"This is one I always liked. I like "Have a Happy" a lot too, from this film. I like it much better than Rubberneckin from the same movie--but these were all very much a cut above for a soundtrack. This feels like a hit song to me.....in some alternate universe where Bob Dylan hadn't already sung about changes "a-comin'" several years earlier. Lyrically, in fact, there's quite a bit here in common with Dylan's "The Time's They Are A'Changin'" from 1964. By the time Elvis sang this, the times had already kinda a-changed. But still, in many ways this song and movie felt much more in step with the times--a black woman as a major character, abortion mentioned, an attempted rape, the idea of celibacy for the clergy--it was not a great movie, but man, compared to Harum Scarum and Kissin Cousins, Elvis must have really felt like he had a real script for once!"
KingKreole