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Pocketful of Rainbows

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"Pocketful of Rainbows"
Song by Elvis Presley
from the album G.I. Blues
RecordedMay 6, 1960 (1960-05-06)
GenrePop
Length2:35
LabelRCA Victor
Songwriter(s)Fred Wise, Ben Weisman
Producer(s)Joseph Lilley[1]

"Pocketful of Rainbows" is a song from the 1960 Elvis Presley soundtrack album G.I. Blues, written by Fred Wise and Ben Weisman.

Song information

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The song was recorded on May 6, 1960, at RCA Victor's Hollywood studios for Elvis Presley's 1960 film G.I. Blues.

In the film version Juliet Prowse (who lip-synched to Loulie Jean Norman's voice) can be seen singing along with Presley in a cable car in the small German tourist-town Rüdesheim am Rhein.[1][2][3]

Versions

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In 1993 the Japanese band Yellow Magic Orchestra released a cover version of "Pocketful of Rainbows", sung in Japanese, as the last song in their final studio album Technodon. In later re-issues a version in English was added as a bonus track.

In the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire, director Cameron Crowe used an alternate version of "Pocketful of Rainbows", slightly faster than the original one used in G.I. Blues.

A remix by Spankox was released as a single in 2011 and reached No. 32 on the Dutch Single Top 100.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Elvis Presley Recording Sessions". www.keithflynn.com.
  2. ^ "German tourist-town Rüdesheim am Rhein Review". 2017-07-08. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  3. ^ Video on YouTube
  4. ^ Hung, Steffen. "Elvis Presley - Pocketful Of Rainbows (Spankox Remix)". hitparade.ch.