There's No Place Like Home

Just prior to Christmas in 1956, the Million Dollar Quartet jammed to the song that is most commonly known as 'Home! Sweet Home!' Gladys Presley was also recorded singing the song a few days after the session at Sun Studios, with Elvis in presence but not singing.

The song, which was written in the 1820's, had it's writer, Henry Bishop, base it's melody on John Howard Payne's 1823 opera 'Clari,' which was originally a novel. Another version of the opera was produced 5 years after Payne's version and the show was then revived in 2008 by a Swedish performing arts group.

In 1909, the song featured a silent film called 'A House of Cards' and has been been in numerous films since, as well as Roger and Hammerstein's musical 'The King and I,' which became a film soon after Elvis entered the music industry. It is also in 'The Wizard of Oz' and Dorothy, the main character in the film, at one point teltl the other characters "There's no place like home."

It has also been translated different languages including Swedish and Japanese and has also been recorded by artists including Vera Lynn, Bing Crosby and Katherine Jenkins. The latter named her 2014 album after the song.