| | |  | PUNK ROCK VIDEOS | Home » » » Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii (Deluxe Edition) | | | | | | | Description: | | Elvis presley at the pinnacle of his superstardom giving one of the most outstanding concert performances of his career. 25 of elvis greatest hits including a special bonus song never before included on any telecast no more. Studio: Sony Music Release Date: 08/23/2005 | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Elvis Presley, James Burton, Jerry Scheff, Charlie Hodge, John Wilkinson | | Director:
| Gary Hovey | | Format:
| Color, DVD, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 2 | | Studio:
| Bmg Marketing | | Run Time:
| 242 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| June 22, 2004 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 102 reviews |
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44 of 44 found the following review helpful:
 This is the moment I've waited forMar 19, 2005
By Johnny Heering
"trivia buff"
This Deluxe Edition DVD features pretty much everything you could ask for in regards to Elvis Aloha from Hawaii. You get the staged footage of Elvis arriving in Hawaii and greeting fans, which is actually pretty boring. You get the complete rehearsal concert that was taped two days before the live broadcast. Elvis shows more energy here than in the broadcast concert, but he forgets more of the lyrics and sings two less songs. You get the complete Aloha from Hawaii Concert, which has been re-edited from scratch. The show was originally broadcast with quite a bit of "montage" footage, which means multiple images from the concert seen on the screen all at once in video blocks, but almost all of those effects were removed from this version. After the concert, Elvis recorded five songs on stage with no audience, which were inserted into the concert after commercial breaks, played with montage footage of Hawaii. The complete footage of that recording session is here, complete with all takes of each song, with no footage of Hawaii. Finally, the original broadcast version of Elvis Aloha from Hawaii is included, minus the commercials. What more can you ask for?
33 of 33 found the following review helpful:
 Outstanding - he's back and clearer than ever.Aug 07, 2004
By E R Vela
I'll be brief and to the point.
This dvd remastering is fantastic. You can see the pores in his skin, the follicles of his hair. The sound is beautiful. We have all already seen the concert, but not like this. Thank you, thank you, thank you goes out to all the people who painstakingly beautified this dvd to its peak visual and aural symphony.
Well done and enjoy it!
36 of 39 found the following review helpful:
Elvis' Last HurrahApr 02, 2005
By W. Hetfield
"Walt Hetfield"
I love this DVD - play it all the time. As a teenager in the 70's I was totally put off by Elvis. I couldn't relate to the "Captain America meets Englebert Humperdink" personna/music. I liked the 50's Elvis when I'd hear him - but I thought he was washed up. I didn't see the special when it first aired in '73.
Now I'm older and wiser. This DVD has everything that you could want related to the show. The dress rehearsal really kicks a#@. What an incredible band! In the actual show Elvis is a little off key compared to the rehearsal - he looks pretty nervous through the first few numbers. But then he relaxes and we get a primo performance. I find myself watching the first disc more - the uncut performances of the rehearsal and the broadcast. I never seem to get tired of it.
James Burton, Ronnie Tutt, the Sweet Inspirations and the whole gang just smoke throught the whole thing. After this, Elvis had a few more good moments left on record, but the overall quality of his work really deteriorated. This was his last peak - on video at least.
17 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Classic performance with extra material--what a guy!Sep 03, 2004
By a viewer
This new-edition DVD set is simply great! It includes the concert version that was originally telecast in the US in April 1973, and the version shown live to much of the rest of the world via satellite (a big deal in 1973) three months earlier. It also includes the "alternate" concert, which was the rehearsal for the live telecast. These are awesome concerts performed just before Elvis' health began its major decline, showing his generosity (Kui Lee Cancer Fund) and patriotism. The first segment shows footage of Elvis' arrival at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, taped for the concert introduction. (He stayed in the Rainbow Tower there, visible in the footage.) My favorite bonus segment of the set, however, is the taping of the "extra" songs which were inserted, with scenery, for the US telecast. These were taped in the middle of the night, just after the arena cleared immediately after the live satellite telecast. How he, and his musicians, could perform so well, recording five quality songs on the spot, just after doing a concert beamed live to billions of people is astounding!! His remarkable talent and stamina really come across here! My personal favorite, "No More," was not used in the telecast and is seen nowhere else in the set. His interactions between takes with the director and musicians during this segment, never intended for public viewing, show a personal side of this GREAT performer. The credits roll over the beautiful song, "I'll Remember You," and we certainly always will. This is a classic set to be enjoyed for years.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Peace, Love and Understanding, Elvis StyleJun 13, 2005
By Kevin Killian
ALOHA brings out the best in Elvis, even though he seems a little somber from time to time, possibly over the loss of Priscilla, so when he sings CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE with you, he seems to be singing directly to his memories of love (they would be divorced in October). It is a heartbreaking document to all who love Elvis. This DVD package is extraordinary. It contains just about everything we could possibly have asked for from Marty Pasetta's groundbreaking staging of Elvis' Aloha concert. The producers certainly asked him to pull a lot together, and he delivered, thanks to a marvelous band that would literally do anything for their leader, and backed by the Sweet Inspirations who were always simpatico with Elvis, sometimes seeming to pick him up when he felt down (their energy was contagious, and sometimes you can watch him sensing the energy and responding to it). It was filmed in January but not released in the USA until April (1973) after some heavy editing.
If I remember right, Elvis never gave a concert in Europe, although many European promoters made him offers galore, and so this filmed performance may show him off at the farthest away place from where he was born. With all that psychic baggage loaded onto the plane with him, I think we can all agree he did an amazing job. Elvis of course had made several movies with a Hawaiian theme, and he had sort of adopted the state as a place where good vibrations were to be found everywhere, rainbows and tropical sunsets, as well as a hint of danger (in the simmering dormant volcanoes that matched his performance style) and his groundbreaking anti-racist message, seemingly embodied in the so-called "melting pot" of Hawaii with its population of indigenous and mixed race citizens. How many times did Elvis explicitly state this message of tolerance and/or activism? As he sang to us, "Are we too blind to see,/ Do we simply turn our heads/ And look the other way?"
Watching this DVD will bring a smile of nostalgia to those who visited Honolulu back in the day, as the show was filmed in what used to be the Honolulu International Conventional Center. Nowadays, of course, this is no longer extant. It is said that the show raised $75,000 for a local cancer fund. To me, this doesn't seem like a while lot, especially when you think that Elvis signed a $1000 check personally as did the Colonel. Over the years this performance must have raked in millions of dollars. Hope the Kui Lee Fund continues to get residuals from this exemplary DVD version.
I hope that the USS Arizona Benefit concert from 1961 is also released on DVD. That's the one where Elvis first wore gold lame and where he appeared with Miinie Pearl! You know that's a keeper!
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