Every girl I see looks good to me

Continuing my trip back through the 1965 album charts.

22/08/65 : Girl Happy - Elvis Presley


Our seventeenth visit with Elvis and there's no sign of him slowing down yet - he was churning out two films a year around this time. I'm expecting this to be mostly bearable, but also mostly forgettable.

Well, I have a sneaking suspicion that Girl Happy might possibly not be a film you need too many braincells to engage with - and the same is definitely true for this album. It's somewhat lacking in variety but to be fair it bounces along nicely enough - I actually quite liked "Spring Fever" although I was bemused that anyone decided they should write a song called "Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce". It's all completely inessential, but it could be far worse - the photo on the album cover doesn't exactly ooze personality though, does it?

We're at #15 in the charts this week on his last week of a fifteen week run, with #7 being as high as it got in its second, fifth and ninth weeks. The top five this week were The Beatles, TSOM, Mary Poppins, The Shadows and Bob Dylan with a new entry for The Byrds (#17).

Wikipedia tells us this is his tenth soundtrack album and has surprisingly little content in a surprisingly large amount of text - the only fact of interest is that on some of the tracks on the original version had Elvis's voice mistakenly sped up on them, which feels like something someone really should have noticed. Elvis really liked his backing singers as well, using The Jordanaires, The Jubilee Four and The Carole Lombard Trio on this.

"Customers also listened to" "no similar recommendations" - which didn't overly surprise me. But, I have to admit, I was expecting this to be far worse than it was...

15/08/65 - I liked this one
29/08/65 - Just too twee

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