ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE (Elvis Presley)
“Only the Strong Survive” is a song written by Jerry Butler, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and originally sung in 1968 by Jerry Butler, released on his album The Ice Man Cometh. Elvis Presley (1969) and Billy Paul (1977) also recorded versions of this song. (More from Wikipedia)
The Ice Man Cometh by Jerry Butler proved highly influential; John Bush noted in Allmusic that the album “marks an excellent collaboration, the first time R&B production techniques reached a level of maturity and elegance capable of fully complementing one of the smoothest vocalists in soul history”. In 1969, Elvis Presley recorded one of the hits from The Ice Man Cometh, “Only the Strong Survive”.
(July 2014)
