Elvis on Tour a live recording of "Don't Be Cruel" due to copyright issues. With this DVD release, all 33 Elvis Presley movies (1956-1972) are now available on the DVD market. Elvis on Tour Elvis on Tour is an American musical documentary film released by MGM in 1972. It was the thirty-third and final motion picture to star Elvis Presley before his death in 1977. A follow-up to the 1970 release "", another musical documentary, this film followed Presley as he embarked on a 15-city tour of the United States in April 1972. "Elvis on Tour" also contains vintage footage of Presley's famous
Elvis Presley / But he never meant shit to me / Straight-up racist that sucker was / Simple and plain". The persistence of such attitudes was fueled by resentment over the fact that Presley, whose musical and visual performance idiom owed much to African-American sources, achieved the cultural acknowledgement and commercial success largely denied his black peers. Into the 21st century, the notion that Presley had "stolen" black music still found adherents. Notable among African-American entertainers expressly rejecting this view was Jackie Wilson, who argued, "A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact, almost