Fun in Acapulco is the nineteenth album

LP album

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 by Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

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, released on RCA Victor Records in mono

Monaural

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 and stereo

STEREO

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, LPM/LSP 2756, in November 1963 - the November 1 date is disputed. Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders

Radio Recorders

Radio Recorders, Inc. was a recording studio based in Los Angeles, California. Famous musicians to have been recorded in the studio include Charlie Parker, Jimmie Rodgers, Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and The Carpenters among others. In its prime, the studio was known...

 in Hollywood on January 22 and 23, 1963, and at RCA Studio B

RCA Studio B

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 in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

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, on May 26 and 27, 1963. It peaked at #3 on the Top Pop Albums

Billboard 200

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 chart. The album, along with the accompanying film

Fun in Acapulco

Fun in Acapulco is a 1963 American musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley and Ursula Andress. While some exterior scenes were shot in Acapulco, Mexico, Elvis's scenes were shot in Hollywood. He never went to Acapulco. The movie featured the Top 10 Billboard hit "Bossa Nova Baby". The film...

, would be Presley's last release before the arrival of Beatlemania

Beatlemania

Beatlemania is a term that originated during the 1960s to describe the intense fan frenzy directed toward The Beatles during the early years of their success...

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Content

The third of his tropical travelogue

Travelogue (films)

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 films for Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

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 after Blue Hawaii

Blue Hawaii

Blue Hawaii is a 1961 musical film set in the state of Hawaii and starring Elvis Presley. The screenplay by Hal Kanter was nominated by the Writers Guild of America in 1962 in the category of Best Written American Musical. The movie opened at no...

and Girls! Girls! Girls!

Girls! Girls! Girls!

Girls! Girls! Girls! is a 1962 musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a penniless Hawaiian fisherman who loves his life on the sea and dreams of owning his own boat. "Return to Sender", which reached #2 on the Billboard pop singles chart, is featured in the movie...

finds Elvis frolicing south of the border

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

. The standard stable of songwriters for Presley delivered songs to match, with titles like "Marguerita," "El Toro," "You Can't Say No In Acapulco," and "The Bullfighter Was A Lady." Included as well was the old standard

Standard (music)

In music, a standard is a tune or song of established popularity.-See also:* Blues standard* Jazz standard* Pop standard* Great American Songbook-Further reading:* Greatest Rock Standards, published by Hal Leonard ISBN 0793588391...

 "Guadalajara

Guadalajara (song)

Guadalajara is a well-known mariachi song composed by Pepe Guizar in 1937. It is probably the most famous mariachi song of all time. "Guadalajara Guadalajara" is considered both within Mexico and abroad as a synonym of the symbols of Mexico: Mariachi, tequila and the charro, to such degree that...

" by Pepe Guizar

Pepe Guizar

José Guízar Morfín better known as "Pepe Guizar" born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico , was a Mexican composer, poet and musician. He composed the song "Guadalajara" which is probably the most popular mariachi song in the world ever composed.-Biography:Pepe Guizar was the son of Luis Guizar...

 from the 1930s

1930s

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. With the change from the normal routine, and with the addition of trumpet players Rudolph Loera and Anthony Terran, Presley engaged the material with greater enthusiasm than on recent soundtrack

Soundtrack

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 outings. Four of these songs would be included on the 1995 compilation of soundtrack highlights: the title track, "Mexico," "Marguerita," and the song released as the lead single, "Bossa Nova Baby

Bossa Nova Baby

"Bossa Nova Baby" is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and recorded on May 27, 1963, in RCA Studio B, in Nashville, Tennessee by Elvis Presley as part of the soundtrack of the 1963 motion picture Fun in Acapulco....

."

