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Elvis Presley

Heartbreak Hotel

1956 · via Leon Russell

Elvis Presley’s 1956 recording of “Heartbreak Hotel” is the earliest release on file. Elvis Presley shares the writing credit with Mae Boren Axton and Tommy Durden. Also recorded by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (released 1978), John Cale (released 1974) and Sha Na Na (released 1973), among 770 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Everyone files Heartbreak Hotel under Elvis, but the credit is split three ways, and Mae Boren Axton's name is right there next to his. Play Leon's take, then go back to Elvis and hear what the three of them built.

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Credited writers: Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden and Elvis Presley.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1956.

Other recordings on file · first release year

770 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Leon Russell took on Heartbreak Hotel. Elvis Presley and Tommy Durden share its writing credit with which third name, the one almost nobody remembers?Mae Boren Axton
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