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
Label	Big Beat
Producer	Poison Ivy
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
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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 bears a dedication 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 hit single in the United States in 1958.

Track listing

All songs written and composed 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

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