A Date with Elvis (The Cramps album)

A Date with Elvis
Studio album by The Cramps
Released 1986
Recorded Fall 1985
Genre Garage punk, psychobilly, surf rock
Length 43:51
Label Big Beat
Producer Poison Ivy
The Cramps chronology
Bad Music for Bad People
(1984)
A Date with Elvis
(1986)
Rockin n Reelin in Auckland New Zealand
(1987)
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Allmusic [1]

A Date with Elvis is the seventh album by the American garage punk band The Cramps. It was released on Big Beat Records. It was recorded in the fall of 1985 and engineered by Steve McMillan and Mark Ettel at Ocean Way Studios Hollywood, CA. The Cramps reissued the album on their own Vengeance Records in 2001 with the bonus tracks "Blue Moon Baby" "Georgia Lee Brown" "Give Me A Woman" and "Get off the Road"

The album was dedicated to Ricky Nelson, who had a hit with the song "Lonesome Town", which was also covered by The Cramps and is available on their first EP Gravest Hits and compilation album ...Off the Bone.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, except where noted. 

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "How Far Can Too Far Go?"     4:10
2. "The Hot Pearl Snatch"     3:17
3. "People Ain't No Good"     3:46
4. "What's Inside a Girl?"     3:22
5. "Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?"     3:22
6. "Kizmiaz"     3:01
7. "Cornfed Dames"     5:26
8. "Chicken"   Traditional; arr. by Interior and Rorschach 1:40
9. "(Hot Pool Of) Womanneed"     3:09
10. "Aloha from Hell"     2:35
11. "It's Just That Song"   Charlie Feathers, Ramon Maupin 2:35
Reissue Bonus Tracks
No. Title Writer(s) Length
12. "Blue Moon Baby"   Meridan, Rowe, Satalsk 2:38
13. "Georgia Lee Brown"   Hafner, Zinn 3:24
14. "Give Me a Woman"   Willie Jacobs 2:25
15. "Get off the Road"   H.G. Lewis 3:12

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Cleary, David. "The Cramps: A Date with Elvis > Review" at Allmusic. Retrieved 10 September 2011.