On September 3, 1968 RCA Victor  released "Almost In Love" / "A Little Less Conversation" to promote Elvis' forthcoming movie "Live A Little, Love A Little". Twentyfive days later "Almost In Love" entered Billboard's "Hot 100" at number 99, but left the charts after just two weeks and never made it past number 95. "A Little Less Conversation", the supposed b-side, was favored by the radio djs and therefore peaked at number 68. But of course even this chartposition was abysmal for a Presley record, just like the domestic sales of 200,000 units. Abroad also nobody seemed to care, in total the record barely sold half a million copies, which translates to 75 million paid streams.

The single is not available on the streaming platforms, but the songs can be found on the album "Almost In Love" (1970). In 2016 the complete Presley catalogue was restored and remastered by Vic Anesini for a boxed set of 60 compact discs called "The Album Collection". Sony Music Entertainment provides the streaming platforms with the same versions of the individual tracks, albeit in 24 bit/90 khz flac. That means, if the platform of your choice supports high resolution audio, you can enjoy the songs in the same quality Sony used to scan and master them. On Spotify, which has a market share of approximately 30% and is the only platform that publishes streaming figures, "Almost In Love" accumulates less than a million streams, but "A Little Less Conversation clocks in at an astonishing 54 million. The interest in Elvis' original recording is most likely fueled by the remix "Elvis vs JXL: A Little Less Conversation", which belongs to the most requested Presley songs on Spotify.

For the sleeve RCA Victor used a promo photo for "Live A Little, Love A Little". In contrast to the previous years the king now looked modern and happy. Of course Colonel Parker didn't forget to make sure the label promoted the accordant motion picture. 

The music track was recorded on March 7, 1968 at Western Recorders in Hollywood/California, four days later the king added his vocals. The master finally was combined of the takes 4 (music track) and 3 (vocal track). At first "Almost In Love" was available on this single only, in 1970 RCA's own budget label CAMDEN made the song the title track of an album. The ballad was written by Randy Starr, who based it on Luiz Bonfa's "Moonlight In Rio". To me "Almost In Love" is some kind of elevator music (aka lounge music), which was a fab of the time. It's certainly not bad and also well performed, but it just doesn't stay with you.

Elvis recorded the song on the same day, but this time in form of a live performance with the band. Take 16 was chosen to be the master, for unknown reasons CAMDEN used take 10 on the album "Almost In Love". The rhythm of "A Little Less Conversation" is funky and the lyrics are quite frank. I like the song very much. In 2002 a tv commercial for NIKE featured a remix/remake by Tom Holkenborg which was released by BMG and entered the UK Charts at number 1. Within a few weeks "Elvis vs JXL: A Little Less Conversation" made it to the top of the charts in 19 other countries and opened up a complete new audience for the king.