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''Fun in Acapulco'' is the nineteenth album by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2756, in November 1963 – the November 1 date is disputed. Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on January 22 and 23, 1963, and at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 26 and 27, 1963. It peaked at number three on the Top LP's chart. The album, along with the accompanying film, would be Presley's last release before the arrival of Beatlemania. ==Content== The third of his tropical "travelogue films" for Paramount Pictures after ''Blue Hawaii'' and ''Girls! Girls! Girls!'' finds Elvis frolicing in Mexico. The standard stable of songwriters for Presley delivered songs to match, with titles like "Marguerita," "El Toro," "You Can't Say No In Acapulco," and "The Bullfighter Was A Lady."〔Jorgensen, Ernst. ''Elvis Presley A Life in Music: The Complete Recording Sessions''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998; p. 177-178〕 Included as well was the 1937 standard "Guadalajara" by Pepe Guízar. With the change from the normal routine, and with the addition of trumpet players Rudolph Loera and Anthony Terran, Presley engaged the material with greater enthusiasm than on recent soundtrack outings.〔 Four of these songs would be included on the 1995 compilation ''Command Performances: The Essential 60s Masters II'': the title track, "Mexico," "Marguerita," and the song released as the lead single, "Bossa Nova Baby". "Bossa Nova Baby" arrived in stores one month prior to the soundtrack, coupled with the track "Witchcraft" by rhythm and blues songwriter and arranger Dave Bartholomew and a hit for The Spiders in 1956. The fact that the bossa nova craze of the 1960s was a Brazilian phenomenon rather than a Mexican one mattered little, as the single peaked at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 at number 20 on the R&B singles chart. Compensating for the short ten-track ''It Happened at the World's Fair'' album, Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, insisted on making ''Fun in Acapulco'' a good value.〔Jorgensen, Ernst. ''Elvis Presley A Life in Music: The Complete Recording Sessions''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998; pp. 184.〕 Two additional tracks, "Love Me Tonight" and "Slowly But Surely" were pulled from the aborted album sessions of May 1963, and added here to bring the running order up to thirteen tracks. In 2003 ''Fun in Acapulco'' was reissued on the Follow That Dream label in an edition that contained the original album along with numerous alternate takes.〔Sources: * *〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fun in Acapulco (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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