History Music / HavingFunWithElvisOnStage

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Elvis on the cover.

''Having Fun With Elvis On Stage'' is the seventh [[LiveAlbum live album]] by Music/ElvisPresley, released in 1974. It is often considered Elvis' worst record - if not one of the worst of all time. While other concerts show that Elvis could be funny on stage this album is not a proof of that. It's a concert album [[SpokenWordInMusic without any actual music, just Elvis... talking]]. If that weren't bad enough all of it is cobbled together from different concerts with all context removed, so you have no clue what he's talking about. As a result a lot of "jokes" fall flat or are nothing but repetitive improvised conversations that just go nowhere and are often CutShort abruptly.

Yet Elvis wasn't the one to blame. The record was a ploy by his manager, USefulNotes/ColonelTomParker, to make money off him by releasing an album Creator/RCARecords had no rights to (although RCA eventually reissued the album anyway; it even made the charts). [[CreatorBacklash Elvis himself was both angered and ashamed by the album's release and personally made sure it was withdrawn from the market]], making it one of the rarest albums in existence for Elvis collectors (at least in the original release on the Boxcar label; thanks to the RCA version actually making the charts, there are plenty of copies from that release in circulation). BileFascination has also attracted many fans of curiosities to this OldShame; it received the #1 ranking among the albums listed in the 1991 book ''The Worst Rock n' Roll Records of All Time'' (edging out ''Music/MetalMachineMusic'' and ''Music/SelfPortrait'').

Understandably it has never been [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes (officially)]] released on CD, even though RCA did reissue the album (along with every other Elvis LP) in the year or so following Presley's death.

Yet Elvis wasn't the one to blame. The record was [[ExecutiveMeddling a ploy by his manager, Colonel Tom Parker]], to make money off him by releasing an album Creator/RCARecords had no rights to (although RCA eventually reissued the album anyway; it even made the charts). [[CreatorBacklash Elvis himself was both angered and ashamed by the album's release and personally made sure it was withdrawn from the market]], making it one of the rarest albums in existence for Elvis collectors (at least in the original release on the Boxcar label; thanks to the RCA version actually making the charts, there are plenty of copies from that release in circulation). BileFascination has also attracted many fans of curiosities to this OldShame; it received the #1 ranking among the albums listed in the 1991 book ''The Worst Rock n' Roll Records of All Time'' (edging out ''Music/MetalMachineMusic'' and ''Music/SelfPortrait'').

!! ''Troping Fun With Elvis On Stage''

* OneBookAuthor: This was the only record ever released by Boxcar Records, a label that Colonel Tom Parker started specifically to produce this album. The Boxcar name has been revived for various Elvis bootleg albums over the years.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Elvis jokes that this song [[note]] Don't ask us which one, because it doesn't appear on the album at all. [[/note]] goes back to when he first started recording:
--> ''Back in 1927, I thought it was!''
** Elvis may be referring to "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" which actually does date to 1927, though he often used the same joke to refer to pretty much any song he recorded in the 1950s.

[[caption-width-right:334:''A Talking Album Only!'']]

* {{Fangirl}}: A lot of edits just have Elvis hand out kisses or scarves to his overexcited female fans, or tell them he "loves them".