Wednesday, May 11, 2011

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.



















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














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