Thursday, July 21, 2011

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



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