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For the comic book, see The Trouble with Girls (comics)
The Trouble with Girls (comics)

The Trouble with Girls is an American comic book limited series published by Malibu Comics from 1987 to 1988, Comico in 1989, Malibu Comics again from 1989 to 1991, and Epic Comics in 1993....
.


The Trouble with Girls (full title The Trouble with Girls (and How to Get Into It)) is a 1969
1969 in film

The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
 dramatic comedy motion picture
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 starring Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
. It is also the only film starring Anissa Jones
Anissa Jones

Mary Anissa Jones was an United States child actress best remembered as "Buffy" on the CBS Situation comedy Family Affair. She died of a drug overdose at the age of 18....
.


soundtrack
Soundtrack

The term soundtrack refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded so...
 songs were recorded in October 1968 at United Recorders in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
. Only one recording, "Clean Up Your Own Backyard" was actually released in conjunction with the film's release, issued as a single with one of Presley's 1969 Memphis recordings, "The Fair is Moving On" as the b-side.






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For the comic book, see The Trouble with Girls (comics)
The Trouble with Girls (comics)

The Trouble with Girls is an American comic book limited series published by Malibu Comics from 1987 to 1988, Comico in 1989, Malibu Comics again from 1989 to 1991, and Epic Comics in 1993....
.


The Trouble with Girls (full title The Trouble with Girls (and How to Get Into It)) is a 1969
1969 in film

The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
 dramatic comedy motion picture
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 starring Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
. It is also the only film starring Anissa Jones
Anissa Jones

Mary Anissa Jones was an United States child actress best remembered as "Buffy" on the CBS Situation comedy Family Affair. She died of a drug overdose at the age of 18....
.

Primary cast

  • Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
    : Walter Hale
  • Marlyn Mason: Charlene
  • Nicole Jaffe
    Nicole Jaffe

    Nicole Jaffe is an United States actress, best known as the original voice artist of Velma Dinkley in Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoon series from 1969 to 1974....
    : Betty Smith
  • Sheree North
    Sheree North

    Sheree North was a two-time Emmy Award-nominated United States Actor, singer, and dancer....
    : Nita Bix
  • Edward Andrews
    Edward Andrews

    Edward Andrews was an American actor, one of the most recognizable character actors on television and motion pictures between the 1950s and the 1980s....
    : Johnny
  • John Carradine
    John Carradine

    John Carradine was an United States actor, perhaps best known for his roles in horror films and Westerns....
    : Mr. Drewcolt
  • Vincent Price
    Vincent Price

    Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an United States film actor, remembered for his distinctive voice, his 6-foot 4-inch stature and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films done in the latter part of his career....
    : Mr. Morality
  • Dabney Coleman
    Dabney Coleman

    Dabney Wharton Coleman is an United States actor. He is best known for his abrasive characters and his always present mustache.Biography...
    : Harrison Wilby
  • Duke Snider
    Duke Snider

    Edwin Donald "Duke" Snider , nicknamed "The Silver Fox" and "The Duke of Flatbush", is a former Major League Baseball baseball center fielder and left-handed batter who played with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Dodgers , New York Mets and San Francisco Giants ....
    : The Cranker
  • Anissa Jones
    Anissa Jones

    Mary Anissa Jones was an United States child actress best remembered as "Buffy" on the CBS Situation comedy Family Affair. She died of a drug overdose at the age of 18....
    : Carol Bix


Soundtrack

The soundtrack
Soundtrack

The term soundtrack refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded so...
 songs were recorded in October 1968 at United Recorders in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
. Only one recording, "Clean Up Your Own Backyard" was actually released in conjunction with the film's release, issued as a single with one of Presley's 1969 Memphis recordings, "The Fair is Moving On" as the b-side. "Almost" appeared in a later compilation, Let's Be Friends
Let's Be Friends

For the album by Suburban Legends, see Let's Be Friends and Slay the Dragon Together.Let's Be Friends is the second LP album by Elvis Presley on the RCA Camden budget subsidiary of Presley's home label of RCA Records, CAS 2408, released in April 1970....
, while the remaining songs were not released until after Presley's death. One of these, the spiritual "Swing Down Sweet Chariot" is a re-recording of a song Presley previously recorded for his 1960 album, His Hand in Mine
His Hand in Mine

His Hand in Mine was Elvis Presley first RCA Victor 12" long-play gospel album, recorded and originally released in 1960; a followup to his 1957 EP Peace in the Valley....
; it should not be confused with "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is a African-American Negro spiritual. The first recording was by the Fisk Jubilee Singers in 1909. In 2002, the Library of Congress honored the song as one of 50 recordings chosen that year to be added to the List of recordings preserved in the United States National Recording Registry....
", a completely different song.

