The Originals © by Arnold Rypens

Artist: Chuck Berry
Author: Chuck Berry
Label: Chess
Year: 1959

Covers:

1959:: Pat Boone
1962:: Beatles [Decca recording]
1963:: Elvis Presley
1963:: Jan & Dean
1963:: Dave Berry
1963:: Lonnie Mack [as instrumental Memphis; Top 5 US]
1963:: Rolling Stones
1964:: Johnny Rivers [idem; n°2 US]
1964:: Vince Taylor [Top 5 Fr]
1964:: Billy Lee Riley
1964:: Bernd Spier [n°1 GER]
1964:: Eddy Mitchell
1964:: Danyel Gérard [in French]
1965:: Animals
1965:: Barbarians
1965:: Sandy Bull
1965:: Buck Owens
1969:: Dave Clark Five
1971:: Faces
1977:: John Cale
1981:: Sylvie Vartan [als Je ne suis pas d'ici]
1993:: Silicon Teens
1996:: Johnny Hallyday [as Memphis est loin d'ici]
2009:: James Taylor
2019:: George Benson

Songs about wishing to be connected with the beloved one on the other side of the telephone line exist since telephone lines first became operational, with Tin Pan Alley tearjerker Hello Central, Give Me Heaven (1901) as probably the oldest example.

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

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