''She Thinks I Still Care'' (FWA5-0666)
Recorded Monday/Tuesday February 2, 3, 1970
Name (Or. No. Of Instruments)
Elvis Presley - Vocals
James Burton - Guitar
Charlie Hodge - Guitar
John Wilkinson - Guitar
Jerry Scheff - Bass Guitar
Glen D. Hardin - Piano
Davis Briggs - Electric Piano)
J.D. Sumner & The Stamps consisting of
John Daniel Sumner, Bill Baize, Ed Enoch, Ed Hill, Larry Strickland - Backup Vocals
Myrna Smith & Kathy Westmoreland - Backup Vocals
Producer Felton Jarvis
Recording Engineer - Brian Christian
"She Thinks I Still Care" is a country song written by Dickey Lee and Steve Duffy. The song was recorded by multiple artists, including George Jones, Connie Francis, Anne Murray, Elvis Presley and Patty Loveless.
According to Bob Allen's book ''George Jones: The Life and Times Of A Honky Tonk Legend'', Jones first heard the song when Jack Clement played it for him at Gulf Coast Studio in Beaumont, which Clement owned with Bill Hall. The song had been written by Dickey Lee Lipscomb and Steve Duffy, two professional songwriters under contract to Clement's publishing company, so Clement was eager for Jones to record it. According to Allen, Jones had little interest, responding, "I don't like it too much. It's got too many damn 'just because' in it. I don't think nobody really wants to hear that shit, do you''? Undeterred, both Clement and Hall continued to pitch the song to Jones.
In his essay for 1994 Sony retrospective ''The Essential George Jones: The Spirit Of Country'', Rich Kienzle also states that Jones was underwhelmed by the song after Clement had "decided not to play George the tape but to sing him the song, altering the melody as he sang it to give it a stronger country feel." Jones himself always insisted he had no doubts about the song. Recalling his first impression of the tune, he insisted in the 1989 documentary Same Ole Me, "Boy, I just flipped! I said, 'Golly, lemme have this thing.'" In the 1994 video retrospective Golden Hits, he added, "It knocked me out. I couldn't wait to get into the studio." The song was released in April 1962, his first single release on United Artists after leaving Mercury, and it remained on the Billboard survey for twenty-three weeks, six of them at number 1. In his autobiography ''I Lived to Tell It All'', the singer wrote, "For years after I recorded it, the song was my most requested, and it became what people in my business call a 'career record,' the song that firmly establishes your identity with the public''. The B-side, "Sometimes You Just Can't Win", reached number 17 on the Country &Western chart. "She Thinks I Still Care" was one of seven records George would chart in 1962, and in the fall of 1963 he would travel to New York City and perform the song on Jimmy Dean's ABC network show. In 1999, this version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Cover versions: Connie Francis recorded the song as "He Thinks I Still Care" in a June 18, 1962, session at Columbia Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, which was produced by Danny Davis and Jim Vienneau. The track had a September 1962 single release as the B-side to "I Was Such A Fool (To Fall In Love With You)" but garnered enough attention to reach number 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 (number 51 on the Cash Box Pop 100).
Merle Haggard cut the song for his 1969 LP ''A Portrait Of Merle Haggard'' and recorded the song again for his 2006 album with Jones ''Kickin' Out the Footlights...Again''. Michael Nesmith of The Monkees included a cover of the song on his 1972 album ''Tantamount To Treason Volume 1 with the Second National Band. Glen Campbell recorded the song on his 1972 album ''Glen Travis Campbell''. Elvis Presley recorded the song for his final studio album, ''Moody Blue'' and it was released as the B-side to his number 1 country hit "Moody Blue" in 1977.
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