"Clean Up Your Own Backyard" is notable for its anachronistic
Anachronism

An anachronism is an error in chronology, especially a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other....
 lyrics that do not fit the era of the film, such as the use of the term "armchair quarterback" which was not coined until the arrival of television.

Recording musicians

  • Elvis Presley (vocals)
  • The Mello Men (background vocals)
  • Gerald McGee, Morton Marker, Joseph Gibbons
    Joseph Gibbons

    is a Hallandale Beach, Florida businessman and Democratic Party politician who serves as the representative for Ditrict 105 of the Florida House of Representatives....
     (guitar)
  • Max Bennett (bass)
  • Don Randi (piano)
  • Frank Carlson, John Guerin
    John Guerin

    John Guerin worked as a drummer, percussionist, and recording artist worldwide.Guerin was born in Hawaii and raised in San Diego. As a young drummer he began performing with Buddy DeFranco in 1960....
     (drums)


Tracks (songwriter)


  • Almost - (Florence Kay & Ben Weisman
    Ben Weisman

    Ben Weisman was an American composer and pianist best known for having written many of the songs associated with Elvis Presley.A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Ben Weisman was one of Elvis Presley's chief songwriters throughout the 1960s....
    )
  • Clean Up Your Own Back Yard - (Mac Davis
    Mac Davis

    Morris Mac Davis, known as Mac Davis , is a country music singer and songwriter originally from Lubbock, Texas, Texas who has enjoyed much pop music Crossover success....
     and Billy Strange
    Billy Strange

    William E. Strange is an United States singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor.Billy Strange teamed up with Mac Davis to write several hit songs for Elvis Presley including A Little Less Conversation, the theme from Charro! and Memories ....
    )
  • Swing Down Sweet Chariot - (arr: Elvis Presley)
  • Violet (Flower of NYU) - (Sid Tepper
    Sid Tepper

    Sid Tepper is an United States songwriter, best known for his collaborations with Roy C. Bennett, which spawned several hits for Elvis Presley....
     and Roy C. Bennett
    Roy C. Bennett

    Roy C. Bennett is an United States songwriter.Born into an Eastern European immigrant family, as a young boy growing up in Brooklyn he befriended a newly arrived neighbor by the name of Sid Tepper....
    )


Note: Although credited to Tepper and Bennett, the melody of the song "Violet" is actually based upon "Aura Lee
Aura Lee

"Aura Lea" is an American Civil War song about a maiden. It was written by W. W. Fosdick and George R. Poulton .The Elvis Presley song "Love Me Tender " is sung to the same tune as "Aura Lee"....
", the same song upon which "Love Me Tender
Love Me Tender (song)

"Love Me Tender" is a song sung by Elvis Presley, to the tune of "Aura Lee" , a sentimental American Civil War ballad with music by George R. Poulton and words by W.W....
" was based.

See also

  • List of Elvis Presley films
    List of Elvis Presley films

    Academy Award-winning Hollywood movie producer Hal B. Wallis, who received 16 Academy Award nomination, stated about the Elvis Presley movies: "An Elvis Presley picture is the only sure thing in Hollywood." In 1956, following his rise to stardom in the rock and roll musical arena, singer Elvis Presley launched a parallel career as a film acto...
  • Elvis Presley discography
    Elvis Presley discography

    The official United States discography of Elvis Presley starts on July 19, 1954, with the release of his first commercial single , and ends in February 1978, with the release of "Unchained Melody" backed with "Softly, as I Leave You," the final single attached to a project Presley himself knew about in the planning stages prior to his death i...


External links

  • Website decitated to Elvis Presley's Movies.


Movie Reviews

  • by Chad Plambeck at


DVD Reviews

  • by Jon Danziger at , August 2, 2004.
  • by Bill Treadway at , July 23, 2004.