sing just about anything, including the phone book (cue up "Memphis, Tennessee"). Elvis Presley adopted Mario Lanza-inspired romantic pieces, Arthur Crudup's down-and-dirty blues, pop tunes from ...

INSKEEP: Until Elvis began singing an old blues song. Here's how guitarist Scotty Moore told it to NPR in 2004. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) SCOTTY MOORE: We played probably a couple of ...

Only 19, Elvis sings it with more shock ... tarting up the tune with a hiccupy blues-pop reading during his famed July 1954 session at Sun (the same one that yielded “That’s All Right ...

Not only could Elvis sing, but he could act too ... Elvis Presley is shown with six babies who appear in the movie “G.I. Blues” with co-star Juliet Prowse on set on June 27, 1960, in Hollywood ...

The King of Rock 'n' Roll can thank the rhythm and blues ... be singing and associating with Black artists.” Shonka Dukureh as Big Mama Thornton in Warner Bros. Pictures’ drama “Elvis." ...

“I’d play Lucille (his guitar) and sing with Elvis, or we’d take turns. It was his way of relaxing’…’We were the original Blues Brothers because that man knew more blues songs than ...

Little recognizable even to most Elvis fans ... “That’s All Right” The contemporary blues great, playing Crudup, as mentioned, is heard singing a couple of numbers, including the one ...

Last year he won the championship at 19 years old, leaning into Elvis' young heartthrob era from the '50s. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "G.I. BLUES") SANTORO: (Singing) I've got those hup, two, three ...

Known as the “King of Rock and Roll,” Elvis Presley rose to fame in the 1950s with his unique voice singing blues, country and pop. Elvis left the building too soon on Aug. 16, 1977 ...