Over 3,400 Elvis Fans Around the World Polled
Elvis Presley was flat out the world’s greatest singer. The King of Rock and Roll has been gone longer than the number of years he lived, but the truth of his legacy keeps marching on.
Even now, the recorded voice of Elvis has been heard by more people on earth than any other human being in history.
With his amazing versatility, he mastered and broke records (no pun intended) across music barriers.
Jack Dennis polled Elvis fans across the world from August 1-December 1, 2017 and again for CleverJourneys from January 3-May 1, 2022 to find out which songs they believe or wished he should have recorded. Over 3,400 fans (3,421 to be exact) responded.
Note: Jack Dennis (Texasjackson) was the president of the Texas Chapter of the Official Elvis Presley Graceland Fan Club in the late 1970s and at the time of Presley’s death in August 1977. He continues to maintain friendships with Elvis’ friends, family and fans globally.
Here are the top 50 songs Elvis fans wished he would have recorded.
I Will Always Love You
Originally written and recorded by Dolly Parton in 1973, “I Will Always Love You” is the number one song Elvis fans wished he would have recorded. The song won an Emmy for Best Recording of the Year by Whitney Houston in 1992 (from the movie “Body Guard”). Other notable covers were by Kenny Rogers in 1983 and Connie Talbot in 2007.
Old Rugged Cross
“The Old Rugged Cross” is the number two choice of Elvis fans. It is a popular hymn written in 1912, the year Elvis’ mother Gladys was born, by evangelist and song-leader George Bennard.
In order of Elvis fan choices here are the other 48 songs they wished he would have recorded:
3. Hallelujah
4. He Stopped Loving Her Today
5. I Fall to Pieces
🔹Need You Now
🔹Today I Started Loving You Again
🔹The Most Beautiful Girl
🔹I Love a Rainy Night
🔹Save the Last Dance For Me
🔹Fire & Rain
🔹Brown Eyed Girl
🔹All Summer Long
🔹When a Man Loves a Woman
🔹Autumn Leaves
🔹The Prayer
🔹One Pair of Hands
🔹The Lighthouse
🔹Tears From Heaven
🔹Don’t Pull Your Love
🔹Puddle of tears
🔹Crazy Little Thing Called Love
🔹Rock n Roll is King
🔹Miss Ann
🔹Shake a Hand
🔹Send Me Some Lovin
🔹I Told You SO
🔹Don’t Close Your Eyes
🔹Let It Be
🔹Me and Bobby McGee
🔹Fire
🔹Only the Lonely
🔹Piece of My Heart
🔹Delilah
🔹Only You
🔹Bohemian Rhapsody
🔹Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
🔹To Love Somebody
🔹Candle in the Wind
🔹Annies Song
🔹Oh Holy Night
🔹Sleigh Ride
🔹You Lift Me Up
🔹Behind Closed Doors
🔹The Keeper of the Stars
🔹In the Still of the Night
🔹There Goes My Baby
🔹Kansas City
🔹Sittin on the Dock of the Bay
🔹I’m a Honky Tonk Man
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Thank you! I enjoyed reading your detailed sharing of so much Elvis. You are such a knowledgeable and heartfelt Elvis fan. So much time and dedication to putting this together and sharing with us. Again, many thanks’
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It is my privilege. Thanks again for your comments and readership.
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When in Nashville, go to the Country Music Hall of Fame and take The RCA Studio B tour. I went recently and discovered that Elvis wanted to record ‘I Will Always Love You’. He had come across the song while being working in Studio B. It would have happened except that Col. Tom Parker called Dolly and demanded 50% of the publishing, Dolly refused.
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Yes, a legendary story in Elvis history. I’ve been to the famed Studio B and enjoyed it much. Thanks for your comment, Scott. We appreciate your readership.
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