A Date with Elvis (The Cramps album)

A Date with Elvis

Studio album by The Cramps

Released

1986

Recorded

Fall 1985, at Ocean Way Studios, Hollywood, California

Genre

Garage punk, psychobilly, surf rock

Length

43:51

The Cramps chronology

Bad Music for Bad People
(1984)

A Date with Elvis
(1986)

Rockin n Reelin in Auckland New Zealand
(1987)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

A Date with Elvis is the third full-length studio album by the American garage punk band The Cramps, released in the UK on Big Beat Records in 1986. The title was appropriated from A Date with Elvis (1959), the eighth album by Elvis Presley. The album was recorded in fall 1985 and engineered by Steve McMillan and Mark Ettel at Ocean Way Studios in Hollywood, California. The album was first released in the US in 1990 by Enigma Records, with the bonus tracks "Blue Moon Baby", "Georgia Lee Brown", "Give Me a Woman" and "Get Off the Road". The Cramps reissued the album (with bonus tracks) on their own Vengeance Records in 2001. The original album was reissued in the UK by Big Beat in 2013 on orange vinyl, and subsequently reissued again by Vengeance Records in the US, UK and Canada in 2014.

The album was dedicated to Ricky Nelson, whose version of the song "Lonesome Town" (covered by The Cramps on their first EP Gravest Hits and later included on compilation album ...Off the Bone) was a US hit single in 1958.

Track listing

All tracks written by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorschach, except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"How Far Can Too Far Go?"		4:10
2.	"The Hot Pearl Snatch"		3:17
3.	"People Ain't No Good"		3:46
4.	"What's Inside a Girl?"		3:22
5.	"Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?"		3:22
6.	"Kizmiaz"		3:01
7.	"Cornfed Dames"		5:26
8.	"Chicken"	Traditional; arr. by Interior and Rorschach	1:40
9.	"(Hot Pool Of) Womanneed"		3:09
10.	"Aloha from Hell"		2:35
11.	"It's Just That Song"	Charlie Feathers, Ramon Maupin	2:35

Reissue bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
12.	"Blue Moon Baby"	Meridan, Rowe, Satalsk	2:38
13.	"Georgia Lee Brown"	Hafner, Zinn	3:24
14.	"Give Me a Woman"	Willie Jacobs	2:25
15.	"Get Off the Road"	H.G. Lewis	3:12

Personnel

Lux Interior – vocals
Poison Ivy Rorschach – guitars, bass, vocals on "Kizmiaz" and "Get Off the Road"
Nick Knox – drums, bongos
McMartin Preschool Choir – vocals on "People Ain't No Good"

References

↑ Cleary, David. "The Cramps: A Date with Elvis Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved September 10, 2011.

The Cramps

Lux Interior Poison Ivy Harry Drumdini Nickey Alexander Pam Ballam Bill "Buster" Bateman Jim Chandler Slim Chance Candy del Mar Scott "Chopper" Franklin Fur Dixon Bryan Gregory Julien Grindsnatch Jen Hanrahan Touch Hazard SugarPie Jones Ike Knox Nick Knox Miriam Linna Click Mort Kid Congo Powers Jim Sclavunos Doran Shelley Sean Yseult

Albums & EPs	Gravest Hits Songs The Lord Taught Us Psychedelic Jungle A Date with Elvis Stay Sick! Look Mom No Head! Blues Fix Flamejob Big Beat from Badsville Fiends of Dope Island

Live albums	Smell of Female Rockin n Reelin in Auckland New Zealand

Singles	"Surfin' Bird" / "The Way I Walk" "Human Fly" / "Domino" "Fever" / "Garbageman" "Garbageman" / "TV Set" "Garbageman" / "Drug Train" "Drug Train" "Goo Goo Muck" "The Crusher" "Faster Pussycat" "I Ain't Nuthin' But a Gorehound" "Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?" "What's Inside a Girl?" "Kizmiaz" "Get Off the Road" "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" "All Women Are Bad" "Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon" "Eyeball in My Martini" "Let's Get Fucked Up" / "How Come You Do Me?" "Ultra Twist!" "Naked Girl Falling Down the Stairs" "Like a Bad Girl Should" "Big Black Witchcraft Rock"

Compilations	...Off the Bone Bad Music for Bad People How to Make a Monster The Secret Life of the Cramps

Related articles	Discography Psychobilly

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