This topic brought to mind one of my favourite Elvis songs, "Kentucky Rain" ... 

Seven lonely days and a dozen towns ago
I reached out one night and you were gone
Don't know why you'd run, what you're running to or from
All I know is I want to bring you home
So I'm walking in the rain, thumbing for a ride
On this lonely Kentucky back road
I've loved you much too long, my love's too strong
To let you go, never knowing what went wrong

But that got me thinking of Ronnie Milsap's "Smoky Mountain Rain", because when it came out I felt that there were some very obvious parallels with "Kentucky Rain". So I did a search, and found the following info on Wikipedia ... if I'd ever known that Milsap played on "Kentucky Rain", I'd forgotten, but it's quite the connection between the two songs. 

The song is a first-person narrative of a man who has left Los Angeles and returned to Knoxville, Tennessee, due to "a change of dreams." He attempts to call a woman from a phone booth, but learns that she is gone. Attempting to find her, he then gets a ride from a truck driver who is going to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Although he "can't blame her for letting go," he vows to find her "no matter what it takes." Rain is mentioned in the opening verse, in the bridge, and three times in the chorus. Milsap liked the lyrics of Elvis Presley's "Kentucky Rain" so much that "Smoky Mountain Rain" was written for him similarly, albeit with a slightly different flavor: Millsap had played piano on the recording of Presley's "Kentucky Rain" in 1969.

Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) - Aretha Franklin (co-written and originally recorded by Stevie Wonder in 1967, but not released until it was included on his 1977 Looking Back album)

Though you don't call anymore
I sit and wait in vain
I guess I'll rap on your door (your door)
Tap on your window pane (tap on your window pane)
I wanna tell you, baby
Changes I've been going through 
Missing you, listen, you
'Til you come back to me that's what I'm gonna do

Can't Get Used To Losing You -  Andy Williams
Can"t get used to losing you
No matter what I try to do
Gonna spend my whole life through
Lovin you

End Of The World - Skeeter Davis
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when I lost your love

She's Got You - Patsy Cline
The only thing different, the only thing new
I've got your picture, she's got you

I've got your memory or has it got me
I really don't know, but I know it won't let me be

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What In The World's Come Over You - Jack Scott
What in the world's come over you
Could you ever change your mind?
If you do, I'll still be here, dear
Waiting, longing for you.

My Heart Has a Mind of its Own - Connie Francis
You're not in love with me so why can't I forget
I'm just your used to be, it's wrong and yet
I know forgetting you would be a hopeless thing 
Cause I'm a puppet and I just can't seem to break the strings

Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers
Think about the love that burns within my heart for you
The good times we had before you went away from me
Walk right back to me this minute
Bring your love to me, don't send it
 

Crying - Roy Orbison
Yes, now you're gone
And from this moment on
I'll be crying, crying 
Over you

Rhythm of the Rain - The Cascades
Rain, please tell me now does that seem fair
For her to steal my heart away when she don'r care?
I can't love another when my heart's somewhere far away

How Many Tears - Bobby Vee
How many tears can you cry when it's all over?
And how many tears can you cry when you want someone new?
That's a question I'm still unable to answer
'Cause I can't stop my love for you