August 16, 2012
No. 4: "Heartbreak Hotel" Released in January 1956, "Heartbreak Hotel" was Elvis' first No. 1 record on the Billboard pop charts, and the single was the best-selling that year. Rolling Stone ranked the song No. 44 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. *** James Peterson begins to cut Elvis Presley's hair at Fort Chaffee in March 1958 during Presley's induction. Another barber at Chaffee, Fred Kinslow, said Presley quipped as he blew locks of his hair away, "Hair today, gone tomorrow." Courtesy of Fred Kinslow
