(53) CROONER or COUNTRY? WAYLON? FABIAN? HOW ABOUT BOBBY DARIN?

So Elvis was worried about Waylon Jennings and Fabian, and personally I think it was his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, who decided it was best for Elvis to show his versatility by going more crooner than country.

Then again, Elvis may have seen that Bobby Darin was also making a move towards crooner with his success with "Mac the Knife" in 1959. It was the number one record in 1959 in the United States and in Great Britian!

Here's a You Tube presentation of Bobby Darin doing Mac, another suited up Rock and Roller, going the way of the Frank Sinatra "Rat Pack."

No matter what direction Elvis took musically, he would never give up singing Gospel music.

Video updated January 26, 2011.