Girls Girls Girls - Coasters

Songwriters Lieber and Stoller wrote Girls Girls Girls for the Coasters - a hit for them in 1961,was adapted for the Elvis Movie Girls Girls Girls.

Mike Stoller explained in an interview

" Many of the songs you and Jerry wrote have a delightful element of humour. Two songs Elvis recorded of yours fit that bill, Girls! Girls! Girls! and Little Egypt. Girls! Girls! Girls! and Little Egypt were both written for The Coasters, who were sort of our alter egos. We wrote funny songs for them. Jerry's the lyricist and I write the music, but we work closely with each other on everything. The Coasters were really our voice. Girls! Girls! Girls! wasn't a big hit for The Coasters. So we said, 'Well, maybe Elvis could do it', and he obviously liked it." Source

http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/interview_with_mike_stoller.shtml

Presley used it as the title song of one of his films released in November 1962 and containing the hit single Return to Sender. The recording session at  Radio Recorders in Hollywood (link is to Scotty Moore's site with pics of Radio Recorders) March 1962.

Here is the Coaster's version -

Elvis has two version - the main one as recorded by the Coasters (but with adapted lyrics) which he sings over the credits while hanging on to a boat and a different one with new lyrics at the end of the film.


The movie title version

End of the movie version