When RCA Victor started to ship "Jailhouse Rock" / "Treat Me Nice" on September 24, 1957, the retailers already had pre-ordered 1.2 million copies. On October 14th the single entered the "Hot 100" at number 14, had a run of 27 weeks and peaked at number 1. "Treat Me Nice" was listed separately for 10 weeks and reached number 27. The track could also be found on the charts for country & western music (#11) and r&b (#7). On the domestic market the 45 sold almost three million copies, which was honored by the RIAA in 1992 with a Double Platinum Award. In Great Britain "Jailhouse Rock" became a number one hit, too. When BMG re-released the single in 2005, the track once again reached the top of the charts. Commercially the title track of Elvis' third movie belongs to the ten best selling singles of the 1950s.

The single is not available on the streaming platforms since the tracks can be found on the album "Elvis' Golden Records" (1958). In 2016 the complete Presley catalogue was restored and remastered by Vic Anesini for a boxed set of 60 compact discs called "The Album Collection". Sony Music Entertainment provides the streaming platforms with the same versions of the individual tracks, albeit in 24 bit/90 khz flac. That means, if the platform of your choice supports high resolution audio, you can enjoy the songs in the same quality Sony used to scan and master them. On Spotify, which has a market share of approximately 30% and is the only platform that publishes streaming figures, "Jailhouse Rock" accumulates almost 600 million streams, "Treat Me Nice" clocks in at 10 million. Today "Jailhouse Rock" is the second most requested Presley song on Spotify.

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The legendary rock'n'roll song was taped on April 30, 1957 at Radio Recorders in Hollywood/California. Elvis recorded eight takes, of which only the numbers 4 and 5 are complete performances. Afterwards two pick up-takes were recorded, which started in the middle of the song. The final version was a splice of take 6 (a long false start) and pick up-take 2. When the song was released in September 1957, it reached the number one of the "Top 100", the "Country Best Seller Chart" and the "R&B Best Seller Chart". For me "Jailhouse Rock" is a masterpiece. A great melody, a driving rhythm and subversive lyrics (it's actually about a party of homosexuals, which was considered to be abnormal in the 50s of the last century). Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller had surpassed themselves with this song. Elvis' performance is unbeatable. Nobody ever came even close to his original recording, including Mr. Presley himself.

The macho tune was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Elvis recorded it on May 3, 1957 within 13 takes. The master was spliced of the takes 10 and 13. Finally the king rejected this version and recorded "Treat Me Nice" again on September 5, 1957. The 15th and final attempt replaced the previously selected master.