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Loving You
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Jerry Leiber/ Mike StollerI will spend my whole life through
loving you, loving you.
Winter, summer, spring-time, too,
loving you, loving you.
Makes no difference where I go or what I do.
You know that I'll always be loving you.
If I'm seen with someone new,
don't be blue, don't 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. Recorded:
1957/02/24, first released on
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Elvis sings this much better than Love me tender, but that song was stronger. Loving you sounds a lot like Don't, but it's not off that quality. A bit boring even.
This is such a beautiful ballad and I love Elvis' uptempo version and Elvis' slow version of it equally. It's one of 24 songs that Elvis recorded that was written by the magnificent and iconic songwriting duo Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
Not one of the top notch ballads from his reportoire but having the youthful engaging delivery of his voice in 1957.
Sung well within his vocal range at the time it comes over as decent performance, but I prefer the 'farm version' take.
In my youth this wasn't one of favorites. As I've grown older, it's right up there at the top. Wish he would have done this song live in concert more than he attempted or put it this way, teased us with.
Never liked it, it´s boring to me. To me, DON´T is the absolute best Elvis ballad of the 50´s.
I love all versions of this song. A fun (though pointless) comparison is to listen to "That's All" by Nat King Cole and then listen to it by Bobby Darin. One's a nice slow, beautiful ballad and the other is a real swinger. But they are the same song, and each one is really good. And the slow vs fast versions of Loving You are the same.
One of Elvis' first great performances on a straight forward ballad. "I Was The One" was good, but a little too bouncy in places to be called a true ballad, "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" is unique, but not quite perfect and "Love Me Tender" is very good, but a little too subdued and dull ("Playing For Keeps" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin were steps in the right direction and might be the first and second great Elvis ballads). Here Elvis is in total control and I like this song better than it's more popular A-side "Teddy Bear". I too am not a big fan of the fast versions, but they aren't bad.
It´s a great track. I feel it is a bit overlooked. To me, this was maybe the first sign of what a great ballad singer Elvis was to become. Yes, Love Me Tender was a major hit in 1956, and I want you, I need you, I love you is charming, but I believe that this song was much better, and he had really improved as a ballad singer. Sometimes I listen to the outtakes, but I much prefer the master take
Like this song and wondered why Elvis ignored it for his concerts.
Much better then Love Me Tender defently!!
Like the original single version. Don't care for the fast versions.
It's nice to have outtakes to see how an original came to be! In most cases I tend to end up with the original! Loving You among them!
Always loved the original ballad, but didnt like the up-tempo versions at all. Sounded forced.
No up-tempo versions please. Let's stick with the original.
like it. no more comment.
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