Elvis Presley I Want You, I Need You / My Baby Left Me RCA Victor 20-6540 F 1956

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Elvis Presley ?– I Want You, I Need You, I Love You / My Baby Left Me Label: RCA Victor ?– 20-6540 Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM, Single  Country: US Released: 1956 Genre: Rock Style: Rock & Roll
Release: RCA Victor 47-6540 I Want You, I Need You, I Love You / My Baby Left Me (78)              Release Date: 5/4/1956
"I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" is a song written by Maurice Mysels and Ira Kosloff, and produced by Steve Sholes. It is best known for being Elvis Presley's seventh single release on the RCA Victor label. It was released in May 1956, becoming Presley's second number 1 single on the country music charts, and peaking at number 3 on the US Billboard Top 100 chart, an earlier version of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Before the creation of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1958, there were a number of charts including Jukebox plays, Store charts, and Airplay charts; the song reached number 1 on the Billboard Top Sellers in Stores chart.

During April 1956, Variety reported that Presley's sixth RCA Victor single, "Heartbreak Hotel", had sold one million copies. RCA Victor producer Steve Sholes wanted a strong single for the next release, aware that there was not much good material available. Due to Presley's busy touring schedule, Sholes needed to get him into the studio as soon as possible. Presley and his band chartered a small propeller airplane to Nashville for one day of recording between shows.
En route from Amarillo, the airplane developed engine trouble and fell through the sky several times.[3] Upon arrival in Nashville on the morning of April 14, all four were disconcerted. Presley arrived at the RCA Victor Studios without ideas for the recording session and therefore had no choice but to use Sholes' suggestions, one of which was "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You".
Being used to later working hours, coupled with his traumatic experience during his overnight flight, the recording session was bad.[3] Take after take was ruined for one reason or another and the band was not relaxed. Presley, usually a very quick study with a song, couldn't get the lyrics right. After 17 takes in three hours, Sholes decided Presley and the band weren't able to record properly and sent them home.
After the session, Sholes listened to the takes again. He wasn't happy with the results of what he considered to be an unprofessional and wasted session.[4] It had cost $1,000 to fly Presley and his band in by a private flight, and Sholes let Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, know that he was unsatisfied with the work and required material urgently for a second album. He knew that with Presley's busy touring schedule it could be months before RCA Victor got him back into a studio. Performing what was a very rare and generally unsuccessful procedure for the 1950s, Sholes took parts of two takes he liked (takes 14 and 17), cut and spliced them together to create a take worthy of release.[1] His cuts were so seamless, nobody at RCA Victor could tell it wasn't from a single take.
Reception "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" was backed with "My Baby Left Me" and was released on May 4, 1956.Pre-orders of over 300,000 were the biggest ever in the history of the company. At the time of its release, Presley had three songs in the Top 20: "Heartbreak Hotel/I Was the One," "My Baby Left Me", and "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You". On June 5, 1956, Presley performed the song on The Milton Berle Show, as well as an early version of "Hound Dog" that resulted in both overwhelmingly favorable audience reaction and outrage.
Despite the heated public controversy, the single was generally well received, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Top 100 popular music singles chart, and scoring No. 1 on the country music chart. The song earned a second Gold record for Presley, with sales in excess of 1.3 million.
"My Baby Left Me" is a rhythm and blues song written by blues singer Arthur Crudup.
It was first recorded by Crudup in Chicago on November 8, 1950, with Ransom Knowling on bass and Judge Riley on drums, and was released as a single on RCA Victor 22-0109.[1]
Later versions It gained further exposure in covers by Elvis Presley, who placed his version on the B-side to his 1956 single "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"; by Wanda Jackson who often shared the same bill as Elvis Presley; by Creedence Clearwater Revival, who recorded it as a track on their 1970 album, Cosmo's Factory; and by John Lennon (incorrectly titled "Since My Baby Left Me"), recorded during the Rock 'n' Roll sessions in 1973, but first released posthumously on Menlove Ave. in 1986. It was included as a bonus track (still incorrectly titled) on the 2004 CD version of Rock 'n' Roll. It was also a # 37 UK Singles Chart hit in 1964 for Dave Berry and the Cruisers. Elton John used a snippet of "My Baby Left Me" as part of a medley (along with a snippet of the Beatles' "Get Back") during his concert performance of "Burn Down the Mission" on his 17-11-70 live album.
Slade version "My Baby Left Me/That's Alright Mama" Sladesingle-mybabyleftme.jpg Single by Slade B-side "O.H.M.S." Released 14 October 1977[2] Format 7" single Recorded 1977 Genre Rock Length 2:24 Label Barn Records Songwriter(s) Arthur Crudup Producer(s) Chas Chandler Slade singles chronology "Burning in the Heat of Love" (1977) "My Baby Left Me" (1977) "Give Us a Goal" (1978) "My Baby Left Me" was covered by the British rock band Slade in 1977 and released as a non-album single as a tribute to Elvis Presley, who died in August of that year. The Slade version merged "My Baby Left Me" with "That's All Right", another Crudup-penned track. "My Baby Left Me/That's Alright Mama" reached No. 32 in the UK and remained in the charts for four weeks.
Background Returning to the UK from the United States in August 1976, Slade found themselves out-of-favour at the time of the UK's Punk rock explosion. The band's 1977 album Whatever Happened to Slade proved a commercial failure while their tour that spring had shown that they could no longer fill large venues. Although their April 1977 single "Burning in the Heat of Love" also failed to chart, the band returned to the Top 40 with "My Baby Left Me".[4] Released in November 1977, it reached No. 32 and would be the band's last Top 40 single until 1981's "We'll Bring the House Down".
"My Baby Left Me" was recorded in August at Advision Studios in London.[5] The band decided to record the song as a tribute to Elvis Presley following his death earlier that month. As guitarist Dave Hill was busy doing interviews in northern England, bassist Jim Lea played guitar on the recording.[6] "My Baby Left Me" was released on 7" vinyl by Barn Records in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, France and Germany.[7][8] The B-side, "O.H.M.S.", was exclusive to the single and would later appear on the band's 2007 compilation B-Sides.
A music video was filmed to promote the single, featuring the band performing on a stage. In the UK, the band performed the song on the music show Top of the Pops. In Germany, it was performed on the TV shows Disco and Rund.
Critical reception Upon release, Record Mirror described the song as "real pleasant", but added: "I can remember a time when Slade records were vixen fearsome rather than pleasant".[10] Sounds rated the single as the "Best Comeback Single", describing it as a "fabulous treatment" of the "bouncy, struttin' 12-bar blues number".[11]
Track listing 7" Single "My Baby Left Me/That's Alright Mama" - 2:23 "O.H.M.S." - 2:41 Chart performance Chart (1977) Peak position UK Singles Chart[3] 32 Personnel Slade Noddy Holder – lead vocals, guitar Jim Lea – guitar, bass, backing vocals Don Powell – drums Additional personnel Chas Chandler – producer Gered Mankowitz – sleeve photography Jo Mirowski – sleeve design