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Elvis Hitler

Elvis Hitler is an American psychobilly/hellbilly rock band from Detroit, Michigan. The band was named after the moniker of their lead singer, Jim Leedy, a combination of rockabilly singer Elvis Presley's first name and the last name of dictator Adolf Hitler. Len Puch, later involved in Art Phag & Fuknotz and founder of the Wanghead label was largely behind this band project which also consisted of Damian Lang, Jim Leedy, John Defever and Warren Defever.

Their first album, Disgraceland, was initially released on Wang Head records in 1987 (WH004) and early copies came in a handmade sleeve formed from corrugated cardboard with a black-and-white sheet pasted to the front and back. The band put out two CDs on Restless Records: Hellbilly and Supersadomasochisticexpialidocious.

Their song "Green Haze" consisted of the lyrics from the TV show Green Acres sung to the tune of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze", and was a college radio hit.

Due to the resistance of having a band with the name Hitler in the title, regardless of its intent, the band released one album under the name "Splatter".

The band and their song "Green Haze" are mentioned in Thomas Pynchon's 2013 novel Bleeding Edge.

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Peel played tracks from the band's first two albums, Disgraceland and Hillbilly on his radio programmes between 1987 and 1989. However, after 1989, he lost interest in the group and never played any tracks from their last album, Supersadomasochisticexpialidocious, released in 1992.

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Elvis Hitler - Berlin to Memphis

1987
1988
  • 12 January 1988: Ghouls (Looking For Food) (v/a LP - It Came From The Garage II !) Wanghead
1989

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