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Song by Elvis Presley
"Pocketful of Rainbows"
Song by Elvis Presley
from the album G.I. Blues
RecordedMay 6, 1960 (1960-05-06)
GenrePop
Length2:35
LabelRCA Victor
Songwriter(s)Fred Wise, Ben Weisman
Producer(s)Joseph Lilley

"Pocketful of Rainbows" is a song from the 1960 Elvis Presley soundtrack album G.I. Blues, written by Fred Wise and Ben Weisman.

Song information

The song was recorded on May 6, 1960, at RCA Victor's Hollywood studios for Elvis Presley's 1960 film G.I. Blues.

In the film version Juliet Prowse (who lip-synched to Loulie Jean Norman's voice) can be seen singing along with Presley in a cable car in the small German tourist-town Rüdesheim am Rhein.

Versions

In 1993 the Japanese band Yellow Magic Orchestra released a cover version of "Pocketful of Rainbows", sung in Japanese, as the last song in their final studio album Technodon. In later re-issues a version in English was added as a bonus track.

In the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire, director Cameron Crowe used an alternate version of "Pocketful of Rainbows", slightly faster than the original one used in G.I. Blues.

A remix by Spankox was released as a single in 2011 and reached No. 32 on the Dutch Single Top 100.

References

  1. ^ "Elvis Presley Recording Sessions". www.keithflynn.com.
  2. "German tourist-town Rüdesheim am Rhein Review". 2017-07-08. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  3. Video on YouTube
  4. Hung, Steffen. "Elvis Presley - Pocketful Of Rainbows (Spankox Remix)". hitparade.ch.
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