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The album, released to coincide with the second anniversary
of Presley’s death, features an ‘unedited’ recording of a seance with Elvis
Presley that was conducted on 24 July 1979 at a Spiritualist Church in North
London, according to the rather vague sleevenotes: the event actually took place in a hall in Watford. The seance was led by Carmen Rogers (a renowned medium, apparently, again according to the sleeve notes), narrated by Stuart Colman, and was attended by
Theresa Currie (representative of the official Elvis Presley fan club), two
reporters and a photographer from the Sunday
People and a handful of others, including Rogers’ and Coleman’s respective
spouses. Perhaps unsurprisingly this was not the first Elvis séance album
issued: a similar record appeared the previous year in the States: A Séance With Elvis: The King Lives On and
Talks to the World From Beyond the Grave
The Watford séance was featured in an article in The Sunday People the following weekend,
an article that Shadow Records used to promote the sales of the album. It
didn’t help. It's just so random. Why would the ghost of Elvis suddenly turn up
in London, a city he never visited? Unsurprisingly Elvis fails to speak on the
album, however Carmen Rogers assures those present that he spoke very clearly
to her.
In 2004 the Sydney Morning Herald featured its own list of the 20 “strangest
albums ever made” and included the Elvis Presley
Seance at number 13. The same list had Marcel
Marceau Speaks at number six and Ali
and His Gang vs Mr Tooth Decay at number three. that reviewer commented
that “Elvis seances are often held on his birthday (January 8) or the anniversary
of his death (August 16), and it can only be hoped that they are not all as
boring as this one.” How right he was.
Anyway, here’s the whole damn thing
for you. I've not added streaming links as no one in their right mind is going to want to listen to this pap for pleasure, however, if you are as perverse and twisted as I am I guess you may well want to download a copy.
Enjoy!
Download Side One HERE
Download Side Two HERE
This is my grandmother!! Thank you so much for sharing, she has long since passed and I love the fact it's the worst album in the world!!!
ReplyDeleteThat's fantastic! I'm so glad that you are able to hear her again
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