Patch It Up | |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Elvis Presley |
Album: | That's the Way It Is |
A-Side: | "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" |
Released: | October 6, 1970 |
Recorded: | June 8, 1970 |
Studio: | RCA's Studio B Nashville |
Genre: | Rock |
Label: | RCA Victor |
Prev Title: | I've Lost You |
Prev Title2: | The Next Step Is Love |
Prev Year: | 1970 |
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me | |
Title2: | Patch It Up |
Next Title: | I Really Don't Want to Know |
Next Title2: | There Goes My Everything |
Next Year: | 1970 |
"Patch It Up" is a song written by Eddie Rabbitt and Rory Bourke and originally recorded by Elvis Presley.[1] He released it as a single, with "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" on the opposite side, in October 1970.
A live version of the song recorded on August 12, 1970,[2]
The song was written by Eddie Rabbitt and Rory Bourke.[4] That version was released as a single with "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" on October 6.[7] [9] The recording used for the album was from the August 12, 1970 dinner show.[10]
"Patch It Up" reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 (as a double A-side with "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me").[2]
Elvis originally recorded the song during his "marathon" June 1970 sessions at RCA's Studio B in Nashville.[4]