...

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...with makeup painted around his eyes. That night Elvis sang hits like "Don't Be Cruel", "Love Me Tender", and "Hound Dog", shaking his hips and standing on his toes while girls screamed in the audience. And that guitar: it was a weapon and it...

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...them perform during his late 1956 stint in Las Vegas. Wilson performed an Elvis medley as part of the Dominoes' show, and Elvis was bowled over by Wilson's version of "Don't Be Cruel." Elvis returned the following three nights to see...

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...published in Heartaches by the Number: Country Music's 500 Greatest Singles David Cantwell argues that Elvis Presley's recording of "Don't Be Cruel" in July 1956 was the record that sparked the beginning of the era we now call the "Nashville...

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...included in the recipe.) Every young visitor to the center would leave armed with a plush cow bearing the message "Don't Be Cruel: Go Vegan!" and a copy of PETA's pro-vegan comic book "A Cow's Life." Rodger Motz, the real estate...

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..."Don't Be Cruel" in Paris, France, 1981 for Big Beat Records. Kim Carnes performed Don't Be Cruel live in Savoy New York in 1981 (see Wolfgang's Concert Vault for more details) Jackie Wilson performed the song in Las Vegas in 1956 as part...

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...of what most white kids came to know as rock 'n' roll in the 1950s. I wonder how many times I've heard "Don't Be Cruel," "Heartbreak Hotel" or "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" Elvis was unique, charismatic, with a voice to match. Very few if any...

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...background to the song itself is a rather interesting one. Since the huge success of "Don't Be Cruel", Elvis had been anxious to record another song from the pen of Otis Blackwell. Eventually, Blackwell came around with "All Shook Up."

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June Juanico June Juanico (born 1938) is a former beauty queen and an Elvis Presley fan from Biloxi, Mississippi, whom the famous rock 'n' roll singer dated in 1955 and 1956, for instance, when he took three weeks of vacation after having...

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