is a song first recorded by Elvis Presley as part of the soundtrack for his 1957 motion picture Loving You.
[1][2] The latter, a songwriter from New York, came (according to the book Elvis Day by Day, "presumably in hopes of seeing that his song, "Got a Lot O' Livin' to Do," [would] be included in the soundtrack“) to the recording studio in Hollywood where Presley was working on the songs for the movie.
[3][4] Elvis Presley later recalled: I looked at him, smiled, asked his name, and why he was in the studio.
After that day, Ben and I became really good friends and he would wind up writing fifty-seven songs for me.
[7] The song is a sprightly,[8] speedy number[9] Its lyrics include the line: "There's a moon that's big and bright".