Tickle Me

Fitness-camp employees Pam (Jocelyn Lane) and Lonnie (Elvis Presley) searching an old Western saloon, imagining an old-time musical number, song by Kay Twomey, Fred Wise and Norman Blagman, Edward Faulkner and Jack Mullaney their pals appearing in the fantasy, in Tickle Me, 1965.

Exposition, Julie Adams as Vera has hired Elvis (as rodeo cowboy Lonnie Beale) after watching him win a bar fight, bringing him to her “Guest Ranch” where the staff includes Edward Faulkner as Brad, and Vienna-born Jocelyn Lane as fitness trainer Pam, in the Allied Artists musical Tickle Me,1965.

Opening on a Greyhound in the Mojave, Elvis Presley as cowboy Lonnie with a tune by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, from Tickle Me, 1965, co-starring Julie Adams and Jocelyn Lane, in Elvis’ only picture for Allied Artists, which rescued the the studio from financial straits.

Schtick with Elvis as cowboy Lonnie working at a fitness ranch for women, making eyes with fellow staffer Jocelyn Lane, Jack Mullaney his pal, the song by Otis Blackwell and Scotty Moore, a #11 Billboard hit, but like all the songs, a previously-recorded cut, selected for the movie, Tickle Me, 1965.

Elvis battles monsters in a Western ghost town in the light-hearted musical Tickle Me (1965).