Elvis Presley Song:

One Broken Heart For Sale (1963)
(Music and lyrics by Blackwell and Scott)

This song was written for the movie It Happened At The Worlds Fair.  
It was released on a single and reached #11 on the billboard chart.

You can find it on the CD 50 Worldwide Gold Hits: Volume 1. 

"Some guys have all the luck, and my heart hasn't any.
I think I'll paint a sign, "For sale for a penny"."

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I like Elvis' relaxed style of singing on this track or is it that he's just bored with the below average material that his manager was contracting him to sing. At any moment I hope he's going to sing ' hold it fellas that don't move me, let's get real, real gone for a change' and launch into ' milk cow blues boogie' which let's face it is a underated masterpiece, where Elvis reinvents the blues and makes Robert Johnson look like an old man. So yes drivel like 'one broken heart' although listenable because it's the king, is the kind of song that depressed him as an artist and almost ruined his credibility.

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