Heartbreak Hotel

Elvis got a third of the songwriting credit for Heartbreak Hotel. May Axton always said that she'd cut him in on the song so he might be able to get that money to buy his parents a house in Florida. The engineers tried and failed to get a replica of Sam Phillips's slapback echo sound, which was a secret nobody but Phillips knew. They set up a speaker at one end of the room and fed in the sound from the mics at the other end - creating a makeshift echo chamber. Atkins played guitar on the record, but only adding another acoustic rhythm guitar to the sound.