Got a Lot o' Livin' to Do!
| "Got a Lot o' Livin' to Do!" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Elvis Presley | |
| from the album Loving You | |
| A-side | "Party" |
| B-side | "Got a Lot o' Livin' to Do!" |
| Released | 1957 |
| Format | 7" vynil (45 rpm), 10" shellac (78 rpm) |
| Label | RCA |
| Writer(s) | |
"Got a Lot o' Livin' to Do!" is a song first recorded by Elvis Presley as part of the soundtrack for his 1957 motion picture Loving You.
The song was written by Aaron Schroeder and Ben Weisman. The latter, a songwriter from New York, came (according to the book Elvis Day by Day, „presumably in hopes of seeing that his song, "Got a Lot O' Livin' to Do," [would] be included in the soundtrack“) to the recording studio in Hollywood where Presley was working on the songs for the movie. Elvis Presley later recalled:
I looked at him, smiled, asked his name, and why he was in the studio. He said he was Ben Weisman, and he had composed the song "Got A Lot O' Livin' To Do". I hollered at the guys to come out and we started playing the song. After that day, Ben and I became really good friends and he would wind up writing fifty-seven songs for me. Funny how chance meetings end up!
No other songwriter wrote as many songs for Presley as Ben Weisman did.
In Europe "Got a Lot o' Livin' to Do!" was released as a single with "Party" on the other side. Both songs appeared on the UK Singles Chart (as published by the Official Charts Company): "Party" charted 15 weeks, peaking at number 2 for the week of October 10, while "Got a Lot o' Livin' to Do!" charted 4 weeks, peaking at at number 17 for the week of October 24.
The song is a sprightly, speedy number It's lyrics include the line: "There's a moon that's big and bright".
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