On June 15, 1965 RCA Victor released the soundtrack ep of "Tickle Me". Because Billboard had cancelled the accordant chart due to the vanishing popularity of this format, the extended player was listed on the singles chart "Hot 100". It  had a run of seven weeks and peaked at number 70. In Great Britain the ep format was still popular and the record reached number 3 of the accordant chart. Here RCA even released a second volume of "Tickle Me". Worldwide the extended player sold 400,000 units, which equals 60 million paid streams of the complete record. Therefore "Tickle Me" even undersold the "Viva Las Vegas" ep. At least in the US the extended player had become a zombie format.

The cover featured a promo photo for the movie "Roustabout" and of course the planned "Anniversary LP Album" (which later became "Elvis For Everyone!") was advertised, too. The backside used the design of the back cover of "Viva Las Vegas", albeit this time in blue instead of red. Once again RCA tried to sell the soundtrack eps of the king.

The ep cannot be found on the streaming platforms, because all tracks are available on Elvis' regular RCA albums.

To save money Allied Artist did without producing a new soundtrack, but using old recordings of the king instead. They simply lifted songs from the longplayers "Elvis Is Back!" (1960), "Something For Everybody" (1961), "Pot Luck With Elvis" (1962) and "Fun In Acapulco" (1963). Of course that didn't keep RCA from re-releasing the tracks on a "new" soundtrack ep. That's also the reason, why the low sales didn't really hurt. All the songs had earned their costs back long ago and every sold extended player meant good revenue.

Follow That Dream Records released a collector's edition of "Tickle Me" in 2005. For a review tap HERE.

Elvis recorded the song on March 19, 1962 within five takes. To me this is one of the highlights of this album, because the king almost seems to loose himself in his performance. "I Feel That I've Known You Forever" was written by Doc Pomus and Alan Jeffreys. It is said that just the music of take 5 was used and Elvis recorded a new vocal track on October 6, 1964 at the Paramount Sound Stage.

The next track is a popsong in midtempo by Sid Wayne and Ben Wisman. Elvis recorded it on May 27, 1963 within five takes.

The king recorded "Night Rider" on October 15, 1961 and approved take 3 for release. Later he revoked his decision, recorded the song again on March 18, 1962 and selected the 5th attempt as master. Finally he made up his mind once more and went for the first version.  The writers are Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. It's a good, uptempo popsong.

The singer is in love and therefore willing to take the blame for all shortcomings of the couple. Especially the Wurlitzer-piano, played by Floyd Cramer, makes the song special. "Put The Blame On Me" was written by Kathleen Twomey, Fred Wise and Norman Blagman and recorded by Elvis on March 12, 1961 within five takes.

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller had written the song for the movie "King Creole", but at the time it was refused. Elvis finally recorded the song on April 4, 1960 and selected the 4th attempt for release. The singer discovers that his girlfriend is gone and vows to bring her back - at any cost. "Dirty Dirty Feeling" offers a rockin' melody and funny lyrics.