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Need help with fifties song

Ford 23Ford 23 Member Posts: 3,129
edited December 2008 in General Discussion
While visiting my wife at the Nursing Home yesterday, I told her I had come across a nineteen fifties song YOU YOU YOU and we agreed it brought back a lot of memories. We were banging around some other titles and songs from the era

We got stuck on a song with the words (I love you for a hundred thousand reasons) and the name of the artist.

Need some help does anyone recall the title and the singer?

Young guys will be stuck on this one, doesn't have a bunch of wild people beating hell out of their guitar and yelling words like a raped ape.
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  • MrOrangeMrOrange Member Posts: 3,012
    edited November -1
    Elvis, "I Love You Because"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey0Ajvwm99I
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  • Ford 23Ford 23 Member Posts: 3,129
    edited November -1
    Thanks---I was not aware of Presley singing it. I recall a different artist, he possibly introduced the song originally and Presley picked on it with his version---only guessing
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  • MrOrangeMrOrange Member Posts: 3,012
    edited November -1
    Yeah, Elvis did that with quite a few songs.

    I went back to youtube and found a Jim Reeves version:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nECoA-uVGfw&feature=related
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  • dan kellydan kelly Member Posts: 9,799
    edited November -1
    hell man...i just choked on my coffee!!!


    i read where you said about yelling words like a raped ape and nearly drowned myself!!!

    you meanie!![:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

    no offence to raped apes...but man thats funny!!!!
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    OMG...I had/have that song on tape....50's collection....and its NOT elvis...


    I just played the YouTube link and sat here with tears streaming down ....that song always did and always will make me cry....I remember moving to Florida listening to that song, along with many others, to me its a wonderful song reminding me of why I moved to Florida...
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  • Ford 23Ford 23 Member Posts: 3,129
    edited November -1
    Mr. Orange---Now that I have the title I did a little more searching. Found a recording on You Tube by Al Martino, it is a little rough couldn't get it to play steady only a lot of skips. I do recall Reeves singing it, but the voice I was most familiar with is Martino http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_I_ID7CDMnw

    My wife of fifty one years has been in Nursing Home for a year this month. (72 years old) She comprehends most things. Went through a lot together, really amazing how a few old songs can bring back so many memories, we both get sweaty eyes when the memories kick in.

    Not to sell the raped ape songs short, I'm sure when people arrive at the years we have that the songs they relate to will also be memory kickers for them.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    I would love to be able to find the song "last date" done by horn only....and I dont mean floyd cramer....I dont know who did it, but someone did...I heard it so many years ago and it was so unforgetable, so haunting, so damn sexy....

    It was a trumpet I think, and it was so freaking fantastic...will almost cause an "O" listening to it...it will bring back a lot of memories for a whole bunch of ppl if only we can find it...
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  • wlfmn323wlfmn323 Member Posts: 4,712
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by BlackRoses
    I would love to be able to find the song "last date" done by horn only....and I dont mean floyd cramer....I dont know who did it, but someone did...I heard it so many years ago and it was so unforgetable, so haunting, so damn sexy....

    It was a trumpet I think, and it was so freaking fantastic...will almost cause an "O" listening to it...it will bring back a lot of memories for a whole bunch of ppl if only we can find it...


    boots randolph?
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  • peabopeabo Member Posts: 3,098
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by BlackRoses
    I would love to be able to find the song "last date" done by horn only....and I dont mean floyd cramer....I dont know who did it, but someone did...I heard it so many years ago and it was so unforgetable, so haunting, so damn sexy....

    It was a trumpet I think, and it was so freaking fantastic...will almost cause an "O" listening to it...it will bring back a lot of memories for a whole bunch of ppl if only we can find it...



    Al Hirt ???


    Thanks---Peabo
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  • susiesusie Member Posts: 7,632 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wife of 51 years, WOW. [:)] I hope that the hubbie and I reach that milestone. We have have 25 years and are moving right along. Yep, a song can bring back memories, sometimes for the first time in years.
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I like the Jim Reeves version better. But then I'm a Jim Reeves fan from way back.
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  • Mort4570Mort4570 Member Posts: 472 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    for those who like 'the old stuff' I found this site while surfing the 'net last week.
    you can hear the entire song,and download them as well it looks like.

    Look for the recitation of Taps..kind of a history of the tune...by John Wayne. WOW

    http://www.pcdon.com/page90.html

    his main home page has a huge wealth of info as well.
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