Artist: Elvis Presley
Author: Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller
Label: RCA
Year: 1958
In film Kid Creole. As I'm Evil on his 68 Comeback DVD. See also: T-R-O-U-B-L-E.
Covers:
Jackie DeShannon [on Sand]
Johnny Hallyday [as La Bagarre, hit Fr.]
Roy Buchanan [as I'm Evil on live lp Live Stock]
Amanda Lear [also in French]
Terry Garland [without dixieland frolics]
Interesting sideline with deeper roots: this here blues pattern (and sometimes lyrical content) were already evident in Riot In Cell Block #9 (another Leiber & Stoller effort), Josh White's Evil-Hearted Man ('44), Big Bill Broonzy's Evil-Hearted Me ('37) (see there), Lightnin' Slim's I'm Evil, Johnny Guitar Watson's Gangster Of Love ('57), Muddy Waters' Hoochie Coochie Man, I Just Want To Make Love To You and Evil (B-side of I Live The Life I Love), even in Ray Charles' hit It Should've Been Me ('57) and Willie Mabon's Chess cuts I Don't Know and follow-up I'm Mad (both '53).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)