{"id":7794,"date":"2015-02-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=7794"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:39:24","slug":"cover-me-love-me-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/11\/cover-me-love-me-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Me Tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For today&#8217;s entry, we need to travel <em>way,\u00a0<\/em>way back&#8211;all the way to the American Civil War, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>In 1861, George Poulton and W.W. Fosdick published a love song called &#8220;Aura Lea.&#8221; Popular during the war, &#8220;Aura Lea&#8221; lingered in the periphery of American popular culture for decades\u00a0 after, notably appearing in the 1936 film adaptation of <em>Come and Get It, <\/em>where it was sung by Frances Farmer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/19MXMUX8WRU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>While it&#8217;s largely forgotten today, the melody for &#8220;Aura Lea&#8221; survives in the wildly and perennially popular &#8220;Love Me Tender,&#8221; Elvis Presley&#8217;s 1956 #1 smash hit.<\/p>\n<p>Lyricist Ken Darby (uncredited) liberated Aura Lea&#8217;s melody (already well in the public domain by that point), and wrote his own lyrics for Elvis to sing. With an advance performance on\u00a0<em>The Ed Sullivan Show<\/em> and a movie sharing the same name as the song and starring the singer, &#8220;Love Me Tender&#8221; debuted at #2 on the charts (the first time any song had debuted so high), and quickly climbed the extra rung to the top of the charts, where it remained for five weeks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v5SkY9WHekg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Love Me Tender&#8221; is a sweet, simple song&#8211;a pledge, promise and request 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