He adjusted the music and the lyrics to his own particular presentation. Elvis has the most terrific ear of anyone I have ever met. He does not read music, but he does not need to. All I had to do was play the song for him once, and he made it his own. He has perfect judgment of what is right for him. He exercised that judgment when he chose ‘Love Me Tender’ as the film's theme song.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "He adjusted the music and the lyrics to his own particular presentation. Elvis has the most terrific ear of anyone I have ever met. He does not read music, but he does not need to. All I had to do was play the song for him once, and he made it his own. He has perfect judgment of what is right for him. He exercised that judgment when he chose ‘Love Me Tender’ as the film's theme song." in the context of "Ken Darby, on Elvis' treatment of a song whose rights he had given to his wife, Vera Matson to share with Elvis, in spite of neither of the three writing a single line of it, and as noted in an article entitled "5 Best Elvis Presley Ballads" and published on Cheatsheet's April 17, 2023 online edition." to mean that wisdom is timeless.