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Originally planned for 1985 to join in the onslaught of Elviss 50th Anniversary commemorative reissues, A Date With Elvis came out in early 1986 in Europe only, where it went on to sell more than 200,000 copies. The only album featuring The Cramps as a three-piece band (Poison Ivy doubled on bass), it careens from the sociopathic advice of People Aint No Good (later covered by Nick Cave) to mind-on-vacation odes like Aloha From Hell and Kizmiaz (where The Cramps prove they were exotic when exotic wasnt cool), in the process offing more P.T.P. than you can shake a snake at and fittingly finishing off with a soulful lovesick cover of the Charlie Featherss Its Just That Song. Can Your Pussy Do The Dog was voted single of the year for 1986 in Playboys annual music issue!
Continuing in the tortured tradition of stark rockabilly ballads, three of the bonus tracksBlue Moon Baby, Georgia Lee Brown and Andy Starrs frighteningly horny Give Me A Womanwere originally available only as rare B-sides. Get Off the Road (theme song from the Herschell Gordon Lewis Z-movie She-Devils on Wheels) was the only time Ivy (publicly) sang a song to satisfy Lux Interiors fetish request (what did he have to do in return?) and in an attempt to create a realistic sound effect, one of their biker pals almost turned a peel-out on his Harley into a wipe-out in the studio parking lot.
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