Elvis - Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite
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Label: RCA Victor
Year: 1973
Genre: Pop
Recommending Person: Jeanne Sherry
What a groovy album cover! So Nixon went to China and it was covered live. So obviously Elvis's manager was able to come up with a scheme to make boat loads of cash.
He promoted it saying that over 1 billion viewers would watch Elvis worldwide at the same time, despite the fact it wasn't aired live in many countries because of the time changes and in the US it wasn't shown because it would have been competing against the Super Bowl.
They still claim that in January they got over a Billion viewers even though the total populations of where it was shown totaled 1.3 Billion. Whatever, not a big deal promoters lie, the concert is good!
Elvis covering the Beatles, James Taylor, and Frank Sinatra is pretty fantastic. His backing band was fantastic all the way through and it was just a fun album, although there did seem to be a few songs that Elvis was taking off, but I would have to watch the concert to really tell it wasn't just a stylistic choice by the King. What's that YouTube?