It's Still Here

Elvis after hours of singing...laid back,casual,good stuff.

I like this performance. However, it was not proper album stuff back in 1973. The right thing to do after the Aloha success, would of course have been to do a strong studio album. Instead, we´d got a mix of two years old masters and jams/rehearsals. That still dissapoints me

A gem from the inexcusable "Fool" album.

A nice track recorded in 1971 with Elvis at the piano and no other backing instruments or vocals. This would have been an idea song to have released on retrospective album (maybe if they waited to release it in 1975 as part of an anniversary album), but it was released on the follow-up album to "Aloha From Hawaii" called "Elvis" in 1973. An album of leftovers from recording sessions in 1971 and 72, Elvis latest single flipside "Fool" and a live cut. What a complete shame. Since there wasn't enough material for an album and Elvis had been quite busy touring and doing Vegas since his last recording session in March 1972, this would have been a great time for "Elvis' Gold Records, Vol 5. A celebration of Elvis after the great "Aloha" show as opposed to this less than mediocre album. I know "Burning Love" and "Separate Ways" were just released on budget LP's a year previous (another travesty), but they could have included them along with "Fool", "I Really Don't Want To Know", "If I Can Dream", "In The Ghetto", "Suspicious Minds", "Don't Cry Daddy", "Kentucky Rain", "The Wonder Of You", "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me", "I'm Leavin" , "I've Lost You" and "Where Did They Go Lord". I know some of these were released on the box sets of worldwide gold award hits from 1970 and 71, but a lot of people would have liked to complete their set of gold record editions and I think this LP would have been a big seller. They then could have waited and released an album in the Spring of 1974 with the best material from the July and Dec 73 Stax sessions as the long awaited new Elvis album.

Waughhh, one can just see the Memphis Blues notes come dripping off the wall in this intensive Ivory Hunter soul/blues/godspell-treat .... and the guy singing in the classical Presley laid-back style at the piano? Marvellous ..... just marvellous!

Remember the song. First heard it conciously on the 8 record box from 81 filed under "Elvis at the piano". Intead of this, Elvis should have been on a world tour coming home with another great live album...Instead of playing Vegas again that same year.

Isn't this song just beautiful sung by our man ? Yes it is...fantastic !

Poor song, but Elvis gives his all. The LP is poor anyway, miles away from the Elvis magic of old.

This is a heartbreaking song done perfectly by Elvis accompanying himself on piano. If you're looking for really sad songs about lost love, Elvis in the 70s is the place for you! I love this song when I am in the mood for it (...really depressed)

Never gave this much of a listen until comparatively recently and now it has grown on me. A plea from the wilderness and a feeling of total despair is perfectly conveyed by our boy.

Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't... and I don't like all that hiss too much. Better than the other two piano songs, but still only 3 stars material.

Love Ivory Joe hunters recordings and read somewhere that he was invited to Graceland by Elvis for an impromptu jam seesion.Great song which Elvis does justice too

I've always liked this song and Elvis' rendition of it was brilliant.

Not my cup of tea the way this song is done. Would have been much, much better if it had a close to identical backup instrumental much as "I Need You So", another Ivory Joe song.

Elvis couldn't play the piano, that's to accept, sometimes to play an instrument seemed to help him perform better. Here, his vocal performance isn't very good either. If they had put an eye on quality control, this mess of a performance wouldn't be released during his lifetime. The whole LP is nothing but a collection of leftovers, and it can be heard. Its one of his weakest releases. Song an LP are terrible. 1 star.

Kinda liked these piano songs back when I bought the dreadful Fool album probably because I was comparing them to the rest of the album back then. I hear these songs now, and they are nothing more than Elvis killing time at the piano. He probably never meant for them to be on a mainstream release, and when they were, he probably didn't even care anymore. Sung and played below average. They are just there. 1 star.

Elvis could do anything. Play piano like here on this wonderful vocal performance.

Elvis in the 70's, to me, was best when he was relaxed and not trying too hard. It's Still Here, I Will Be True and I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen really shows how good he could be when relaxing like this. Not least singing good too!

Its elevated beyond its quality because the rest of the album is so bad. Elvis at the piano, not playing very well, and signing not at his best. It is clear he is not the same performer he was just 2 short years prior. If Felton didnt turn on the recording button we wouldnt even have these 'gems'. Just goes to show how there was no direction at all to his recording process anymore after 1970.

Great song