I’m a massive Elvis fan. This is one of my favourite songs ever. However I was only ever aware of the ketty lester version when I searched to listen to it today this popped up❤❤❤❤
I agree. Away at boarding school my best friend at 'bed time lights out " was my transistor radio...with this and Wild in The Country as my all time favourites
I hope more young people are listening to Elvis Presley today. He really had a singing voice and knew how he wanted to sing a song. The many songs he recorded and performed, it was as if he sang them almost perfect. I hope it will not come a day that you rarely hear his songs. Of course, it is hard to pick one song of his a favorite, but "Love Letters" is my favorite, can play it over and over (as if he sang it almost perfect). Elvis is missed greatly but what he left in music!
In the car with my Nan today she's 95 bringing her back from the hospice after visiting my grandad who's really poorly this happened to be playing on the radio she asks me to turn it up and we both listen to every word without saying a word, this song will now always transport me to a happy place just me and my nan happy just for a couple of minutes, thank you elvis
My favorite Elvis song ever. That tiny little hesitation on the first time he sings, "I memorize...every line," tears me to pieces every time. Such a beautiful voice. And today is "the anniversary"--46 years gone. I hope he's found peace in the valley.
@@dunc726 l love Peace in the Valley! I want this played before they put me in the crematorium, along with I'll Fly Away by Willie Nelson and Angel Band by Emmylou Harris. Can you tell I'm getting old?
Also play lovesongs for our Father and God He loves it. My King Jesus and i have lovesong nr:1 "dance me to the end of love" Og lovesong nr.2" the wedding song" (Planet waves)
My favorite Elvis song. So simple and uncluttered, voice is perfect, and his phrasing is incomparable. Hard to believe he would be 87 years old this year.
Sitting an listening to this wonderful song, thinking about my Sweetheart who passed 2yrs ago this month, excruciating pain, never to go away until my last breath.
Too bad so many of the people I know and meet want only to focus on the Elvis we knew toward the end of his life. This song, sung when he WAS Elvis, is the true measure of how great a singer he was. No fancy clothes, no karate moves, no drugs---just pure excellence.
One of Elvis' best recordings. He came along at a time when vocals actually mattered and where talent could actually shine. I feel really fortunate to have seen him in a live performance in Vegas. My mother had two framed pictures on our wall -- just two. One was of JFK and the other was Elvis. My mom loved music and had a fairly vast LP collection -- Sinatra (of course), Al Jolson, Perry Como, etc., and toward her later years she bought every Elvis album available. My sister was also a huge fan, so I could hear Elvis in monograph or stereo depending on which room I visited. It was a trip. Our small family would make outings to the local theater to watch each new Elvis movie. I was inundated with Elvis, but I never fully appreciated the guy until I saw him performing live at the Hilton International (when it still existed). The performance and on-stage presence blew me away. Today, I'll usually listen to the classics -- Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Mozart and so on, but I'll occasionally visit some of the old pop classics from the 60's and this would include Elvis, naturally. I'm impressed with how many tunes, like "Love Letters" stand up well over the course of time.
There is no other singer, that can do what this man does.. I mean make the world light up in his presence, and everyone can the emotion coming through on this recording. The King will always be the King..
A very special rendition from Elvis. One of the most simple and yet so heartfelt and memorable songs of the 20th century. You did the song proud here sir.
The absolute believability of Elvis' ballads is what makes them resonate with people - now decades later. Pat Boone said that- with Elvis' ballads - you always had the feeling you were listening in on an intimate conversation Elvis was having with a woman.
@@bernadettenewsham8916 Orchestral background? No, the original cover of Lester's is for me. I have it on a CD I bought recently that had Elvis' cover of Bob Dylan's Tomorrow Is A Long Time. A comment on that cover said it was Dylan's favorite, and it actually is the way the song should be song. It's beautiful, heartbreaking lyrics. One guy commented he thought Dylan wrote it when his love, Suzie, a former playboy model, left him. Yet on an old black and white video here he sings it like an upbeat rock and rock ballad. Elvis nailed it.
As a kid in a small town, I went to the theaters to watch his movies. I remember one time that the girls were screaming so loudly the theater owner came over the loudspeakers and told the girls to hold it down or he'd have to shut the movie down and send everyone home.......the girls got quieter immediately!! I'll be 66 this month and he's STILL the King!! ;-)
Mêmes si certaines chansons n'ont pas été écrites spécialement pour Elvis cela ne change en rien de mon admiration pour ce chanteur et les chansons lui vont bien.
Thank you so much for sharing this song with me. What a voice, just absolutely made for this beautiful song. His voice just pours over the mind like soft, velvet chocolate! Elivis will always be alive whilst people carry on loving and playing his music.
Love letters straight from your heart Keep us so near while apart I'm not alone in the night When I can have all the love you write I memorize ev'ry line I kiss the name that you sign And darlin, then I read again right from the start Love letters straight from your heart
I love this song by Elvis. He was so amazing. If he liked a song, Elvis would take it and wrap it around his personality and allow his golden velvet voice to do the rest. I will always love and miss Elvis. Music is heard with the ears and understood with the heart. Elvis understood this. Thank You
This sounds like easy listening ballroom dancing at it's best and absolutely nothing like gospel, and I am a huge fan of gospel. This song has always been one of my Elvis favorites.
I don't know what it is about this version but he makes me cry when I listen to it. Yet I'm fine when I listen to his 1970 version. I don't know why that is. He can take me to another place. No other artist can do that. I've been a fan since I was 12 and I'm 60 now.
One of his more relaxing tunes (well he'd got many but this one's the most soothing I think). Great cover version, like every one he did he put his unique take on all the songs he sang, that's a better artist than someone who just covers other people's songs without changing them at all.
I have always loved this song and Elvis singing it. I have this LP. The guy with the best looks, talent and voice God every gave a man. I had a English teacher in high school that looked nearly that gorgeous ! Miss him. RIP Elvis.
