In 2017, on the 40th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death, The Commercial Appeal published a list of the singer’s 40 best hits. Compiled and written by senior reporters Bob Mehr, John Beifuss and ...

The first round of voting to determine Elvis Presley's best song has come to a close, and the field of 32 has been pared down to 16 tunes. With the annual Elvis Week festivities coming up, The ...

Elvis Presley‘s recording career is historically influential in the music industry. Many musical legends cite the king of rock and roll as an inspiration and love his music. However, as remarkable as ...

Elvis Presley hit the top 20 on the country music charts in the early 1970s with a heartbreaking Willie Nelson song written a decade earlier. Nelson penned "Funny How Time Slips Away" in 1961 during a ...

One of Elvis Presley’s songs became a top 5 hit for Roy Orbison. Tom Petty said a lyric from Elvis’ song “was pretty heavy stuff for a little kid like [him] to hear.” Petty recalled seeing the King of ...

The Beatles and Elvis Presley stand as titanic figures in the panorama of 20th-century music. Their records sold by the millions, and they forever altered the landscape of music with pioneering studio ...

The song, a slightly shocking blend of the spiritual and sexual, seemed like a hit to those in the room, with its reverent, raunchy intro: Lord Almighty, I feel my temperature rising, mmm. Higher, ...

Readers voted to narrow down Elvis Presley's top 32 songs to the best 16. Round 2 of voting begins Aug. 4 and ends Aug. 7. The winning song will be announced on Aug. 29. The first round of voting to ...