"All Shook Up" was a 1957 rock and roll smash for Elvis Presley. Songwriter Otis Blackwell told how he got the title from a humorous incident: a record executive spilling a soda and saying he was “all shook up”. Elvis’s version stayed #1 for eight weeks and was the top-selling single of 1957. The upbeat track captures the jittery excitement of love and helped cement Elvis’s rock’n’roll status.
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