i want you, i need you, i love you

Elvis' second single for RCA was almost the end of him. After the huge success of 'Heartbreak Hotel', his label wanted a strong followup and arranged to fly him out for a recording session in the midst of his exhausting tour schedule. During the flight from Amarillo to Nashville, the small airplane had engine trouble and went into freefall several times. That morning the band was reeling from their near death experience and unable to focus on the session. Producer Steve Sholes was very disappointed and ended up splicing together two of the seventeen takes to create the single for 'I Want You, I Need You, I Love You', which was written by Maurice Mysels and Ira Kosloff. With 'My Baby Left Me' as the flipside, the song went to number one on the Billboard Country chart and on the Best Sellers in Stores chart; but only peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100.







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Hold me close, hold me tight

Make me thrill with delight

Let me know where I stand from the start

I want you, I need you, I love you

With all my heart

Ev'ry time that you're near

All my cares disappear

Darling, you're all that I'm living for

I want you, I need you, I love you

More and more

I thought I could live without romance

Until you came to me

But now I know that

I will go on loving you eternally

Won't you please be my own?

Never leave me alone

'Cause I die ev'ry time we're apart

I want you, I need you, I love you

With all my heart