The Greatest Oldies Music

Oldies Musics

Elvis Presley & Ann-Margret – The Lady Loves Me

About the Song

In the realm of cinematic classics, few films capture the vibrant energy and infectious fun of the 1960s quite like Viva Las Vegas. Released in 1964, the movie not only boasts a captivating storyline and dazzling visuals, but also features a musical gem – the Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret duet, “The Lady Loves Me”. This playful and energetic song perfectly encapsulates the film’s spirit and the undeniable chemistry between its two stars.

“The Lady Loves Me” isn’t your typical Elvis ballad. This swinging number, written by Roy C. Barrett and Sid Tepper, throws off a playful and lighthearted vibe right from the start. The opening trumpet fanfare sets the stage for a toe-tapping good time, instantly transporting listeners to the bustling Las Vegas scene.

But the true magic lies in the interplay between Presley’s iconic voice and Ann-Margret’s powerful vocals. Elvis, ever the charismatic showman, delivers the lyrics with a wink and a playful swagger. Lines like “‘Cause I watched Violet, She loves me, she loves me not” showcase his trademark charm and playful confidence.

Ann-Margret doesn’t shy away from matching Elvis’ energy. Her sassy vocals and playful banter add another dimension to the song. Lines like “Would you like to make a bet? The gentleman’s all wet” reveal a playful defiance and a willingness to spar with the King himself. Their voices intertwine seamlessly, creating a delightful blend of vocal acrobatics and playful teasing.

The lyrics themselves are a delightful exploration of flirtation and the thrill of the chase. The song tells the story of a man (Elvis) convinced that a woman (Ann-Margret) is secretly smitten with him, despite her outward indifference. Lines like “Her heart’s desire under that eye she is burning like fire” showcase his confidence, bordering on delusion, which Ann-Margret playfully undermines throughout the song.

“The Lady Loves Me” quickly became a fan favorite, adding to the film’s overall success. The song’s infectious energy and playful spirit continue to charm listeners today. It’s a testament to the power of a well-written duet, showcasing the undeniable chemistry between Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret, and serving as a delightful reminder of the carefree spirit of the 1960s.

Video

Lyrics: The Lady Loves Me

She loves me, she loves me not
She loves me, she loves me not
She loves me, she loves me, she loves me

The lady loves me and it shows
In spite of the way she turns up her nose
I’m her ideal, her heart’s desire
Under that ice she’s burning like fire

She’d like to cuddle up to me
She’s playing hard to get
The lady loves me
But she doesn’t know it yet

The gentleman has savoir-faire
As much as an elephant or a bear
I’d like to take him for a spin
Back to the zoo to visit his kin

He’s got about as much appeal
As a soggy cigarette
The lady loathes him
But he doesn’t know it yet

The lady’s got a crush on me
The gentleman’s crazy obviously
The lady’s dying to be kissed
The gentleman needs a psychiatrist

I’d rather kiss a rattlesnake
Or play Russian roulette
The lady loves me
But she doesn’t know it yet

She’s falling fast she’s on the skids
Both of his heads are flipping their lids
Tonight she’ll hold me in her arms
I’d rather be holding hydrogen bombs

Will someone tell this Romeo
I’m not his Juliet
The lady loves me
But she doesn’t know it yet

She wants me
Like poison ivy
Needs me
Like a hole in the head
Anyone can see she’s got it bad
Ugh. he’s mad

The gentleman is an egotist
I’m simply aware I’m hard to resist
He’s one man I could learn to hate
How’s about having dinner at eight?

I’d rather dine with Frankenstein
In a moonlight tête-à-tête
The lady loves me
But she doesn’t know it yet

Oh yes, she loves me
Dig that shrinking violet
Oh, she really loves me
Here’s one gal you’ll never get

She lo- lo- loves me
Would you like to make a bet?
I said the lady loves me
The gentleman’s all wet

