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US Billboard Top Selling Rhythm and Blues Singles US Billboard Top Selling Country & Western Singles US Billboard Most Played Rhythm and Blues Singles US Billboard Most Played Country & Western Singles In 2019, it ranked number 31 on Spanish radio station Rock FM 500's list of "Five Hundred Rockers of All Time", ahead of any other song of the 1950s.
On November 27, 2016, the Grammy Hall of Fame announced its induction, along with that of another 24 songs. In 2004, it finished at number 21 on AFI's 100 Years.100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. Rolling Stone magazine included "Jailhouse Rock" at number 67 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and it was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Personnel Ĭredits sourced from AFM union contracts and label records. It topped the Billboard EP charts, eventually selling two million copies and earning a double-platinum RIAA certification. Īlso in 1957, "Jailhouse Rock" was the lead song in an EP (extended play single), together with other songs from the film, namely "Young and Beautiful", "I Want to Be Free", "Don't Leave Me Now" and " (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care" (but with "Treat Me Nice" omitted). In addition, "Jailhouse Rock" spent one week at the top of the US country charts, and reached the number one position on the R&B chart. The single, with its B-side " Treat Me Nice" (another song from the film's soundtrack) was a US number one hit for seven weeks in the fall of 1957, and a UK number one hit for three weeks early in 1958. The King, however, sang it as straight rock & roll, overlooking the jokes in the lyrics (like the suggestion of gay romance when inmate Number 47 tells Number 3, 'You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see') and then introducing Scotty Moore's guitar solo with a cry so intense that the take almost collapses." Gender studies scholars cite the song for "its famous reference to homoerotics behind bars," while music critic Garry Mulholland writes, "'Jailhouse Rock' was always a queer lyric, in both senses." Douglas Brode writes of the filmed production number that it's "amazing that the sequence passed by the censors".
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Īccording to Rolling Stone, Leiber and Stoller's "theme song for Presley's third movie was decidedly silly, the kind of tongue-in-cheek goof they had come up with for The Coasters. Army nickname in World War II for a loser, which was also the name of a popular comic strip and comic book character. Shifty Henry was a well-known LA musician, not a criminal. Some of the characters named in the song are real people.
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