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Pledging My Love
Words & Music:
F. Washington/ D. RobeyForever my darling our love will be true
Always and forever I’ll love only you
Just promise me darling
Your love in return
May this fire in my soul dear
Forever burn
My heart's at your command dear
To keep, love and to hold
Making you happy's my desire
Keeping you is my goal
Forever I'll love you
for the rest of my days
I’ll never part from you
or your loving ways
Just promise me darling
Your love in return
May this fire in my soul dear
Forever burn
My heart's at your command dear
To keep, love and to hold
Making you happy's my desire
Loving you is my goal
Forever I'll love you
for the rest of my days
I’ll never part from you
or your loving ways
Just promise me darling
Your love in return
May this fire in my soul dear
Forever burn Recorded:
1976/10/29, first released on
Moody BlueReactions
Weldon Myrick only played steel guitar on It's easy for you and He'll have to go, not on this one. Still, a classy song that's 5 star material.
Just Brutal! And the King recorded this Masterpiece less than 10 months prior to his death! The rough/unedited versions we find in the Platinum box set and FTD Jungle Room are so amazing that makes you wonder why did Felton Jarvis cut this master piece, of near five minutes, in a 3 minutes package! Weldon Myrick's steel guitar together with James Burton and Chip Young turn this Country Classic, easily, into one of Presley best recording from the 70's and from his entire career. Those rough versions with the double guitar solos (sometimes triple guitar solos) are in my top 10 favorite songs from the Rock Era. Heaven must be like this!
Love this song and the whole LP as well, even Little Darling never get skiped. I never cared about an album being "even", if I like most of the tracks then it is a good album, sometimes I think people make music a little to academic insted of just enjoying it !
A superbly sung track so full of soul and meaning. This and the 'A' side Way Down were a great combination, and a great finale to his releases while alive.
This is such a sensational song and it's easily one of my most favorite songs that Elvis only recorded in the studio in the 1970's. It's my favorite track from the "Moody Blue" album.
Like the song, like the 2-sides of the single it was released on, did not like the LP at all. An obvious attempt to get the contractual LP out by RCA with one of the most uneven set of tracks ever released and even re-releasing one of them. But this song being one of the all-time great songs in rock & roll , showed Elvis still admired his roots and could still make a great record.
One of the few songs from the Moody Blue LP I like along with Way Down & Its Easy For You. Would have made a great EP, lol. As an LP, the criticism was warrented, it was a very uneven album and basically thrown together to get that Elvis product out there. That aside, this is great performance by Elvis, but I wish the arrangement was more like the original. Yes, a fabulous B side to make a very good single release (his best in several years) for 1977.
Probably my favorite recording from the graceland sessions. I think Elvis sang it really well, which I think he did with the other songs as well. Moody Blue was a much better album than EP Boulevard, he just sounded so much better in the fall. Still, it could have been so much better if recorded properly, but I always enjoy this tune a lot.
A solid recording of the Johnny Ace hit that served as a very strong B-side to "Way Down". It also appeared on the much underrated (by critics) LP "Moody Blue" and helped to make one of the best sides of an Elvis album (side B). "Way Down", this song, "Moody Blue", "She Thinks I Still Care" and "It's Easy For You" were anywhere from very good to outstanding.
Good recording, last of the great 'b' sides, and best remembered as one of the few songs Elvis recorded that did not have the song title in it.
A great Johnny Ace song form the 1950s, strangely gone unnoticed as recording material by Elvis until the 1970s.Again tucked away on the B side and lifted from an album ( Moody Blue) Could have easily been a huge hit in it's own right.A great soulful/ bluesy ballad.
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