Track Listing 1. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Introduction) 2. CC Rider 3. Burnin' Love 4. Something 5. You Gave Me A Mountain 6. Steamroller Blues 7. My Way 8. It's Over 9. Blue Suede Shoes 10. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry 11. What Now My Love 12. Fever 13. Welcome To My World 14. Suspicious Minds 15. I'll Remember You 16. American Trilogy 17. Big Hunk O'Love 18. Can't Help Falling In Love 19. Blue Hawaii 20. Hound Dog 21. Hawaiian Wedding Song 22. Ku'u Ipo (Available on Compact Disc only)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Rick Rowe | | Recording Type: | Live | | Distributor: | Sony Music/Arvato Services | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes The dress rehearsal for the "Elvis: Aloha From Hawaii" TV special, recorded on January 12, 1973 at the Honolulu International Center.3 of these songs were recorded at a late night session following the dress rehearsal.In January 1973, Elvis and his manager Colonel Tom Parker staged the most spectacular publicity event of Presley's later career: a Hawaiian concert broadcast via satellite to over one billion viewers. A recording of that concert was released in 1973 as ALOHA FROM HAWAII VIA SATELLITE. A rehearsal concert performed and taped two days earlier, however, remained in RCA's vaults until 1988, when those tapes were digitally remastered and released under the title THE ALTERNATE ALOHA. Presley chose material for the ALOHA concerts carefully, trying to repeat as little material as possible from his recently released ELVIS AS RECORDED AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. As a result, he sang relatively few of his own hits in Hawaii, performing instead a potpourri of flat-out rockers ("See See Rider," "Steamroller Blues"), bombastic pop ("My Way," "You Gave Me a Mountain," "American Trilogy"), and country weepers ("I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"). How you feel about this record depends on where you stand on the King: to those who love his earliest recordings best, THE ALTERNATE ALOHA might seem too over-the-top. Fans of such later Elvis albums as MOODY BLUE, however, will no doubt find Presley and band in top form here.
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