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From: "Kelly Norman" 
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Subject: Re: Did George ever cover an Elvis tune?
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I only repeated what I read in Guralnik; that didn't apply to Carl Perkins' 
songs, only the ones in which Elvis is given credit for co-writing. 
According to Guralnik.  He may be mistaken, I don't know.

Kelly

"Miss Sharon Cobb"  wrote in message 
news:20041105144512.16189.00000099{at}mb-m02.aol.com...
> >Col.
>>Parker worked out a deal with whatever artist that in order to have their
>>song recorded by Elvis they had to give him credit on the record as
>>co-writing it.  Source:  Guralnik, Peter: Careless Love: The Unmaking of
>>Elvis Presley.
>>
>>So in other words, I think anything Elvis sang is fair game as an "Elvis
>>song." --Kelly Norman
>>news:418A4848.5B7C76AC{at}mail.med.upenn.edu:
>>>
> Hi there...
> Parker didn't take a co-write credit for the songwriters who wrote Elvis'
> songs.  Whether it was Mae Axton and her co-writers on
"Heartbreak Hotel" 
> to
> later material like "You Were Always On My Mind,"(co-writer Nashville
> songwriter Wayne Carson who also wrote "The Letter') Mac Davis,
"In The
> Ghetto," or Mickey Newberry's American Trilogy, (public domain) Parker 
> didn't
> receive the Pusblishing or writers on those. You mentioned Perkins, but 
> Carl
> never had to give up a writers credit to Parker for "Blue Suede
Shoes."
>
> You could check the writing credits on any Beatles album with Carl Perkins
> covers and see the Col. didn't take a co-write credit, and that extended 
> to
> Elvis and  other Sun Record artists.
>
> Sadly, in those days, many black artists were writing songs and having 
> record
> executives give themselves a co-write credit, but I am not aware of Parker
> doing that.
> Best,
> Sharon Cobb
> www.musicrowdemocrats.com
>
>
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