From the Jan. 7, 2015, Yahoo! Music "Elvis at 80: 25 Facts You Should Know About the King" by Paul Grein.
Here on the 80th birthday of Elvis Presley.
1. Had Billboard's #1 Song of 1956 with "Heartbreak Hotel" and #1 Song of 1957 with "All Shook Up." No other artist has ever had the #1 Song for two consecutive years.
2. Elvis was just 21 when he notched that #1 song of 1956, making him the youngest artist to to do that up to that time. Only two artists have been younger since then: Lulu was 19 when she recorded "To Sir With Love" in 1967 and Andy Gibb was 20 when he had the #1 Song in 1978 with "Shadow Dancing."
3. Elvis' 1956 "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" is one of the only two double-sided singles in which both sides have been voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The other is the Beatles 1967 "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever."
4. "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" was #1 for eleven weeks. That was a rock and roll era longest until1992, when Boyz II Men's "End of the Road" was #1 for 13 weeks.
5. Elvis' #1 albums span 46 years and five months, May 1956 to October 2002 (25 years after his death) Only Barbra Streisand has a longer span, just shy of 50 years. Using studio technology, she sings a duet with Elvis on her recent #1 album Partners.
--You Ain't Nothin' But A.... --HoundDog
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