youtu.be/VBrU27ZjlMw For Beverly Gilbreath Content RCA executive Steve Sholes had commissioned two new songs for this batch of sessions, Paralyzed from Otis Blackwell and Love Me from Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the authors respectively of both sides of Presleys summer hit of 1956, Dont Be Cruel backed with Hound Dog, the first record to top all three of the Billboard singles charts then in existence: pop, R&B, and C&W.[4] Presley decided upon three Little Richard covers, and selected three new country ballads respectively from regular Everly Brothers writer Boudleaux Bryant and guitarist Chet Atkins, Sun staff musician and engineer Stan Kesler, and Aaron Schroeder and Ben Weisman. The latter two, contracted to Hill and Range, the publishing company of Presleys manager, Colonel Tom Parker, would write dozens of songs for Presley through the 1960s. Also included was the song with which Presley won second prize at a fair in Tupelo when he was ten years old, Red Foleys 1941 country song, Old Shep.
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