Elvis Presley
Active: 1956–2008
140
Releases
53
Active Years
About Elvis Presley
In 1992, the U.S.
Postal Service conducted a nationwide vote on a crucial subject: Should their upcoming stamp feature Young Elvis or Older Elvis? More than 75 percent of the million-plus ballots voted for Young Elvis, but the fact that the question was asked at all speaks to the difficulty of pinning down just who the man was and how he should be remembered: Boundary-breaking R&B singer or Hollywood crooner? Rock pioneer or Vegas showman? An artist who legitimized blues for white audiences or appropriated it from black performers?
In truth, Elvis Presley was all these things and more, a prism through which just about every myth we have about race, pop culture, and the American dream can be refracted.
Born in 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi, in a two-room shotgun house built by his father, Presley moved to Memphis as a teenager, recording his first sides for Sun Records a couple of months after he finished high school.
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Complete Discography
HEARTBREAK HOTEL
Documented across 22 weeks
BLUE SUEDE SHOES
Documented across 11 weeks
I WANT YOU I NEED YOU I LOVE YOU
Documented across 10 weeks
HOUND DOG
Documented across 25 weeks
BLUE MOON
Documented across 9 weeks
I DON'T CARE IF THE SUN DON'T SHINE
Documented across 4 weeks
LOVE ME TENDER
Documented across 8 weeks
MYSTERY TRAIN
Documented across 5 weeks
RIP IT UP
Documented across 1 week
TOO MUCH
Documented across 9 weeks
ALL SHOOK UP
Documented across 21 weeks
(LET ME BE YOUR) TEDDY BEAR
Documented across 19 weeks
PARALYSED
Documented across 8 weeks
PARTY
Documented across 17 weeks
GOT A LOT O' LIVIN' TO DO
Documented across 3 weeks
LOVING YOU
Documented across 2 weeks
TRYING TO GET TO YOU
Documented across 3 weeks
LAWDY MISS CLAWDY
Documented across 5 weeks
SANTA BRING MY BABY BACK TO ME
Documented across 8 weeks
I'M LEFT, YOU'RE RIGHT, SHE'S GONE
Documented across 3 weeks
JAILHOUSE ROCK
Documented across 27 weeks
JAILHOUSE ROCK (EP)
Documented across 5 weeks
DON'T
Documented across 12 weeks
WEAR MY RING AROUND YOUR NECK
Documented across 11 weeks
HARD HEADED WOMAN
Documented across 13 weeks
KING CREOLE
Documented across 16 weeks
ONE NIGHT/I GOT STUNG
Documented across 18 weeks
A FOOL SUCH AS I/I NEED YOUR LOVE TONIGHT
Documented across 15 weeks
A BIG HUNK O' LOVE
Documented across 11 weeks
STUCK ON YOU
Documented across 14 weeks
A MESS OF BLUES
Documented across 18 weeks
IT'S NOW OR NEVER
Documented across 23 weeks
ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT?
Documented across 15 weeks
WOODEN HEART
Documented across 32 weeks
SURRENDER
Documented across 20 weeks
WILD IN THE COUNTRY/I FEEL SO BAD
Documented across 12 weeks
HIS LATEST FLAME/LITTLE SISTERS
Documented across 13 weeks
CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE/ROCK-A-HULA BABY
Documented across 20 weeks
GOOD LUCK CHARM
Documented across 22 weeks
FOLLOW THAT DREAM (EP)
Documented across 2 weeks
SHE'S NOT YOU
Documented across 20 weeks
RETURN TO SENDER
Documented across 20 weeks
ONE BROKEN HEART FOR SALE
Documented across 9 weeks
DEVIL IN DISGUISE
Documented across 12 weeks
BOSSA NOVA BABY
Documented across 8 weeks
KISS ME QUICK
Documented across 10 weeks
VIVA LAS VEGAS
Documented across 14 weeks
KISSIN' COUSINS
Documented across 11 weeks
SUCH A NIGHT
Documented across 10 weeks
AIN'T THAT LOVING YOU BABY
Documented across 8 weeks
BLUE CHRISTMAS
Documented across 33 weeks
DO THE CLAM
Documented across 8 weeks
CRYING IN THE CHAPEL
Documented across 20 weeks
TELL ME WHY
Documented across 10 weeks
BLUE RIVER
Documented across 7 weeks
FRANKIE AND JOHNNY
Documented across 9 weeks
LOVE LETTERS
Documented across 10 weeks
ALL THAT I AM
Documented across 8 weeks
IF EVERY DAY WAS LIKE CHRISTMAS
Documented across 7 weeks
INDESCRIBABLY BLUE
Documented across 5 weeks
YOU GOTTA STOP/LOVE MACHINE
Documented across 5 weeks
LONG LEGGED GIRL (WITH THE SHORT DRESS ON)
