RCA Records and Legacy Recordings celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Elvis Presley's monumental 'Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite Worldwide Broadcast' and top-selling double album with the release of a Definitive Deluxe Edition on Friday, August 11, 2023
Publicity stated: RCA Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release the definitive 50th anniversary edition of Elvis Presley's monumental Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite record-setting global concert telecast/double live album on Friday, August 11.
The 50th anniversary edition of Elvis Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite - newly remixed and remastered for the occasion - will be available in a 3CD plus Blu-ray combined package as well as in 2-LP and digital configurations.
For a first taste of the RCA/Legacy 50th anniversary edition of Aloha from Hawaii, check out Elvis' sizzling live interpretation of James Taylor's "Steamroller Blues" on DSPs today >>> listen here.
Elvis Presley’s Graceland in Memphis will present 'Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii 50th Anniversary Concert' on August 16, 2023 as part of Elvis Week 2023. In addition, earlier that day, Sony will present a free Aloha from Hawaii Q&A and Listening Event at the Guest House Theater at 1:00 pm. Tickets for the concert and free listening event are available at ElvisWeek.com.
Recorded live on January 12 and 14, 1973 at the Honolulu International Center Arena (capacity approximately 6000) and beamed into an estimated billion-plus television sets around the world, 'Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite' made a new kind of broadcast history as Elvis and emerging global satellite technology instantaneously connected a major artist with his audience in previously unprecedented numbers.
Initially, Elvis' January 14th concert was telecast live via satellite to viewers in Asia and Oceania and presented with a delay in January in Europe. Needing to avoid a programming conflict with Super Bowl VII while also acknowledging that the film 'Elvis on Tour' was enjoying an actively successful run in U.S. movie theaters, NBC decided to air their ninety-minute version of 'Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite' (featuring bonus performances recorded for the stateside broadcast) on April 4, 1973. 'Aloha from Hawaii' became NBC's highest-rated program of the year.
Feeling the heat from the 'Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite' global telecast, RCA Records fast-tracked a companion double album soundtrack into production with first pressings hitting US stores on February 4, 1973. The album was Elvis' first #1 in years, peaking at #1 on the Billboard pop and country charts, becoming the fastest-selling chart-topping album of Elvis' career.
The 50th anniversary edition of 'Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite' is produced by Ernst Jørgensen and newly mixed by Grammy Award-winning recording engineer Matt-Ross Spang. The set includes the original concert, rehearsal show and unique after-show recordings and rehearsals including 'Blue Hawaii', 'Hawaiian Wedding Song', 'No More' and 'Early Morning Rain'.
The deluxe set includes a 28-page booklet featuring in-depth liner notes penned by lifelong Elvis fan/respected music critic Randy Lewis, rare photos and memorabilia from the event, and the first-ever visual release of 'Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite' on Blu-ray.
'Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite' is the apogee of an astounding career trajectory that began with Elvis' return to live performance in 1968 with an electrifying "comeback" television special that restored him to pop dominance after a seven year hiatus from the concert stage. By 1973, Elvis was a living legend whose status as the world's first atomic-powered singer in the 1950s had evolved into movie stardom before his return to live performance generated a new iconography of Elvis. His watershed global telecast was the first full-length concert by any musician to be beamed around the world over communications satellites newly orbiting the earth in ever increasing numbers. A half century later, the live album and concert film from that performance are perhaps the most revelatory documents of the live shows that Elvis poured so much of his heart and soul into during the 1970s.
The 50th anniversary edition of 'Elvis Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite' presents, for the first time in one authorized package, the entirety of the original January 14, 1973 performance, the previous night's dress rehearsal with a live audience (recorded in case of technical mishaps during the satellite transmission), several bonus tracks inserted into the U.S. broadcast of the event and a Blu-ray transfer of the concert film.
Archival producer Ernst Mikael Jørgensen and Memphis-based recording engineer Matt Ross-Spang have fully remixed the album from the original 16-track live recordings - first captured on tape by esteemed mobile engineer Wally Heider and newly digitized for this release with audiophile 24-bit, 192 KHz transfers - to bring fans a fresh listen to what, for many, is the most treasured performance of Elvis' latter-day years on the road. "To me," Jørgensen said, "that is the biggest thing: [this album] never sounded this good and Elvis never sounded this good."
