Don’t know wether to love him or hate as I was a diehard C&W fan (Cowboy Music we called it) and music was rapidly changing away from C&W. But then there was Fats Domino and Blueberry Hill that got played a lot at the soda fountain...
What’s funny is how he recorded Maybelline, basically a country number, backed with Wee Wee Hours, an R& B number while Elvis recorded That’s All Right Mama, an R&B number, backed with Blue Moon of Kentucky, the country number - these guys wanted to keep their bases covered.