Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite

Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite
Live album by Elvis Presley
Released February 4, 1973
Recorded January 14, 1973
Genre Rock
Length 62:48
Producer Joan Deary, Marty Pasetta
Elvis Presley chronology
Separate Ways
(1972)		 Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite
(1973)		 Elvis
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Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite is a live concert album by Elvis Presley, released by RCA Records in February 1973 and peaked on the Billboard chart in the Spring of 1973. Despite the satellite innovation, the United States did not air the concert until April 4, 1973. Aloha from Hawaii‎ (which was a worldwide ratings smash) went to number one on the 'Billboard' album chart.[2] The album dominated the charts, reaching #1 in both the pop and country charts in the United States.

Aloha from Hawaii was a two-disc set—only the second such release of Presley's career (the first being 1969's double set From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis, which contained one album each of studio and concert recordings). It was initially released only in quadraphonic sound, becoming the first album in the format to top the Billboard album chart. A stereo version was initially released only through the RCA Record Club, but later replaced the quadraphonic version in record stores.[3]

The album contains all the live performances from the TV special, but omits the five songs Presley recorded after the show and which were featured on the original broadcast; these would be issued later on the album Mahalo from Elvis.

The album was certified Gold on 2/13/1973, Platinum and 2x Platinum on 5/20/1988, 3x Platinum on 7/15/1999 and 5x Platinum on 8/1/2002 by the R.I.A.A.

This is the last soundtrack album that Presley released during his lifetime (later soundtracks for the TV special Elvis in Concert and the documentary This Is Elvis were released posthumously).

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Introduction: Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Richard Strauss)
  2. "See See Rider" (Traditional)
  3. "Burning Love" (Dennis Linde)
  4. "Something" (George Harrison)
  5. "You Gave Me a Mountain" (Marty Robbins)
  6. "Steamroller Blues" (James Taylor)
  7. "My Way" (Claude François, Jacques Revaux, Paul Anka)
  8. "Love Me" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
  9. "Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry)
  10. "It's Over" (Jimmie Rodgers)
  11. "Blue Suede Shoes" (Carl Perkins)
  12. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (Hank Williams)
  13. "I Can't Stop Loving You" (Don Gibson)
  14. "Hound Dog" (Leiber, Stoller)
  15. "What Now My Love" (Gilbert Bécaud, Carl Sigman)
  16. "Fever" (Eddie Cooley, John Davenport)
  17. "Welcome to My World" (Jim Reeves)
  18. "Suspicious Minds" (Mark James)
  19. "Introductions By Elvis"
  20. "I'll Remember You" (Kui Lee)
  21. "Long Tall Sally/Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" (Otis Blackwell, Sunny David, William Johnson, Richard Penniman, Dub Williams)
  22. "An American Trilogy" (Mickey Newbury)
  23. "A Big Hunk O' Love" (Aaron Schroeder, Sidney Wyche)
  24. "Can't Help Falling in Love" (George Weiss, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore)

The following tracks were recorded by Presley after the concert and inserted into the broadcast (with the exception of "No More", which remained unheard until 1978's Mahalo From Elvis). They were not included in the original soundtrack album, but they appear on the 1998 CD re-issue.

  1. "Blue Hawaii" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin)
  2. "Ku-U-I-Po" (Luigi Creatore, Hugo Peretti, George David Weiss)
  3. "No More" (Don Robertson, Hal Blair)
  4. "Hawaiian Wedding Song" (Al Hoffman, Dick Manning, Charles King)
  5. "Early Morning Rain" (Gordon Lightfoot)

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1973 Billboard Pop Albums 1
Preceded by
The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd		 Billboard 200 number-one album
May 5–11, 1973		 Succeeded by
Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ ElvisPresley.com.au - Aloha from Hawaii
  3. ^ Jerry Osborne (February 28, 2011). "Quadraphonic albums". Ask "Mr. Music". Digital Dream Door. Archived from the original on March 6, 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/5wyGyaHBC. Retrieved March 6, 2011. 

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