In the four and a half years between the '68 special and 'Aloha from Hawaii', Elvis woodshedded his act with a rigorous series of more than 500 live performances in which he re-asserted the role he'd established in the '50s as one of the most electrifying performers of his generation.
Both in Las Vegas and on tour to various parts of the United States, Presley refined and expanded his mastery of musical interpretation of songs long associated with him, while also putting his distinctive stamp on classic and more recent material first popularized by artists as beloved as The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, James Taylor, Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Charles, Jim Reeves and Hawaii's own Kuiokalani "Kui" Lee.
The 'Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite' program was produced and directed by television veteran Marty Pasetta, who'd done specials for Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Glen Campbell and had experience in Hawaii with Don Ho. Pasetta employed split screen techniques and quick cuts to mirror the energy Elvis & Co. put out on stage. The telecast also regularly offered extreme close-ups bringing viewers into contact with Elvis with an intimacy that even those in the audience didn't have.
The tracklist:
CD 1 - Live at The Honolulu International Center, Hawaii January 14, 1973.
Introduction: Also sprach Zarathustra (Theme From 2001: A Space Odyssey) / See See Rider / Burning Love / Something / You Gave Me A Mountain / Steamroller Blues / My Way / Love Me / Johnny B. Goode / It's Over / Blue Suede Shoes / I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry / I Can't Stop Loving You / Hound Dog / What Now My Love / Fever / Welcome to My World / Suspicious Minds / Introductions by Elvis / I'll Remember You / Long Tall Sally - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On / An American Trilogy / A Big Hunk O' Love / Can't Help Falling In Love / Closing Vamp
CD 2 - Live at The Honolulu International Center, Hawaii January 12, 1973: Introduction: Also sprach Zarathustra (Theme From 2001: A Space Odyssey) / See See Rider / Burning Love / Something / You Gave Me A Mountain / Steamroller Blues / My Way / Love Me / It's Over / Blue Suede Shoes / I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry / Hound Dog / What Now My Love / Fever / Welcome To My World / Suspicious Minds / Introductions by Elvis / I'll Remember You / An American Trilogy / A Big Hunk O' Love / Can't Help Falling In Love / Closing Riff.
CD 3 - Bonus Songs: Blue Hawaii (Rehearsal, Takes 1-2) / Ku-U-I-Po (Rehearsal) / Ku-U-I-Po (Take 1) / Ku-U-I-Po (Take 2 - Incomplete) / Ku-U-I-Po (Take 3 - Incomplete) / Ku-U-I-Po (Take 4) / No More (Take 1 - Incomplete) / No More (Take 2 - Rehearsal) / No More (Take 3) / No More (Take 4) / Hawaiian Wedding Song (Take 1) / Hawaiian Wedding Song (Rehearsal) / Hawaiian Wedding Song (Take 2) / Hawaiian Wedding Song (Take 3) / Early Morning Rain (Take 1) / Early Morning Rain (Take 2).
Disc 1: Recorded live at the Honolulu International Center Arena January 14, 1973, 12:30 AM.
Disc 2: Recorded live at the Honolulu International Center Arena, January 12, 1973, 9:00 PM.
Disc 3: Recorded without an audience at the Honolulu International Center Arena, January 14, 1973, 3:00 AM, as special bonus songs for the U.S.
70th Anniversary of Elvis' Sun Records Sessions
Description CD-single: On July 18, 1953 Elvis Presley, then 18 years old, made his first amateur recording for four dollars on a 78 RPM acetate disc. The songs he recorded were 'My Happiness' on the A-side and 'That's When Your Heartaches Begin' on the flip-side. It was a birthday present fore his mother.
Description CD: Between 1953 and 1955, Elvis Presley recorded 24 songs at SUN Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. These recordings, which would become the foundations of Rock and Roll music, reflect a wide variety of styles: blues, rhythm & blues, gospel, country & western, hillbilly, rockabilly and bluegrass.
From the 24 songs recorded, 22 have survived, the tapes for the songs 'Satisfied' and 'I Got a Woman' have been lost. 10 tracks were released by SUN as a single between 1954 and 1955: 'That's All Right' / 'Blue Moon of Kentucky' on 04/19/1954, 'Good Rockin' Tonight' / 'I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine' on 09/25/1954, 'Milkcow Blues Boogie' / 'You're a Heartbreaker' on 12/28/1954, 'Baby Let's Play House' / 'I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone' on 04/10/1955, 'I Forgot to Remember to Forget' and 'Mystery Train' on 08/06/1955.
