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(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame is a song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. It was originally written for Elvis Presley, and he was the first to perform it. The song is one of the 25 songs Pomus and Shuman wrote for Presley. The relatively intense tune, featuring a Bo Diddley beat, performed well on both pop and easy listening stations, reaching #4 on the Billboard Top 100, and #2 on the Easy Listening chart, based (at the time) on the Top 100, but deleting "teen beat" singles. It was covered by Del Shannon, alternative-rock band the Smiths, punk band The Misfits, the heavy-metal band Scorpions and Italian alternative-rock band Verdena, as well as Brian May.