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It's Still Here
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Ivory Joe HunterThe day you said we'd never part
You turned around and broke my heart
You had the nerve to tell me I would soon forget
Now you've been gone away one year
And I have not forgotten dear
The love I had for you so long
Is still here
Wow-oh
It's here, still here
Because my heart cannot believe
We're really through
And though you said we'd never part
You turned around and broke my heart
The love I had for you so long
Is still here
It's here, still here
Because my heart cannot believe
We're really through
Now you've been gone away one year
And I have not forgotten dear
The love I had for you so long
Is still here
Wow-oh
It's here, it's here, still here
Because my heart cannot believe
We're really through
And though you said we'd never part
You turned around and broke my heart
The love I had for you so long
Is still here
Wow-ow
It's here, still here
Because my heart cannot believe
We're really through
And though you said we'd never part
You turned around and broke my heart
The love I had for you so long
Is still here
Oh yeah Recorded:
1971/05/19, first released on
Elvis (Fool)Reactions
I've always liked this song and Elvis' rendition of it was brilliant.
Love Ivory Joe hunters recordings and read somewhere that he was invited to Graceland by Elvis for an impromptu jam seesion.Great song which Elvis does justice too
Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't... and I don't like all that hiss too much.
Better than the other two piano songs, but still only 3 stars material.
Never gave this much of a listen until comparatively recently and now it has grown on me. A plea from the wilderness and a feeling of total despair is perfectly conveyed by our boy.
This is a heartbreaking song done perfectly by Elvis accompanying himself on piano. If you're looking for really sad songs about lost love, Elvis in the 70s is the place for you! I love this song when I am in the mood for it (...really depressed)
Poor song, but Elvis gives his all. The LP is poor anyway, miles away from the Elvis magic of old.
Isn't this song just beautiful sung by our man ? Yes it is...fantastic !
Remember the song. First heard it conciously on the 8 record box from 81 filed under "Elvis at the piano". Intead of this, Elvis should have been on a world tour coming home with another great live album...Instead of playing Vegas again that same year.
Waughhh, one can just see the Memphis Blues notes come dripping off the wall in this intensive Ivory Hunter soul/blues/godspell-treat .... and the guy singing in the classical Presley laid-back style at the piano? Marvellous ..... just marvellous!
A nice track recorded in 1971 with Elvis at the piano and no other backing instruments or vocals. This would have been an idea song to have released on retrospective album (maybe if they waited to release it in 1975 as part of an anniversary album), but it was released on the follow-up album to "Aloha From Hawaii" called "Elvis" in 1973. An album of leftovers from recording sessions in 1971 and 72, Elvis latest single flipside "Fool" and a live cut. What a complete shame. Since there wasn't enough material for an album and Elvis had been quite busy touring and doing Vegas since his last recording session in March 1972, this would have been a great time
for "Elvis' Gold Records, Vol 5. A celebration of Elvis after the great "Aloha" show as opposed to this less than mediocre album. I know "Burning Love" and "Separate Ways" were just released on budget LP's a year previous (another travesty), but they could have included them along with "Fool", "I Really Don't Want To Know", "If I Can Dream", "In The Ghetto", "Suspicious Minds", "Don't Cry Daddy", "Kentucky Rain", "The Wonder Of You", "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me", "I'm Leavin" , "I've Lost You" and "Where Did They Go Lord". I know some of these were released on the box sets of worldwide gold award hits from 1970 and 71, but a lot of people would have liked to complete their set of gold record editions and I think this LP would have been a big seller. They then could have waited and released an album in the Spring of 1974 with the best material from the July and Dec 73 Stax sessions as the long awaited new Elvis album.
A gem from the inexcusable "Fool" album.
I like this performance. However, it was not proper album stuff back in 1973. The right thing to do after the Aloha success, would of course have been to do a strong studio album. Instead, we´d got a mix of two years old masters and jams/rehearsals. That still dissapoints me
Elvis after hours of singing...laid back,casual,good stuff.
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