The document summarizes Elvis Presley's movie soundtracks. It finds at least two good songs from each movie soundtrack, with the exception of "Charro!". It highlights songs like "Love Me Tender" and "Got A Lot O' Livin' To Do" from various movies. The post also features enlarged photos of movie posters promoting Elvis' films.

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FRIDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2009 ABOUT ME
Elvis Presley At The Movies: The Soundtracks & PETER CH ECK SFI ELD
The Posters I'm a Thanet
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Elvis famously made a long succession of movies, with each of them
having progressively worse soundtracks - or did they? I've challenged BLOG ARCHIVE
myself to find at least two half-decent songs from every movie (with ▼ 2009 (15)
the exception of 'Charro!' which only featured the title track over the
► December (1)
credits), & I discovered quite a few hidden gems. This post has also
given me the opportunity to feature photos of the many wonderful ► November (3)
posters used to promote the movies at the time (click on images to ▼ October (7)
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Love Me Tender (1956)
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Best songs: Love Me Tender, Poor Boy British Invasion (2)
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Loving You (1957)
Jerry Lee Lewis (3)
Best songs: Got A Lot O' Livin' To Do, Party, Lonesome Cowboy, John Lennon (1)
Mean Woman Blues, Loving You. Keith Richards (1)
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Best songs: Young And Beautiful, I Want To Be Free, Treat Me Nice, The Dave Clark Five (1)
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G.I. Blues (1960)
Best songs: What's She Really Like, G.I. Blues, Frankfort Special,
Shoppin' Around, Tonight Is So Right For Love, Wooden Heart,
Pocketful Of Rainbows
Flaming Star (1960)
Best songs: Flaming Star, A Cane And A High Starched Collar

5. Wild In The Country (1961)
Best songs: Wild In The Country, I Slipped I Stumbled I Fell
Blue Hawaii (1961)
Best songs: Blue Hawaii, No More, Can't Help Falling In Love, Rock-
A-Hula Baby, Hawaiian Wedding Song

6. Follow That Dream (1962)
Best songs: What A Wonderful Life, Follow That Dream, Angel
Kid Galahad (1962)
Best songs: King Of The Whole Wide World, Riding The Rainbow, I
Got Lucky

7. Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
Best songs: Girls! Girls! Girls!, I Don't Wanna Be Tied, Return To
Sender
It Happened At The World's Fair (1962)
Best songs: Beyond The Bend, One Broken Heart For Sale

8. Fun In Acapulco (1963)
Best songs: I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here, Bossa Nova Baby, You
Can't Say No In Acapulco
Kissin' Cousins (1964)
Best songs: Catchin' On Fast , Once Is Enough, Kissin' Cousins (2)

9. Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Best songs: Viva Las Vegas, C'mon Everybody, What'd I Say
Roustabout (1964)
Best songs: Roustabout, Wheels On My Heels, Little Egypt

10. Girl Happy (1965)
Best songs: Girl Happy, Puppet On A String
Tickle Me (1965)
Best songs: Long Lonely Highway, It Feels So Right, Dirty Dirty
Feeling, Slowly But Surely

11. Harum Scarum (1965)
Best songs: Harem Holiday, Shake That Tambourine, Hey Little Girl
Frankie And Johnny (1966)
Best songs: What Every Woman Lives For, Frankie And Johnny,
Hard Luck

12. Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966)
Best songs: Paradise Hawaiian Style, Scratch My Back (Then I'll
Scratch Yours), A Dog's Life
Spinout (1966)
Best songs: Stop Look And Listen, I'll Be Back

13. Easy Come, Easy Go (1967)
Best songs: Easy Come Easy Go, Sing You Children
Double Trouble (1967)
Best songs: Long Legged Girl (With The Short Dress On), City By
Night

14. Clambake (1967)
Best songs: Clambake, You Don't Know Me, How Can You Lose What
You Never Had
Stay Away, Joe (1968)
Best songs: Stay Away, All I Needed Was The Rain

15. Speedway (1968)
Best songs: Let Yourself Go, Your Time Hasn't Come Yet Baby
Live A Little, Love A Little (1968)
Best songs: Edge Of Reality, A Little Less Conversation

16. Charro! (1968)
Best song: Charro
The Trouble With Girls (1969)
Best songs: Swing Down Sweet Chariot, Clean Up Your Own
Backyard

17. Change Of Habit (1969)
Best songs: Change Of Habit, Rubberneckin'
Elvis: That's The Way It Is (1970)
Best songs: Mystery Train / Tiger Man, Patch It Up, Little Sister /
Get Back, Polk Salad Annie

18. Elvis On Tour (1972)
Best songs: Seperate Ways, Never Been To Spain, I Got A Woman /
Amen, Memories
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LABEL S: DVD, ELVI S PR ESLEY , MOVI ES , RHY THM 'N ' BLUES , ROCK ' N ' ROL L
3 COMMENTS:
Chris Jarvis said...
Well done Peter.....
Nice collection of posters too.
It would be great to have a full set of originals!
Cheers from down under in OZ.
Chris
2 OCTOBER 2009 14:10
Peter Checksfield said...
Thanks...they're worth a LOT of money Chris! I particularly
love the 'King Creole' poster.
2 OCTOBER 2009 15:11
Tuomas Kurittu said...
Must have been quite a work to listen every Elvis movie
soundtrack... I've been big Elvis fan for over 20 years, but I

19. still have seen only about 10-15 of his 33 movies. About half a
year ago I bought a DVD of 'Easy Come Easy Go', but I've yet
watched about 15 minutes of it, it's so dead boring. But
there's also some very good movies, like 'King Creole'
and 'Flaming Star' and some of Elvis's mid-sixties have quite
good soundtrack music, like 'Harum Scarum', 'Spinout'
and 'Double Trouble'.
3 OCTOBER 2009 15:16
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