Elvis- Love Me Tender

The title track of the movie, written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett, was recorded on April 27th, 1960 at RCA`s Hollywood studios, for initial release on the movie sountrack album.
Elvis was said to be disappointed with the quality of the material he was supplied for the sondtrack, after his favored songwriters Leiber and Stoller pulled out of the running. The public had no such problems, making it his best-selling LP to date—and the highest entry of any Elvis LP, rocketing to #6 in its first week—when it came out in October 1960. The LP sold 700,000 copies and took the coveted #1 spot in the charts—nothing could shift it for 10 weeks. The album remained in the chart for a total of 111 weeks, and went on to sell more than 3.5 million discs.
Producer Hal Wallis flew out to Germany in the summer of 1959, when Elvis still had eight months of his Army service to go, to meet his star and do some location work on Elvis` first movie in two years, at the time known under working title Christmas In Berlin.
Elvis rolled into LA by rail with a pack of buddies on two railway cars hired by the Colonel to start pre-production in late April 1960. Principal photography was completed by June 24th, 1960. At a late stage, Elvis` character name was changed from Tulsa McCauley to Tulsa McLean. In the romantic comedy McLean ( like Elvis ) has Cherokee blood.
G.I. Blues was nominated for two musical-related awards in 1961 : best soundtrack album Grammy, and WGA best-written musical.

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G.I Blues (All tunes)№1 Elvis Presley
(What’s She Really like) (G.I.Blues) (Doin’ the Best I Can) (Frankfurt Special) (Soppin’ Around)

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Elvis in the movie G.I.Blues from 1960 with Co-Star Juliet Prowse…

Here are the words to the song:

They give us a room
with a view of the beautiful Rhine
They give us a room
with a view of the beautiful Rhine
Gimme a muddy old creek
in Texas any old time

I’ve got those hup, two, three, four
occupation G.I. Blues
From my G.I. hair to the heels of my G.I. shoes
And if I don’t go stateside soon
I’m gonna blow my fuse

We get hasenpfeffer
and black pumpernickel for chow
We get hasenpfeffer
and black pumpernickel for chow
I’d blow my next month’s pay
for a slice of Texas cow

We’d like to be heroes,
but all we do here is march
We’d like to be heroes,
but all we do here is march
And they don’t give the Purple Heart
for a fallen arch

I’ve got those hup, two, three, four
occupation G.I. Blues
From my G.I. hair to the heels of my G.I. shoes
And if I don’t go stateside soon
I’m gonna blow my fuse

The frauleins are pretty as flowers
But we can’t make a pass
The frauleins are pretty as flowers
But we can’t make a pass
Cause they’re all wearin’ signs saying:
“Keepen sie off the grass”

I’ve got those hup, two, three, four
occupation G.I. Blues
From my G.I. hair to the heels of my G.I. shoes
And if I don’t go stateside soon
I’m gonna blow my fuse

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