{"id":629557,"date":"2026-04-26T09:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/629557\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:31:12","slug":"on-this-day-in-1960-the-king-of-rock-n-roll-was-back-on-top-of-the-hot-100-for-the-first-time-since-serving-his-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/629557\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in 1960, The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll Was Back on Top of the Hot 100 for the First Time Since Serving His Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elvis Presley emerged on the national stage in the 1950s. With his slicked-back hair, pelvic thrusts, and wide-ranging baritone vocals, he became a global phenomenon with songs like \u201cHound Dog\u201d and \u201cJailhouse Rock.\u201d However, that red-hot career cooled temporarily in 1958 when Presley was drafted into<\/a> the military. Serving a two-year stint with the U.S. Army, the King of Rock and Roll feared fans would forget him upon his return in March 1960. Those fears would prove unfounded on this day (April 25) in 1960, when Elvis Presley hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 with \u201cStuck on You\u201d, his first post-Army single.<\/p>\n

Elvis Presley Had to Rush His First Post-Army Hit<\/p>\n

Two days after Elvis Presley returned home to Tennessee from the Army, Billboard broke the news that his label was planning to release a new single. Unfortunately for the \u201cAll Shook Up\u201d crooner, RCA executives hadn\u2019t yet chosen a song<\/a> for his first post-military release.<\/p>\n

On March 20, 1960, Presley recorded \u201cStuck On You\u201d at RCA\u2019s Nashville studio. The label was in such a rush to unleash a new Elvis track that they had to print the single sleeves without knowing the title of the song.<\/p>\n

Written by Aaron Schroeder and J. Leslie McFarland, \u201cStuck On You\u201d dethroned Percy Faith\u2019s \u201cTheme from\u00a0A Summer Place\u201c, ending its nine-week reign atop the Hot 100.<\/p>\n

The song held the No. 1 spot for four weeks before the Everly Brothers knocked it off with \u201cCathy\u2019s Clown\u201d.<\/p>\n

[RELATED: What Rodney Crowell Really Meant When He Said Johnny Cash Survived \u201cWhat Elvis Didn\u2019t\u201d]<\/a><\/p>\n

The Hollywood Star Elvis Hated<\/p>\n

After returning from the Army, Elvis Presley devoted much of the 1960s to his film career, starring in movies like Blue Hawaii and Easy Come Easy Go. In 1962, he starred alongside Hollywood A-lister Charles Bronson in the boxing musical Kid Galahad. Despite having military service in common, the two didn\u2019t exactly hit it off.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201c[Bronson] was a very quiet kind of guy, a loner, and he just didn\u2019t think Elvis was that big a deal,\u201d explained Sonny West, Presley\u2019s former bodyguard. \u201cElvis hated this, and he was always putting him down. He used to call him a muscle-bound smart alec and a musclebound ape. Just never stopped putting him down, although I never heard Bronson knock Elvis.\u201d<\/p>\n

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