The girl with the nameless face

The borderline of doom I'm facing

We're caught in a trap

Lord have mercy I'm burnin' a hole where I lay.

We can't go on together
With suspicious minds.

...and put it in places where wooden chair parts and gerbils should never be...

Did fifties audiences realize the implication of this lyric, considering this country doesn't have co-ed jails?

some 'king' indeed. Personally, I prefer the beatles. At least they have more than 10 words in their songs!

Any wonder why this is Elvis's longest-running song at over four minutes? It's because these lyrics are repeated over and over at the end!

If Priscilla was always on the King's mind, then why did they divorce?

'In' definitely does not rhyme with 'you.'

If you can remember the 1950s or early 1960s, you might remember a then 'state of the art' record player being referred to as a 'hi-fi'. That was short for 'high fidelity', meaning sound recordings had reached a level of faithful reproduction that much reduced distortion, hiss, etc. But if you're not old enough to remember that, the term 'hi-fi' might not at all compute with you. Even though recordings have become, if anything, progressively more high fidelity, that became an obsolescent name for recordings and the machines for playing them, about the time stereo became normative, and a player of vinyl records was soon more likely to be called a 'stereo' than a 'hi-fi'. In other words, the term 'hi-fi' was symptomatic of the period when such high fidelity was a new-fangled thing, and not something to be used as a name when high fidelity was to be taken for granted as further sound recording refinements (like stereo, digital, etc.), came into being. As vinyl records later gave way to eight track tapes, cassette tapes, and then compact discs, I'm not aware of the term ever being applied to a player of anything but vinyl records. Though we literally have continued to enjoy higher and higher fidelity recordings played on those later devices, the term 'hi-fi' has been strictly passe for decades.

The 'zone' referred to is a postal zone (a number written after the city name), which was replaced in 1963 by the ZIP Code

Time for doing the nasty with the King-or maybe he just split his pants again!

Purple Haze

Honky Tonk, Hound Dog, Johnny B. Goode, Chain Gang, Love Is Strange, Knock On Wood

Hey, Elvis. I know [that] you're Southern, but shouldn't that be, "They said you were high class"?

Refers to the U.S. state of Kentucky

Refers to Las Vegas, Nevada.

Probably the most cheerful tune of a very sad Christmas song. Elvis mourns about a lover that broke up with him just before the holiday season. The meaning (as well as the tempo of the music) changes with a version of the song in the animated special "A Year Without A Santa Claus", where a girl cries over the prospect of Santa not coming to her house for a year.