Elvis Songs: Anything That's Part Of You

Written by: Don Robertson

Recorded: October 15, 1961, RCA Studios, Nashville TN
Released master is take 10.

Single: w/ "Good Luck Charm", 47-7992, March 1962
Also released as 33rpm single, 37-7992, March 1962
Also re-released as Gold Standard Series, 447-0636, November 1962

Highest U.S. Charts Position:
#31 on Billboard Top 100
#6 on Billboard Easy Listening Chart

1st LP release: Elvis Golden Records Vol 3 - September 1963

"Anything That's Part Of You" is another in a series of fine ballads written by Don Robertson for Elvis.

I'll write some more about this classic later, I promise, but for now, check out the links and stuff!

"Anything That's Part Of You", a ballad, is one of the most underestimated Presley recordings. Floyd Cramer's piano is to the fore, and through it an acoustic guitar weaves delicate embroidery. Presley's performance builds to hypnotic effect.

Robert Matthew-Walker, Elvis Presley - A Study In Music, 1979

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A slow, sad weeper with Elvis in full-throated sincerity and a fine tinkling Floyd Cramer piano.

The Complete Elvis, edited by Martin Torgoff, 1982

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Tender, affecting ballads such as this were Don Robertson's specialty, and Elvis rarely sounded as attuned to a lyric as he does here. His inimitable sense of performance was well in evidence. Issued on the B-side of GOOD LUCK CHARM, ANYTHING THAT'S PART OF YOU still managed to rise to No. 31 on Billboard's Hot 100.

- Peter Guralnik, from Elvis Presley/Artist of the Century liner notes.

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I memorize the note you sent
Go all the places that we went
I seem to search the whole day through
For anything that's part of you

I kept a ribbon from your hair
A breath of perfume lingers there
It helps to cheer me when I'm blue
Anything that's part of you

Oh, how it hurts to miss you so
When I know you don't love me anymore
To go on needing you
Knowing you don't need me

No reason left for me to live
What can I take, what can I give
When I'd give all of someone new
For anything that's part of you