Encouraged by the success of "Can't Help Falling In Love" / "Rock-A-Hula Baby" RCA Victor released a single from the forthcoming soundtrack album of the movie "Girls! Girls! Girls!", too. The record was shipped on October 2, 1962 an listed by Billboard on their "Hot 100" on the the 20th of the month. Within its run of 16 weeks "Return To Sender" climbed from number 68 to number 2. "Where Do You Come From" also entered the hitparade, but stayed for just a week and never made it past number 99. On November 10th "Return To Sender" entered the "Hot R&B Singles Chart", had a run of 12 weeks and peaked at number 5. In 1983 the RIAA honored the US sales with a Gold Award. Nine years later the organization updated the status to Platinum. In Great Britain "Return To Sender" became Elvis' tenth consecutive number one hit, in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Spain the song also made it to the top of the charts. Worldwide the single sold 5 million copies, which equals 750 million paid streams.

The single is not available on the streaming platforms, but the songs can be found on the album "Girls! Girls! Girls!" (1962). In 2016 the complete Presley catalogue was restored and remastered by Vic Anesini for a boxed set of 60 compact discs called "The Album Collection". Sony Music Entertainment provides the streaming platforms with the same versions of the individual tracks, albeit in 24 bit/90 khz flac. That means, if the platform of your choice supports high resolution audio, you can enjoy the songs in the same quality Sony used to scan and master them. On Spotify, which has a market share of approximately 30% and is the only platform that publishes streaming figures, "Return To Sender" accumulates 108 million streams, "Where Do You Come From" still is below the million mark. While the b-side appears to be almost forgotten by now, "Return To Sender" belongs to the 20 most requested Presley tunes on Spotify.

On the cover Elvis appeared quite conservative. His hair was shorter, dyed black again and he was wearing a formal jacket. Of course the sleeve also advertised the movie and the soundtrack album.

Without doubt this is one of the best movie tunes. After an argument with his girlfriend the narrator apologizes twice, but the letter is returned every time. So he plannes to give it to her himself. If she returns it to him, he knows that it's over. While the Elvis of the 1970s would have presented a story like this in form of a sad ballad, his younger self comes up with an uptempo popsong. On March 27th the king needed just two takes to record the song by Otis Blackwell and Winfield Scott.

 To the narrator his loved one is so overwhelming, that she simply must be out of this world. The lyrics are somewhat kitschy, but the melody and Elvis' performance are nothing but beautiful. On March 27, 1962 he needed 14 takes to deliver a perfect recording.