Elvis Presley Quadraphonic LPs Aloha From Hawaii and Promised Land!

Description

Elvis Aloha From Hawaii (
2
LPs)
A concert starring
Elvis Presley
that took place at the
Honolulu International Center
and was broadcast live via satellite to audiences in Asia and Oceania on January 14, 1973. The show was presented with a delay in Europe. In the United States, to avoid a programming conflict with
Super Bowl VII
and
Elvis on Tour
which was playing in cinemas at the time,
NBC
opted to air a ninety-minute television special of the concert on April 4.
Presley returned to performing tours throughout the United States in 1970.
Richard Nixon
's 1972
visit to China
inspired Presley's manager,
Colonel Tom Parker
, to promote a live broadcast concert featuring the singer and he arranged a deal with
RCA Records
and the NBC network to produce one. The show benefited the
Kui Lee
Cancer Fund.
Marty Pasetta
produced the program. A filmed rehearsal concert took place on January 12. The show earned good ratings in the countries targeted by the live broadcast. The television special presented in the United States became NBC's highest-rated program of the year, and it garnered a favorable reception from critics.
Its soundtrack album
became Presley's last chart-topper on
Billboard
's
album chart
.
Promised Land
Promised Land
is the twenty-first
studio album
by
Elvis Presley
, released by
RCA Records
on January 8, 1975. It was recorded in December 1973 at
Stax Records
studios in Memphis and released on Presley's 40th birthday in January, 1975. In the US the album reached number 47 on the
Billboard
Top 200
chart and number 1 in
Billboard'
s Top Country LPs chart, as well as the
Cashbox
Country albums chart. In the UK the album reached #21.
The title track, a cover of the 1965 hit by
Chuck Berry
, was issued earlier as a single on September 27, 1974, and hit number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK top ten. Its flip side, "It's Midnight", reached 9 on the Country Charts. Another hit single from the album was "
If You Talk in Your Sleep
" reaching 17 on the
Billboard
Hot 100. "Promised Land" was used for the 1997 film
Men in Black
.
Quadraphonic
(or
quadrophonic
and sometimes
quadrasonic
)
sound
– equivalent to what is now called 4.0
surround sound
– uses four audio channels in which speakers are positioned at the four corners of a listening space. The system allows for the reproduction of sound signals that are (wholly or in part) independent of one another.
Four channel quadraphonic surround sound can be used to recreate the highly realistic effect of a three-dimensional live concert hall experience in the home. It can also be used to enhance the listener experience beyond the directional limitations of ordinary two channel
stereo
sound. Quadraphonic audio was the earliest consumer product in surround sound.