| "All Shook Up" | ||||
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| Single byElvis Presley | ||||
| B-side | "That's When Your Heartaches Begin" | |||
| Released | March 22, 1957 (1957-03-22) | |||
| Recorded | January 12, 1957 | |||
| Studio | Radio Recorders,Hollywood | |||
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| Length | 1:57 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Songwriters | Otis Blackwell,Elvis Presley | |||
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| "All Shook Up" (audio) onYouTube | ||||
"All Shook Up" is a song recorded byElvis Presley, published by Elvis Presley Music, and composed byOtis Blackwell. The single topped the U.S.Billboard Top 100 on April 13, 1957, staying there for nine weeks.[1] It also topped theBillboardR&Bchart for four weeks, becoming Presley's second single to do so, and peaked at No. 1 on the country chart as well.[1] It is certified 2× platinum by theRecording Industry Association of America.
It was ranked No. 352 on the 2004 edition ofRolling Stone's list of the500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Otis Blackwell wrote the song at the offices of Shalimar Music in 1956 afterAl Stanton, one of Shalimar's owners, shaking a bottle ofPepsi at the time, suggested he write a song based on the phrase "all shook up".[1] According toPeter Guralnick, the song has a different origin. In his bookLast Train to Memphis, he wrote that Elvis Presley thought "All Shook Up" was a good phrase for a refrain. For this he received a co-writing credit.[2] Presley himself, during an interview on October 28, 1957, said: "I've never even had an idea for a song. Just once, maybe. I went to bed one night, had quite a dream, and woke up all shook up. I phoned a pal and told him about it. By morning, he had a new song, 'All Shook Up'."[3]
FutureLast House on the Left actorDavid Hess, using the stage name David Hill, was the first to record the song onAladdin Records, titled "I'm All Shook Up". In a 2009 interview, Hess revealed the origins of the song, and claimed to come up with the title of the song: "As far as 'All Shook Up', the title came from a real set of circumstances and when I decided not to write it, Otis Blackwell did and I had the first recording for Aladdin Records. It was my title, but Otis wrote the song and Presley took a writing credit in order to get him to record it. That's the way things happened in those days."[4][5][6]
Vicki Young recorded a different song with the same title, "(I'm) All Shook Up", onCapitol Records with Big Dave and His Orchestra, written by Bill Bellman andHal Blaine in 1956.[7] On January 12, 1957, Presley recorded the song atRadio Recorders in Hollywood.[1] The duet vocal on the record is bythe Jordanaires first tenor Gordon Stoker. Take 10 was selected for release, and in March the song entered theBillboard Top 100 chart at No. 25.[1] Within three weeks it had knockedPerry Como's "Round and Round" off the top spot, and stayed there for nine consecutive weeks.[1] The song also became Presley's first No. 1 hit on theUK Singles Chart, remaining there for seven weeks.[8] Sales of the single exceeded two million,[1] and the song was namedBillboard's Year End number one song for 1957.
Credits from Keith Flynn and Ernst Jorgensen's examination of the original session tapes,RCA paperwork/contracts, and AFM/union contracts.[9]
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| Chart (1957) | Peak position |
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| Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[10] | 12 |
| Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[11] | 21 |
| Canada (CHUMHit Parade)[12] | 1 |
| Netherlands (Single Top 100)[13] | 8 |
| UK Singles (OCC)[14] | 1 |
| USBillboardTop 100[15] | 1 |
| USBillboardBest Sellers In Stores[16] | 1 |
| USBillboardMost Played by Jockeys[17] | 1 |
| USBillboardMost Played in Jukeboxes[17] | 1 |
| USBillboardHot Country Songs[18] | 1 |
| Chart (2005) | Peak position |
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| Netherlands (Single Top 100)[13] | 17 |
| Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[19] | 57 |
| Chart (2011) | Peak position |
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| France (SNEP)[20] | 76 |
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| New Zealand (RMNZ)[21] | Gold | 15,000‡ |
| United Kingdom (BPI)[22] | Silver | 200,000‡ |
| United States (RIAA)[23] | 2× Platinum | 2,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
According to biographerMark Lewisohn inThe Complete Beatles Chronicle,The Beatles (first asThe Quarrymen) regularly performed the song, from 1957 through 1960 (possibly later) withPaul McCartney on lead vocal. There is no known recorded version from that time. However,Len Garry of The Quarrymen (in his bookJohn, Paul & Me) states that it was one of the songs the group played on July 6, 1957, the dayJohn Lennon met Paul McCartney and that the song was recorded then (but was erased later).
Author Doug Sulpy (inDrugs, Divorce and a Slipping Image) adds that on January 13, 1969, during the "Get Back" sessions, they did record a "spirited" version of it with McCartney andGeorge Harrison sharing vocals. Lennon did not join in the recording, as he was sitting watching while having tea. That version of the song remains officially unreleased (due to it being inmono and McCartney and Harrison not remembering all the lyrics by that late date). In 1999, McCartney cut ahard-rocking version on the albumRun Devil Run, while his surviving Quarrymen bandmates recorded it in 2004 onSongs We Remember.[citation needed]
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| Single byBilly Joel | ||||
| from the albumHoneymoon in Vegas | ||||
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| Released | 1992 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 2:09 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Songwriters | Otis Blackwell,Elvis Presley | |||
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In 1991,Billy Joel recorded the song for the movieHoneymoon in Vegas, which also featured other Elvis Presley songs by various artists. It was released as a single and peaked at No. 92 in the US and No. 27 in the UK.
| Chart (1992) | Peak position |
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| Australian Singles Chart[24] | 54 |
| Canada Top Singles (RPM)[25] | 28 |
| French Singles Chart[26] | 60 |
| GermanMedia Control Charts | 52 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 23 |
| New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[27] | 26 |
| UK Singles (OCC)[28] | 27 |
| UK Airplay (Music Week)[29] | 22 |
| USBillboard Hot 100[30] | 92 |
| USAdult Contemporary (Billboard)[31] | 15 |
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