"Elvira" is a song written and originally recorded by Dallas Frazier in 1966 on his album of the same name.

Songwriter Dallas Frazier wrote "Elvira" in 1966 and included it as the title track of an album he released that year.

[2] A number of other artists recorded the song through the years with varying degrees of success, most notably Kenny Rogers and the First Edition.

[3] In 1978, twelve years after Frazier's original version, country singer Rodney Crowell covered the song and released it as his debut single on Warner Bros. Nashville and Reprise Records, and later appearing on his debut studio album Ain't Living Long Like This.

[3] The Oak Ridge Boys, who were fans of Rodney Crowell's version of "Elvira",[3] decided to include the song on their 1981 album Fancy Free.

"[9] Their rendition featured Joe Bonsall on lead vocals,[8] as well as bass singer Richard Sterban's on backing vocals for the chorus ("Giddyup, ba oom, papa oom, papa mow mow"), which producer Ron Chancey of MCA Records suggested.

"Elvira" was certified platinum for sales of two million units by the Recording Industry Association of America, a distinction for a country song that for years it shared only with "Islands in the Stream" by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton.

In 2015, the Oak Ridge Boys recorded the song with a cappella group Home Free on their album Country Evolution.