Girl Happy (song)

"Girl Happy"
Song by Elvis Presley
from the album Girl Happy
Released	1965
Recorded	June 10, 1964
Length	2:07
Label	RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)	Doc Pomus Norman Meade[1]
Producer(s)	Steve Sholes[1]

"Girl Happy" is a song first recorded by Elvis Presley as part of the soundtrack for his 1965 motion picture Girl Happy.[2][3]

Its first release was on the soundtrack LP Girl Happy in April 1965.[2]

Writing and recording

The song was written by Doc Pomus and Norman Meade (real name Jordan "Jerry" Ragovoy).[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

There was also a first attempt at writing a title song for the movie. The first song was penned by Doc Pomus with his long-time collaborator Mort Shuman, but was rejected. (The Pomus-Shuman collaboration started to disintegrate back in 1961 and since then Doc Pomus was encouraged to work with other songwriters.)[12]

Presley recorded the song on June 10, 1964, at the June 10–12 and 15 soundtrack sessions for the M.G.M. movie Girl Happy at the Radio Recorders studio in Hollywood, California.[13]

References

1. "australian-charts.com - Elvis Presley - Girl Happy". Retrieved 2017-01-07.
2. Jerry Osborne; Bruce Hamilton (1980). Presleyana. O'Sullivan Woodside. ISBN 978-0-89019-073-9."GIRL HAPPY (Doc Pomus - Norman Meade) RECORDED: July, 1964 RELEASED: April, 1965 FIRST APPEARANCE: RCA Victor (LP) LPM-3338 (mono) and LSP-3338 (stereo) GIRL HAPPY HIT PRIOR TO ELVIS: None ..."
3. Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. 1967. pp. 192–.
4. Thomas Lisanti (24 August 2012). Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969. McFarland. pp. 193–. ISBN 978-0-7864-7297-0.
5. Clive Hirschhorn (1981). The Hollywood Musical. Crown. ISBN 9780517540442. Girl Happy Pomus Meade.
6. George Batista Da Silva (10 January 2008). Do Vitascope Ao Imax. Clube de Autores. pp. 156–. PKEY:90119728.
7. George Batista Da Silva (11 October 2006). Música E Ecran. Clube de Autores. pp. 104–. PKEY:99031787.
8. James L. Neibaur (4 April 2014). The Elvis Movies. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 162–. ISBN 978-1-4422-3074-3.
9. Neal Umphred; Linda Jones; Walter Piotrowski (1990). Elvis: A Touch of Gold : the American Record Collector's Price Guide to Elvis Presley Records & Memorabilia. White Dragon Press.
10. Jean-Jacques Jelot-Blanc (3 January 2016). CAMION BLANC: ELVIS A HOLLYWOOD Presley fait son cinéma. CAMION BLANC. pp. 118–. ISBN 978-2-35779-747-5.
11. Sheryl Aumack (1 July 1990). Song & dance: an encyclopedia of musicals. Sea-Maid Press. ISBN 978-0-9625180-1-0.
12. Graham Vickers (28 August 2013). Pomus & Shuman: Hitmakers Together & Apart. Music Sales Group. pp. 79–. ISBN 978-0-85712-800-3.
13. Ernst Jorgensen (22 April 2014). Elvis Presley: A Life In Music. St. Martin's Press. pp. 293–. ISBN 978-1-4668-6855-7.