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Earth Boy

Rating:
2.9 / 5

Words & Music: Sid Tepper Roy C. Bennett

Earth boy dream of angel
Angel she be sweet and make him have happy heart
In land of love
Angel dream of earth boy, earth boy who'll be true
And love her till sun grow cold in land of love

Angel walk on street
Earth boy walking too
All at once they meet
Oo-oo-oo dreams come true
Now that's part of story
Like two doves in land of love we will always be
Happy angel is you
Happy earth boy is me

Angel walk on street
Earth boy walking too
All at once they meet
Oo-oo-oo dreams come true
Now that's part of story
Like two doves in land of love we will always be
Happy angel is you
Happy earth boy is me

Earth boy dream of angel
Angel dream of earth boy
Earth boy dream of angel
Angel dream of earth boy
Earth boy dream of angel

Recordingdate: 1962/03/28, first released on: Girls! Girls! Girls! (album)

Musicians

Musicians who contributed to the first recording of Earth Boy:

(guitar)
(guitar)
(guitar)
(bass)
(drums)
(drums)
(drums)
(piano)
(vocals)
(vocals)
(vocals)
(vocals)
(clarinet)
(sax)

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OtisBlue22 wrote on January 24, 2009
I would consider this a successor to 'Pocketful of Rainbows': a perfect slice of pop, with a sorrowful air. Both songs also have unique instrumentation, and are foreign-sounding.
Steve V wrote on August 17, 2009
This Earth Boy was hoping Elvis would sing more songs that had guts to them instead of warbling this nonsense.
Swen wrote on August 17, 2009
I usually run away and scream when I see their names: Tepper/Bennett. I can only think of one fairly good pop song that they wrote: "The Young Ones", but that was for Cliff Richard.
JLpResLey wrote on August 17, 2009
The songs in Girls! Girls! Girls! were really awful. I especially hate this one, to me it´s one of the worst songs he ever did. I consider it worse than both Old McDonald and He´s your uncle... I don´t know what is worst, the movie or the soundtrack
dgirl wrote on August 17, 2009
Girls Girls Girls was the first LP that really disappointed me. Besides the great title track and RTS (already a hit single) this LP was loaded with sap. Awful songs the lot of them. What the heck was Elvis doing to himself with songs like these? We're Coming In Loaded was about the best of them and that was over before you blinked. This particular song was embarrasing for The King to sing. But many more followed.
NONE000000 wrote on August 18, 2009
Not a good song, but I always found it inoffensive enough. Better than "Song of Shrimp" and "Walls Have Ears" from the same movie.
Deano1 wrote on February 25, 2010
A situational movie song from the film "Girls! Girls! Girls!. This one is included in a very cute scene in the movie, but on record you are glad it is the last song on Side A so you can hit eject on the record player. It was once called "The Chinese Junk number" by a critic and while it isn't that bad, it is the worst song on the LP. In 1962, just like today, Elvis fans wanted everything that he sang and sometimes that popularity led to subpar songs on soundtrack LP's. Today it leads us to want outtakes of Elvis cussing, fussing, laughing or messing up on numerous alternate takes of every song he sang.
GEORGE (GK) wrote on July 14, 2012
Its a nice song. And flows nicely. I am surprised by a lot of the negitivity to this song. Granted its not "Suspicious Minds" but its a movie ballad.
Gorse wrote on December 19, 2012
Not a song I skip, nor a song I specifically seek out, but it has an attraction and a different feel with the Chinese influence. He had the innate ability with ballads, regardless of their quality, to make the best of what was presented to him.
sugartummy wrote on March 02, 2013
Too bad Elvis didn't sing some lines in Chinese, that would have been interesting. The Jordanaires sound really bored. Elvis not yet.
ElvisSacramento wrote on May 22, 2014
I've always liked this Elvis movie ballad and I've never skipped it. It's such a beautiful ballad and unique too. It would have been nice if Elvis had sung some lines of it in Chinese, but it just wasn't meant to be. But, Elvis' arrangement and rendition of it were still marvelous.
Cruiser621 wrote on September 03, 2016
Not one of his better efforts for sure and nothing more than movie fodder. All in all, I happen to like the "Girls! Girls! Girls!" soundtrack. yes, there's a lot of fill-in material but overall not as bad as what was to come, which was absolute garbage to be blunt. This movie is a rather cheap parody of "Blue Hawaii" (which was the movie which started the down fall of Elvis' music).
TheMemphisFan wrote on September 03, 2016
Nothing really special about "Earth Boy"... it's just a little novelty song. I feel that the most noticeable downfall of Elvis' soundtrack music happened with "It Happened at The World's Fair".
bajo wrote on November 08, 2020
It's a movie song. A song to fit in a special scene. Nothing more, nothing less. But, Elvis saved a lot of bad songs simply because the way he sang them. And with that wonderful voice present in those early sixties, he did most of them very good imo. When I play the Girls! Girls! Girls! soundtrack I never skip a single track.
marty wrote on November 08, 2020
The worst song from the soundtrack in my opinion. The quality of this soundtrack is decent, the downfall would really start after "Fun In Acapulco" and he seemed to lose interest in music. While this soundtrack had some good songs and a big hit in it, there were signs that the formula wasn't working as well as it used to. I give the song 2 1/2 stars.
The Poor Hawaiian Beach Boy wrote on October 06, 2021
I love it musically ("Earth Boy" is a wonderful Eastern-tinged number), but lyrically it is abysmal. Five stars for the music, zero stars for the lyrics.
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