Jailhouse Rock I Want to Be Your Lady Baby

1957 single by Elvis Presley

"Jailhouse Stone"
Single by Elvis Presley
from the EP Jailhouse Stone
B-side	"Treat Me Prissy"
Released	September 24, 1957 (1957-09-24)
Recorded	April 30, 1957
Studio	Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California
Genre	Rockabilly,[1] rock and roll
Length	2:35
Label	RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)	Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Producer(s)	Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
Elvis Presley singles chronology
"(Permit Me Exist Your) Teddy Bear" / "Loving You" (1957) "Jailhouse Rock" (1957) "Don't" (1958)
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"Jailhouse Rock" is a vocal recorded past American vocalist Elvis Presley for the flick of the aforementioned proper name. It was written past Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. RCA Victor released the song on a 45 rpm single on September 24, 1957 equally the get-go single from the film'southward soundtrack EP. Information technology reached the top of the charts in the U.Due south. and the pinnacle ten in several other countries. The song has been recognized past the Grammy Hall of Fame, the American Picture show Establish, and others.

Characters and themes [edit]

Some of the characters named in the song are real people. Shifty Henry was a well-known LA musician, not a criminal. The Purple Gang was a real mob. "Sad Sack" was a U.South. Ground forces nickname in World War II for a loser, which was also the name of a popular comic strip and comic book character.^[2]

According to Rolling Stone, Leiber and Stoller's "theme vocal for Presley'southward third flick was decidedly dizzy, the kind of tongue-in-cheek goof they had come with for The Coasters. The Male monarch, yet, sang it as straight stone & roll, overlooking the jokes in the lyrics (like the suggestion of gay romance when inmate Number 47 tells Number 3, 'You're the cutest jailbird I ever did come across') and so introducing Scotty Moore'southward guitar solo with a weep and so intense that the take almost collapses."^[three] Gender studies scholars cite the vocal for "its famous reference to homoerotics behind confined,"^[4] while music critic Garry Mulholland writes, "'Jailhouse Rock' was ever a queer lyric, in both senses."^[5] Douglas Brode writes of the filmed production number that it'south "amazing that the sequence passed by the censors".^[6]

Releases and chart performance [edit]

The single, with its B-side "Treat Me Dainty" (some other song from the film'south soundtrack) was a Us number one striking for seven weeks in the fall of 1957, and a UK number i hit for three weeks early in 1958.^[7] In addition, "Jailhouse Rock" spent one week at the top of the Us country charts,^[viii] and reached the number i position on the R&B nautical chart.^[9]

Also in 1957, "Jailhouse Rock" was the lead song in an EP (extended play single), together with other songs from the film, namely "Young and Cute", "I Desire to Be Gratuitous", "Don't Leave Me Now" and "(You're So Square) Infant I Don't Care" (simply with "Treat Me Nice" omitted). It topped the Billboard EP charts, eventually selling 2 million copies and earning a double-platinum RIAA certification.^{[ citation needed ]}

Personnel [edit]

Credits sourced from AFM union contracts and label records.^[x]

• Elvis Presley – lead vocals, guitar
• The Jordanaires – backing vocals
• Bill Black – bass
• Scotty Moore – guitar
• D. J. Fontana – drums
• Dudley Brooks – piano

Legacy [edit]

Rolling Stone magazine included "Jailhouse Rock" at number 67 on its listing of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time^[11] and it was named 1 of The Stone and Coil Hall of Fame'southward 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Curlicue. In 2004, information technology finished at number 21 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. On November 27, 2016, the Grammy Hall of Fame announced its induction, along with that of another 24 songs.^[12] In 2019, the vocal ranked number 31 on Spanish radio station Rock FM 500'due south list of "Five Hundred Rockers of All Time", alee of any other song of the 1950s.^{[ citation needed ]} Glam metal band Mötley Crüe covered the song for their fourth studio album Girls, Girls, Girls.

Charts and certifications [edit]

Meet also [edit]

• List of Peak 25 singles for 1957 in Commonwealth of australia
• List of Billboard number-one rhythm and blues hits
• List of Billboard number-one singles of 1957
• Billboard year-end acme 50 singles of 1957
• Listing of Cash Box Best Sellers number-one singles of 1957
• Listing of CHUM number-1 singles of 1957
• List of number-one state singles of 1957 (U.Due south.)
• List of Uk Singles Chart number ones of the 1950s
• List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 2000s

References [edit]

1. ^ "ROCKABILLY Definition". Shsu.edu.
2. ^ "A Short History of 'Retcon'". Merriam-webster.com . Retrieved November 24, 2019.
3. ^ "Jailhouse Stone". In Rolling Stone, Dec 9, 2004.
4. ^ Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood and Gary Thomas, Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology (Routledge, 2006), p. 363.
5. ^ Garry Mulholland, Popcorn: L Years of Rock'n'Coil Movies (Orion Books, 2010).
6. ^ Douglas Brode, Elvis Movie theatre and Popular Culture (McFarland & Co., 2006), p. 46.
7. ^ Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number I Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 34. ISBN0-85112-250-7.
8. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Superlative twoscore State Hits: 1944–2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 272.
9. ^ Billboard December 16, 1957. page 61
10. ^ "Elvis Presley Recording Sessions". keithflynn.com . Retrieved Baronial 30, 2021.
11. ^ "The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rollingstone.com. December 11, 2003. Retrieved June two, 2007.
12. ^ Kreps, Daniel (November 29, 2016). "Nirvana, Bowie, R.E.M. Songs Amidst Grammy Hall of Fame'south 2017 Inductees". Rollingstone.com . Retrieved April 27, 2021.
13. ^ ^{a b} Kent, David (2005). Australian Chart Book: 1940–1969: the Hitting Songs and Records from 30 Years of Especially Compiled Charts. Australian Nautical chart Volume Limited. ISBN9780646444390 . Retrieved March 3, 2013.
14. ^ "Elvis Presley – Jailhouse Rock" (in Dutch). Ultratop fifty. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
15. ^ "Elvis Presley: Jailhouse Rock" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
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18. ^ ^{a b c d east} Joel Whitburn'southward superlative pop singles 1955–2006. Record Inquiry. January 8, 2008. ISBN9780898201727 . Retrieved March 3, 2013.
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25. ^ "Elvis Presley – Jailhouse Rock". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
26. ^ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Nautical chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July viii, 2018.
27. ^ "Elvis Presley – Jailhouse Rock". Singles Superlative 100. Retrieved March iii, 2013.
28. ^ "Official Singles Nautical chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
29. ^ "Billboard Meridian 50 – 1957". Billboard. Longbored Surfer. 1957. Archived from the original on June 23, 2013. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
30. ^ "The Greenbacks BOX Twelvemonth-End Charts: 1957". Cash Box Magazine. 1957. Retrieved March three, 2013.
31. ^ "Top 20 Hit Singles of 1958". Rock.co.za . Retrieved December 26, 2018.
32. ^ "The Official UK Singles Chart 2005" (PDF). UKChartsPlus . Retrieved July 8, 2018.
33. ^ Copsey, Rob (August sixteen, 2017). "Elvis Presley's Top 50 biggest selling songs revealed". Official Charts Company. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
34. ^ "British single certifications – Elvis Presley – Jailhouse Rock". British Phonographic Industry. Select singles in the Format field.Select Golden in the Certification field.Blazon Jailhouse Stone in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
35. ^ "American single certifications – Elvis Presley – Jailhouse Rock". Recording Industry Clan of America.

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