Harum Scarum



LSP-3468
Released: November 3, 1965

33 rpm, Mono
LP 12"



Side A
Matrix Side A: SPRS-6764-1S B5

01. Harum Holiday [2:16] ⁴)
02. My Desert Serenade [1:45] ²)
03. Go East Young Man [2:25] ⁴)
04. Mirage [2:24] ⁴)
05. Kismet [2:11] ²)
06. Shake That Tambourine [2:00] ¹)

Side 2
Matrix Side B: SPRS-6765-1S B2

01. Hey Little Girl [2:18] ²)
02. Golden Coins [1:55] ³)
03. So Close Yet So Far (From Paradise) [2:54] ²)
04. Animal Instinct [2:10] ³)
05. Wisdom Of The Ages [1:58] ²)



¹) Recorded: RCA Studios, Nashville, February 24, 1965
²) Recorded: RCA Studios, Nashville, February 25, 1965
³) Recorded: RCA Studios, Nashville, February 26, 1965
⁴) Recorded: RCA Studios, Nashville, March 9, 1965 


Harum Scarum is the twenty-fourth album by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 3468, in November 1965. Recording sessions took place at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 24, 25, and 26, 1965. It peaked at #8 on the Top Pop Albums chart.

Eleven songs were recorded for Harum Scarum, and all were used and issued on the soundtrack with two of the tracks omitted in the film. As with Roustabout, no singles were issued in conjunction with the album. A single was issued a month later, using the leftover 1957 track "Tell Me Why" backed with "Blue River" from the aborted May 1963 sessions. In an ominous sign of things to come, it only made it to #33 on the Billboard Hot 100, the lowest charting single of Presley's career to date.

Harum Scarum was number 8 on Billboard's Hot LP list on November 13, 1965, it stayed on the chart for twenty-three weeks.