Mac Davis, who wrote the lyrics for the Elvis/JXL retro-hit “A Little Less Conversation,” says the lyrics were originally written from a woman’s point of view, to be sung by someone like Aretha Franklin:
“The original lyric on it,” Davis explains, “was ‘I work hard all day to please you / Treat you just like a king / You come home just running your mouth / But you ain’t saying a doggone thing / Give me a little less conversation / A little more action please.’ So I had to change that around. In the scene in the movie, [Elvis] was trying to get this girl to leave the swimming pool party with him. So I changed it around to where Elvis’s people would accept it, to where it was not quite so funky around the edges.”