On February 7, 1961 RCA Victor released "Surrender" / "Lonely Man". On the 20th of the month the a-side entered Billboard's "Hot 100" at number 24, had a run of 12 weeks and became a number 1 hit. "Lonely Man" also made it on the hitparade. Starting on February 27th the ballad was listed five times and climbed from number 84 to number 32. The RIAA honored the domestic sales in 1992 with a Platinum Award. In Great Britain "Surrender" also became a number one hit. When BMG released the song again in 2005 (this time in the by then popular cd format), it peaked at number 2 of the UK Charts. Worldwide RCA Victor was able to retail 6 million copies, which translates to 900 million paid streams. In 1960/61 the conservative Elvis was even more successful than the rock'n'roll king of the 1950s.

The single is not available on the streaming platforms, but the songs can be found on the albums "Elvis' Golden Records - Volume 3" (1963) and "Elvis' Gold Records - Volume 4" (1968). 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, "Surrender" accumulates 31.5 million streams, "Lonely Man" stays below the million mark. Despite being anything but forgotten "Surrender" seems to have lost a lot of its appeal over the decades.

The sleeve was designed with one of the promo photos for 20th Century Fox' musical drama "Wild In The Country", which featured "Lonely Man".

After "It's Now Or Never" turned out to be a sales monster, Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman used the same principle and turned "Torna A Surriento" into "Surrender". Elvis recorded it on October 30, 1960 at RCA Studio B in Nashville/Tennessee. First he taped nine takes of the song, then he produced eight workpart-takes. The master was spliced of take 4 and workpart-take 8. With mediterranean music and dramatic vocals the singer tries to convince a lady to succumb to him. RCA Victor later re-released "Surrender" on the longplayer "Elvis' Golden Records - Volume 3" (1963) and the boxed set "Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits - Volume 1" (1970).

Bennie Benjamin and Sol Marcus wrote this beautiful ballad for the movie "Wild In The Country", Elvis taped the song on November 7, 1960 at RCA Studio B in Nashville/Tennessee within 13 takes. He sounds so sad and vulnerable, that one believes him every word. In 1968 RCA Victor also released the track on the album "Elvis' Gold Records - Volume 4" and again in 1971 on the boxed set "The Other Sides - Worldwide Gold Award Hits Volume 2".