Purporting to be the soundtrack to Elvis' second film, this album collects songs used in the film on one side with new material on the other. The weakness of a couple of the movie tunes and the fact that the new songs were leftovers from the sessions used to produce Elvis' first gospel EP and latest single add up to his weakest album offering, although any album with "Got a Lot o' Living to Do" is alright. The 1997 CD remastering adds eight more songs, only three of them associated with the movie, which becomes sort of incidental to the whole album at that point. If you think of Loving You as simply an Elvis Presley album, rather than a somewhat misleadingly packaged soundtrack, it was actually one of his more coherent and cohesive long-players, assembled from sessions all conducted in the first two months of 1957. By this time, he was doing precious little that was wrong, and his range and control were growing geometrically — thus, amid some powerful rock & roll, including "Mean Woman Blues" (which could almost have passed for one of his Sun tracks), "Teddy Bear," the electric guitar-driven "Got a Lot 'o Livin' to Do," Ivory Joe Hunter's "I Need You So," and a hard, brittle-textured outtake of "I Beg of You," the King does some brilliant ballad singing on "One Night of Sin" and "Is It So Strange," and belts out one of his great blues performances on "When It Rains, It Really Pours" — which boasts a killer Scotty Moore guitar part — and moves into Sons of the Pioneers territory with the hauntingly beautiful Western ballad "Lonesome Cowboy." He doesn't do badly with "Blueberry Hill," either.
ELVIS PRESLEY
LOVING YOU
RCA Victor LPM-1515July/1957
Produced by Steve Sholes
Elvis Presley - vocal/guitarScotty Moore, Hilmer Timbrell - guitar
Bill Black - bass
D.J. Fontana - drums
Dudley Brooks, Gordon Stoker - piano
Vocals:
The Jordanaires (Gordon Stoker, Hoyt Hawkins, Neal Matthews, Hugh Jarrett)
Recorded:
Jan 12-13/1957, Radio Recorders, Hollywood (1,4)
Jan 15-18/1957, Paramount Scoring Stage, Hollywood (2,5,6)
Jan 19/1957, Radio Recorders, Hollywood (8,11)
Jan 21/1957, Paramount Scoring Stage, Hollywood (7)
Feb 23-24/1957, Radio Recorders, Hollywood (3,9,10,12)
1.
MEAN WOMAN BLUES
(Claude Demetrius) « © '57 Gladys Music, ASCAP / Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP »Oh I got a woman mean as she can be
I got a woman mean as she can be
Sometimes I think she's almost mean as me
A black cat up and died of fright cause she crossed his path last night
I got a woman mean as she can be
Sometimes I think she's almost mean as me
She kiss so hard she bruise my lips hurts so good my heart just flips
I got a woman mean as she can be
Sometimes I think she's almost mean as me
[ guitar ] The strangest gal I ever had never happy less she's mad
I got a woman mean as she can be
Sometimes I think she's almost mean as me
[ guitar ] She makes love without a smile ooh hot dog that drives me wild
I got a woman mean as she can be
Sometimes I think she's almost mean as me
Sometimes I think she's almost mean as me
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2.
(LET ME BE YOUR) TEDDY BEAR
(Kal Mann - Bernie Lowe) « © '56 Gladys Music, ASCAP / Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP »Baby let me be your lovin' Teddy Bear
Put a chain around my neck and lead me anywhere
Oh let me be your Teddy Bear
I don't want to be your tiger cause tigers play too rough
I don't want to be your lion cause lions ain't the kind you love enough
Just wanna be your Teddy Bear
Put a chain around my neck and lead me anywhere
Oh let me be (oh let him be) your Teddy Bear
Baby let me be around you every night
Run your fingers through my hair and cuddle me real tight
Oh let me be your Teddy Bear
I don't want to be your tiger...
Just wanna be your Teddy Bear...
I just wanna be your Teddy Bear
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3.
LOVING YOU
(Jerry Leiber - Mike Stoller) « © '57 Jerry Leiber Music, ASCAP / Mike Stoller Music, ASCAP »I will spend my whole life through loving you just loving you
Winter summer springtime too loving you loving you
Makes no difference where I go or what I do
You know that I'll always be loving you just you
And if I'm seen with someone new don't be blue don't you be blue
I'll be faithful I'll be true always true true to you
There is only one for me and you know who
You know that I'll always be loving you
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4.
GOT A LOTTA LOVIN' TO DO
(Aaron Schroeder - Ben Weisman) « © '57 Blen Music, ASCAP / Rachel's Own Music, ASCAP »Oh yes I've got a lotta livin' to do a whole lotta lovin' to do
Come on baby to make your point takes two
Oh yes I've got a lotta livin' to do a whole lot of lovin' to do
And I don't want to have to do it without you
The moon is big and bright in the milky way tonight
But the way you act you'd never know it's there
So baby time's a wasting a lotta kisses I ain't been tasting
I don't know about you but I'm gonna get my share
Oh I've got a lotta livin' to do...
There's a balmy little breeze that's a whistling through the trees
And it's telling you to pitch a little woo with me
Why don't you take a listen you'll know what you've been missin'
Cuddle up a little closer and be my little honey bee
Oh I've got a lotta livin' to do...
