Roustabout

"Roustabout" is a song written by Bernie Baum, Bill Giant and Florence Kaye for Elvis Presley and the 1964 Paramount picture Roustabout. The song also appeared on the soundtrack album for the movie. Composition The song written by Bernie Baum, Bill Giant and Florence Kaye was chosen as a last-minute replacement for the song written as the title track for the movie Roustabout by Otis Blackwell and Winfield Scott. Mike Eder describes "Roustabout" as "geeky, with abysmal lyrics and a generic backing". On the other hand, the song originally intended as the title track was, in his opinion, "a respectable rocker" and a surpringly "great song for the period". The Elvis Presley official website recounts: