Co-author Kent Moore, a fan of Elvis's music since 1961, owns about 150 albums, tapes, and CDs of virtually everything that Elvis has recorded. Below are ranked lists of Kent's favorites in 15 categories, with no overlaps in these lists. The final list of overall favorites is comprised of songs from five different categories.

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Best rock songs:

1. Burning Love
2. Too Much
3. I Got Stung
4. Rip It Up
5. Wear My Ring Around Your Neck

Best soft rock songs:

1. Stuck On You
2. Don't Be Cruel
3. All Shook Up
4. I Gotta Know
5. I Beg of You

Best blues songs:

1. A Mess of Blues
2. Moody Blue
3. It Feels So Right
4. Like a Baby
5. Such A Night

Best country songs:

1. I Really Don't Want to Know
2. There Goes My Everything
3. After Loving You
4. He'll Have to Go
5. True Love Travels On A Gravel Road

Best ballads:

1. Anything That's Part of You
2. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
3. It Hurts Me
4. Lonely Man
5. Take Good Care of Her

Best love songs:

1. Can't Help Falling in Love
2. Love Me
3. I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
4. Pledging My Love
5. Ask Me

Best heartbreak songs:

1. Separate Ways
2. Twenty Days and Twenty Nights
3. Always on My Mind
4. Hurt
5. Where Did They Go, Lord?

Best religious songs:

1. His Hand in Mine
2. If We Never Meet Again
3. Who Am I?
4. Swing Down, Sweet Chariot
5. If That Isn't Love

Best pop standards:

1. My Way
2. It's Impossible
3. What Now My Love?
4. Danny Boy
5. Hawaiian Wedding Song

Best movie songs:

1. Return to Sender
2. Teddy Bear
3. Such An Easy Question
4. Doin' the Best I Can
5. Clean Up Your Own Back Yard

Best concert songs:

1. It's Over
2. I Can't Stop Loving You
3. Walk a Mile in My Shoes
4. Sweet Caroline
5. Proud Mary

Best Sun recordings:

1. Mystery Train
2. Tryin' to Get to You
3. That's All Right, Mama
4. Blue Moon of Kentucky
5. Baby, Let's Play House

Best Christmas songs:

1. Blue Christmas
2. Santa Bring My Baby Back to Me
3. On a Snowy Christmas Night
4. If Every Day Was Like Christmas
5. Holly Leaves and Christmas Trees

Best songs never released as a single:

1. I Met Her Today
2. Starting Today
3. I'm Falling in Love Tonight
4. True Love Travels On a Gravel Road
5. Love Me Tonight

Best remaining songs not included above:

1. Treat Me Nice
2. Long Black Limousine
3. His Latest Flame
4. Kentucky Rain
5. It's Now or Never

Most overrated songs:

1. Hound Dog
2. Jailhouse Rock
3. Love Me Tender
4. Fever
5. Stranger In My Own Home Town

Worst songs in the Top 100:

1. Almost in Love
2. All That I Am
3. Blue Moon
4. I'm Leaving
5. Do the Clam

Best overall songs:

1. Stuck On You - sung to perfection, as Elvis playfully rolls over the consonants
2. Burning Love - great driving beat in the background; Elvis could still rock in the 70s
3. Anything That's Part of You - a beautiful song done very tenderly; it's incredible that the King of Rock and Roll could sing a delicate song like this with such sensitivity
4. I Really Don't Want to Know - Elvis breathes fire into the Eddy Arnold classic
5. His Hand in Mine - title song of his first full-length religious album, sung with reverence and sincerity

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