In 1982, a bootleg record titled Elvis’ Greatest Shit!! caused a stir by savaging the crass commercialization and cultural deification of Presley in the wake of his death five years before. It was released on the Dog Vomit label, emblazoned with RCA mascot Nipper retching into a gramophone, a dig at the venerable label that had repackaged the King’s songs in a relentless posthumous cash grab. The bootleg featured the worst dreck from Elvis’s schlock-movie career in the ’60s, songs like “Do the Clambake,” “Queenie Wahine’s Papaya,” and “Dominic the Impotent Bull.”
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