# Help me figure out what song I heard yesterday. Sounded like Elvis, but wasn't **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [July 21, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522 "2005-07-21T19:05:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/1 "2005-07-21T19:05:57Z")
I was listening to the classic country station yesterday and I heard a song that I was sure was an Elvis song. Same kind of intro, beat, lyrics, and vocals as a typical Elvis song, but at the end of the play the DJ gave the guys name and to my shock it was not Elvis. I don’t think the DJ made a mistake because something tells me I made this mistake before with the same song. Anyway, here’s the problem; I don’t remember _any_ of the song, or the artist. I just remember it being a popular song/artist in its day and the shock of it not being Elvis, everything else is a blank. It’s going to be someone like Conway Twitty, Goerge Jones, etc., a very recognizable name. Please give me the artist and the song, if you will. I won’t be able to sleep tonite. Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/2 "2005-07-21T19:23:02Z")
Can you give us an Elvis song that it sounded like? Was it more “Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear” or more “Can’t Help Falling In Love”? I don’t really know what kind of songs they would play on a classic country station, but I’ll take a shot in the dark: Was it [Secret Agent Man](http://www.barbneal.com/wav/tvthemes/secretag.wav) by Johnny Rivers? (Sound plays when link clicked) ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/3 "2005-07-21T19:25:17Z")
Carl Perkins? Eddie Cochran? ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/4 "2005-07-21T19:25:42Z")
Dude, could you be a little more vague? We haven’t got much to go on here. Could it be Ricky Nelson? Something like that? ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/5 "2005-07-21T19:31:31Z")
> [@An Arky](#): > > Carl Perkins? Eddie Cochran? No, no, no…it’s going to be along the lines of the ones I mentioned in the OP. Not too old, probably from the early 70`s. Kentucky Rain keeps popping into my head. IIRC, it was a love type song. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/6 "2005-07-21T19:33:47Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > I was listening to the classic country station yesterday and I heard a song that I was sure was an Elvis song. Same kind of intro, beat, lyrics, and vocals as a typical Elvis song, but at the end of the play the DJ gave the guys name and to my shock it was not Elvis. I don’t think the DJ made a mistake because something tells me I made this mistake before with the same song. > > Anyway, here’s the problem; I don’t remember _any_ of the song, or the artist. I just remember it being a popular song/artist in its day and the shock of it not being Elvis, everything else is a blank. > > It’s going to be someone like Conway Twitty, Goerge Jones, etc., a very recognizable name. > > Please give me the artist and the song, if you will. I won’t be able to sleep tonite. Thanks in advance. Smoky Mountain Rain by Ronnie Millsap? VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/7 "2005-07-21T19:42:07Z")
I’m sure this isn’t it, but I knew people who swore up and down that Queen’s **Crazy Little Thing Called Love** was an Elvis Presley song ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/8 "2005-07-21T19:42:58Z")
> [@Veuve\_ClicquotNJ](#): > > Smoky Mountain Rain by Ronnie Millsap? > > VCNJ~ Nope. Good guess though, but that doesn’t really sound like Elvis, even to me. [Here’s the Artist list from the website to help narrow down the genre of country were dealing with.](http://www.1047thewolf.com/content.asp?displayOption=&contentGUID=%7B27A9725D-CBC7-4BA5-9C73-263865C61577%7D&groupName=WEXT%20Music&siteGUID=%7B8A02D018-3B45-4EDF-BF21-FB97CC619C2F%7D) Glen Campbell? Charlie Rich? Conway Twitty? Ronnie Milsap? Any of these guys put out any Elvis-y sounding stuff. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/9 "2005-07-21T20:11:00Z")
[Ral Donner](http://www.oldies.com/artist/view.cfm/id_415.html) is the only singer who (IMHO) sounds anything like Elvis. Would your station have played something from the early 60’s? Not to hijack, but NPR played a snippet of something a few weeks back that sounded very much like a young Johnny Cash. That’s the one keeping me awake. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/10 "2005-07-21T20:13:34Z")
Charlie Daniels and his band put out a couple of Elvis-style songs. ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/11 "2005-07-21T20:17:27Z")
Siouxsie and the Banshees? Conway Twitty’s [It’s Only Make Believe](http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/classic-country/its-only-make-believe---conway-twitty-14926.html) sounded a lot to me like Elvis, but that was in the 1950s, not 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/12 "2005-07-21T20:24:31Z")
It wouldn’t surprise me if it turned out to be [Terry Stafford](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4781CDF49A97620C8852D1599E620D210DF4BF58150234558C0B73844810473FD0BBADBCCAEF875B47CE3FB24A65805D3CEFE3681&sql=11:5su67u50h0jd). His 1964 smash, “Suspicion” is the most Elvis-like song I’ve ever heard! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/13 "2005-07-21T20:25:15Z")
Could it have been “Blue Moon of Kentucky” by George Jones? Elvis did that one, too. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/14 "2005-07-21T20:25:42Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > [Ral Donner](http://www.oldies.com/artist/view.cfm/id_415.html) is the only singer who (IMHO) sounds anything like Elvis. Would your station have played something from the early 60’s? > > Not to hijack, but NPR played a snippet of something a few weeks back that sounded very much like a young Johnny Cash. That’s the one keeping me awake. 🙂 Never heard of him. It was someone I had heard of (prolly everyone has). I’m scrolling through the list of Charlie Rich songs right now. Not Charlie Daniels either **Lute**. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/15 "2005-07-21T20:39:03Z")
Got it. It’s Only Make Believe, by Conway Twitty. Only took two hours of web-scouring, but I succeeded. Thanks to those that offered assistance. Of course, at this point any comments regarding how crazy I must be to mix Twitty with Elvis are welcome, unless you kind of agree that that particular song is Elvis enough to confuse the average music fan. [You can find a clip of it here.](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0zftxqehldse) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/16 "2005-07-21T20:48:16Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > Of course, at this point any comments regarding how crazy I must be to mix Twitty with Elvis are welcome, unless you kind of agree that that particular song is Elvis enough to confuse the average music fan. Not all that strange. Some people think that Conrad Birdie in _Bye Bye Birdie_ is closer to Twitty and than Elvis. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/17 "2005-07-21T21:10:14Z")
According to Twitty’s biography, when “It’s Only Make Believe” came out, people thought it sounded so much like Elvis that Twitty’s manager kept him out of the public eye, hoping to fuel rumors that the song actually _was_ by Elvis. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/18 "2005-07-21T21:32:46Z")
> [@AlbertRose](#): > > Siouxsie and the Banshees? > > Conway Twitty’s [It’s Only Make Believe](http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/classic-country/its-only-make-believe---conway-twitty-14926.html) sounded a lot to me like Elvis, but that was in the 1950s, not 1970s. Jeebus, good one. How did I miss this post?? (The Dope has been a little slow today and I couldn’t refresh as often as I wanted to.) **AlbertRose** is the winner!! ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/19 "2005-07-21T23:35:40Z")
[Ray Pfob?](http://www.raypfob.com/rayindex.htm) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![skipsusan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@skipsusan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skipsusan)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522/20 "2012-03-30T15:30:03Z")
I have finally found this song, so far only at youtube. Jimmy Ellis sounded more like Elvis than anyone else. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-what-song-i-heard-yesterday-sounded-like-elvis-but-wasnt/313522.md?page=2)