Elvis Presley recorded "Heartbreak Hotel" in January 1956 in Nashville.  The song was Presley's first single for RCA Records.  It introduced him to the American national music consciousness. It was released with the B-side  of "I Was the One."  It was 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, and Mae Boren Axton wrote Heartbreak Hotel in thirty minutes in 1955. 

So sure that the song would be a hit, Axton presented it to Presley's manager, Bob Neal, and insisted it would be his first million-seller.  On November 10, 1955, after hearing the demo for the first time, Presley promised to record the song.  Axton offered Presley a third of the royalties if he made the song his first single release from his new label, RCA. 

Presley first performed the song in Swifton, Arkansas on December 9, 1955 and declared it his "first hit."

It was ranked #45 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.  Uncut Magazine ranked the first performance of "Heartbreak Hotel" in 1956 by Presley as the second greatest and most important cultural event of the rock and roll era.

In 2006, it was re-released as a 3-track CD single that returned to #1 on the Billboard Hot Singles Sales Chart.  In 2007 Serbian rock musician, journalist and writer Dejan Cukić wrote about "Heartbreak Hotel" as one of the forty-six songs that changed the history of popular music

There is a real hotel named after the song.  It is located across the street from Presley's home, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee. It has 128 rooms and 24-hour Presley videos for its guests.

-Wikipedia

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