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Return To Sender - Elvis Presley (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Return To Sender (Elvis Presley, 1962). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-03-22. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"Return To Sender," written by Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell, was Elvis Presley's 41st top 20 hit, which climbed to the #2 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1962 (Whitburn, 2013). Because the song sold more than one million units in the USA, it was certified platinum by the RIAA in 1992 (riaa.com, 2022). The song was included in the Elvis film "Girls Girls Girls" (music.apple.com, 2022; Whitburn, 2013). "On January 8 1993, the US postal service released a stamp commemorating Elvis on what would have been The King's 58th birthday (songfacts.com, 2022). The public was asked to vote on one of "two equally superb but thematically distinct portraits: a watercolor of the youthful Elvis by Mark Stutzman, or a more mature Elvis painted by John Berkey" (postalmuseum.si.edu, 2022). This decision was looked down upon by many since historical figures had been preferred (songfacts.com, 2022). The youthful Elvis received 75% of the 1.2 million responses (postalmuseum.si.edu, 2022). "Enterprising stamp collectors put Elvis stamps on letters that day and mailed them off with false addresses so they would be sent back marked 'Return To Sender' and become collector's items" (songfacts.com, 2022). The Elvis stamp is still one of the most talked-about stamps ever issued by the Postal Service—and the most popular U.S. commemorative stamp of all time" (postalmuseum.si.edu, 2022).
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Lyrics:
I gave a letter to the postman,
He put it his sack.
Bright and early next morning,
He brought my letter back.
She wrote upon it:
Return to sender, address unknown.
No such number, no such zone.
We had a quarrel, a lover's spat
I write I'm sorry but my letter keeps coming back.
So then I dropped it in the mailbox
And sent it special D.
Bright and early next morning
It came right back to me.
She wrote upon it:
Return to sender, address unknown.
No such person, no such zone.
This time I'm gonna take it myself
And put it right in her hand.
And if it comes back the very next day
Then I'll understand the writing on it
Return to sender, address unknown.
No such number, no such zone.
Return to sender, Return to sender,
Return to sender.
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