Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family when he was 13 years old. His music career began there in 1954, recording at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African American music to a wider audience. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was a pioneer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues. In 1955, drummer D. J. Fontana joined to complete the lineup of Presley's classic quartet and RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage the singer for more than two decades. Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", was released in January 1956 and became a number one hit in the United States. With a series of successful network television appearances and chart-topping records, he became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll. His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, made him enormously popularβand controversial.
In November 1956, Presley made his film debut in Love Me Tender. Drafted into military service in 1958, Presley relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially successful work. He held few concerts however, and guided by Parker, proceeded to devote much of the 1960s to making Hollywood movies and soundtrack albums, most of them critically derided. In 1968, following a seven-year break from live performances, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed television comeback special Elvis, which led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of highly profitable tours. In 1973, Presley gave the first concert by a solo artist to be broadcast around the world, Aloha from Hawaii. Years of prescription drug abuse severely compromised his health, and he died suddenly in 1977 at his Graceland estate, just 42 years of age.
Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century. Commercially successful in many genres, including pop, country, blues, and gospel, he is the best-selling solo artist in the history of recorded music. He won three competitive Grammys, received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame.
Release Me
Elvis Presley Lyrics
Jump to: Overall Meaning ↴ Line by Line Meaning ↴
For I just don't love you anymore
To waste our lives would be a sin
Release me and let me love again
I have found a new love dear
And I will always want her near
Her lips are warm while yours are cold
Please release me, let me go
For I just don't love you anymore
To waste our lives would be a sin
Release me and let me love again
Let me go, oh release me, my darling
Let me go
The lyrics of Elvis Presley's song Release Me speaks of a person who has fallen out of love in a current relationship and has found a new love. The singer of the song is pleading his current partner to let him go and release him from their relationship. He makes it clear that he doesn't love the person anymore and staying would be a waste of both their lives. He has found someone new and he wants to be with her.
The chorus repeats the line "Please release me, let me go, for I just don't love you anymore" three times, which emphasizes the singer's desperation to be released. The second verse reinforces the idea that the new love interest is warm and inviting, while the partner's love is cold and distant.
The song was originally written by Eddie Miller, Robert Yount, and James Pebworth in 1949 but became a hit in 1954 with the recordings of Ray Price and Kitty Wells. Elvis Presley recorded his version of the song in 1960, but it was not released until 1971. Since then, it has become a fan favorite and remains one of Elvis's most popular songs.
Line by Line Meaning
Oh please release me, let me go
I am pleading with you to let me leave
For I just don't love you anymore
I have no more feelings of affection for you
To waste our lives would be a sin
Continuing to be in a loveless relationship would be morally wrong
Release me and let me love again
Free me from this relationship so that I can pursue new love interests
I have found a new love dear
I have fallen in love with someone else
And I will always want her near
I will constantly desire to be close to my new love
Her lips are warm while yours are cold
The affection I receive from my new love is passionate, while our relationship has grown cold
Oh release me, my darling let me go
I implore you once more to let me end our relationship
Please release me, let me go
I am begging you to release me from this relationship
Let me go, oh release me, my darling
I want to be free and I am asking you to let me go
Lyrics Β© Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Carla Maria Williams, Jonathan Coffer
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@jhowej3
I am an old timer, and attended many Elvis shows in the 70's, in Vegas and around the country. One thing I remember that sticks in my mind, is whenever Elvis hit the stage, the entire auditorium lit up like daylight from all the flash bulbs from cameras going off. I never saw this at any other entertainers show.... Elvis would stand there and the place would go crazy and light up like daylight.... amazing. A once in a lifetime phenomena.... good memories.
@frankmyrhagen3690
Please write more about you're experiences on the shows !!
@marm869
Me imagino...!! Todo un fenΓ³meno...
@giovanasales2023
Really? β€
@monicareginalopescavalcant1516
And I am here thirteen years after you wrote that thing to say I've never seen so beautiful description of an artist and his concert like this
@davidcloster3978
You sure are one hell of a old timer for sure π΅πΆ
@vincenzoridente9994
In this lifetime there will never be a singer as great as Elvis
@millyfernandes6711
I never get tired listening to Elvis, the best singer , no one has come up to his standard up to now in 2020.
@davidfoley3510
They never will ever.
@BreakKaydenBreak
For this specific genre that is absolutely correct.