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I Love Only One Girl
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Sid Tepper/ Roy C. BennettOh, I love only one girl, the one I got my arms around
I love only one girl, one in every town
In Paris there is Mimi, and when the moon is bright
I love to take her walking, along the Seine each night
I kiss her on the left, then I kiss her on the right
Oh, I love only one girl, the one I got my arms around
I love only one girl, one in every town
I'm proud of my Brunhilda, in Frankfurt on the Rhine
Oh she's a lot of woman and all of her is mine
Oh she can lift a Steinway as easy as a stein
Oh, I love only one girl, the one I got my arms around
I love only one girl, one in every town
In Naples there's Maria how she can cook and flirt
You can't beat her lasagna, I eat until I hurt
And then she tops it off with "amore" for dessert
Oh, I love only one girl, the one I got my arms around
I love only one girl, one in every town
Oh I love only one girl, the one I got my arms around
I love only one girl, one in every town
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She's the girl for me... Recorded:
1966/06/29, first released on
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It is based on a French song, maybe that's explains it a bit, but then again, Can't help falling in love was also based on a French song. Just a very weak track.
What a waste of talent, its a disgrace that a lyric sheet with this rubbish printed on it should have ever been placed in our man s hands. A tune i dont hesitate to Skip , So many more Elvis Songs with substance to choose from.
decent in the movie. Should have never been put on vinyl.
Wow...in 2009 I called this song "crap". My view has softened a little. It reminds me of both Didja Ever and Almost Always True. They feel like children's songs to me, with that sing-a-long quality. But the lyrics to all of them are kind of adult. Or at least teenaged. So they're engineered to appeal to who, exactly? The truth is, if you don't think about it too much, it's a fun little song....about womanizing one's way across Europe.
Yes, it's a bad song from a bad film but I have an affection for both. I actually feel transported to Europe, despite the low production values! Maybe I'm just easy to please...
This song is from one of his worst movies and soundtrack albums, nevertheless it has some enjoyable fun and silly feeling to it. One of my first albums were the Hits from his Movies albums including this song, although it was the Elvis Forever 2LP set that really turned me into a fan at the time, especially Fever and Surrender. Tepper and Bennett have written 42 songs for Elvis and a few of them are worthwhile, i.e. New Orleans, GI Blues, Shoppin' around, Beach boy blues, Puppet on a string, Mine and Stay away. This is one of their weakest contributions to the Elvis catalogue. Two stars from me.
Comparing this song to Traveling Man, Yellow Submarine or Octopus Garden is an insult to those other song which had far greater production values, arrangements, instrumentation, background vocals and song structure. They all had silly lyrics but come on this is putrid. It makes me ill that Elvis sang this. It isnt even a great vocal.
"I Love Only One Girl" may not have been the greatest song of Elvis' career but it's no worse than "Octopus' Garden", "Yellow Submarine" or some of the other silly songs by the Beatles.
If this had been issued on a regular non-soundtrack album in 1966, he would have been laughed out of the business.
I don't think this song is so bad. It's passable, a little over par. Had he recorded this on a regular album people wouldn't have been so hard on this song. I think it's fun, not one of his best but not worse than lot's of other stuff released in the mid-sixties by other artists.
Played it a few times back in the 60's & a couple of times when I replaced my Lp with the Cd. Very poor whenput along side FEIM or EIB or even PL.
Fun and silly but a total waste of talent!
It worked well in the movie. But as a song, alone, its forgettable.
This song is ok for kids playing jump rope but it's not what the most famous singer on the planet should have been singing during the height of the sixties. Sheeesh.
I must say "forgettable"...
One of the worst. Yes this team wrote some good tunes (very few) but most were like this, crappy songs featured in silly movies that almost ruined his career and certainly ruined his standing among general pop critics and fans by 1966. He sounds totally disinterested. He knew he was singing garbage. Didnt he once say 'what can you do with a piece of (blank) like this? It probably was a Tepper/Bennett song!
Very poor song, and poor Album. If Elvis had gone into the studios and recorded better material these sound tracks would not have got a look in. Pity about the movie contracts.
A passable movie song from the 1967 film "Double Trouble". Kind of a re-write of Ricky Nelson's dreadful hit, "Travelin' Man". Elvis trying to make something out of very little, something he did a lot in the mid 60's. At least he sounds interested on the DT recordings, unlike "Paradise, Hawaiian Style" and "Harum Scarum". I always found the movie enjoyable (just wish they had filmed on location) and the LP (minus "Old MacDonald") is decent. The writing duo for this song (Sid Tepper & Roy C. Bennett) get unfairly trashed on this website. They did write some really silly songs, but they did write some very good songs for Elvis ("New Orleans", "G.I. Blues", "Island Of Love", "For the Millionth And The Last Time", "Angel", "It's A Wonderful World (which was nominated for an Oscar), "Puppet On A String", "All That I Am", "Mine" and one of my very favorites "Stay Away".
These two geniuses wrote just about one decent pop song. Unfortunately that was for Cliff Richard: "The Young Ones". (PERIOD!)
Crap. Elvis does his best with it, and he fills the vocal with as much warmth and humor as humanly possible. But it really is just awful. It's like a children's song, but with inappropriate lyrics. Just terrible.
Terrible & silly but what do you expect from Tepper/Bennett?
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