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| image = Elvis Presley - Aloha From Hawaii Poster 1973.jpg
| director = [[Marty Pasetta]]
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| starring = [[Elvis Presley]]
| music = Elvis Presley
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| runtime = 85 minutes
| country = United States
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Presley returned to performing tours throughout the United States in 1970. [[Richard Nixon]]'s 1972 [[Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China|visit to China]] inspired Presley's manager, [[Colonel Tom Parker]], to promote a live broadcast concert featuring Presley 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 received a favorable reception from critics. [[Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite (album)|Its soundtrack album]] became Presley's last chart-topper on ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''{{'s}} [[Billboard 200|album chart]].
==Background==
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==Production==
On September 4, the final day of Presley's 59-show engagement at the [[Las Vegas Hilton]], Parker announced at a press conference that the live NBC television special, ''Aloha from Hawaii'', would take place in January 1973 in Hawaii.{{sfn|Guralnick, Peter|p=475|1999}} Parker had the idea in February 1972, when he saw the live broadcast of [[Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China|Richard Nixon's visit to China]]. Parker approached NBC's president Tom Sarnoff with the proposition. They set a tentative release date for November 18, the end of Presley's tour. The date had to be moved at the request of
Sarnoff suggested [[Marty Pasetta]] produce the special. Pasetta had produced television specials for [[Perry Como]], [[Bing Crosby]], [[Glen Campbell]], and [[Don Ho]]'s five specials, filmed on location in Hawaii. He had also produced broadcasts of the [[Academy Awards|Oscars]], [[Emmy]]s, and [[Grammy]]s. Presley was interested in a producer who could capture the atmosphere of a live concert. Pasetta attended Presley's concert in [[Long Beach, California|Long Beach]] on November 15. He was unimpressed by Presley's performance, feeling his presence was "staged, quiet", and expressed his doubts to the network that he would be able to produce an hour-and-a-half special. They told Pasetta to discuss his concerns with Parker.{{sfn|Hopkins, Jerry|2002|p=62}}
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Pasetta returned to Los Angeles, where he began work on the stage that would be shipped to Hawaii; further set decorations would be added on location. The large stage covered the space used for 3,500 of the [[Neal S. Blaisdell Center|Honolulu International Center]]'s 8,800 seats. RCA Records commissioned the [[Berlitz Corporation]] to translate the phrases and scriptures Presley would use.{{sfn|Hopkins, Jerry|2002|p=67}}
The stage and equipment were shipped from Los Angeles to Hawaii in early January 1973. Pasetta and the crew traveled there to film the scenery to be added as [[Insert (filmmaking)|inserts]] to the television special for its release in the United States. Presley arrived on January 10.{{sfn|Hopkins, Jerry|2002|p=67}} After seeing the stage in the venue, Presley asked Pasetta to remove the scattered individual
=== Costumes ===
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[[File:Elvis Presley 1973 RCA Records and Tapes publicity 3 - cropped.png|thumb|left|Presley (front) and bassist [[Jerry Scheff]] (left)]]
Initial reports estimated the show was seen by 1.5 billion people in 36 countries.{{sfn|Carr, Bob|1973|p=A17}} Parker had presented the same figures at the press conference promoting the broadcast.{{sfn|Osborne, Jerry|1999|p=216}} The communications satellite [[Intelsat IV F-4]] was used for the transmission of the live feed to the target area.{{sfn|Haeussler, Matthias|2020|p=251}} In Australia, [[Nine Network|Channel Nine]] presented the show with the assistance of the [[Overseas Telecommunications Commission]] (OTC).{{sfn|OTC|1973|p=4}} The concert closed the "Elvis Presley Week" television event on [[Nippon TV|NTV]] in Japan{{sfn|Woog, Adam|1997|p=88}} and garnered 37.8% of the total television viewers; viewership reached 70% in Hong Kong. In South Korea, it attracted an estimated 70–80% of TV viewers, while tentative data from the Philippines indicated 91.8%. As the event occurred during the [[Cold War]], China and the [[Soviet Union]] were excluded from the broadcast.{{sfn|Haeussler, Matthias|2020|p=251}} Contrary to Parker's claim, the concert would be presented with a delay of days or weeks to the 21 European countries where it was finally seen; countries that were a part of the [[Warsaw Pact|Warsaw Treaty Organization]] were excluded.{{sfn|Haeussler, Matthias|2020|p=252}} The figures for total viewers proposed by Presley's manager were questioned,{{sfn|Hopkins, Jerry|2007|p=79}} as critics pointed that the sum of the total population of all the countries targeted by the broadcast was roughly 1.3 billion with the actual viewership ranging from 150-200 million.{{sfn|Gaar, Gillian|2014|p=33}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite {{!}} Fact & Fancy {{!}} Elvis Articles |url=https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/aloha-from-hawaii-via-satellite-fact-fancy.shtml |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=www.elvis.com.au |language=en}}</ref>
NBC aired the ninety-minute television special on April 4.{{sfn|Slaughter, Todd; Nixon, Anne|2014|p=107}} [[Van Camp's|The Stokely-Van Camp Company]] and [[Toyota]] presented the show.{{sfn|Bartel, Pauline|1995|p=71}} It opened with an animation of the satellite "beaming" Presley to different parts of the world, with audio signals in [[Morse code]] saying "Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii".{{sfn|Haeussler, Matthias|2020|p=252}} Pasetta added clips of Presley's arrival by helicopter to the Hilton hotel and the show outside the arena to the concert sequences. The additional recordings Presley made after the show were also integrated. Pasetta used [[split screen (video production)|split-screens]] to show Presley and the scenery images he had filmed of Hawaii. The track "No More" was not used.{{sfn|Beebe, Roger; Middleton, Jason|2007|p=260}} The show earned a [[Nielsen ratings|Nielsen rating]] of 33.8 and a 57 share.{{sfn|Guralnick, Peter|p=496|1999}}
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* {{Cite book |last=Jeansonne, Glenn; Luhrssen, David; Sokolovic, Dan |title=Elvis Presley, Reluctant Rebel: His Life and Our Times |publisher=ABC-Clio |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-313-35904-0}}
* {{Cite book |last=Klein, George; Crisafulli, Chuck |title=Elvis: My Best Man |publisher=Random House |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-4481-1262-3}}
* {{cite news|author=Legacy Recordings staff|
* {{Cite book |last=Leigh, Spencer |title=Elvis Presley: Caught in a Trap |publisher=McNidder & Grace |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-857-16166-6}}
* {{Cite book |last=LIFE staff |title=LIFE Remembering Elvis Presley: The King Lives On |publisher=Time Home Entertainment |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-683-30900-0}}
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