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Puppet on a String
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Sid Tepper/ Roy C. BennettEvery time you look at me
I,m as helpless as can be
I become a puppet on a string
You can do 'most anything to me
All you do is touch my hand
And your wish is my command
I become a puppet on a string
You can do 'most anything to me
If you really love me
Darling please be kind
I offer you the truest love
That you will ever find
Take my heart and please be fair
Handle it with loving care
For I'm just a puppet on a string
You can do 'most anything to me
If you really love me
Darling please be kind
I offer you the truest love
That you will ever find
Take my heart and please be fair
Handle it with loving care
For I'm just a puppet on a string
You can do 'most anything to me
You can do 'most anything to me Recorded:
1964/06/10, first released on
Girl HappyReactions
Nice piano work on this by Floyd Cramer, but Elvis' singing is even better.
Never liked it. 1965 should have seen much better single material than this.
I always found the film to be much better than listening to the songs when transferred to vinyl. The recordings were too flat and that impacts this song. Add echo and it gets better but I would not put this pleasant tune in the top 15 film ballads of his 60's output.
This is one of the many great movie ballads from the 60s ; Sand castles, This is my Heaven, So Close yet so far (from Paradise), Please Dont stop loveing me ,Tender Feelings and Pocket full of rainbows , comes to mind but there are several others that also deserves 4-5 stars.
Beautifully sung by Elvis, one of my favorite ballads from the 1960s
One of the better movie ballads from the best movie from the mid-sixties. Should have been top-10 hit with right timing and promotion. Four stars from me.
Tenderly delivered by the king and a big favourite of mine for a number of years
This is such a marvelous ballad and it should have been a major hit for Elvis on the charts here in the United States too. Also, it's the best song from the movie "Girl Happy" for sure.
This was definitely the song that should have first been released as the single! Not the hideous Do the Clam. I believe it would have gone Number 1 if it was released with good timing for the movie.
But RCA wanted a dance number to capitalize on other popular dance songs like the Twist, Peppermint Twist, Hand Jive, Mashed Potato etc. Unfortunately, it was a bad song and a worse dance. Puppet on a String could have been another Can't Help Falling in Love. Another lost opportunity
One of Elvis' best movie ballads and there were a bunch of really good ones. This one comes from the movie "Girl Happy" and it is actually featured twice in the movie. The soundtrack LP was released in early April of '65 and this song was so strong (and the material from "Harum Scarum" so weak), it was released as a single in November and hit an impressive #14 on the U.S. pop chart and #3 on the easy listening chart.
Not the best thing he did, but a pleasant catchy tune.
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