The 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap features the fictional band members Derek Smalls, David St. Hubbins, and Nigel Tufnel attempting a version of the song at Presley's grave.

Elvis Presley's version of " Blue Moon " plays as Joe spend his final night before departing on his journey.

It yielded his biggest hit, an R & B cover version of Elvis Presley's 1960s recording " Little Sister ".

Twitty was known to cover songs — most notably " Slow Hand " which was a major pop hit for the Pointer Sisters, " The Rose " which was a major pop hit for Bette Midler, and " Heartache Tonight " which was a major pop hit for The Eagles ; Twitty's songs have also been covered numerous times, including four notable covers, George Jones ' rendition of " Hello Darlin ", Blake Shelton's " Goodbye Time ", The Misfits and Glen Campbell versions of " It's Only Make Believe " and Elvis Presley's version of " There's a Honky Tonk Angel ( Who'll Take Me Back In )".

During one notable Tonight Show performance, Kinison delivered what began as a straightforward version of Elvis Presley's " Are You Lonesome Tonight?

The English-dubbed version was presented in American theaters in September 1965 by Walter Reade-Sterling, and distributed by Continental Distributing under 20th Century Fox on a double bill with Elvis Presley's musical-comedy, Harum Scarum.

At one such audition, he met Arsenie " Arsenium " Todiraş, who eventually won over the initially skeptical Bălan with his version of Elvis Presley's " Love Me Tender.

Presley's version was released as a single on August 1, 1972, with the B-side " It's a Matter of Time ", and it reached the Top 40 on the country charts, peaking at # 36.

In March 2005, Q magazine placed Presley's version at No. 55 in its list of the Q Magazine's 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.

* The AGM-28 Hound Dog missile's name is inspired by Presley's version of the song.

Presley's version also reached number 37 on the US Country Singles chart, and number one on the easy listening chart.

Presley's remake of the title song introduced it to an audience too young to remember Bing Crosby's original hit version.

For Presley's version of " Mystery Train ", Scotty Moore also borrowed the guitar riff from Parker's " Love My Baby ", played by Pat Hare.

Elvis Presley's later 1956 version combined Haley's arrangement with Turner's lyrics, but was not a substantial hit.

Original pressings had an alternative version of the title track, incorporating the lyrics and melody of Elvis Presley's " Can't Help Falling in Love.

These two tracks — a cover version of Elvis Presley's " Blue Christmas " and the original song " Cowboy Christmas " — both made appearances on the country charts, reaching number 51 and number 70, respectively.

Later in 1972, Elvis Presley's version reached # 66, and peaked at # 31 on the Easy Listening chart.

Presley's version of " Promised Land " was released as a single on September 27, 1974.

Other musical spoofs include comment on Mick Jagger's lips, Murphy's imitation of Stevie Wonder and the resultant unfavorable response from the African-American community, a spoof of Elvis Presley complete with an imitation of Presley's gait in his late years ( which brought some of the performance's loudest and longest applause ), a version of Teddy Pendergrass, and an imitation of Michael Jackson complete with reference to his emotional sensitivity.

American folk singer Don McLean recorded a version for his Chain Lightning album in 1978 which featured Elvis Presley's backing singers, The Jordanaires.

Presley's version was recorded on 5 July 1954, and released on 19 July 1954 with " Blue Moon of Kentucky " as the B-side.

Elvis Presley's version was recorded in July 1954, and released with " Blue Moon of Kentucky " as the B-side.

They then signed to Clay Records, and released a cover version of Elvis Presley's " Jailhouse Rock ".

Of all the singles that charted, the most successful was Boyz II Men's " End of the Road ", which went to # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and stayed there for thirteen weeks, breaking Elvis Presley's previous record of eleven weeks with his version of " Hound Dog ".

Presley's impact on him was likewise emphatic: " I saw a cousin of mine dance to ... ' Hound Dog ' and I had never seen her get up and be moved so much by anything.

Most of Presley's early hits were covers of black rhythm and blues or blues songs, like " That's All Right " ( a countrified arrangement of a blues number ), " Baby Let's Play House ", " Lawdy Miss Clawdy " and " Hound Dog ".

It is said that Your Hit Parade was nearly cancelled after many weeks of unsuccessful attempts by big band singer Snooky Lanson to perform Elvis Presley's " Hound Dog " in 1956.

Smith, after briefly considering a proposed " new league " backed by CBS, then turned to the CFL to launch the franchise, and with Presley's estate no longer involved, the team's name was changed from the " Hound Dogs " to the " Mad Dogs.

