Clambake - Elvis Presley - Soundtrack

CLAMBAKE was Elvis' 25th movie - he always wanted to be a movie star but always hated the movie treadmill that his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, had him on. This movie was one of the worst. The songs that go with the movie too are not Elvis at his best, not by a long shot. The title song is a fluffy concoction that would be completely forgotten today if it had not been an Elvis song. The worst song has got to be 'Hey Hey Hey' - the lyrics are appalling and it is sad to think that this is the guy who only a few years before had set the world on fire with a completely new kind of music. Having said that, BMG's Elvis specialist label FTD has done a sterling job ...  Read the complete review

...or can they? Well, I'm glad to say that they're not - in actual fact, they're an awful lot worse than the dismal rep which precedes them - at least if this bizarrely grotesque example from 1967 is anything to go by... I thought Dracula AD 1972 was pretty dismal when I saw it recently, with the most abysmal line of all time - "Dig the crazy music, kids..." - delivered absolutely stone faced sincerely, but believe me, Clambake is one of the most deeply unattractive films of all time, entrenched desperately as it is in the swinging sixties, or should I say the swinging sixties as they were imagined to be by Elvis' film makers - now dig ...  Read the complete review