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Elvis Presley: “Return to Sender.”

The established story the Elvis Presley’s movie songs were all assembly line is negated by this hit song from the 1962 movie Girls! Girls! Girls! Songwriter Otis Blackwell was working in publisher Hill & Range’s New York building when Presley’s flamboyant manager Colonel Parker stopped by on a rare visit. Blackwell asked the Colonel to listen to this song he had written. Parker, known never to interfere with Elvis’ musical decisions, left the office promising Blackwell he would make sure that “Return to Sender” would be written into the movie script. Charts can be deceiving, as “Return to Sender” only reached Number 2 on the charts, but outsold ever other 60’s Presley classic, with the exception of “Are You Lonesome Tonight.”

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Recorded in Memphis, January 23, 1969. Entered chart: September 13, 1969, peaked at #1 (one week).

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