* 1988 – Elvis Presley's recording of “ Hound Dog ” placed in the Grammy Hall of Fame

Presley's " Hound Dog " sold over 4 million copies in the United States on its first release.

It became the most successful single of the 1970s in the United States, setting what was then a new record for longest run at # 1 in the US and surpassing Elvis Presley's " Hound Dog ".

In concert, they would often return for up to seven encores-but none more meaningful than when performing in Toronto, Canada at Ontario Place and performing Hound Dog after announcing Elvis Presley's death earlier that same day ( August 16, 1977 ).

Originally recorded as a soundtrack song for the Eddie Murphy motion picture Boomerang, the song ( themed about a breakup where the man really doesn't want the woman to go ) topped the charts from August 15 through November 7, 1992, setting a record for most weeks at number one with 13 weeks, beating Elvis Presley's 11-week hold with " Hound Dog " / " Don't Be Cruel ".

Presley's previous single " Heartbreak Hotel " scored the charts for eight weeks and his next two singles, the mega-selling double-sided success " Don't Be Cruel "/" Hound Dog " and " Love Me Tender ", would score the charts for a combined 16 weeks.

" The author adds that Presley's father Vernon " had a swimming pool in his bedroom ", that there " was a jukebox next to the swimming pool, containing Elvis ' favorite records " and that the singer himself " would spend hours in his bedroom, watching his property on a closed-circuit television.

The Troggs feature in a monochrome promo clip for their 1967 / 68 hit " Love Is All Around ", showing singer Reg Presley's love affair with a girl intercut with concert footage and psychedelic elements.

Through the sale of Presley's contract, he was able to boost the distribution of Perkins ' song " Blue Suede Shoes ", and it became Sun Records ' first national hit.

He became interested in music after hearing Elvis Presley's " Heartbreak Hotel ", and asked his parents to buy him a guitar.

During the recording of " I Got a Woman ", Sholes noticed that Presley's voice and guitar were not always being picked up by the microphone.

" Heartbreak Hotel " was released as a single on January 27, 1956 with B-side " I Was the One ", a song that was also recorded during Presley's RCA debut sessions.

Examples are Elvis Presley's " Love Me Tender " from 1956 and " Just For You ", " Peace In The Valley " and " Jailhouse Rock " from 1957, and The Kinks ' Kinksize Session from 1964.

* April 29 – When his tour stops in Memphis, Tennessee, Bruce Springsteen jumps the wall at Elvis Presley's mansion, " Graceland ", in an attempt to see his idol.

This era of Cale's music is perhaps best represented by his somewhat disturbing cover of Elvis Presley's iconic " Heartbreak Hotel ", featured both on Slow Dazzle and the live album June 1, 1974, recorded with Kevin Ayers, Nico and Eno, and by his frothing performance on " Leaving It Up To You ", a savage indictment of the mass media first released on Helen of Troy ( 1975 ), but quickly deleted from later editions of the record due perhaps to the song's pointed Sharon Tate reference.

" They would go on to write more hits for Presley, including the title songs for three of his movies — Loving You, Jailhouse Rock, and King Creole — as well as the rock and roll Christmas song, " Santa Claus Is Back in Town ", for Presley's first Christmas album.

Soon after hearing Elvis Presley's song " Mystery Train ", Harold began writing rock and roll material.

Lennon, being mindful of Elvis Presley's " All Shook Up ", wanted something equally as stirring: " I don't know where the ' yeah yeah yeah ' came from I remember when Elvis did ' All Shook Up ' it was the first time in my life that I had heard ' uh huh ', ' oh yeah ', and ' yeah yeah'all sung in the same song ".

It has been argued that " That's All Right ( Mama )" ( 1954 ), Elvis Presley's first major single for Sun Records was the first rock and roll record, but, at the same time, Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle & Roll ", later covered by Bill Haley, was already at the top of the Billboard R & B charts.

The songs included Coldplay's " Clocks "; Elvis Presley's " Burning Love "; David Allan Coe's " You Never Even Called Me By My Name ", and Hall & Oates ' " Private Eyes ", among dozens of others.

He played " Farley ", a fictional composite character based on members of Elvis Presley's real entourage in the 1997 cult-comedy film Elvis Meets Nixon.

He is best known for penning the words to Elvis Presley's " Teddy Bear ", plus " Butterfly ", a hit for both Charlie Gracie and Andy Williams.