A Date with Elvis (The Cramps album)

A Date with Elvis is the third full-length studio album by the American rock 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. It was the Cramps' most commercially successful album release, charting internationally and reaching the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart.

A Date with Elvis
Studio album by
the Cramps
Released1986
RecordedEarly 1985
StudioOcean Way, Hollywood, California
Genre
Length43:51
LabelBig Beat
ProducerThe Cramps
The Cramps chronology
Bad Music for Bad People
(1984)
A Date with Elvis
(1986)
RockinnReelininAucklandNewZealandXXX
(1987)
Singles from A Date with Elvis
  1. "Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?"
    Released: October 1985 (UK only)
  2. "What's Inside a Girl?"
    Released: April 1986 (UK only)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide

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. It is also significant in that it is the only Cramps album to feature vocals by guitarist Poison Ivy, on "Kizmiaz" (as well as on the B-side "Get Off the Road" included on the 1990 reissue).

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