I'm Yours (Elvis Presley song) explained

I'm Yours
Cover:Elvis_Presley_I'm_Yours_Picture_Sleeve.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Elvis Presley
Album:Pot Luck
B-Side:(It's a) Long Lonely Highway
Released:August 10, 1965
Recorded:June 25, 1961
Studio:RCA Studio B, Nashville
Genre:
  • Rock and roll
  • pop
Label:RCA Victor
Prev Title:(Such an) Easy Question
Prev Title2:It Feels So Right
Prev Year:1965
Title2:(It's a) Long Lonely Highway
Next Title:Puppet on a String
Next Title2:Wooden Heart
Next Year:1965

"I'm Yours" is 1961 song recorded by Elvis Presley which appeared on the Pot Luck with Elvis album. The recording was released as a single in 1965. It was written by Don Robertson and Hal Blair.

Background

The song was recorded by Elvis Presley on June 26, 1961, at RCA's Nashville, Tennessee studios, and released on the album, Pot Luck with Elvis, on June 5, 1962. It was published by Elvis Presley's publishing company Gladys Music, Inc. The single was also released in Canada, France, and New Zealand. The single was certified Gold in the U.S. by the RIAA in March 1992.

It was not released as a single until three years later when it was featured in Presley's film Tickle Me (1965).[1] [2] "I'm Yours" peaked at number 11 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in October 1965. "I'm Yours" reached the top of the Billboard Easy Listening chart to become Presley's third consecutive number-one single on the chart.[3]

Dickie Rock cover

I'm Yours
Cover:I'm Yours (1964) record label.jpg
Type:single
Language:Spanish and English
B-Side:Please Don't Drag That String Around
Released:April 1964
Recorded:April 1964
Genre:
Length:3:45
Prev Title:There's Always Me
Prev Year:1964
Next Title:From the Candy Store on the Corner
Next Year:1965

A cover version was recorded by Dickie Rock and the Miamis in 1964.[4] [5]

The song reached Number 1 in the Irish Singles Chart on 29 May 1964, equal with Eileen Reid's "Fallen Star".[6] [7] It was one of three Irish number ones that Rock achieved in 1964.[8]

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://fr.netlog.com/go/explore/videos/videoid=fr-2653507 "I'm Yours" (LP Master) video
  2. Web site: Elvis – I'm Yours / (It's A) Long Lonely Highway (1965, Rockaway Pressing, Vinyl) - Discogs. .
  3. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Joel Whitburn . 2002 . Record Research . 196.
  4. Web site: Dickie Rock and The Miamis – 'I'm Yours'. Aidan. Curran. July 30, 2023.
  5. Web site: 45cat - Dickie Rock And The Miamis - I'm Yours / Please Don't Drag That String Around - Piccadilly - UK - 7N 35185.
  6. Web site: Cadets Showband. www.irish-showbands.com.
  7. Web site: Billboard. Nielsen Business Media Inc. June 13, 1964. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. Google Books.
  8. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Rich, Young and Pretty - Swift, Richard. (2006:1922). United Kingdom: MUZE.