Girls! Girls! Girls!

Infobox_Film
name = Girls! Girls! Girls!


imdb_id = 0056023
producer = Hal B. Wallis
director = Norman Taurog
writer = Allan Weiss (story)
Edward Anhalt
starring = Elvis Presley
Stella Stevens
Laurel Goodwin
music = Joseph J. Lilley
cinematography = Loyal Griggs
editing = Stanley E. Johnson
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = November 21, 1962
runtime = 106 min.
language = English
preceded by = "Kid Galahad"
followed by = "It Happened at the World's Fair"

"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.

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

Awards

* Golden Globes : Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Musical at the 1963 ceremony. The winner that year was The Music Man. [ [http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/index.html HFPA - Nominations and Winners ] ]

oundtrack

Infobox Album
Name = Girls! Girls! Girls!
Type = Soundtrack
Longtype =
Artist = Elvis Presley


Released = November 9, 1962
Recorded =
Genre = Rock and roll
Length =
Label = RCA
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Pot Luck"
(1962)
This album = "Girls! Girls! Girls!"
(1962)
Next album = "It Happened at the World's Fair"
(1963)

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.

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

Track listing

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

Side 2:
#"Return To Sender" - (Otis Blackwell & Winfield Scott)
#"Because Of Love" - (Ruth Bachelor & Bob Roberts)
#"Thanks To The Rolling Sea" - (Bill Grant, Bernie Baum & Florence Kaye)
#"Song Of The Shrimp" - (Sid Tepper & Roy C. Bennett)
#"The Walls Have Ears" - (Sid Tepper & Roy C. Bennett)
#"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.

ee also

* List of Elvis Presley films
*Elvis Presley discography

References

External links

* [http://www.elvisinhawaii.com Elvis in Hawaii] fansite.

Movie Reviews

* [http://apolloguide.com/mov_fullrev.asp?CID=4799&Specific=5611 Review] by Jamie Gillies at [http://apolloguide.com/index.shtml Apollo Movie Guide] .

DVD Reviews

* [http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=29645 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 [http://www.dvdtalk.com/ DVD Talk] , August 6, 2007.
* [http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=4361 Review] by Jon Danziger at [http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/index.php3 digitallyOBSESSED!] , February 3, 2003.