SATURDAY'S SINGLES : ELVIS PRESELY and CAROLE KING

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Good morning gang and welcome back to Saturday's Singles, a Number Ones edition. First we crawl into our musical time machine, and start pulling levers and turning dials to this day in 1957 when Elvis Presley had the #1 song in the land with "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear". The song was released June 11, 1957 on the RCA Victor label. It was written by Kal Mann and Bernie Lowe and then produced by Walter Scharf. 1957 was the pre Hot 100 era and this particular song topped both the Best Sellers In Stores and Most Played By Jockeys surveys. It topped those charts for 7 weeks.  "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" and it's B-side,  "Loving You" were from the soundtrack to Elvis' second feature film, also called Loving You. Our copy is part of a box set called Elvis Presley - 20 Golden Hits In Full Color Sleeves. It was purchased at Treasure House Collectibles in Winter Haven, FL. 

1. "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" Kal Mann and Bernie Lowe 1:47
2. "Loving You" Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller 2:14

Elvis Presley lead vocal, percussion
Scotty Moore – guitar
Bill Black - double bass
Dudley Brooks, Hoyt Hawkins, or Gordon Stoker piano
D.J. Fontana drums
The Jordanaires – backing vocals
Walter Scharf producer
Thorne Nogar engineer

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Our second musical temporal adventure takes us to the year 1971 where we trade in the King of Rock n roll for Carole King. On this day in '71 she had the top tune with "It's Too Late". The song, written by Carole King and Toni Stern, was released April 16, 1971 on Ode Records and produced by Lou Adler. It hails from her second studio album, Tapestry and features  "I Feel the Earth Move" on it's flip side. It is also from Tapestry and both tunes reached #1 on the Hot 100.

A It's Too Late
By Written-– Toni Stern 3:51

B I Feel The Earth Move

By Written-– Carole King 2:57

Carole King – piano, vocals
Curtis Amy – soprano saxophone
Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar – conga, electric guitar
Charles "Charlie" Larkey – bass guitar
Joel O'Brien – drums
Ralph Schuckett – electric piano

Carole King – keyboards, vocals
Danny Kootch – electric guitar
Charles Larkey – electric bass
Joel O'Brien – drums

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