“WE CAN MAKE THE MORNING” — THE ELVIS PRESLEY BALLAD ABOUT HOLDING ON UNTIL THE DARKNESS FINALLY PASSES
Some Elvis Presley songs arrive with thunder. Others seem to find you late at night, when the house is quiet and there…
Some Elvis Presley songs arrive with thunder. Others seem to find you late at night, when the house is quiet and there…
Some Elvis Presley songs break your heart quietly. “Hurt” does something different. It begins with wounded disbelief and keeps rising until Elvis…
Some love songs are written for the beginning—the first glance, the first dance, the excitement of discovering someone new. Kenny Rogers’ “Through…
Some heartbreak songs begin after someone has already walked out the door. “I’ve Lost You” is more painful because it captures something…
By 1972, Elvis Presley had already lived several musical lifetimes. He had changed popular music in the 1950s, served in the Army,…
Some country songs need only a few lines before you can see the whole room. “Lucille” is one of them. A woman…
Some Kenny Rogers songs begin like conversations. “Scarlet Fever” begins like a memory—the kind a man has carried for years because one…
Some Elvis Presley songs capture the excitement of falling in love. Others live in the loneliness that follows goodbye. “The Wonder of…
Some Kenny Rogers songs tell stories about gamblers, broken families, or people standing at difficult crossroads. “Love Will Turn You Around” offers…
There are love songs that belong to a particular year, and then there are songs that somehow become attached to entire lives.…