
B-side of Way Down, the last hit in Elvis's lifetime. This was a cover of Johnny Ace's 1955 R&B #1 (at the top-spot for 10 weeks). Rising R&B singer Johnny Ace also died young, when a game of Russian roulette went tragically wrong, backstage, at the Houston Auditorium on 25 December 1954.
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