Editing Heartbreak Hotel (section)

==Early cover types==
Radio humorist [[Stan Freberg]] parodied "Heartbreak Hotel" immediately after its release, because the vocals on the original record featured a heavy use of [[reverb]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.madmusic.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=504| title=Heartbreak Hotel by Stan Freberg| publisher=themadmusicarchive.com|access-date=September 28, 2010}}</ref> In the cover, the lead singer repeatedly asks for "more echo on [his] voice."<ref name=pc7>{{Gilliland |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19754/ |title=Show 7 – The All American Boy: Enter Elvis and the rock-a-billies. [Part 1]}}</ref> When Presley recorded "[[Hound Dog (song)#Elvis Presley's version (1956)|Hound Dog]]" a few months later, he had taken over the role of producer, using what he learned at Sun Records (although Sholes was still credited) and decided not to use echo.<ref name="Victor" />

[[Connie Francis]] recorded the song for her 1959 album ''[[Rock 'n' Roll Million Sellers]]''; this album also features "[[Don't Be Cruel]]". Country singer [[Johnny Cash]] parodied the song in 1959 on the television show ''[[Town Hall Party]]'', imitating Presley's characteristic crib and hip movements.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Victor |first1=Adam|title=The Elvis Encyclopedia|year=2008|publisher=Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd|page=67|isbn=978-0-7156-3816-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.johnnycashfanzine.com/townhallparty.html| title=Johnny Cash At 'Town Hall Party' – LinerNotes| publisher=johnnycashfanzine.com| access-date=December 5, 2010| url-status=usurped| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101023051220/http://www.johnnycashfanzine.com/townhallparty.html| archive-date=October 23, 2010| df=mdy-all}}</ref> Before the performance Cash explained that it was "an impersonation of a rock and roll singer impersonating Elvis, is what this really is".

Beatles historian [[Mark Lewisohn]] noted that, at first as the Quarrymen then later as the Beatles, the group performed "Heartbreak Hotel" live from 1957 until 1961 (in Liverpool then later in Hamburg and elsewhere).<ref>Lewisohn, ''The Complete Beatles Chronicles'', p.&nbsp;362.</ref> It is unclear whether the lead vocal was by John Lennon or Paul McCartney or both. A recorded version has not been forthcoming. However, McCartney (using [[Bill Black]]'s upright bass) did a version for a documentary ''Elvis&nbsp;– Viva Las Vegas'', which also appears on DVD.