"Bossa Nova Baby" arrived in stores one month prior to the soundtrack, coupled with the track "Witchcraft" by rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues

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 songwriter and arranger Dave Bartholomew

Dave Bartholomew

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 and a hit for The Spiders

The Spiders (band)

The Spiders were an R&B vocal group from New Orleans, who achieved their greatest fame in the 1950s.The group was founded as a gospel group in 1947 under the name Zion City Harmonizers, and later sang as the Delta Southernaires, recording and performing on radio under the latter name in 1952-53...

 in 1956. The fact that the bossa nova

Bossa nova

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 craze of the 1960s

1960s

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 was a Brazil

Brazil

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ian phenomenon rather than a Mexican

Mexico

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 one mattered little, as the single peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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.

Compensating for the skimpy ten-track It Happened at the World's Fair

It Happened at the World's Fair (album)

It Happened at the World's Fair is the seventeenth album by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2697, in April 1963. Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on August 30 and September 22, 1962...

album, the Colonel

Colonel Tom Parker

"Colonel" Thomas Andrew "Tom" Parker born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk, was a Dutch-born entertainment impresario known best as the manager of Elvis Presley...

 insisted on making Fun in Acapulco a good value. Two additional tracks, "Love Me Tonight" and "Slowly But Surely" were pulled from the aborted album sessions of May, 1963, and added here to bring the running order up to thirteen tracks.

Personnel

• Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
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   - vocals
• The Jordanaires
  The Jordanaires
  The Jordanaires are an American vocal quartet, which formed as a gospel group in 1948. They are best known for providing vocal background for Elvis Presley, in live appearances and recordings from 1956 to 1972...
  
   - backing vocals
• The Amigos - backing vocals
• Anthony Terran, Rudolph Loera - trumpets
• Scotty Moore
  Scotty Moore
  Winfield Scott "Scotty" Moore III is an American guitarist. He is best known for his backing of Elvis Presley in the first part of his career, between 1954 and the beginning of Elvis' Hollywood years...
  
  , Barney Kessel
  Barney Kessel
  Barney Kessel was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA. Generally considered to be one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century, he was noted in particular for his vast knowledge of chords and inversions and chord-based melodies...
  
   - electric guitar
  Electric guitar
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• Tiny Timbrell
  Tiny Timbrell
  Hilmer J. Timbrell was a Canadian-born session musician and master guitarist.Hilmer J. "Tiny" Timbrell was born in Canada but moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue his career in music...
  
   - electric guitar, mandolin
  Mandolin
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• Dudley Brooks - piano
  Piano
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• Ray Seigel - bass
  Bass guitar
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• Emil Radocchia - percussion
• D.J. Fontana, Hal Blaine
  Hal Blaine
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   - drums
  Drum kit
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Side one