Related Post

MINNIE PEARL WALKED ONSTAGE AT THE GRAND OLE OPRY FOR 50 YEARS WITH A $1.98 PRICE TAG ON HER HAT — AND THEN ONE NIGHT, SHE JUST COULDN’T ANYMORE. Here’s something most people don’t think about with Minnie Pearl. That price tag hanging off her straw hat? It wasn’t random. Sarah Cannon — that was her real name — created it as a joke about a country girl too proud of her new hat to take the tag off. And audiences loved it so much that it became the most recognizable prop in country music history. For over fifty years, that tag meant Minnie was here, and everything was going to be fun. So imagine what it felt like when she couldn’t put the hat on anymore. In June 1991, Sarah had a massive stroke. She was 79. And just like that, the woman who hadn’t missed an Opry show in decades was gone from the stage. But here’s what gets me. She didn’t die in 1991. She lived another five years after that stroke, mostly out of the public eye, unable to perform, unable to be “Minnie” the way she’d always been. Her husband Henry Cannon took care of her at their Nashville home. Friends visited, but they said it was hard. The woman who made millions of people laugh couldn’t get through a full conversation some days. Roy Acuff, her old friend from the Opry, kept her dressing room exactly the way she left it. Nobody used it. The hat sat there. She passed on March 4, 1996. And what most people remember is the comedy. The “HOW-DEEE” catchphrase. The big goofy grin. What they don’t remember is that Sarah Cannon was also a serious fundraiser for cancer research. Centennial Medical Center in Nashville named their cancer center after her — not after Minnie, after Sarah. She raised millions and rarely talked about it publicly. There’s a story about the very last time Sarah tried to put on the hat at home, months after the stroke, and what her husband said to her in that moment — it’s the kind of detail that makes you see fifty years of comedy completely differently. Roy Acuff kept Minnie Pearl’s dressing room untouched for years after she left — was that loyalty to a friend, or was he holding a door open for someone he knew was never coming back?

“I DON’T WANT TO DISAPPEAR” — AT 67, RANDY TRAVIS JUST REMINDED COUNTRY MUSIC THAT SOME VOICES NEVER REALLY LEAVE. Most singers would have walked away after what Randy Travis survived. A 2013 stroke changed his speech, weakened his body, and left fans wondering if the voice behind “Forever and Ever, Amen” would ever stand near a stage again. But Randy Travis never treated silence like the end. Now, with the More Life Tour, he sits beside his original band while James Dupré carries the songs Randy Travis made immortal — and somehow, the room still feels like Randy Travis is singing every word. No big speech. No dramatic promise. Just that quiet smile, the same faith, and a man who refuses to let country music remember him only in the past. But what really happened after his voice went quiet… and why “More Life” means more than a tour name?

HER MOTHER SEWED EVERY COSTUME BY HAND. HER DAUGHTER WAS ONLY 5 WHEN THE PLANE WENT DOWN. In 1962, Patsy Cline walked into a tiny lounge at The Mint Casino in Las Vegas. No big-name backup. No fancy production. Just her voice and a room full of strangers who didn’t know what was about to hit them. She headlined for 35 STRAIGHT NIGHTS. Four shows a night. Nearly eight hours on stage every single day. The first few nights, she had laryngitis so bad she had to lip sync her own records. But she kept showing up. She always kept showing up. Her mother Hilda was right there with her — the same woman who had sewn every one of Patsy’s stage dresses by hand. Every stitch, every rhinestone, every hem carried something words can’t explain. A mother’s quiet belief that her daughter belonged under those lights. A casino worker named Gordon never even saw Patsy’s face — he only heard her voice drifting through the walls from his shift in the cage. He was 98 years old when he finally told someone about it. And the memory still shook him. Patsy went home to Tennessee. Bought a house with the money from that Vegas run. Three months later, the plane went down. She was 30. But the people who were in that room for those 35 nights? They say one performance changed everything — a night when every glass went still, every voice went quiet, and Patsy Cline proved something the music world wasn’t ready to hear…

You Missed

Country

“HE BUILT A HOUSE FOR KIDS WITH CANCER LONG BEFORE CANCER CAME FOR HIM. The world knew Toby Keith as the guy with 33 No.1 hits and stadiums full of screaming fans. But quietly, away from the spotlight, he built OK Kids Korral — a place for children fighting cancer. He stood in desert heat through 16 USO tours, singing for 250,000 soldiers who just needed a piece of home. Then cancer found him. September 2023. He walked onto the People’s Choice stage looking thin but steady. Joked about fitting into “”skinny jeans”” now. Then he sang “”Don’t Let the Old Man In”” — and the room went dead silent. His wife Tricia wiped her eyes. Nobody moved. 😢 Toby never measured his life by the applause he got. He measured it by the strength he gave away. What happened in the final moments of that performance still stays with everyone who was in that room…”

