heartbreak hotel

The king had a tale to tell and his first million selling pop number one with his first single on RCA. Tommy Durden and Mae Boren Axton wrote the song based on a news story about a man who destroyed all of his identification and jumped from a hotel window leaving a note saying: "I walk a lonely street." Axton played the song for Elvis in Nashville at a country music convention and he was so blown away that he brought it to the studio without approving it with management. Presley suggested recording the vocal in the hallway to get the echo effect. Some executives thought it was too morbid; but it went on to become the best selling single of 1956. This week it was number one on four Billboard charts: Best Sellers in Stores, Most Played by Jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes, and the Top 100.

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Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel - 1956 by CASVI_Factory

Well, since my baby left me

I found a new place to dwell

It's down at the end of lonely street

At heartbreak hotel

You make me so lonely, baby

I get so lonely, I get so lonely, I could die

And although it's always crowded

You still can find some room

Where broken hearted lovers

Do cry away their gloom

You make me so lonely, baby

I get so lonely, I get so lonely, I could die

Well, the bell hop's tears keep flowin'

And the desk clerk's dressed in black

Well, they been so long on lonely street

They ain't ever gonna look back

You make me so lonely, baby

I get so lonely, I get so lonely, I could die

Hey now, if your baby leaves you

And you got a tale to tell

Just take a walk down lonely street

To heartbreak hotel