Viva Las Vegas

Viva Las Vegas (1964) is an American romantic musical motion picture starring American singer Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret. The movie is regarded as one of Presley's best and noted for the on-screen charisma between Presley and Ann-Margret.

Cover versions of "Viva Las Vegas", the song

• Influential punk band Dead Kennedys recorded a version of "Viva Las Vegas" in a faster tempo, with the arrangement stripped down to guitar, bass and drums, on their debut album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. The song had been a part of their live set almost since the band's inception. Their version strips the musical arrangement down to guitar, bass, and drums, and uses a slightly faster tempo, yet maintains the song's melodic structure. It also features satirical lyric changes by lead singer Jello Biafra in the second and third verses, referencing a gambler using speed and cocaine in order to not "sleep a minute away".
• ZZ Top recorded a version of "Viva Las Vegas" in their own inimitable blues-rock-meets-techno music}techno style, as the lone new track on their 1992 Greatest Hits CD. (This retake can also be heard on the compilations that succeeded it, the box set Chrome, Smoke & BBQ (2003) and the double-CD anthology Rancho Texicano (2004)
• Ann-Margaret recut a version of the song for the live action movie The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000) under the psuedonymn of her animated alter-ego Ann-Margrock and with the song's title changed to, of course, "Viva Rock Vegas".

See also:

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• List of Elvis Presley films
• Elvis Presley discography