since the @ElvisPresley account isn’t going to talk about how black artists largely contributed to elvis’s success, i will.
here’s a thread of some black artists that should get more credit for helping elvis (and music in general) getting to where they are today.

“That’s All Right Mama” was the song that started Elvis’s rise to fame and was written and originally preformed by Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup. Crudup also wrote “My Baby Left Me” and “So Glad You’re Mine” which were also songs that Elvis later recorded and profited majorly off of.

Otis Blackwell also contributed to Elvis’s success by writing well known hits such as “All Shook Up”, “Dont Be Cruel”, and “Return to Sender”. he also wrote other elvis songs “Please Dont Drag That String Along” and “Make Me Know It”. Blackwell also wrote many hits for...

Jerry Lee Lewis, another rock n roll icon. Otis Blackwell was largely responsible for shaping rock n roll as we know it today while the singers took all the credit.

Elvis also covered many Little Richard songs and gained a lot from those covers. songs like “Tutti Frutti”, “Long Tall Sally”, “Ready Teddy”, “Rip It Up”, and “Good Golly Miss Molly” we’re originally performed by Little Richard, then made even more famous by elvis, with elvis...

not giving much if any credit to Little Richard. Little Richard recently passed and it makes me upset to think that his legacy was overshadowed by elvis just because he was white. Little Richard once stated in an interview that “If i had been white, there never would have been...

...an Elvis Presley.” and i believe that statement is true. Little Richard (the self proclaimed “Queen of Rock n Roll) came out as both gay in 1995 and omnisexual in 2012. then, in 2017, he kind of denounced being gay and the lgbt community bc of his religion.

Little Richard was a complicated man who recently passed. he isn’t as remembered as elvis and that breaks my heart. in my opinion, he was the real pioneer of rock n roll and music today wouldn’t be the same without him. rest easy, Little Richard.

some of elvis’s classic recordings and their original black artists:
“Mystery Train” - Little Junior Parker
“Baby Lets Play House” - Arthur Gunter
“Milkcow Blues Boogie” and “Good Rockin Tonight” - Kokomo Arnold
“I Need You So” - Ivory Joe Hunter
“Money Honey” - Jesse Stone
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“One Night (of Sin)” (elvis version is “One Night With You)- Smiley Lewis

while i’m sure there are many more Elvis songs originally by black artists who were never given the credit they were due, those were the small amount i found. it’s a shame to me that the elvis social medias couldn’t acknowledge this, it’s the least they could do with what’s...

going on today. especially bc it’s Juneteenth. but basically the reason i wanted to make this thread was because elvis was able to take credit for “creating rock n roll” when in reality he took from black artists without giving them proper credit and i wanted to give at least...

some credit. i’ve been a huge fan of elvis for a long time and it sickens me that i didn’t know about all the music he stole for quite some time. but i’m seeing more about giving those black artists the attention they deserved, which makes me feel a lot better.

i know a lot of you probably don’t care about old music like i do, but oldies is pretty much all i listen to lmao and this issue is really important to me. also if you want, please tag @ElvisPresley and get them to say something about appreciating black artists. thank you :)