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Echoes of Love
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Bob Roberts/ Paddy McMainsThough you are gone, I still wear your ring
They're playing the song we used to sing
Echoes of love, echoes of love
Are coming to me out of the past
The letters you wrote I treasure them so
And I hear your voice wherever I go
Echoes of love, echoes of love
Are coming to me out of the past
In the rustle of a breeze; in the patter of the rain
In the rushing of the seas, all I hear is your name
Come back my love and once you are near
Darling I know no more will I hear
Echoes of love, echoes of love
'cause you'll be with me right in my heart
Echoes of love, echoes of love
'cause you'll be with me right in my heart Recorded:
1963/05/26, first released on
Kissin' CousinsReactions
The piano is played by Floyd Cramer, the vibes by Boots Randolph, who does a wonderful job with it. Check those vibes out. Not a great song, but pleasant.
A less than complicated innocuous ballad that he sings without getting out of first gear. Pleasant, but not especially memorable although I never skip it.
From Kissin' Cousin's, nothing to write home about. Film song that's it, felt sorry for Elvis having to sing these rubbish song's just to fill Parker's pocket.
I Love the song. It flows with ease and Elvis sings it perfectly. Would love to see what could be done with some new music, behind the vocals. (A remix overdub).
The weakest recording from the May 1963 sessions and for Elvis standars delivered without feeling. Kind of boring. Two stars from me.
Simply a nice ballad well sung by Elvis! I like it as it is!
This seems to be a hit or miss song for most people. But its still better than the stuff that was to follow for a while. I remember when the lost album was released & thinking what a quality album it could have been at the time. The piano that irritates a few people on the song is actually a Vibraphone played by Boots Randolph.
An ok song. Nothing more. You can`t compare with classics like It Hurts Me from the siame period.
Pleasant song. Well sung. But nothing special.
Oh dear, I've just read the reviews of other fans and it seems that i am the odd one out. I don't know why but I generally skip this track when playing the Cd it is on. I just find it boring with Elvis also unable to do anything for the song to make it better. So many better songs / recordings from around the same time. I prefer Love me Tonight, Slowly but Surely, It Hurts Me, Never Ending, What now what Next, Shes not You. etc.
Good song from a great recording session. A session that should have had an album from it!!! First of many mistakes to be made from Elvis' recorded company and the Colonel.
Decent ballad. However, not as strong as some of the other ballads from the early sixties
The backing is a little OTT but the song is beautifully delivered and underated.
I like it and altough Floyd Cramer isn't as good here as on for example Judy,i still like the piano. Finally in the 90's we had "the lost album".4 stars.
Very nice ballad recorded in May of 1963 for an album that was never to be. Instead this song helped upgrade the poor "Kissin' Cousins" LP as a bonus song. It should have been featured on the album and not put near the end of side two. Even better it should have been on a real album.
Not a bad song but hardly a classic I sometimes play it.
Its pleasant enough but that piano is so annoying. Would have been better on that never to be 1963 studio LP than as a bonus song to a dreadful soundtrack LP.
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