Rock-A-Hula Baby
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The song was recorded on March 23, 1961 at Radio Recorders in [Hollywood, California](/wiki/Hollywood%2C_California "Hollywood, California"). The RCA Victor 45 single was released on November 21, 1961, with [Can't Help Falling in Love](/wiki/Can%27t_Help_Falling_in_Love "Can't Help Falling in Love") as the A\-side. [Steve Sholes](/wiki/Steve_Sholes "Steve Sholes") produced the studio recording session. [The Jordanaires](/wiki/The_Jordanaires "The Jordanaires") provided the backing vocals. The song was published by Gladys Music, Inc., Elvis Presley's publishing company and was written by [Ben Weisman](/wiki/Ben_Weisman "Ben Weisman"), [Fred Wise](/wiki/Fred_Wise_%28lyricist%29 "Fred Wise (lyricist)"), and [Dolores Fuller](/wiki/Dolores_Fuller "Dolores Fuller"), it is a [genre](/wiki/Genre "Genre") mix of [Hawaiian](/wiki/Hawaiian_music "Hawaiian music") [folk](/wiki/Folk_music "Folk music") and [rock and roll](/wiki/Rock_and_roll "Rock and roll"). It was the first song published by Fuller, who would eventually co\-write a dozen songs for Presley. The title song of the 1991 film *[Rock\-a\-Doodle](/wiki/Rock-a-Doodle "Rock-a-Doodle")*, which featured Elvis Presley's original backing vocal group The Jordanaires, parodied "Rock\-a\-Hula Baby".


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