"(You're The) Devil In Disguise" / "Please Don't Drag That String Around" was released in June 1963. For 11 weeks it could be found on Billboard's "Hot 100" where it peaked at number 3. In the USA the single sold 1.4 million copies and was awarded with Gold in 1992. In many European countries "(You're The) Devil In Disguise" became a top 10 hit, in Great Britain it even made it to the number one of the charts. When BMG released the track again in 2005 it once again became successful and peaked at number 2 of the UK Charts. Worldwide the single sold 2.7 million units, which translates to 405 million paid streams.

The single is not available on the streaming platforms, but the songs can be found on the albums "Elvis' Golden Records - Volume 3" (1963) and "Elvis' Gold Records - Volume 4" (1968). 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, "(You're The) Devil In Disguise" accumulates 171 million streams, "Please Don't Drag That String Around" stays below the million mark. Therefore "(You're The) Devil In Disguise" belongs to the 20 most requested Presley tracks on Spotify. It's quite surprising since the original release sold much worse than stuff like "Are You Lonesome Tonight", "Surrender" or "It's Now Or Never".

The cover was designed with a picture made in conjunction with the MGM movie "It Happened At The World's Fair", the backside was used to promote six previous Presley albums.

Bill Giant, Bernie Baum and Florence Kaye wrote a lot of mediocre movie songs for Elvis, but this one is neither a movie tune nor mediocre. In fact, it's a very good popsong. The loved one of the singer looks like an angel, but he knows that she's not faithful at all. Florance Kaye came up with the title as Giant and Baum called her daughter an angel. The trio thought it was great and created a song around the expression "devil in disguise". Elvis recorded it on May 26, 1963 at RCA Studio B in Nashville/Tennessee and needed six takes to do so. RCA Records released the track on the album "Elvis' Gold Records - Volume 4" (1968) and on the 4 lp set "Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits - Volume 1" (1970).

The singer is desperate, because his loved one keeps him dangling on a string. But while this story would have been presented by the Elvis of the 1970s in form of a mournful ballad, his younger self wraps it in an uptempo popsong. "Please Don't Drag That String Around" was written by Otis Blackwell and Winfield Scott, Elvis recorded it on May 26, 1963 at RCA Studio B in Nashville/Tennessee within six takes. In 1968 the track was released on the album "Elvis' Gold Records - Volume 4", three years later it could also be found on the boxed set "The Other Sides - Worldwide Gold Award Hits Volume 2".