Video: 'Elvis Presley - Aloha From Hawaii, Live in Honolulu, 1973 (Full Concert) The Ultimate Experience'
(Sunday, January 14, 1973, 12:30 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time) — Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite, a rock music concert starring Elvis Presley, took place early this morning at the Honolulu International Center and was broadcast live via satellite to audiences in Asia and Oceania.
Presley had returned to performing tours throughout the United States in 1970. President 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.
Among the audience were Honolulu mayor Frank Fasi, actor Jack Lord, and the family of Kui Lee, a singer-songwriter from Hawaii, died in 1966 of lymph gland cancer.
The show benefited the Kui Lee Cancer Fund. Marty Pasetta produced the program.
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 Apr. 4, 1973.
The special 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.
