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If You Love Me (Let Me Know)

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Words & Music: John Rostill

You came when I was happy in your sunshine
I grew to love you more each passing day
Before too long I’d filled my world around you
Yeah and I prayed you loved enough of me to stay

If you love me let me know
If you don't let me go
I can't take another minute of the day without you near
If you love me let it be
If you don't set me free
Take the chains away that keep me loving you

The arms that open wide to hold me closer
The hands that run their fingers through my hair
The smile that says hello it's good to see you
Any time I turn around and find you there

It's this and so much more that makes me love you
What else can I do to make you see
You know you'll have whatever's mine to give you
Yeah but a love affair for one it can never be

If you love me let me know
If you don't let me go
I can't take another minute of the day without you near
If you love me let it be
If you don't set me free
Take the chains away that keep me loving you

Take the chains away that keep me loving you

Recorded: 1977/04/25, first released on Moody Blue

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Bill Rauhuff (profile/ contact) wrote on Jul 25, 2011report abuse

I am sorry but both of these ONJ songs are lame and the King of R&R was above these songs. Somehow the concert catalog slipped bad after the Aloha concert. Elvis was too young to be a easy listening middle of the road singer in the mid seventies. He recorded some decent songs from 74-77 but chose not to sing them live. Promised Land was a good example. I wish he would have stopped singing the two minute medleys of his biggest 50s hits and sang some of his other great songs in his 50s and 60s catalog. I believe laziness set in and he just did not want to rehearse with the band anymore after around 1973 or 1974.

Lpool kid (profile/ contact) wrote on Jul 24, 2011report abuse

not a bad song,i quite like this but and there's always a but,once elvis started doing this song and many others from his set list he done them to death.i still can't fathom out why in 1975 when he changed his set list, it met with a so called luke warm response.it was a breath of fresh air,anybody would be bored singing the same songs night after night,some cases year after year.no stimulation = no creativity musically speakimg.

jack409 (profile/ contact) wrote on Jul 24, 2011report abuse

ELVIS proved throughout his career that he not only could do his stuff he could do everybody else's. A testament to how truly great he is.

TCB1974 (profile/ contact) wrote on Jul 24, 2011report abuse

This is a song that Elvis seemed to have enjoyed singing on stage, though lyrics and feeling of the song do not entirely match. It is passable, nothing special in the Elvis catalogue. Two stars from me.

old shep (profile/ contact) wrote on Feb 6, 2011report abuse

I never will understand Elvis' choice of suitable concert material, Mess of Blues,So Glad Your Mine,Ain't That Loving You Baby or even Viva Las Vegas and Bossa Nova Baby to fall back on. And he chooses this kind of stuff.

GEORGE (GK) (profile/ contact) wrote on Feb 6, 2011report abuse

The 2 Olivia Newton John songs, that Elvis covered ("If you Love me let me know" and "Let Me be there") which were recorded in concert performances, and not in a studio, worked well on stage, and Elvis, obviously enjoyed singing, the songs. (Nothing wrong with that! ) And, I think the songs, were selected mostly, with J.D. Sumner in mind, because the original versions, featured such good bass parts, in the backup vocals.. that were perfect for JD to sing.

Jim Hoff (profile/ contact) wrote on Feb 6, 2011report abuse

Sorry folks, this is NOT Elvis-material! But then again - he actually recorded a lot of not-Elvis material, so there you have it:The Story Of Presley's career!

dgirl (profile/ contact) wrote on Feb 6, 2011report abuse

Elvis recorded Lovin Arms in the 70's, Why in the world didnt he sing it in concert and choose this song instead? It could have been a classic. Of course he had a lot of other songs in his catalog to sing as well. This song? Sorry, a bore.

derekd (profile/ contact) wrote on Feb 6, 2011report abuse

As a big onj fan (and a even bigger Elvis fan) it's great to hear one do a cover of the other. In this case it's Elvis doin a very good cover of the big onj hit. Both these artises are tops doing c&w. I like the Moody Blues Lp verison the most but would glady listen to any of them.

JLpResLey (profile/ contact) wrote on Feb 6, 2011report abuse

It´s a pretty good song but the In Concert version is one of the few versions that I actually like. Elvis usually sung this well, it was just done too many times. Elvis sang the same songs concert after concert, he really was bored.

Steve V (profile/ contact) wrote on Dec 4, 2010report abuse

All I can say is why. Why Elvis did you decide to cover wimpy ONJ songs? I skip it every time.

Deano1 (profile/ contact) wrote on Feb 28, 2010report abuse

One of two Olivia Newton John songs that found their way into Elvis' concerts. This one is not quite as strong as "Let Me Be There", but it is still a fun song that Elvis normally did very well. I prefer the "Elvis In Concert" version slightly over the "Moody Blue" version and I like how Elvis tell Charlie Hodge, "I can't hear you" after the line "the smile that says hello it's good to see you". You can tell that even though each night was often a struggle for Elvis in 1977, he still cared and wanted the sound of the song to be right. I also like the version that appeared on the eight record set "Elvis Aron Presley" that was taken from a concert in June of 1975. A concert that should have been released on record in 1975 as an album after "Elvis Today".