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The 2014 book The Elvis Movies called "Long Legged Girl (with the Short Dress On)" "probably the best song in the movie" Double Trouble. [4] The 2013 book Elvis Music FAQ concluded: "Long Legged Girl (with the Short Dress On)" is tolerable faux hard rock. "The guitar is dirty, but the lick is humdrum, and Elvis sounds detached.
In his landmark, best-selling biography of Elvis, Elvis: A Biography (1971), Jerry Hopkins discussed this songwriting period in Elvis' career. [ 4 ] The song was recorded on June 25, 1961 at RCA Studios in Nashville and was released as the B-Side to the 1967 single, " Long Legged Girl (with the Short Dress On) " on April 28, issued as RCA 47 ...
According to Susan M. Doll in her book Understanding Elvis, the song "features a common characteristic of country music — the passive acceptance of the singer's fate and the subsequent melancholy it brings," as the person who sings the song "passively resigns himself to the fact" that his girl is gone. [8] Musically, it is a rockabilly ballad.
Elvis was sent back to the U.S. in 1960, and the couple maintained their relationship at a distance until the summer of 1962 when Priscilla visited Elvis in America.
Double Trouble is the fifteenth soundtrack album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 3787, in June 1967. It is the soundtrack to the 1967 film of the same name starring Presley.
PHOTO:Elvis Presley leans against a massive pillar on the front porch of Graceland, March 26, 1957, in Memphis, Tenn. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)
"You'll Be Gone" is a song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music and released in 1965 on the Girl Happy soundtrack album and as a 45 single. [1] The song was recorded in 1962 and was one of very few which Presley was involved in writing; his co-writers were his bodyguard Red West and Charlie Hodge . [ 2 ]
Winfield Scott (November 27, 1920 – October 26, 2015), also known as Robie Kirk, was an American songwriter and singer.He wrote or co-wrote the hit songs "Tweedle Dee" for LaVern Baker, and he was a co-writer with Otis Blackwell of "Return to Sender" for Elvis Presley. [1] "