Girls! Girls! Girls!
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| 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 |
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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.
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[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]
[edit] Soundtrack
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| Released | November 9, 1962 | ||||
| Label | RCA | ||||
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The soundtrack songs were recorded in March of 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] 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 (sax & vibes)
- Hal Blaine (drums)
- Bernie Mattinson, Harold Brown (percussion)
[edit] Tracks (songwriter)
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, preformed 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] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Elvis in Hawaii fansite.
[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.
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