Musicina Blender

Elvis the Queen

Elvis Presley / Queen / Louis Jordan - Crazy Little Cruel Thing Called Caldonia

I once won a karaoke contest a few years ago, singing Crazy Little Thing Called Love. I picked the tune because I had just visited Graceland in Memphis and was in a real “Elvis” mood. The tune by Queen always reminded me of something that Elvis would’ve done. And it also seems remarkably similar to Don’t Be Cruel. To really get the boogie woogie feel of it all, I went to the source—the great Louis Jordan recording of Caldonia, from the 1940’s.