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''Having Fun with Elvis on Stage'' is a 1974 spoken word concert album by Elvis Presley. The album consists entirely of byplay and banter by Presley from between songs during a live concert—primarily jokes, with the songs themselves removed from the recording. The album was created as a ploy by Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, to self-release an Elvis Presley album through his own label, Boxcar Records, that would not consist of content that contractually belonged to RCA Records. ''Having Fun with Elvis on Stage'' was first distributed at Elvis Presley concerts, but RCA would later package and distribute it. ''Having Fun with Elvis on Stage'' has been considered to be Presley's worst album; critics felt that the compilation of banter was incoherent, and lacked context due to the removal of the songs that his remarks related to. In their 1991 book, Jimmy Guterman and Owen O'Donnell named ''Having Fun with Elvis on Stage'' the worst rock and roll album of all time, duly noting its lack of actual "rock and roll". Presley himself disapproved of the album, and it was withdrawn at his request. Despite this, ''Having Fun with Elvis on Stage'' reached number 130 on the ''Billboard'' 200, peaked at number 9 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country LPs, and spawned bootleg copies along with a fan-made sequel. ==Content and release== The album is unique among Elvis Presley's recordings as it does not contain any actual songs; it consists entirely of byplay recorded between numbers.〔 Presley is frequently heard humming or singing "Well ...", which during the actual performances led into songs that have been edited out of the recording.〔 Much of the album consists of him making jokes, although the recording is devoid of any context. Despite the randomness of the audio, from 8:01–11:55 on side A, Presley is captured speaking autobiographically about his early life and his career aspirations before becoming a singer, and his early appearance on ''The Steve Allen Show''.〔 The album was the idea of Colonel Tom Parker, Presley's manager. Parker wished to release an Elvis Presley album through Boxcar Records—a company that he formed to manage Presley's commercial rights, so that he could profit directly from it.〔 However, since Presley was signed to RCA Records, any recordings made would legally belong to RCA.〔〔 To circumvent this restriction, Parker compiled audio of Presley talking—material over which RCA could not claim rights. Initially, the record was only sold at Presley's concerts.〔Roy Carr and Mick Farren, ''Elvis: The Illustrated Record'' (Harmony Books, 1982), p. 156.〕 However, the album was later packaged and marketed by RCA as a legitimate concert album, with the only warning for the buyer being the subtitle "A Talking Album Only" on the back cover.〔〔 Presley is credited on the back sleeve as the album's executive producer.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Having Fun with Elvis on Stage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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