[ RCA / 2 LP ]
Release Date: Friday 11 August 2023
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Recorded live on January 12 and 14, 1973 at the Honolulu International Center Arena (capacity approximately 6000) and beamed into an estimated billion-plus television sets around the world, Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite made a new kind of broadcast history as Elvis and emerging global satellite technology instantaneously connected a major artist with his audience in previously unprecedented numbers. Initially, Elvis' January 14th concert was telecast live via satellite to viewers in Asia and Oceania and presented with a delay in January in Europe. Needing to avoid a programming conflict with Super Bowl VII while also acknowledging that the film "Elvis on Tour" was enjoying an actively successful run in US movie theaters, NBC decided to air their ninety-minute version of Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite (featuring bonus performances recorded for the stateside broadcast) on April 4, 1973. Aloha from Hawaii became NBC's highest-rated program of the year.
The 50th anniversary edition of Elvis Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite presents, for the first time in one authorized package, the entirety of the original January 14, 1973 performance and the previous night's dress rehearsal with a live audience (recorded in case of technical mishaps during the satellite transmission).
A1. Introduction: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Theme From 2001: A Space Odyssey)
A2. See See Rider
A3. Burning Love
A4. Something
A5. You Gave Me A Mountain
A6. Steamroller Blues
B1. My Way
B2. Love Me
B3. Johnny B. Goode
B4. It's Over
B5. Blue Suede Shoes
B6. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
B7. I Can't Stop Loving You
B8. Hound Dog
C1. What Now My Love
C2. Fever
C3. Welcome to My World
C4. Suspicious Minds
C5. Introductions By Elvis
D1. I'll Remember You
D2. Long Tall Sally / Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
D3. An American Trilogy
D4. A Big Hunk O' Love
D5. Can't Help Falling In Love