You're the prettiest thing I've seen But you treat me so doggone mean
Ain't you got no heart I'm dyin' to hold you near
Why do you keep me waitin' why don't you start co-operatin'
And the things I say are things you want to hear
Oh I've got a lotta livin' to do...
And I don't want to have to do it without you
Oh I don't want to have to do it without you
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5.
LONESOME COWBOY
(Sid Tepper - Roy C. Bennett) « © '57 Gladys Music, ASCAP / Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP »I am just a lonesome cowboy and I'm travelling all alone
I ain't even got a nickel to call my baby on the phone
(Ride ride ride)
Just beyond the mountain lies a city and I hear it calling me
Saddle up and ride you lonesome cowboy here is where you'll find your destiny
In my dreams the lights shine bright and pretty near to me and yet so far
Will I always be a lonesome cowboy am I only reaching for a star
(For a star for a star for a star)
Ride Ride ride (ride along cowboy) cowboy cowboy
Sing sing sing (sing your song cowboy) cowboy cowboy
Will I ever leave this lonesome valley really see the lights that shine
Gotta find what lies beyond the mountain gotta rope and tie that dream of mine
(Dream of mine dream of mine dream of mine)
I am just a lonesome cowboy well I'm travelling all alone
If you don't call me baby then I'm never coming home
Then I'm never coming home
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6.
HOT DOG
(Jerry Leiber - Mike Stoller) « © '57 Jerry Leiber Music, ASCAP / Mike Stoller Music, ASCAP »Hot dog you say you're really comin' back
Hot dog I'm waitin' at the railway track
Hot dog you say you're comin' home for good
Hot dog I'm goin' to keep knocking on wood
And baby I can hardly wait
I'm gonna meet you at the gate hot dog
I fell in love with you and then you went away
But now you're coming home to stay
Hot dog soon everything will be all right
Hot dog we're gonna have a ball tonight
I've got a pocketful of dimes
It's gonna be just like old times hot dog
You went away and every day was misery
But now you're coming back to me
Hot dog my heart is gonna go insane
Hot dog when you come walking off the train
Oh how lonely I have been but when that Santa Fe pulls in
Hot dog baby baby hot dog
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7.
PARTY
(Jessie Mae Robinson) « © '57 MPL Music, ASCAP »Some people like to rock some people like to roll
But movin' and a groovin's gonna satisfy my soul
Let's have a party whooo let's have a party
We'll send you to the store let's buy some more
Let's have a party tonight
I never kissed a bear I never kissed a goon
But I can shake a chicken in the middle of the room
Let's have a party...
Now honky tonky Joe is knockin' at the door
Bring him in and he'll be shakin' on the floor
Let's have a party...
The meat is on the stove the breads are gettin' hot
Everybody gonna taste a lot of mama's pot
Let's have a party...
Let's have a party
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8.
BLUEBERRY HILL
(Al Lewis - Larry Stock - Vincent Rose) « © '40 Chappell & Co, ASCAP / Larry Stock Music, ASCAP / Sovereign Music, ASCAP »I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill
On Blueberry Hill where I found you
The moon stood still on Blueberry Hill
And linger until my dreams came true
Though wind in the willows plays love's sweet melody
But all of those vows we made were never to be
Though we're apart you're a part of me still
For you were my thrill on Blueberry Hill
Though wind in the willows plays...
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9.
TRUE LOVE
(Cole Porter) « © '56 Chappell & Co, ASCAP »Suntanned windblown honeymooners at last alone
Feeling far above par oh how lucky we are
While I give to you and you give to me true love true love
So on and on it will always be true love true love
For you and I have a guardian angel on high with nothing to do
But to give to you and to give to me love forever true
Love forever true
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10.
DON'T LEAVE ME NOW
(Aaron Schroeder - Ben Weisman) « © '57 Blen Music, ASCAP / Rachel's Own Music, ASCAP »Don't leave me now now that I need you
How blue and lonely I'd be if you should say we're through
Don't break my heart this heart that loves you
There's just be nothing for me if you should leave me now
What good is dreaming if I must dream all alone by myself
Without you darling my arms would just gather dust
(Like the books on the shelf) Come to these arms these arms that need you
Don't close your eyes to my plea don't leave me now
Don't close your eyes to my plea don't leave me now
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11.
HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY THAT I LOVE YOU
(Scott Wiseman) « © '45 Songs Of Universal, BMI »Have I told you lately that I love you
Could I tell ye once again somehow
Have I told with all my heart and soul how I adore you
Well darling I'm telling you now
Have I told you lately when I'm sleeping
Every dream I dream is you somehow
Have I told how the nights are long When you're not with me
Well darling I'm telling you now
My heart would break in two if I should lose you
I'm no good without you anyhow
Dear have I told you lately that I love you
Well darling I'm telling you now
My heart would break in two...
Well darling I'm telling you now
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12.
I NEED YOU SO
(Ivory Joe Hunter) « © '57 Unichappell Music, BMI »I need you so to keep me happy
If I can't have you I cannot go on
I need your arms around me tightly
Yes I miss them nightly when you're not at home
When the day is done I miss you so
I lie and wait to hear you knock upon the door
When you leave me I try not to worry
Come back in a hurry cause I need you so
When the day is done I miss you so...
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