Product Description
A couple of years ago, I was thinking about how Elvis
Presley in 1956 turned the Civil War-era ballad "Aura Lee" into a hit love
song. Over time, I identified a half-dozen ballads and folk tunes that Presley
and his writers reworked into hit tunes. I mused on Elvis popular title as the
"King of Rock and Roll," and thought of another "king," as Karl L. King is
often called the "King of the Circus March." I decided to write a march paying
tribute to both Elvis Presley and Karl L. King: "March: The Kings."
I composed the march loosely styled on Kings famous circus
marches but overlay the march with five original, public domain ballads and
folk tunes later arranged into popular love songs performed by Elvis.
"Plaisir dAmour" (Jean-Paul
Martini, 1784)
"O Sole Mio" (Edorado de Capua,
1899)
"Muss i denn" (Friedrich Silcher,
1827)
"Torna a Surriento" (Ernesto
DeCurtis, 1902)
"Aura Lee" (George Poulton, 1861)
I hope you enjoy this pleasant little novelty piece. Your audience will have fun guessing
the names of the hit tunes Elvis Presley adapted from these ballads and folk
tunes.
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