Track	Recorded	Song Title	Writer(s)	Time
1.	1/23/63	Fun in Acapulco	Ben Weisman Ben Weisman Ben Weisman was an eccentric American composer significant for having written more songs recorded by Elvis Presley than any other songwriter in history. The "Mad Professor" as Weisman was nicknamed by Elvis, worked with the King from 1956 to 1971...  and Sid Wayne Sid Wayne Sid Wayne was an American songwriter, lyricist and composer, who wrote a number of well-known songs from the 1950s to the 1980s...	2:30
2.	1/22/63	Vino, Dinero y Amor	Sid Tepper Sid Tepper Sid Tepper is an American songwriter, best known for his collaborations with Roy C. Bennett, which spawned several hits for Elvis Presley. Between 1945 and 1970, Tepper and Bennett published over 300 songs.-Biography:...  and Roy C. Bennett Roy C. Bennett Roy C. Bennett is an American songwriter known for the songs he wrote with Sid Tepper, which spawned several hits for Elvis Presley...	1:55
3.	1/22/63	Mexico	Sid Tepper Sid Tepper Sid Tepper is an American songwriter, best known for his collaborations with Roy C. Bennett, which spawned several hits for Elvis Presley. Between 1945 and 1970, Tepper and Bennett published over 300 songs.-Biography:...  and Roy C. Bennett Roy C. Bennett Roy C. Bennett is an American songwriter known for the songs he wrote with Sid Tepper, which spawned several hits for Elvis Presley...	1:59
4.	1/23/63	El Toro	Bill Giant, Bernie Baum Bernie Baum Bernie Baum was a songwriter who worked extensively with Elvis Presley. He grew up in New York City and later worked with Harvey Zimmerman and Florence Kaye. The majority of their songs were used in Presley's musicals. Their work was also credited in the American version of Kimba the White Lion... , Florence Kaye Florence Kaye Florence Kaye was a member of a song-writing trio that also included Harvey Zimmerman and Bernie Baum. She was born in New York City. She performed a radio show in Georgia and entertained troops for United Service Organizations...	2:42
5.	1/22/63	Marguerita	Don Robertson	2:42
6.	1/22/63	The Bullfighter Was A Lady	Sid Tepper Sid Tepper Sid Tepper is an American songwriter, best known for his collaborations with Roy C. Bennett, which spawned several hits for Elvis Presley. Between 1945 and 1970, Tepper and Bennett published over 300 songs.-Biography:...  and Roy C. Bennett Roy C. Bennett Roy C. Bennett is an American songwriter known for the songs he wrote with Sid Tepper, which spawned several hits for Elvis Presley...	2:04
7.	1/23/63	No Room to Rhumba in a Sports Car	Fred Wise and Dick Manning Dick Manning Dick Manning was a Russian-born American songwriter, best known for his many collaborations with Al Hoffman....	1:53

Side two

Track	Recorded	Catalogue	Release Date	Chart Peak	Song Title	Writer(s)	Time
1.	1/22/63				I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here	Don Robertson and Hal Blair	2:53
2.	1/22/63	47-8243	10/1/63	#8	Bossa Nova Baby Bossa Nova Baby "Bossa Nova Baby" is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and recorded on May 27, 1963, in RCA Studio B, in Nashville, Tennessee by Elvis Presley as part of the soundtrack of the 1963 motion picture Fun in Acapulco....	Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller	2:02
3.	1/23/63				You Can't Say No In Acapulco	Sid Feller Sid Feller Sidney "Sid" Feller was an American conductor and arranger, best known for his work with Ray Charles. He worked with Charles on hundreds of songs including Georgia on My Mind and worked as Charles' conductor while on tour... , Dolores Fuller Dolores Fuller Dolores Agnes Fuller was an American actress and songwriter best known as the one-time girlfriend of the low-budget film director Edward D. Wood, Jr. She played the protagonist's girlfriend in Glen or Glenda, co-starred in Wood's Jail Bait, and had a minor role in Bride of the Monster... , Lee Morris	1:55
4.	1/23/63				Guadalajara Guadalajara (song) Guadalajara is a well-known mariachi song composed by Pepe Guizar in 1937. It is probably the most famous mariachi song of all time. "Guadalajara Guadalajara" is considered both within Mexico and abroad as a synonym of the symbols of Mexico: Mariachi, tequila and the charro, to such degree that...	Pepe Guizar Pepe Guizar José Guízar Morfín better known as "Pepe Guizar" born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico , was a Mexican composer, poet and musician. He composed the song "Guadalajara" which is probably the most popular mariachi song in the world ever composed.-Biography:Pepe Guizar was the son of Luis Guizar...	2:43
5.	5/26/63				Love Me Tonight	Don Robertson	2:00
6.	5/27/63				Slowly But Surely	Ben Weisman Ben Weisman Ben Weisman was an eccentric American composer significant for having written more songs recorded by Elvis Presley than any other songwriter in history. The "Mad Professor" as Weisman was nicknamed by Elvis, worked with the King from 1956 to 1971...  and Sid Wayne Sid Wayne Sid Wayne was an American songwriter, lyricist and composer, who wrote a number of well-known songs from the 1950s to the 1980s...	2:12