With the exception of the first four songs (self-financed demos by Elvis), all songs were produced by Sam Phillips and featured Scotty Moore on guitar and Bill Black on bass.
On December 4, 1956, a year after leaving Sun for RCA, Elvis visited the Sun Studio. The afternoon turns into a jam session with Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. The four artists simply sing songs they had in mind. About 40 titles were recorded on tape that day. This mythical session would be nicknamed 'The Million Dollar Session'.
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Elvis Presley's first recording of 'My Happiness' on July 18, 1953, RDM Edition releases this CD containing 22 recordings from the SUN Records Sessions, including the 4 recordings self-financed by Elvis and of the 18 official SUN Records recordings. As a bonus we included 2 tracks from the 'Million Dollar Session'.
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Best Of 12-inch
Celebrate the first recording session of Elvis Presley, the French RDM French Edition record label announced the release of the CD-single 'My Happiness / That's When Your Heartaches Begin' and the CD '70th Anniversary of Elvis' Sun Records Sessions'.
The recording took place in Memphis at the famous SUN Studio Records of Sam Phillips. Elvis gave this unique recording to his mother, Gladys, for her birthday. 
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of this historic recording, the French RDM Edition will release remastered versions of these two songs on a CD-single.
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of this historic recording, the French RDM Edition will release remastered versions of these two songs on a CD-single.Description CD: Between 1953 and 1955, Elvis Presley recorded 24 songs at SUN Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. These recordings, which would become the foundations of Rock and Roll music, reflect a wide variety of styles: blues, rhythm & blues, gospel, country & western, hillbilly, rockabilly and bluegrass.
From the 24 songs recorded, 22 have survived, the tapes for the songs 'Satisfied' and 'I Got a Woman' have been lost. 10 tracks were released by SUN as a single between 1954 and 1955: 'That's All Right' / 'Blue Moon of Kentucky' on 04/19/1954, 'Good Rockin' Tonight' / 'I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine' on 09/25/1954, 'Milkcow Blues Boogie' / 'You're a Heartbreaker' on 12/28/1954, 'Baby Let's Play House' / 'I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone' on 04/10/1955, 'I Forgot to Remember to Forget' and 'Mystery Train' on 08/06/1955.
With the exception of the first four songs (self-financed demos by Elvis), all songs were produced by Sam Phillips and featured Scotty Moore on guitar and Bill Black on bass.
On December 4, 1956, a year after leaving Sun for RCA, Elvis visited the Sun Studio. The afternoon turns into a jam session with Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. The four artists simply sing songs they had in mind. About 40 titles were recorded on tape that day. This mythical session would be nicknamed 'The Million Dollar Session'.
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Elvis Presley's first recording of 'My Happiness' on July 18, 1953, RDM Edition releases this CD containing 22 recordings from the SUN Records Sessions, including the 4 recordings self-financed by Elvis and of the 18 official SUN Records recordings. As a bonus we included 2 tracks from the 'Million Dollar Session'.
The Japanese Shinko Music Mook announced the June 29, 2023 release of the third volume in their 'The Rockabilly! Presents: Viva Elvis' magazine series.
This 144-page edition includes the articles on the full story of the second golden age of 'Elvis On Stage', revive the myth, a look at the 50th anniversary 'Aloha From Hawaii' concert, the five greatest hero's in Elvis films, Elvis chainsaw art, Elvis Meets Nixon, songwriter duo's Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman and the creators of Rock 'n' Roll Jerry Lieber & Mike Stoller, backing vocalists The Jordanaires and more.
The Memphis Mansion announced the release of a Limited Edition of 100 copies of their upcoming stereo re-issue of the original mono HMV 10-inch LP 'The Best of Elvis'.
It comes as a green colored 12-inch LP.
This was never meant to be released as a 12 inch LP, the plant that cut the stamper made a mistake. Rather than just scrap and waste the stamper the label decided to get 100 pressed.
The labels were not complete at the time hence the white label edition.
(Source: Pascal Matteo / Amazon / Elvis Club Berlin / FECC / Qo Buz / MM / Elvis The Music)