About The Song
“I Got Lucky” is a song recorded by Elvis Presley as part of the soundtrack for his 1962 motion picture Kid Galahad. The film is a remake of a 1937 original, and Elvis plays the role of a boxer. He performs it in the movie. Presley recorded it on October 27, 1961, at RCA’s Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee.
Its first release on record was on the soundtrack EP Kid Galahad in August 1962.
In 1963 it was also released on a single in Europe, with “Girls! Girls! Girls!” on the reverse side.
In 1971 the song was included at the title track on the low price LP I Got Lucky.
About Kid Galahad
Kid Galahad’s screenplay alternates between light romantic comedy and dramatic episodes. In his previous films, Elvis’ characters almost always initially resisted the romantic wiles of female pursuers. Here, though, his Walter Gulick is stricken by love at the first site of Rose Grogan, played by Joan Blackman, who also played his love interest in Blue Hawaii. In that film she had an active role. In Kid Galahad her job consists mostly of staring seductively into Elvis’ eyes.
As in Follow That Dream, a crew of gangsters moves into town, leading to Kid Galahad’s few serious moments. The film’s best dramatic sequence finds Elvis coming to the rescue after his trainer, played by Charles Bronson, gets his hands broken by a couple of mobster heavies.
Of course, Kid Galahad contains the standard Presley musical numbers designed to draw his faithful followers to the box office. And, as usual, those tunes disturbed the film critics, who, being too old to like Presley’s style anyway, saw them as disruptive to the story line. In the Times, Crowther complained of Elvis’ “expressing himself at odd moments in conspicuously unpugnacious songs, brought up from what seems a ruptured larynx.” And showing why he should have kept to evaluating films, Variety’s reviewer made an odd recommendation to RCA Victor. “Elvis sings some half a dozen songs,” noted the review, “the most commercial of which figures to be ‘Home Is Where The Heart Is,’ a sentimental ballad with juke potential.”
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Lyric
Never found a four leaf clover
To bring good luck to me
No rabbit’s foot, no lucky star
No magic wishing treeBut I got lucky, yes, I got lucky
(I got lucky, lucky when)
When I found you, oh oh, yeahGot no rainbow around my shoulder
No horseshoe on my door
But I got you to hold me tight
And who could ask for moreOh, I got lucky, yes, I got lucky
(I got lucky, lucky when)
When I found you
(When I found you)I always walk around
With all my fingers crossed
I’m afraid the love I found
Just might get lostSo won’t you tell me that you love me
Hurry up and name the day
And then I’ll know that my good luck
Is really here to stayOh, I got lucky, yes, I got lucky
(I got lucky, lucky when)
When I found you
(I found you)I always walk around
With all my fingers crossed
I’m afraid the love I found
Just might get lostSo won’t you tell me that you love me
hurry up and name the day
And then I’ll know that my good luck
Is really here to stayOh, I got lucky, yes, I got lucky
(I got lucky, lucky when)
When I found you
(I found you)Oh, I got lucky, yes, I got lucky
(I got lucky)
When I found you