Elvis in Concert

Elvis In Concert is a posthumous 1977 TV special starring Elvis Presley. It was Elvis third and final TV special, following Elvis aka The 68 Comeback Special and Aloha From Hawaii. It was filmed during Presleys final tour in the cities of Omaha, Nebraska, on June 19, 1977, and Rapid City, South Dakota, on June 21, 1977. It was shown on CBS on October 3, 1977, two months after Presleys death. It is one of only few of Elvis programs which remains unlikely to ever be commercially released on home video and is only available in bootleg form. However, parts of the special were used in the documentary This is Elvis, which was released on home video.

During the special, Presley performs a number of songs spanning his career. During one song, Are You Lonesome Tonight?, just before Elvis goes into the recitation part of the song, the music is faded down and a devoted female fan is shown talking about her determination to see Elvis live in concert, then it switches back to Elvis after the recitation was finished. This may have been done so that viewers would not have to see Elvis fumbling through the recitation, although this footage was included in the later documentary This Is Elvis to illustrate his poor condition at the time, and the recitation was left intact on the soundtrack album as well. However, a strong case is made in Darrin Memmers book Elvis Presley The 1977 CBS Television Special, published in 2001 by Morris Publishing, that Elvis regularly played around with the words during the recitation of the song when performing it onstage, rather than it being a case of poor memory. Indeed, a concert recording of Presley similarly joking around during the recitation of Are You Lonesome Tonight? dating from 1969 has been issued by RCA on numerous occasions. Dubbed the Laughing Version due to Elvis breaking into fits of laughter during the recitation, it even made the UK charts after Presleys death and he also poked fun at the song during his 1968 Comeback Special, pretending to mumble the recitation instead of speaking it.Presley also sings his muchperformed My Way, although he has to use a lyric sheet on this occasion, despite having performed the song several years through the 1970s without having to refer to a lyric sheet. Presley also removed both of his thencurrent singles, Moody Blue and Way Down, from the setlist Presley had forgotten the lyrics to Moody Blue when attempting to perform it earlier in the tour and never performed it live again. ........

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