Elvis Presley - Aloha From Hawaii - Via Satellite
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Free Music Review: The quintessential Elvis -- superb!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Elvis at his very best. This collection is the King the way we should all remember him.Free Music Review: The King Rocks
Hit: 5 Stars
Great album. Brought back a lot of memories. Elvis will always be the King!Free Music Review: Thank you. You're wonderful.
Hit: 4 Stars
Back in January of 1973, Elvis performed a concert in Hawaii that was broadcast live on television around the world (although, ironically, it wasn't aired live in America). The concert was a big success by all standards. Elvis was in great shape, and great voice. The material mainly consisted of material he had regularly been featuring in his concerts, with the addition of "I Can't Stop Loving You", "Welcome to My World" and "I'm So Lonesome I Can Cry". Elvis recorded five additional songs for the American broadcast of the concert. These were taped after the audience went home. These are a welcome addition to the CD; "Early Morning Rain" is fantastic. This is a must get CD for Elvis fans.Free Music Review: Happy Birthday Elvis Presley!
Hit: 4 Stars
I'm giving this cd 4 stars because the re-recored version of Blue Suede Shoes, Elvis Presley sing it fast and got in done in like 1 minute. But the first time Elvis Presley recored Blue Suede Shoes, he sang it for 2 minutes (about). All the songs was recored on Janurary 14th, while Elvis Presley was giving his Aloha From Hawaii concert. Aslo some of the songs are not in order when Elvis Presley sang them in the concert like Blue Hawaii, Ku-U-I-Po, No More, Hawaiian Wedding Song, Early Morning Rain and Can't Help Falling In Love (just to name a few)
Free Music Review: Monumental? Yes. Flawless? Yes. Exciting? No.
Hit: 3 Stars
The "Aloha..." album records a landmark event in broadcasting -- the performance, by Elvis Presley, in front of an estimated 1,000,000,000 viewers via satellite. As he never toured outside the United States, it was the first and only chance for much of the world to see an Elvis concert in full. While the majority of that billion were no doubt satisfied, if not ecstatic, with what they saw -- they could have, and should have, received better.
The performances themselves are technically flawless. Elvis completed every track without mis-steps, false starts, or -- increasingly common in his later years -- obvious boredom. He was in fine voice, and he looked fantastic. However, there's a dearth of spontaneity here, as well as a lack of the sort of explosiveness that characterized many of Elvis' best shows. One gets the impression that Elvis was playing it safe, perhaps mindful of the huge and culturally diverse audience. If he was nervous, he had reason to be -- and his performance is generally inhibited, and never really takes off.
The set-list, too, contributes to this lack of dynamism. Having released a live album only six months prior to this one, he jettisoned many of the tracks that helped "...Madison Square Garden" sound jet-powered. Too many of the replacements are mid-tempo yawners ("Something") or turgid ballads ("Welcome to My World," "My Way") that absolutely murder the momentum of the concert. The five bonus tracks are almost uniformly boring. During a handful of tracks, Elvis shows signs that he may yet crank it up to "11": The opening two numbers, a particularly impassioned "...Trilogy", and "Big Hunk O' Love." But the majority of the songs are superbly sung banalities.
Elvis released plenty of worthwhile live records during his lifetime -- "In Person," "Feb. 1970", "That's the Way It Is," (modern, expanded edition, preferably), "Madison Square Garden," and "As Recorded Live in Memphis." All of these are superior to "Aloha" in their own way.
There is no doubt that "Aloha from Hawaii" made millions happy, and those millions are entitled to their memories. But the last, best reason to buy the record -- the marvelously campy shot of Elvis in outer space (!) -- does not appear on the reissue. RCA with-held it for some reason. Don't avoid this record -- just get the really good ones first.