"One Sided Love Affair" | ||||
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Single by Elvis Presley | ||||
from the album Elvis Presley | ||||
A-side |
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Released | August 1956 | |||
Recorded | January 30, 1956 | |||
Genre | Rockabilly, rock and roll | |||
Length | 2:09 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Bill Campbell | |||
Elvis Presley singles chronology | ||||
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"One Sided Love Affair" (or "One-sided Love Affair") is a song by Elvis Presley from his 1956 debut album Elvis Presley . [1] [2]
Later, in August in the same year (1956) it was also released as a single, [2] with "Money Honey" on the flip side. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
The song (both the words and the music) was written by Bill Campbell. [13] [14]
Presley recorded the song on January 30, 1956, at the RCA Studio in New York. [15] [1]
There were six songs handpicked by A&R person Steve Sholes himself for Presley to record for his first album at the sessions, but "One-sided Love Affair" was the only one Presley liked and recorded. [16] [14]
In a March 24, 1956 interview the song was cited by Presley as his favorite from the album. [17]
The book Song & Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan note Presley's cynicism in the song, whose lyrics go: [13]
If you wanna be loved,
baby you gotta love me too
'Cos I ain't for no one-sided love affair:
Well a fair exchange ain't no robbery
An' the whole world knows that it's true ... [13]
The book The Art of Songwriting calls the song itself (its music and words) "unexceptional", but praises Presley's performance and the eventual result. [14] The book Elvis Presley, Reluctant Rebel: His Life and Our Times describes "One-sided Love Affair" as a "rollicking" number, a "boogie-woogie polished to a pop gleam and without the barrelhouse danger, a concept already familiar in the swing era." [18]
7" single (1956) [19]
10" shellac single (RCa 20 6641, September 1956) [9]
10" shellac single (1956) [20]
2-EP set Elvis Presley(EPB-1254, April 1956) [21]
Side 1
Side 2
Side 3
Side 4
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