Elvis Presley in the '60s: 1965

'Girl happy''s title track is a semi-amusing pop ditty about a girl happy guy.
'Puppet on a string' is a sappy ballad.

In '65 Elvis didn't record any non-soundtrack material. 'Girl happy' and 'Harum scarum' weren't enough to make the yearly quota, so the corporation did some gravedigging. The result is 'Elvis for everyone' - Elvis's first outtakes album? (though it was billed simply as the new album)

I've read some reviews of this album trying to reinstate it as a modest buried treasure. It's remarkably easy to listen to considering the circumstances, but don't believe it.

The album is made up of 3 '50s outtakes (all sweetened up with drums, backing vocals and so on - 'Tomorrow night''s really taken too far with a sickly sweet 'downhome' harmonica solo), 4 tracks from the earlier '60s sessions (2 really good ones - 'Memphis Tennessee' and 'I met her today' - are the album's highlights) and 5 soundtrack outtakes which fascinate more through their oddness (mysterious 'Summer kisses, winter tears', acoustic 'In my way' and so on). They're all brief, none are awful, the album's over before your critical faculties kick in.

But it wasn't a long term solution.