It’s Now or Never

This was one of seventeen songs written by songwriter and producer Aaron Schroeder for Elvis. Others include “Stuck on You” and “A Bill Porter was an American audio engineer who helped shape the Nashville sound and recorded such stars as The Everly Brothers, Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison from the late 1950s through the 1970s.In one week of 1960, his recordings accounted for 15 of Billboard Magazine’s “Top 100,” .  He recalled one particular session with Elvis on April 3-4 1960, which included this song. “In those two days, we recorded 12 songs, two of which went to No 1,” Porter remembered. “Elvis was having trouble with ‘It’s Now or Never’ because he basically sang in the baritone range, and the end was in the tenor range. We recorded this song for at least seven or eight takes. At one point, I finally pushed the talkback button and said, ‘EP, we can just do the ending. I can splice it on without doing the song all the way through again’. He answered me with, ‘Bill, I’m gonna do it all the way through, or I’m not gonna do it at all!’ So, we did it again. And, of course, he got it the way he wanted it.”ig Hunk O’ Love” but this was the biggest hit that he penned for The King. Another familiar tune to many that he wrote was the theme song for the TV series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!