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King Creole (song)

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Format
  
7" 45 rpm record

Label
  
RCA

Story by
  
Harold Robbins

7/10
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Released
  
September 19, 1958

Genre
  
Rock and roll

Initial release
  
2 July 1958 (USA)

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Recorded
  
RCA Studios, Hollywood, California, January–February 1958 Master Take #6

Writer(s)
  
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Screenplay
  
Michael V. Gazzo, Herbert Baker

Cast
  
Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Dolores Hart, Walter Matthau, Dean Jagger

King Creole is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The song was and performed by Elvis Presley and recorded in 1958, and laid foundations to a musical drama film, King Creole. The song is based on King Creole, a Cajun guitar player from New Orleans who is proficient in all different styles of Rock-and-Roll.

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The song was released as a single in the UK in 1958. It reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart. In 2007 the single was re-released and spent one week in the chart at number 15.

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The song is about a man of Creole descent who is a freelancing street performer in New Orleans. The man in the song, who goes by the nickname of King Creole, is known for his style of solo guitar playing. It is said in the song that he "holds his guitar like a Tommy gun", which gives the notion that "King Creole" used a grip on his guitar which involved keeping the body of the guitar close to his center of his chest, therefore holding the neck of the guitar in an extended arm, though no information is given which arm he used. It can be inferred from the song that King Creole used an electric guitar, since the song mentions string bending and rock-and-roll, a genre not usually played as lead on the acoustic guitar. The song also states that King Creole played from a well-rounded song repertoire, and would play light, dark, serious, and nonsense music.

Viva Elvis Version

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In 2010, Sony Music released a remix version of the song in the album Viva Elvis, an album used for the Elvis show of Cirque De Soleil. The song has a reggae rock feel, and a driving drum rhythm.

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Songs

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References

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