Country Oldies Musics

MINNIE PEARL WALKED ONSTAGE AT THE GRAND OLE OPRY FOR 50 YEARS WITH A $1.98 PRICE TAG ON HER HAT — AND THEN ONE NIGHT, SHE JUST COULDN’T ANYMORE. Here’s something most people don’t think about with Minnie Pearl. That price tag hanging off her straw hat? It wasn’t random. Sarah Cannon — that was her real name — created it as a joke about a country girl too proud of her new hat to take the tag off. And audiences loved it so much that it became the most recognizable prop in country music history. For over fifty years, that tag meant Minnie was here, and everything was going to be fun. So imagine what it felt like when she couldn’t put the hat on anymore. In June 1991, Sarah had a massive stroke. She was 79. And just like that, the woman who hadn’t missed an Opry show in decades was gone from the stage. But here’s what gets me. She didn’t die in 1991. She lived another five years after that stroke, mostly out of the public eye, unable to perform, unable to be “Minnie” the way she’d always been. Her husband Henry Cannon took care of her at their Nashville home. Friends visited, but they said it was hard. The woman who made millions of people laugh couldn’t get through a full conversation some days. Roy Acuff, her old friend from the Opry, kept her dressing room exactly the way she left it. Nobody used it. The hat sat there. She passed on March 4, 1996. And what most people remember is the comedy. The “HOW-DEEE” catchphrase. The big goofy grin. What they don’t remember is that Sarah Cannon was also a serious fundraiser for cancer research. Centennial Medical Center in Nashville named their cancer center after her — not after Minnie, after Sarah. She raised millions and rarely talked about it publicly. There’s a story about the very last time Sarah tried to put on the hat at home, months after the stroke, and what her husband said to her in that moment — it’s the kind of detail that makes you see fifty years of comedy completely differently. Roy Acuff kept Minnie Pearl’s dressing room untouched for years after she left — was that loyalty to a friend, or was he holding a door open for someone he knew was never coming back?

Country Oldies Musics

“I DON’T WANT TO DISAPPEAR” — AT 67, RANDY TRAVIS JUST REMINDED COUNTRY MUSIC THAT SOME VOICES NEVER REALLY LEAVE. Most singers would have walked away after what Randy Travis survived. A 2013 stroke changed his speech, weakened his body, and left fans wondering if the voice behind “Forever and Ever, Amen” would ever stand near a stage again. But Randy Travis never treated silence like the end. Now, with the More Life Tour, he sits beside his original band while James Dupré carries the songs Randy Travis made immortal — and somehow, the room still feels like Randy Travis is singing every word. No big speech. No dramatic promise. Just that quiet smile, the same faith, and a man who refuses to let country music remember him only in the past. But what really happened after his voice went quiet… and why “More Life” means more than a tour name?

Country Oldies Musics

HER MOTHER SEWED EVERY COSTUME BY HAND. HER DAUGHTER WAS ONLY 5 WHEN THE PLANE WENT DOWN. In 1962, Patsy Cline walked into a tiny lounge at The Mint Casino in Las Vegas. No big-name backup. No fancy production. Just her voice and a room full of strangers who didn’t know what was about to hit them. She headlined for 35 STRAIGHT NIGHTS. Four shows a night. Nearly eight hours on stage every single day. The first few nights, she had laryngitis so bad she had to lip sync her own records. But she kept showing up. She always kept showing up. Her mother Hilda was right there with her — the same woman who had sewn every one of Patsy’s stage dresses by hand. Every stitch, every rhinestone, every hem carried something words can’t explain. A mother’s quiet belief that her daughter belonged under those lights. A casino worker named Gordon never even saw Patsy’s face — he only heard her voice drifting through the walls from his shift in the cage. He was 98 years old when he finally told someone about it. And the memory still shook him. Patsy went home to Tennessee. Bought a house with the money from that Vegas run. Three months later, the plane went down. She was 30. But the people who were in that room for those 35 nights? They say one performance changed everything — a night when every glass went still, every voice went quiet, and Patsy Cline proved something the music world wasn’t ready to hear…