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Playing for Keeps

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(Kesler)

Information:
Stanley A. Kesler wrote Playing for Keeps for Elvis. The demo was recorded by Barbara Pittman, a singer at Sun Records who Elvis dated for a brief time. Elvis recorded Playing for Keeps at Radio Recorders on September 1, 1956. Take #7 is the one used by RCA. The single release had a nine-week stay on Billboard's Top 100 chart, peaking at #34. It reached #8 on the Country Juke Box chart. Some sources credit Playing for Keeps with selling a million copies.

Lyrics:
 

I'm playin' for keeps, this time it's real
And I want you to know exactly how I feel
I'm playin' for keeps for sure this time
And I won't be happy until I know you're mine

1. There have been others that could love me true
But no one else can thrill me like you do
I'm playin' for keeps oh, love me too
Oh, don't make me sorry that I fell in love with you

1. (repete)

Where it was released:

Released for the fist time on single »

Singles:

- Too Much / Playing for Keeps (RCA 20-6800) January 1957. Standard 78 RPM release »

- Too Much / Playing for Keeps (RCA 47-6800) January 1957. Standard 45 RPM release »

- Too Much / Playing for Keeps (RCA 447-0617) March 1959. Gold standard series reissue.

- Too Much / Playing for Keeps (Collectables DPE1-1007 4507) December 1986.

EPs:

- DJ-56 (1956)

LPs/CDs:

- For LP Fans Only (1959) »
- For LP Fans Only (1965) »

- Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits, Volume 1 (1970) »

– Memories of Elvis (1978) »

- Elvis! His Greatest Hits (1979) »

- A Valentine Gift For You (1985)

- The King of Rock’n’Roll – The Complete 50’s Masters (1992)

- Are You Lonesome Tonight (1997)

- Elvis; Elvis is Back; Elvis Presley (2001)

- Elvis; Jailhouse Rock (2001)

- Elvis (2005)
– Elvis (2014) - FTD »

- Elvis' Golden Records (2015) - FTD »

– For LP Fans Only (2018) - FTD »

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