Heartbreak Hotel"Heartbreak Hotel" was Elvis Presley very first single for his new label, RCA. Prior to this, Elvis had released five discs on the Sun label.
Reactions to his brash new style of singing then had been mixed, but one thing for sure, he was big hit with the American teenagers.
"Heartbeat Hotel", co-written by Elvis with Mae Boren Aston and Thomas Durden, occupied #1 in US Pop Chart for 6 weeks (April - June 1956) and his first LP "Elvis Presley" topped the US Album Chart for 10 weeks (April - June) too. It reached only #2 in the UK pop single chart.
Many artistes had covered the song after Elvis. Among them were: Connie Francis (1959), Chet Atkins (1963), Adam Faith (1965), The Animals (1967), Merle Haggard (1977). And Willie Nelson and Leon Russel had a no. 1 cover version in 1979 on the country charts.
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