Elvis Presley: Las Vegas Dinner Show 1973 (VG Aud) FLAC

15 February 1973 - Las Vegas Dinner Show (TCB Records) (Liberated Boot) (aud)
Scans, log and cue included.
Ripped from CD.
Ripping method
CD -> EAC Test & Copy -> Individual Wav Files -> Flac frontend level 8 -> flac
During this show Elvis had to leave the stage due to ill health caused by a throat infection - and you can hear how rough he feels as he struggles during You Gave Me A Mountain and Fever. He clearly shouldn't have been on stage at all. We therefore get the bonus of hearing five songs by J D Sumner and the Stamps which is a rare treat. On his return Elvis sings his show closer Can't Help Falling In Love after which he decides to continue the show after all and battles on manfully through five more songs including a second rendition of Can't Help Falling In Love which can't have done his throat any good at all.
The show was also released by White Haven under the title Sweet Sweet Spirit and is clearly from the same source as the TCB Records release as the breaks outlined below occur at the same points. Las Vegas Dinner Show has far better sound than Sweet Sweet Spirit which is full of flaws and best avoided. This version shows that the original tape is pretty good for an audience recording. You can hear everything very clearly.
There are a couple of breaks which are on the source CD and presumably the source tape You Gave Me A Mountain at 3:18 and When It's My Time at 3:33


In an unrelated matter: I thought that you'd enjoy reading this letter from J Edgar Hoover written to the La Crosse (Wisconsin) Tribune after Elvis performed at the la Crosse High School in 1956. It is a real laugh!!

Mr. J Edgar Hoover
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Mr. Hoover,
Elvis Presley press-agented as a singer and entertainer, played to two groups of teenagers numbering several thousand at the city auditorium here. Monday May 14.
As newspaper man, parent, and former member of Army Intelligence Service, I feel an obligation to pass on to you my conviction that Presley is a definite danger to the security of the United States.
Although I could not attend myself, I sent two reporters to cover his second show at 9:30 p.m. besides, I secured the opinions of others of good judgment, who had seen the show or had heard direct reports of it. Among them are a radio station manager, a former motion picture exhibitor, an orchestra player, and a young woman employee of a radio station who witnessed the show to determine its value. All agree that it was the filthiest and most harmful production that ever came to La Crosse for exhibition to teenagers.
When Presley came on the stage, the youngsters almost mobbed him, as you can judge from the article and pictures enclosed from May 15 edition of the La Crosse TRIBUNE. The audience could not hear his "singing” for the screaming and carrying on of the teenagers.
But eyewitnesses have told me that Presley's actions and motions were such as to rouse the sexual passions of teenaged youth. One eye-witness described his actions as “sexual self-gratification on the stage," — another as “a striptease with clothes on." Although police and auxiliaries were there, the show went on. Perhaps the hardened police did not get the import of his motions and gestures, like those of masturbation or riding a microphone. (The assistant district attorney and Captain William Boma also stopped in for a few minutes in response to complaints about the first show, but they found no reason to halt the show.)
After the show, more than 1,000 teenagers tried to gang into Presley‘s room at the auditorium, then at the Stoddard Hotel. All possible police on duty were necessary at the Hotel to keep watch on the teenagers milling about the hotel till after 3 a.m., the hotel manager informed me. Some kept milling about the city till about 5 a.m.
Indications of the harm Presley did just in La Crosse were the two high school girls (of whom I have direct personal knowledge) whose abdomen and thigh had Presley's autograph. They admitted that they went to his room where this happened. It is known by psychologists, psychiatrists and priests that teenaged girls from the age of eleven, and boys in their adolescence are easily aroused to sexual indulgence and perversion by certain types of motions and hysteria, — the type that was exhibited at the Presley show.
There is also gossip of the Presley Fan Clubs that degenerate into sex orgies. The local radio station WKBH sponsors a club on the "Lindy Shannon Show."
From eye-witness reports about Presley, I would judge that he may possibly be both a drug addict and sexual pervert. In any case I am sure he bears close watch, — especially in the face of growing juvenile crime nearly everywhere in the United States. He is surrounded by a group of high-pressure agents who seem to control him, the hotel manager reported.
I do not report idly to the FBI. My last official report to an FBI agent in New York before I entered the U.S. Army resulted in arrest of a saboteur (who committed suicide before his trial). I believe the Presley matter is as serious to U.S. security. I am convinced that juvenile crimes of lust and perversion will follow his show here in La Crosse.
I enclose article and pictures from May 15 edition of the La Crosse TRIBUNE. The article is an excellent example of the type of reporting that describes a burlesque show by writing about the drapes on the stage. But the pictures, to say the least are revealing. Note, too, that under the Presley article, the editor sanctimoniously published a very brief “filler" on the FBI’s concern for teenage crime. Only a moron could not see the connection between the Presley exhibit and the incidence of teenage disorders in La Crosse.
With many thanks, and with a prayer for God‘s special blessing on your excellent and difficult work for justice and decency.
Sincerely yours,
J Edgar Hoover

Set List
01 Opening Overture
02 See See Rider
03 I Got A Woman/Amen
04 Love Me Tender
05 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
06 Steamroller Blues
07 You Gave Me A Mountain
08 Fever
09 Lonesome Road (J D Sumner & The Stamps)
10 Sweet Sweet Spirit (J D Sumner & The Stamps)
11 When It's My Time (J D Sumner & The Stamps)
12 How Great Thou Art (J D Sumner & The Stamps)
13 Crucified (J D Sumner & The Stamps)
14 Can't Help Falling In Love
15 Faded Love
16 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
17 Polk Salad Annie
18 American Trilogy
19 Can't Help Falling In Love
20 Final Announcement

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