Kiss Me Quick (Elvis Presley song)

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"Kiss Me Quick"
Kiss Me Quick 45 Elvis Presley.jpg
Single by Elvis Presley
from the album Pot Luck
A-side "Kiss Me Quick"
B-side "Suspicion"
ReleasedApril 14, 1964
RecordedJune 25, 1961 (1961-06-25)
Genre Rock and roll, pop
Length2:49
Label RCA Records
Songwriter(s) Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman
Elvis Presley singles chronology
"Kissin' Cousins" / "It Hurts Me"
(1964)
"Kiss Me Quick" / "Suspicion"
(1964)
"Viva Las Vegas" / "What'd I Say"
(1964)

"Kiss Me Quick" is a 1961 song recorded by Elvis Presley which was first released on the album Pot Luck with Elvis . It was released as a single in the UK in 1963 and the U.S. in 1964.

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Background

Elvis Presley recorded the song on June 25, 1961, and released it on June 5, 1962, on RCA on the album Pot Luck . [1] The song was released in 1963 as a single, backed by "Something Blue", in the United Kingdom and Europe by Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires in December on RCA Victor. [2] It was listed as a number-one single for eight weeks, from June until July 1963, in Europe.[ citation needed ]In 1964, the song was released as a single in the U.S. with "Suspicion" as the flip side. [3] It was also released as a single in South Africa, Brazil, and Japan that year.

The song was published by Elvis Presley Music, Inc. It was written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. A 4-track extended play of the same name was released in 1964 in the Netherlands. [4] It features "Kiss Me Quick" and "Night Rider" on side one, and "Joshua Fit the Battle" and "Judy" on side two. The song is also featured on many of Elvis Presley's compilation and other or various artists' albums.

On December 7, 1963, The Beatles appeared as panelists on the BBC-TV program Juke Box Jury on which they reviewed "Kiss Me Quick" negatively, though John Lennon thought it would be a hit because of Elvis' fame. [5] The single would peak at #34 on the Billboard singles chart in 1964, #29 in Record World, #14 in the UK in 1964, and #3 in Canada and Germany. [6]

Other recordings

The song was covered by Austrian popular singer and composer, Udo Jürgens, who released his cover of the song many times and in many formats from 1963 on, by Japanese rock band, Sheena & The Rokkets, on the band's 1980 album Channel Good. Terry Stafford recorded the song in 1964 on the Crusader label. "Kiss Me Quick" was also in the repertoires of German tenor, Peter Hofmann, who had a successful performance career within the fields of opera, rock, pop, and musical theatre, [7] and of Swedish Elvis impersonator, Eilert Pilarm. [8] Helmut Lotti, Little Gerhard, Jan Keizer, Tom Green, and Terry Mike Jeffrey also recorded the song. [9]

Releases and appearances

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