Burning Love
"
Burning Love" is a
song written by
Dennis Linde and performed by
Elvis Presley. Elvis recorded it at RCA's Hollywood studios on
March 28,
1972.
It would be released as a single on
August 1,
1972, with
B-side "
It's a Matter of Time".
On
October 21 &
28,
1972 it was the #2 song on the billboard singles chart.
The song was Elvis's 40th and last top 10 hit on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was also one of the last real rock songs in the last years of his life; from
1972-
1977 the majority of his songs were
ballads, and many of those placed on Billboard's
Hot Country Singles chart. "Burning Love" was one of the few exceptions, along with
Promised Land in
1974.
The song was also released on an album titled
Burning Love and hits from his movies volume 2 on
November 1,
1972. Despite this album's sub title, none of the movie songs on it were ever hits. The only actual hit on the album was the title song, Burning Love.
In 2005, an
Australian woman stabbed her partner in the back, thigh, and shoulder with a pair of scissors because he played the song too many times. His injuries were classified as "non-life threatening."[
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Though she has never recorded it,
Dolly Parton has often included "Burning Love" in her concert set lists, from the mid 1970s on.
* In
Grand Theft Auto 2,
Elvis impersonators quote the last line of the song, "I'm a hunka hunka burning love".
* The
Winamp website makes frequent references to Elvis, including currently (
as of 2006) "Click here for a hunka hunka burning videos".
* In the film Jerry and Tom (1998) the character named Vic says "hunka hunka burning love" in order to suggest that he had in fact killed Elvis Presley.
* On
The Golden Girls, characters
Rose Nylund and
Blanche Devereaux were charter members of their local "Hunka Hunka Burnin' Love Fan Club."
