clambake

Clambake
Directed by	Arthur H. Nadel
Produced by	Arthur Gardner Arnold Laven Jules Levy
Written by	Arthur Browne Jr.
Starring	Elvis Presley Will Hutchins Shelley Fabares
Music by	Jeff Alexander
Cinematography	William Margulies
Editing by	Tom Rolf
Distributed by	United Artists
Running time	100 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

Clambake is a 1967 musical film starring Elvis Presley and Shelley Fabares.

Plot

Scott Hayward is the son of a rich oilman. He decides to leave so he can discover life for himself. He runs into Tom Wilson, a water skiing instructor, who has no luck with the women. Tom offers to switch places with Scott so they can have a taste of what life is like in each other's shoes. Scott works as a ski instructor for a Miami hotel, while Tom has fun pretending he is rich. Scott is taken by Dianne, who is searching for a rich guy to snag. She decides to make a play for James J. Jamison III, owner of a pajama company and boat racing champion. Scott agrees to help her get Jamison, but in the process falls for her.

Primary cast

• Elvis Presley  : Scott Heyward/'Tom Wilson'
• Shelley Fabares  : Dianne Carter
• Will Hutchins  : Tom Wilson/'Scott Heyward'
• Bill Bixby  : James J. Jamison III
• Gary Merrill  : Sam Burton
• James Gregory  : Duster Heyward
• Teri Garr  : dancer

Soundtrack

Clambake (October 10, 1967)
Soundtrack by Elvis Presley
Released	October 10, 1967
Elvis Presley chronology
Double Trouble (1967) Clambake (1967) Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4 (1968)

The soundtrack songs were released as a music album in November 1967 to coincide with the film. The film songs were augmented by several non-film recordings, including the recent hit singles "Guitar Man" and "Big Boss Man". RCA took the unusual move of programming the Guitar Man single to lead off the album, rather than the usual pattern of leading off with the film title track.

Recording musicians

• Elvis Presley (vocals)
• Jordanaires (background vocals)
• Millie Kirkham (background vocals)
• Scotty Moore, Chip Young, Harold Bradley (guitar)
• Charlie McCoy (guitar & harmonica)
• Pete Drake (steel guitar)
• Bob Moore (bass)
• Floyd Cramer, Hoyt Hawkins (piano)
• D.J. Fontana, Buddy Harman (drums)
• Norman Ray (sax)

Tracks (songwriter)

Side 1:

• Guitar Man - (Jerry Reed)
• Clambake - (Ben Weisman & Sid Wayne)
• Who Needs Money - (Randy Starr)
• House That Has Everything - (Sid Tepper & Roy C. Bennett)
• Confidence - (Sid Tepper & Roy C. Bennett)
• Hey Hey Hey - (Joe Byers)

Side 2:

• You Don't Know Me - (Cindy Walker - Eddy Arnold)
• The Girl I Never Loved - (Randy Starr)
• How Can You Lose What You Never Had - (Ben Weisman & Sid Wayne)
• Big Boss Man - (Al Smith - Luther Dixon)
• Singing Tree - (A. Owens - A. Solberg)
• Just Call Me Lonesome - (Rex Griffin)

Trivia

• In her 1985 book, Elvis and Me, Priscilla Presley writes that by the time filming was to begin on Clambake, Elvis's growing distress with the quality of his films led to a despondency accompanied by overeating that saw his weight balloon from his normal 170 lb (77 kg) to 200 lb (91 kg). A movie studio executive ordered him to lose the weight in a hurry, marking the introduction of diet pills to his already excessive regimen of medications.

• In his song "Back to Tupelo", Mark Knopfler references Clambake as a turning point in Presley's career.

• Conan O'Brien has named Clambake as his favorite Elvis Presley film.

See also

• List of Elvis Presley films
• Elvis Presley discography

References

External links

Movie reviews

• Review by J. Bannerman at Stomp Tokyo, 2003.

DVD Reviews

• Review by Barrie Maxwell at DVD Verdict, October 26th, 2001.

• Review by Mark Zimmer at digitallyOBSESSED!, October 11, 2001.

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