Name the famous blues song that elvis presley covered and which catapulted him from obscurity to fame:

Heartbreak Hotel

Explanation:

Heartbreak Hotel was a single released in 1956 by American Rock / Rockabilly singer, actor and songwriter, Elvis Presley.

"Heartbreak Hotel" became Elvis' first album to sell a million copies and was the first song written especially for him with Rockabilly style in mind by Tommy Durden and Mae Boren Axton.

“Heartbreak Hotel”

Further Explanation:

Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor and he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century. He is also known by the mane of ‘King of Rock and Roll’. He was born in Mississippi and later he relocated to Tennessee when he was 13 years old. He started his career in the year 1954.  

A musical session that was held on July 1954 which was going not as planned but later that night when everyone was about to go home, Elvis Presley suddenly took his guitar and started to sing a song which he wrote himself, “Heartbreak Hotel”  and all of a sudden all his band started to play madly. Three days after this incident, DJ Dewey Phillips played that song in a show and everyone started asking who the one who recreated this song was and within no time, that song became a mega-hit.

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Answer Details:

Grade:High School

Chapter:Elvis Presley

Subject:Arts

Keywords:

Elvis Presley, Rock and Roll, Musician, Actor, That’s All Right, Guitar, Arthur Crudup, Mississippi,