Words & Music:
Red West
Joe Cooper
If you think I don't need you
Then take a look in my eyes
Maybe these ain't raindrops
Falling out of the sky
Since you been gone
I've been so alone
If you think I don't need you
Then baby you're wrong
If you think I don't love you
What could I do to prove to you baby
My love is true
I sing the same old song
Since you've been gone
If you think I don't love you
Then baby you're wrong
My life ain't been the same since you left me
I ain't had a wink of sleep in seven days
I don't know what to do I'm going crazy
I just walk the floor at night and call your name
If you think I don't do right
I'll change my ways
I'll do like you want me to, I'll be your slave
Since you been gone
I've been so alone
If you think I don't need you
Well baby you're wrong
If you think I don't do right
I'll change my ways
I'll do like you want me to, I'll be your slave
Since you been gone
I've been so alone
If you think I don't need you
Well baby you're wrong
Well baby you're wrong
Well baby you're wrong
Recordingdate: 1963/07/09, first released on: Viva Las Vegas (EP)
Musicians
Musicians who contributed to the first recording of If You Think I Don't Need You:
(guitar)
(guitar)
(guitar)
(bass)
(drums)
(drums)
(piano)
(piano)
(vocals)
(vocals)
(vocals)
(vocals)
(sax)
(trumpet)
Availability
Find available albums with If You Think I Don't Need You.
Another underrated song in a Ray Charles style. Co written by Red West who came up with several top quality songs. This guy should have concentrated more on the writing and less on the fighting!
Good song as was most of the Viva soundtrack. A relief from the otherwise dire 60's soundtracks.
A great, great track. One of the best from the movie years, but also great when compared with Elvis studio work. Always love it. Too bad that in the movie, the fantastic Boots Randolph sax solo was cut. If Presley managed to keep this quality in his soundtracks, the sixties would not be that embarrassing time in his career.
A good song with a bluesy back beat which may have sounded even better with the addition of a soulful female backing?
This track is top-notch rock and roll from the movie "Viva Las Vegas". Well-written and a great performance by Elvis.
This song is awesome! One of the very best from"Viva Las Vegas" and shows that Elvis's soundtrack work didn't always have to be so bland and ridiculous. if only they could all be this good...
Yes this is a good one as was most of the Viva soundtrack. Dont know why these standards could not be kept on all soundtracks. Oh yes I do. The same songwriters were always used and the well basically ran dry and Red West was busy with other things
The "Viva Las Vegas" album is one of Elvis' greatest. Should've been released as a full length LP to coincide with the release of the movie.
You're absolutly right freedom101. Why did we have to wait for some 30 years to have it? And you're right too Tony D.
This is such a tremendous and fun song and it's such a shame that there was a shortened version of it in the movie "Viva Las Vegas" instead of the full version. It's one of seventeen songs that Elvis recorded that was written by Elvis' longtime friend and bodyguard Red West.
I meant to write that it's one of eleven songs that Elvis recorded that was written by Elvis' longtime friend and bodyguard Red West.
This is from my wife's favourite Elvis album, the Double Features with Roustabout. A fun movie & a good soundtrack. This song is one of the better ones on it.
I can't eulogise like others on this track as I find 6 or 7 other tracks from the 'potential' soundtrack album more preferable. Despite that observation it is more than passable and worth 3 stars.
This movie song is a true gem and so very highly underrated too.
The other ten songs that Elvis recorded that were written or co-written by his longtime friend and bodyguard Red West were
"Holly Leaves And Christmas Trees", "If Every Day Was Like Christmas", "If You Talk In Your Sleep", "It's No Fun Being Lonely", "I've Been Blue", "Mary Lou Brown", "Seeing Is Believing", "Separate Ways", "That's Someone You Never Forget" and
"You'll Be Gone".
Yes, "Viva La Vegas" could have been released as a soundtrack album and would have been a big seller is my guess. This song is not all that bad; a little forced me thinks, but compared to what was released and what was to come as to his soundtracks, this song stands out.
A very good song from what would have been a huge selling soundtrack LP had RCA released one back in '64. 4 stars. Imo, the song was "wasted" in the film.
I have always enjoyed the songs from Viva Las Vegas as they appeared on single and EP back then. Later one realized what a smash this soundtrack would have been as an album back then! If You Don't Think I Need You is one of the better from what in the end ended up as a soundtrack album.