Today in 1973 - Elvis Presley drew the largest audience for a single TV show to that time -- an estimated one billion viewers in 40 countries. Elvis - Aloha From Hawaii, a live, worldwide concert from Honolulu International Center Arena (later known as the Neal S. Blaisdell Center Arena). Performed at 12:30 a.m. Hawaiian Time, it was beamed live via Globecam Satellite to Australia, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, South Vietnam and other countries, and was seen on a delayed basis in approximately 30 European countries. The first American airing was April 4th on NBC-TV. The show was also released as a two-record album, and became one of Elvis’s top-selling LPs
This was the last soundtrack (and last #1 album on the Billboard 200 for Elvis) released during Elvis lifetime, the last 2 were released after his death
, Elvis in Concert (1977 TV Special) and
This is Elvis in 1981.
Here is the complete show from 1973
2 comments:
I didn't realize that it wasn't seen live in the US. Wow. I know I went out and bought the album the next day.
Coincidentally, I just today got hold of a recording of a concert Elvis did at Pearl Harbor in March of 1961! I hadn't even realized he still did concerts after he returned from the army. I thought he just stuck to albums and movies until the Vegas years.
that is so cool, I had just read at the end of last year that he did a concert to raise money for the USS Arizona memorial in 61...where did you find this?!
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