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Your Cheatin' Heart
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Hank WilliamsYour cheatin' heart will make you weep
You'll cry and cry and try to sleep
But sleep won't come the whole night through
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you
When tears come down like falling rain
You'll toss around and call my name
You're gonna walk that floor the way that I do
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you
When tears come down like falling rain
You'll toss around and call my name
You're gonna walk that floor just the way that I do
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you Recorded:
1958/02/01, first released on
Elvis for EveryoneReactions
A song from the magnificent 1958 sessions that spawned so many great hits. This is one of the lesser lights from those sessions but is still a great medium tempo rocker, although I have a slight preference for the wilder alternate take 9.
I like this version. Certainly becomes more of a pop song than a country song the way Elvis does it. It's a shame it was never done live; in 1970 or 71 he probably really could have blown this away. It's easy to imagine him doing it too, on stage alongside "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "Release Me". Similar vibe.
A nice rendition of this country classic, but nothing more than that.
your cheatin' heart...I couldn't sleep last night...unaware of this here I strummed it last night or early morning hours on my old guitar...;-) yeah, Elvis as singing Hank Williams...I would have loved to hear him on Mind Your Own Business...my personal favourite of ole Hank
Love this song. It was on the first LP I could buy, so it bears an extra dimension for me. Great song. Yes to my ears and mind better, in any case quite different from the other versions.
Always enjoyed this track, better than the original. Like "He'll have To Go" by Elvis, Elvis' version is far better than Jim Reeves
No thanks. Certainly not among his best ones. I heard that Elvis was close to get the part in the movie "Your Cheatin´ Heart", during the sixties. I think it was Williams´ family that stopped it. Would have been interesting, right?
I like it, but then again I think Elvis' 1958 Nashville sessions were among the best of his career. I wish he'd have cut a whole LP of Hank Williams songs. I bet he would have had some of the definitive versions of Hank's classic songs.
The Elvis for Everyone had an eclectic mixture of oddities among the titles. This Hank Williams classic was an even stranger choice to make up an album.I like Elvis' version it is gutsy and completely off the wall.A real pity that it didn't get an earlier outing perhaps on the A Date With Elvis.
I never liked Hank williams cause When he sings he sound like he is crying so for me The Elvis version of the song is a trillion times better. Elvis does not have the original so what? i don't give a ...... about it!
I don't think Elvis does a great job on this song, but it's certainly competent and professional. I'm glad he cut the song. He gives it that "Elvis touch," and I enjoy his version.
Not as good as the original but I'm certainly happy it exists. To be honest, I only heard it for the first time just recently so I'm not that well acquainted with it, yet. It's good though that there are still plenty of songs that I haven't heard, will be fresh in my memory, will grow on me and I will listen to for the first time with a pair of adult ears (as opposed to having heard songs so many times in my formative years that I know them inside out). I think it's still Scotty who's playing lead and that, along with The Jordanaires' stamp of authenticity as well as Elvis' natural swagger, make for a truly Presley-fied recording. Since it took 7 years to come out, I assume Elvis wasn't satisfied with his homage to Hank.
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