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You're a Heartbreaker

"You're a Heartbreaker"
Song by Elvis Presley
A-side"Milkcow Blues Boogie"
ReleasedJanuary 8, 1955 (1955-01-08)
RecordedDecember 8, 1954
GenreRockabilly
Length2:12
Label
Songwriter(s)Jack Sallee
Producer(s)Sam Phillips
Elvis Presley singles chronology
"Good Rockin' Tonight"
(1954)
"You're a Heartbreaker"
(1955)
"Baby, Let's Play House"
(1955)

"You're a Heartbreaker" is a song recorded by Elvis Presley in December 1954 during the fourth of Presley's eight sessions at Memphis' Sun Studio. The recording was released as the B-side of Presley's third single on the Sun label (Sun 215), whose A-side was a cover of Kokomo Arnold's "Milkcow Blues Boogie".[1][2]

Session

The song was recorded "November or December, 1954"[3] with personnel:

The single was reissued on RCA Victor records (47-6382). It is listed as 2:10 minutes long, with the publisher Hill & Range BMI. It was also later included on Elvis' seventh studio album, For LP Fans Only in 1959.

References

  1. ^ "YOU'RE A HEARTBREAKER - Elvis Presley". Letras.com. 2009-02-06. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  2. ^ "You're A Heartbreaker". Elvis Presley Official Site (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  3. ^ Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Presley: A Life in Music, The Complete Recording Sessions, foreword by Peter Guralnick, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1998


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