Don't Be Cruel
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- For the Bobby Brown album, see Don't Be Cruel (album).
"Don't Be Cruel" is a song by Otis Blackwell, which was recorded by Elvis Presley in 1956. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2004 it was listed number 197 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The song, listed as "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" at the time of its release, hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week ending August 18, 1956, and remained in the pole position for 11 consecutive weeks, the longest stay at number one by a single record until 1992's smash "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men.
Cheap Trick did a cover version of "Don't Be Cruel" in 1988, which was a #4 hit in the United States.
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