ALBUM: A Date with Elvis (1986)
MVC Rating: 3.5/$$$$
OK so it’s spicy rockabilly. Extra spicy. Hot sauce, dirty rice.
It’s actually an Elvis parody record. Except for the fact that there is some good music on here, it’s a novelty record. With Howard Stern humor that was funny as heck in the 6th grade. Only thing that saves it is some searing rockabilly guitar and some artless Elvis vocal ticks.
From the song ‘Aloha from Hell.’
Gonna take a week off Gonna go to hell Send ya a postcard Hey I'm doin' swell Wish you were here Aloha from Hell.
That song is one of the tamer songs. I hope I didn’t really think record was all that funny even when I was 25 or so. But there is some demented rockabilly, for sure.
Counting down my 678 vinyl records before I die of brain disease.