Words & Music:
Bill Campbell
If you want to be loved,
Baby, you've got to love me, too.
If you want to be loved,
Baby, you've got to love me, too.
Oh yeah, 'cause I ain't for no one-sided love affair.
If you wanna be kissed,
Well, you've gotta kiss me, too.
Oh yeah, if you wanna be kissed,
Well, you gotta kiss me, too.
'Cause I ain't for no one-sided love affair.
Well, fair exchange bears no robbery,
And the whole world will know that it's true.
Understanding solves all problems, baby,
That's why I'm telling you
If you wanna be hugged,
Well, you gotta hug me, too.
Oh yeah, if you wanna be hugged,
Well, you've gotta hug me, too.
Yeah, 'cause I ain't for no one-sided love affair.
If you know you can't take it,
Baby, why try to give it?
If you know you can't take it,
Then baby, why try to give it?
'Cause I ain't for no one-sided love affair.
Well, fair exchange bears no robbery,
And the whole world will know that it's true.
Understanding solves all problems, baby,
That's why I'm telling you
If you wanna be hugged,
Well, you gotta hug me, too.
Oh yeah, if you wanna be hugged,
Baby, you gotta hug me, too.
'Cause I ain't for no one-sided love affair.
'Cause I ain't for no one-sided love affair.
'Cause I ain't for no one-sided love affair.
Recordingdate: 1956/01/30, first released on: Elvis Presley (album)
Musicians
Musicians who contributed to the first recording of One-sided Love Affair:
(guitar)
(guitar)
(bass)
(drums)
(piano)
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Another underrated 1956 gem, where the rhythm in Elvis voice is from another planet.
I've said it before and i'll say it again,for every one of the general public who knows Love Me Tender I wish there were double who knew countless other songs,this definitely being one of them.
TCB
This is a great track, I love the boogie Woogie piano solo Elvis really seemed to enjoy singing this. What a shame he overlooked gems such as this when he returned to stage appearances.
One of the priceless gems from one of Elvis' top albums. Here you will find the young man who had it all in him, the voice the unique style, the full drive and of course the looks. Too few a people know this one. It should get much more attention. I think it fits in at any time.
one of the best songs from the fifties.
There's something magic about this performance, I don't know what it is... but it should have been a classic. "Sadly" there were too many Elvis' hits back in 1956, so this song didn't get the attention it deserved.
Great song...great piano. Dudley Brookes I think.
yeah!!! this is rock'n'roll as it never again was to hear this freewheelin' way...
This great cut captures the true vitality of the early Elvis which no other artist has ever got near. Simply joyous beyond all measure.
Delightful. Those early RCA recordings were something else werent they?
Hard to put into words just how great a recording this, and others from Elvis around this time really were. Elvis in command, choosing the songs and the way to record them. Check out the other hits of the same time. Elvis was out on his own. I never tire of these recordings. All gems.
Elvis was so far ahead of the pack in the 50's with recording like this. What a shame that 10 years later he was so far behind the pack.
This is My Elvis My King! Long Live Rock and Roll!
An absolutely joyous number! And he was still the leader of the pack 10 yrs later, only more grown up.
Brilliant song. I especially love all that energy that Elvis gives us. It makes me happy every time I listen to it. The strange thing is that there are people with the opinion that Elvis didn´t do any good music after leaving Sun. I begin to listen to this song, and then I really can´t understand those people
It is great piano playing, but I think it's boogie-woogie pianist Shorty Long, who added greatly to the sound of Elvis' first New York sessions in late Jan/early Feb 1956! For example, just listen to the amazing playing on Lawdy Miss Clawdy!
My absolute FAVORITE all-time Elvis song from the early years and maybe even after that!!!! Can't help but make you smile.........
a very catchy song and an Elvis 1956 classic!-the piano boogie woogie makes the song much more fun and proved that Elvis' "rock'n'roll" style was very different to any of his contnders in the 1950's.(hence him being titled "The King")
This is why Elvis is the King of Rock 'N' Roll! Forget about Queenie whatsername and Barefoot Ballad this is where it's at.
One of my personal favorites from Elvis' first LP (along with "Tryin' To Get To You"). This song is definitely uniquely Elvis and one of the real non-single gems from the 1950's (it was actually released as a single in Sept '56 as one of six singles containing the 12 tracks from his first LP. A very unusual move by RCA).
One of the very few song's that he shouts a word in the middle of the song "yeah"
Fantastic, five star song. Happy Eastern!
Instant classic! Always El! ;)
Love this song ! I wish the song had received radio airplay and became a huge hit. Its overlooked by the general public.
This song to me represents the public's view of Elvis from those years. The vocal hiccups and phrasing together with the boogie piano make this an absolute classic. I see it only averages 4 and a bit stars -unbelievable.
Maybe my all time favorite Elvis song , at least in my top 5, GREAT !
Really a classic recording that has been strangely forgotten by all but hard core fans.
This is such a marvelous song and Elvis' rendition of it was spectacular, fun and unique. Elvis' rendition of it should definitely be far better known than it actually is. It's a masterpiece of a record for sure. I've never skipped it. It's easily one of my most favorite Elvis recordings.
A all-time classic! I give it the same amount of stars that are in the heavens.
One of many reasons I fell for Elvis in the first place. His first album sparkles and hums all the way through. This song and I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry are among those "hidden" favourites behind the curtain of all those wonderful 50's hits. Love it!
Elvis did not record albums; LPs were pulled from his recording sessions throughout his career (e.g. American Sound, Stax, Jungle Room). When ou look at the list of Elvis' biggest recordings from Heartbreak Hotel to Burning Love, most of them did not originally appear on an LP. It's probably happenstance that Elvis' last album, Moody Blue, contained a recording made a few years earlier -- just like his fist album, Elvis Presley, contained some Sun recordings. In the 1950s and early 1960s, people bought singles rather than LPs. The Elvis Presley LP was eclipsed by the myriad of greatest hits compilations. Hence, songs like One Sided Love Affair dropped off the radar.
"One Sided Love Affair" was indeed released as a single on 78-rpm and 45-rpm by RCA Victor on August 31, 1956 with "Money Honey" as the flip side. The single was re-issued on the RCA Victor Gold Standard Series label on September 30, 1958 and was available for purchase throughout the 1960s & '70s. There were a few times that Elvis entered a studio with the main purpose and objective of recording an album (without using a lot of material from other sessions). His 2nd album, ELVIS, came very close, yet "So Glad You're Mine" was borrowed from a previous session. Other pure, legitimate albums were His Hand In Mine, Something For Everybody (with "I Slipped, I Stumbled, I Fell" added as a bonus), How Great Thou Art (with the hit single "Crying In The Chapel" added), Elvis Today, and From Elvis Presley Boulevard Memphis Tennessee.
5-star tune if ever there was from his first RCA album "Elvis Presley"; some really great songs on this LP. Other tunes recorded for RCA could have been included rather than some of the slow drivel from Sun Records. Heaven forbid Colonel Parker should waste anything.
I know im in the minority but I think this is one of Elvis' weaker 50's songs. No doubt he is having fun with it, but I just think it comes across kind of silly. Definitely not on the level of the other songs on the album.