  You're indeed the last person I would expect to qoute Wiki. You know anybody can go and edit any article on wiki right? How do we know you did not edit the above quote(s).  Here is a quote that is not from wiki. I posted it earlier:  Elvis kicked off his musical career covering black song. His musical schooling was in the black neighborhood. The dude does not deserve the title of king of rock and roll if you ask me.  and by the second half of 1947 the Presleys were living on North Green Street, located in a colored neighborhood.   Consequently looked down upon by several of his white classmates, Elvis must have also been regarded as an intruder within the local black community, yet he was drawn like a magnet to the music that he heard on the streets, around the churches, and coming out of the clubs and bars. It was earthy, it was wild, and above all, it was exciting, reflecting the participants' colorful clothes, manner of speech, and in certain cases, mode of behavior. For a poor boy with limited communication skills but expansive dreams and an open mind, it must have been an exhilarating experience.  During his teens, the musical and stylistic influences Elvis found in his neighborhood made a real impact in forming his own personal style. Learn more about the teenage years of Elvis Presley in the next section.    For more fascinating information about Elvis Presley, see:           That link you provided doesen't work. Everybody knows Elvis used to hang out down on Beale Street in his hometown of Memphis and listen to the Black Blues players. But his biggest and earliest influences were undoubtedly hillbilly music, country music, folk music, and White church music/gospel, same as those Black Blues players, that's what influenced them also:D What is this Black song Elvis kicked off his career with?? Heartbreak Hotel? That wasn't a cover version of a Black song so I know you couldn't mean that one. Hound Dog?? The first recorded version of that song was indeed by a Black woman by the name of Big Mama Thornton, but it wasn't really her song to begin with, it was written by the JEWish song writing duo of Leiber and Stoller to begin with. And when you cover a song you usually don't just simply cover it or copy it but you remake it, most cover versions of songs sound very very different from the original versions in the first place. You put your own mark on the song so to speak, interpret it in your own way. Besides, like I said Elvis Presley was not the first Rock N' Roll act was he? Bill Haley and the Comets were and the song that made them famous was Rock Around the Clock which is more than just a little bit similar sounding to Hank William's Move It On Over from all the way back in 1947....