Did Elvis even write a song?? Honestly does anyone know if he did? For some reason I don't think so. He did end up with a few writing credits' date=' but I think those were from publishing negotiations and I don't think he actually did any "writing" of the songs. I don't really care for the "He didn't write anything" slam on Elvis anyway. The idea of a musician having to write all of his own material to have any credibility is a relatively new phenomenon (late 60s, at any rate) and before that it was pretty much given that songwriting and performance were separate. [/quote'] Yeah I agree. It doesn't change the effect Elvis had thats for sure. To my knowledge it wasn't actually until The Beatles that artists had more than 1 or 2 originals on each album, if that.