Heartbreak Hotel

Steve Scholes was unsure if he'd made the right choice signing Elvis. He only had five tracks to show for three sessions in two days. The reverb, sounding so different from the restrained use of slapback on the Sun records, sounded to many ears like a bad joke. Phillips called the result a morbid mess. Yet it became a smash hit. It went to number one on the pop chart, number one in country and made the top five in R&B. This was the moment when Elvis went from being a minor country singer on a minor label to being Elvis,. Elvis the pelvis, the king of rock and roll.