[3][4] Released as a single in April 1955 (with "Baby Let's Play House" on the opposite side),[1] the song made it into the top 10 of U.S.
[5] The song was written by Bill Taylor and Stan Kesler, members of a Sun Records band called Snearly Ranch Boys.
[7] According to Susan M. Doll in her book Understanding Elvis, the song "features a common characteristic of country music — the passive acceptance of the singer's fate and the subsequent melancholy it brings," as the person who sings the song "passively resigns himself to the fact" that his girl is gone.
Originally Elvis Presley recorded it in a blues arrangement, but the version that was released was "something of a novelty", which "was more in line with the commercial considerations of the day".
It's unwise to place the blame for this totally on Sam [Phillips], since Elvis did after all willingly work on the completed master.