“Burning Love” by Elvis Presley

"Burning Love" was Elvis Presley's 1972 single, and it's the sound of a man grabbing somebody else's song and wringing it until it smokes. Dennis Linde wrote both the words and the music, and Arthur Alexander, a singer whose records rubbed off on the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, cut it first near the end of his run at Warner Bros.; Linde got around to his own take in 1973.

Presley laid his down on March 28, 1972, at RCA's studios in Hollywood, while still working the Las Vegas residency he'd opened with the TCB Band in July 1969, and J.D. Sumner & The Stamps are credited on vocals. Backed with "It's a Matter of Time", it roared up to number 2 on the Hot 100, his last trip into that chart's top 10, and reached 36 on the country charts.

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