Having Fun with Elvis on Stage

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Having Fun with Elvis on Stage is a 1974 spoken word concert album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley consisting entirely of dialogue and banter, mostly jokes, by Presley between songs during his live concerts; the songs themselves were removed from the recordings. Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker conceived the album as a ploy to release a Presley recording through his own label, Boxcar Records, without using content that contractually belonged to RCA Records, so that Parker could retain 100% of the profits. Having Fun with Elvis on Stage was first sold exclusively at Presley's Las Vegas concerts during the summer of 1974; however, RCA later claimed rights to the recording and began to package and distribute it. Having Fun with Elvis on Stage is generally considered to be Presley's worst commercially released album; many critics felt that the compilation of banter was incoherent and lacked context with the removal of the songs. In their 1991 book, Jimmy Guterman and Owen...

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