Girls! Girls! Girls!

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Girls! Girls! Girls!
Directed by	Norman Taurog
Produced by	Hal B. Wallis
Written by	Allan Weiss (story) Edward Anhalt
Starring	Elvis Presley Stella Stevens Laurel Goodwin
Music by	Joseph J. Lilley
Cinematography	Loyal Griggs
Editing by	Stanley E. Johnson
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	November 21, 1962
Running time	106 min.
Language	English

Girls! Girls! Girls! is a 1962 musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a penniless fisherman who loves his life on the sea and dreams of owning his own boat.

The film was shot on location in Hawaii.

[edit] Primary cast

• Elvis Presley: Ross Carpenter
• Stella Stevens: Robin Gantner
• Laurel Goodwin: Laurel Dodge
• Jeremy Slate: Wesley Johnson
• Benson Fong: Kin Yung
• Robert Strauss: Sam

[edit] Awards

• Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Musical at the 1963 ceremony. The winner that year was The Music Man.^[1]

Girls! Girls! Girls!
Soundtrack by Elvis Presley
Released	November 9, 1962
Genre	Rock and roll
Label	RCA Victor
Elvis Presley chronology
Pot Luck (1962) Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) It Happened at the World's Fair (1963)

[edit] Soundtrack

The soundtrack songs were recorded in March 1962 at the Radio Recorders Studios in Hollywood, California with the songs "Where Do You Come From" and "I Don't Want To" added to the music album released to coincide with the film's debut. The Leiber-Stoller title track was a hit for The Coasters in 1961 before being adapted for the Presley film. Besides the album itself, "Return to Sender" was released as a single and became a major hit for Elvis.

[edit] Track listing

Side 1:

1. "Girls! Girls! Girls!" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
2. "I Don't Wanna Be Tied" (Bill Giant, Bernie Baum, Florence Kaye)
3. "Where Do You Come From" (Ruth Bachelor, Bob Roberts)
4. "I Don't Want To" (Janice Torre, Fred Spielman)
5. "We'll Be Together" (Charles O'Curran, Dudley Brooks)
6. "A Boy Like Me A Girl Like You" (Sid Tepper, Roy C. Bennett)
7. "Earth Boy" (Sid Tepper, Roy C. Bennett)

Side 2:

1. "Return To Sender" (Otis Blackwell, Winfield Scott)
2. "Because Of Love" (Ruth Bachelor, Bob Roberts)
3. "Thanks To The Rolling Sea" (Bill Giant, Bernie Baum, Florence Kaye)
4. "Song Of The Shrimp" (Sid Tepper, Roy C. Bennett)
5. "The Walls Have Ears" (Sid Tepper, Roy C. Bennett)
6. "We're Comin' In Loaded" (Otis Blackwell, Winfield Scott)

Several additional songs were recorded for the film and not released concurrently. This includes "Plantation Rock" which was not released until the 1980s (actor Rob Schneider himself a big Elvis fan, performed the song when he appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in 1996), "Mama", which appeared on an early 1970s RCA Camden compilation and "Dainty Little Moonbeams" which appeared in the 1990s. The songs performed by Stella Stevens in the film have yet to be commercially released.

[edit] Recording musicians

• The Jordanaires - background vocals
• The Amigos - background vocals
• Scotty Moore, Tiny Timbrell, Barney Kessel - guitar
• Ray Seigel - bass
• Dudley Brooks - piano
• Boots Randolph - saxophone, vibes
• Hal Blaine - drums
• Bernie Mattinson, Harold Brown - percussion

[edit] See also

• List of American films of 1962
• List of Elvis Presley films
• Elvis Presley discography

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Elvis in Hawaii fansite.
• Girls! Girls! Girls! at the Internet Movie Database

[edit] Movie Reviews

• Review by Jamie Gillies at Apollo Movie Guide.

[edit] DVD Reviews

• Review of the movie collection "Lights! Camera! Elvis! Collection (King Creole, Blue Hawaii, G.I. Blues, Fun in Acapulco, Roustabout, Girls! Girls! Girls!, Paradise, Hawaiian Style, Easy Come, Easy Go) by Paul Mavis at DVD Talk, August 6, 2007.
• Review by Jon Danziger at digitallyOBSESSED!, February 3, 2003.