"Kissin' Cousins" / "It Hurts Me" was shipped to the stores in February 1964, on the 22nd of the month "Kissin' Cousins" entered the "Hot 100" at number 63, stayed on the chart for nine weeks and peaked at number 12. The b-side was also noted on the hitparade. Within seven weeks it climbed from number 76 to number 29. The RIAA honored the domestic sales with a Gold Award in 1992. While the single stagnated at number 27 of the German charts, it became a top 10 hit in Great Britain, Ireland and Norway. In total the record sold two million units, which translates to 300 million paid streams. Once more the sales were solid, but not as good as they used to be.

The single cannot be found on the streaming platforms, but "Kissin' Cousins" is a part of the accordant soundtrack album (1964) and "It Hurts Me" is included on "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, "It Hurts Me" accumulates almost 7 million streams. The supposed a-side never made it past the million mark. The average movie tunes worked back then in connection with the films, but the music alone doesn't gain much interest today.

The cover features two promo photos for "Kissin' Cousins" on which the king looked more natural again. Of course RCA Victor also didn't miss the chance to promote the movie and the forthcoming soundtrack album.

This is the finale of the movie and sung by Jodie and Josh. Therefore Elvis recorded two versions of the song. One in his normal voice (as Josh) and another one in overdone southern idiom (as Jodie). The vocals were edited of take 2 (Josh version) and take 1 (Jodie version). The musicians had recorded their part on September 30, 1963 in three takes. "Kissin' Cousins" was written by Fred Wise and Randy Starr, to me it's a good and funny movie tune. In 1970 it was also included on the boxed set "Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits - Volume 1".

The ballad was written by Joy Byers and Charles E. Daniels and was recorded for the first time by Jerry Jackson. But because his version stayed in the vaults since 1990 Elvis can be considered the original artist. He recorded the song on January 12, 1964 at RCA Studio B in Nashville/Tennessee within five takes. Without doubt "It Hurts Me" also would have made a great a-side, but Colonel Parker wanted to promote the movie and his client consented. As written before, RCA Victor released the track on "Elvis' Gold Records - Volume 4" in 1968. But it was also included on "The Other Sides - Worldwide Gold Award Hits Volume 2" in 1971.