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September 16, 2016
329 Elvis Presley (1935-1977) “Wear My Ring (Around Your Neck)” 1958
Despite its juvenile lyrics, “the R&B crowd loved ‘Wear My Ring’”…By the late fifties, “white artists found it difficult to compete with real R&B music.” Presley was “one of the few white singers who could do justice to the genre created by African Americans” (Collins, Untold Gold). Elvis Presley “Wear My Ring (Around Your Neck)”
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