My Top 25 Elvis Songs: It Is No Secret (#25)

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It's time to salute Elvis. Today, August 16, is the 39th anniversary of the death of "The King of Rock and Roll" at the young age of 42. He died from heart failure brought on by abuse of prescription pills. Some of the songs that are in my top ten countdown of songs about Elvis will deal with that. Here, I'll just salute the man and his music. #25: It Is No Secret (What God Can Do) You cannot discuss Elvis Presley without mentioning his gospel music. His only Grammy awards were for his gospel albums. He had a very famous quote about people referring to him as "the King of Rock and Roll:" "I'm not a king. There's only one king, and that's Jesus." A lot of the ultra-conservatives slammed Elvis for his "devil's music" (if you ask me, they were just racist because Elvis was doing R&B the way R&B singers did it, as opposed to Pat Boone doing lame, lifeless white-bread [no pun intended] versions of R&B songs when he covered them in the early 50s), but the man had faith. Here he sings the great Stuart Hamblen song with tenderness and complete conviction. It's a stunning version. It Is No Secret (What God Can Do) Written by Stuart Hamblen From Elvis' Christmas Album, 1957 Here's Elvis' version of the classic song: