(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame
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“(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame” | |||||
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Single by Elvis Presley | |||||
Released | August 8, 1961 | ||||
Genre | Pop, Rock n' Roll | ||||
Elvis Presley singles chronology | |||||
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(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame is a song written written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. It was originally written for Elvis Presley, and he was the first to perform it. The song is one of the 25 songs Pomus and Shuman wrote for Presley. The relatively intense tune, featuring a Bo Diddley beat, performed well on both pop and easy listening stations, reaching #4 on the Billboard Top 100, and #2 on the Easy Listening chart, based (at the time) on the Top 100, but deleting "teen beat" singles.
It was covered by alternative-rock band the Smiths, punk band The Misfits, and the heavy-metal band Scorpions.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. www.history-of-rock.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-26.