One Broken Heart for Sale - Otis Blackwell

Another song Otis Blackwell wrote that Elvis covered was One Broken Heart for Sale. Featured in the Presley film It Happened at the World's fair in 1963. It was a single but broke the chain of No1 or No2 hits that Presley was enjoying in the UK charts, reaching only No 8 in the NME charts. The song hit the NME chart at No19 on March 2nd 1963 on the last week that Please Please Me by the Beatles was at No1, reached No 8 for 2 weeks and then dropped down. The single was only 1min,34 seconds which may not have helped but the era of the Beatles was beginning. Even so Cliff Richard achieved a No 1 hit with Summer Holiday at the same time. Elvis was also backed by the barbershop quartet, The Mellomen on this hit.

The Mellomen " The quartet sang on several films with Elvis Presley, beginning with It Happened at the World's Fair. Elvis wanted the Jordanaires to perform for the film but they were unavailable, so The Mellomen were called in to sing One Broken Heart For Sale and Cotton Candy Land. The Mellomen later backed up Elvis on the title song for the film Roustabout as well as on most of the sound track for Paradise, Hawaiian Style. In 1969, The Mellomen appeared with Elvis in the film The Trouble with Girls, as a gospel group called The Bible Singers." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mellomen

Here's songwriter, Otis Blackwell's version -

And Elvis

This is Take 1 (by way of change!)