The song “Jailhouse Rock” was recorded at Radio Recorders in Hollywood,
California and was released on September 24, 1957, to coincide with the
release of Presley’s motion picture,Jailhouse Rock. It is #67 on Rolling
Stone‘s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was named one
of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and
Roll. In 2004 , it finished at #21 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Songs survey
of top tunes in American cinema.

The Kingsmen, from left, Don Gallucci, Jack Ely, Lynn Easton,
Mike Mitchell and Bob Nordby.                           (Gino Rossi photo)

  
A rock group from Portland, Oregon, called The Kingsmen, recorded 
their cover of “Louie Louie” at Northwestern, Inc., Motion Pictures and
Recording in Portland. The session cost $50 and was done in one take. 

The song "Burning Love", written by Dennis Linde and originally recorded by
country soul artist Arthur Alexander, was successfully covered by Elvis Presley, becoming his biggest hit record since "Suspicious Minds" in 1969 and his last
Top 10 hit in the Billboard Hot 100 or pop charts. It was recorded in the RCA
Studios in Hollywood, California.

Elvis Presley’s Can’t Help Falling in Love peaked at number two on the pop
chart and went to number one on the Easy Listening chart for six weeks. The
song was featured in Elvis Presley‘s 1961 film, Blue Hawaii.

The instrumental section of the song was recorded at United Western Recorders, Hollywood, California, with the session engineered by Chuck Britz and produced
by Brian Wilson. The session took 20 takes to achieve the master take of the
song. The recording included Carl on twelve string guitar among other session
musicians collectively known as The Wrecking Crew. A strip of masking tape was
placed over the strings of a piano  while the bottoms of two plastic orange juice
bottles were used for percussion. The final vocal track of “God Only Knows” was completed on April 11, 1966. The song was voted 25 in Rolling Stone magazine’s
500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Some of the original handwritten lyrics to "God Only 
Knows"