You ain't nothin ' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time

You don't know any dance steps, that are new!

Her lips are like a volcano that's hot

You ain't nothing but a hound dog,
Cryin' all the time

You can do anything but don't step on my blue suede shoes

...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!

Who or what is this 'Blue Moon' and how can it see into Elvis' heart? Also, how does Elvis' heart dream? The brain is supposed to dream, not the heart!

The lyrics are in English, but a very mangled form of it

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

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

These lines have also been cited as dated, because zip codes have replaced zone numbers, and for that matter, I haven't know of the U.S. postal service returning anything to sender in quite some years. however, I do remember how years ago letters were sometimes returned with a stamp (ink stamp, that is) applied to them with blanks to check the reason for the mail being returned. one possible reason that I saw so indicated was "addressee unknown". I don't remember any such category as "address unknown". that makes sense, for as long as an address were unknown, how would one be motivated to even try sending the letter? so the "address unknown" reference in the song is in all likelihood a confused impression of the "addressee unknown" category.

Previous posts have noted the dated nature of the phrase "no such zone" in the line following this one, as U. S. postal zones were replaced by zip codes in 1963 (the year after this song came out!). But this line too seems to be dated, as far as I know. I don't now of the U.S. Postal service returning anything to sender anymore. It used to be that one of the reasons for returning a letter to sender was for neglecting to put any postage stamps on it. But the last time I mailed a letter forgetting to put stamps on it (within the last few years) I never saw it again. Incidally I do remember how years ago letters were sometimes returned with a stamp (ink stamp, that is) applied to them with blanks to check the reason for the mail being returned. One possible reason that I saw so indicated was "ADDRESSEE unknown". I don't remember any such category as "ADDRESS unknown". That makes sense, for as long as an address were unknown, how would one be motivated to even try sending the letter?

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.

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

Fools Rush In

Purple Haze

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.

partying in,a prison?,actually it is SAD.

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.

Like a river sews
Surely to the flea,
Darling so it goes,
Some things are bent to me.