Otis Blackwell

The legendary music of song-writer performer Otis Blackwell has been the rock N Roll, since its very inception three decades The King of Rock and Roll Elvis Presley recorded Otis songs “All Shook Up”, Don’t Be Cruel, and Return to Sender. All three songs have sold triple platinum since their first release date in the 1950’s Handy Man, Daddy Rolling Stone. The Rolling Stones named their group after the song “Daddy Rolling Stone”, Which was written by Otis

Otis Blackwell has appeared on all talk shows, Otis Blackwell’s songs are solid gold, they are mega platinum and more than that, 225 million record sales, it was success for Dolly Parton, Carl Perkins, Tammy Wynette, Conway Twitty, Dee Clark, Cliff Richards, Billy Swan, Elvis Presley, Ray Petersen, Jimmy Jones, Cheap Trick, and Ray Peterson, Jimmy Jones, The Who, Otis Redding, Bobby Vee, The Judds, Neil Diamond, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Charles and along list of others. Some of rock and Rolls most respected members Jeff Beck, Graham Parker, and Dave Edmunds have chosen Otis Blackwell songs as their Rock N roll inspiration
In year Otis Blackwell was honored and added as the newest inductee to the Nashville Songwriters International Association’s hall of Fame.

Otis Blackwell never met the man who spun gold with the titles he borrowed. Among those novel compositions that Elvis turned into industry standards were don’t Be Cruel, No 1 in 1956, All Shook Up No I in 1957, Return to Sender, No 5 in 1962, One Broken Heart for Sale, No 1 in 1963 and others. Presley’s and Mr. Blackwell’s vocal styles were and remain, spookily similar, so much that Presley’s management would mail Mr. Blackwell tapes of songs other people had written for him like Teddy Bear and pay Mr. Blackwell to record a demo and mail it back. I was surprised when I heard “Don’t Be Cruel” because it was just like I had done the demo, said Mr., Blackwell

Otis Blackwell began writing songs when he was about 15 and by age 17 had signed with JD records in New York Otis Blackwell wrote Fever was a hit in 1956 for Little Willie John , Peggy Lee and Ray Peterson. All sold over a million copies each of release Handy Man went to top 10 for 20 weeks in 1977 as recorded by James Taylor.

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