Heartbreak Hotel Baldy Holly Band Elvis Presley

Recorded in January 1956 in Nashville, the song was Presley s first single for RCA Records and introduced him to the American national music consciousness. It was released with the Bside I Was the One on January 27, 1956, becoming the first, 1 pop record by Presley and the best selling single of 1956. Inspired by the suicide of a young man who left a note with the line, I walk a lonely street, songwriters Tommy Durden, then a steelguitarist in Smiling Jack Herring and his Swing Billies, and Mae Bor