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Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). ('Be good to me, be good to me, be to me how you really should, how you really should.').Ĭhart history Elvis Presley The second section is towards the end and is based on a translation of the English version (therefore not appearing in the original German folk lyrics): Sei mir gut, sei mir gut, sei mir wie du wirklich sollst, wie du wirklich sollst. The Elvis Presley version features two sections in German, the first being the first four lines: ' Muss i' denn zum Städtele hinaus'. Bobby Vinton recorded his version in 1975 with those lines translated into Polish. The Elvis Presley version was published by Gladys Music, Elvis Presley's publishing company. Marlene Dietrich recorded a version of the song in the original German sometime before 1958, pre-dating Presley, which appears as a B-side on a 1959 version of her single ' Lili Marlene', released by Philips in association with Columbia Records. 'Wooden Heart' features several lines from the original folk song. 'Wooden Heart', created by Fred Wise, Ben Weisman, Kay Twomey and German bandleader Bert Kaempfert, was based on a German folk song, ' Muss i denn', originating from the Rems Valley in Württemberg, south-west Germany, and arranged by Friedrich Silcher. Dowell's version also spent three weeks at number one on the Easy Listening chart.

Presley performed the song live during his Dinner Show concert at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas in 1975, a recording available on the Elvis Presley live album Dinner At Eight.Ī cover version by Joe Dowell on the Smash Records label made it to number one in the US at the end of August 1961, knocking Bobby Lewis' ' Tossin' and Turnin'' off the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 after seven weeks. In the United States, it was released in November 1964 as the B-side to ' Blue Christmas'. The song was published by Elvis Presley's company Gladys Music, Inc.

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