Documented across 2 weeks
GUITAR MAN
Documented across 9 weeks
U.S. MALE
Documented across 8 weeks
YOUR TIME HASN'T COME YET BABY
Documented across 11 weeks
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE
Documented across 3 weeks
IF I CAN DREAM
Documented across 11 weeks
IN THE GHETTO
Documented across 19 weeks
CLEAN UP YOUR OWN BACK YARD
Documented across 7 weeks
SUSPICIOUS MINDS
Documented across 21 weeks
DON'T CRY DADDY
Documented across 11 weeks
KENTUCKY RAIN
Documented across 12 weeks
THE WONDER OF YOU
Documented across 26 weeks
I'VE LOST YOU
Documented across 11 weeks
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME
Documented across 11 weeks
THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING
Documented across 11 weeks
RAGS TO RICHES
Documented across 11 weeks
HEARTBREAK HOTEL/HOUND DOG
Documented across 12 weeks
I'M LEAVIN'
Documented across 9 weeks
I JUST CAN'T HELP BELIEVING
Documented across 15 weeks
JAILHOUSE ROCK {1971}
Documented across 4 weeks
UNTIL IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GO
Documented across 9 weeks
AN AMERICAN TRILOGY
Documented across 12 weeks
BURNING LOVE
Documented across 11 weeks
ALWAYS ON MY MIND
Documented across 22 weeks
POLK SALAD ANNIE
Documented across 7 weeks
FOOL
Documented across 10 weeks
RAISED ON ROCK
Documented across 6 weeks
I'VE GOT A THING ABOUT YOU BABY
Documented across 5 weeks
IF YOU TALK IN YOUR SLEEP
Documented across 3 weeks
MY BOY
Documented across 12 weeks
PROMISED LAND
Documented across 8 weeks
TROUBLE
Documented across 4 weeks
GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME
Documented across 5 weeks
HURT
Documented across 5 weeks
GIRL OF MY BEST FRIEND
Documented across 12 weeks
SUSPICION
Documented across 11 weeks
MOODY BLUE
Documented across 9 weeks
WAY DOWN
Documented across 17 weeks
ALL SHOOK UP {1977}
Documented across 2 weeks
ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT? {1977}
Documented across 1 week
CRYING IN THE CHAPEL {1977}
Documented across 2 weeks
IT'S NOW OR NEVER {1977}
Documented across 2 weeks
JAILHOUSE ROCK {1977}
Documented across 2 weeks
RETURN TO SENDER {1977}
Documented across 3 weeks
THE WONDER OF YOU {1977}
Documented across 1 week
MY WAY
Documented across 8 weeks
DON'T BE CRUEL
Documented across 12 weeks
IT WON'T SEEM LIKE CHRISTMAS (WITHOUT YOU)
Documented across 5 weeks
IT'S ONLY LOVE/BEYOND THE REEF
Documented across 10 weeks
SANTA CLAUS IS BACK IN TOWN
Documented across 4 weeks
GUITAR MAN {1981}
Documented across 4 weeks
LOVING ARMS
Documented across 6 weeks
ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT? {1982}
Documented across 7 weeks
THE SOUND OF YOUR CRY
Documented across 2 weeks
BABY I DON'T CARE
Documented across 4 weeks
I CAN HELP
Documented across 9 weeks
GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME {1984}
Documented across 3 weeks
THE LAST FAREWELL
Documented across 6 weeks
THE ELVIS MEDLEY
Documented across 3 weeks
ALWAYS ON MY MIND {1985}
Documented across 5 weeks
AIN'T THAT LOVIN' YOU BABY
Documented across 5 weeks
LOVE ME TENDER {1987}
Documented across 3 weeks
STUCK ON YOU {1988}
Documented across 4 weeks
MEAN WOMAN BLUES
Documented across 3 weeks
ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT? (LIVE)
Documented across 2 weeks
DON'T BE CRUEL {1992}
Documented across 2 weeks
THE TWELFTH OF NEVER
Documented across 3 weeks
HEARTBREAK HOTEL/I WAS THE ONE
Documented across 2 weeks
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
Documented across 2 weeks
RUBBERNECKIN'
Documented across 16 weeks
THAT'S ALL RIGHT
Documented across 10 weeks
A FOOL SUCH AS I
Documented across 6 weeks
ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT
Documented across 6 weeks
(MARIE'S THE NAME) HIS LATEST FLAME
Documented across 4 weeks
ROCK-A-HULA BABY
Documented across 4 weeks
(YOU'RE THE) DEVIL IN DISGUISE
Documented across 5 weeks
MY BABY LEFT ME
Documented across 2 weeks
(LET ME BE YOUR) TEDDYBEAR
Documented across 2 weeks
BABY LET'S PLAY HOUSE
Documented across 1 week