From Fort Worth/Texas the tour moved to Baton Rouge/Louisiana. Here the king stayed for two days, too, but gave just one concert each day. Both times the Louisiana State University's Assembly Center was filled with 15,000 people and it was said, that it was the fastest sell-out in the facility's history. On June 17th Elvis wore the "American Eagle Suit", on June 18th he used the "Peacock Suit".

The show in Baton Rouge more or less mirrors the one in Fort Worth. The differences are the omission of "Heartbreak Hotel" and Elvis being in a more humoreous mood.

This time the engineer waited to turn on the equipment until shortly before Elvis opened his mouth to sing the first note. So once again we neither hear "Also Sprach Zarathustra", nor the "Opening Riff". The tune is presented with a lot of drive.

Elvis reacts to the people at the back of the stage, says "Turn around? OK" and does so. Then he toys a bit with the word "well", but not as long as in Fort Worth. "I Got A Woman" is also performed with a lot of energy. At the end of "Amen" the king spoofs his infamous jerks from the 1950s and JD Sumner presents his bass voice. After a quick return to "I Got A Woman" Elvis gives his guitar back to Charlie and introduces himself as Arvis Paisley. He once again adresses the people at the backside by intoning "Turn Around, Look At Me". His pianist is on his toes and joins in, but the king doesn't want to sing the ballad and moves on to the next tune on his agenda.

The ballad "Love Me" gets a solid outing.

Now Elvis talks about his beginnings and his appearances at "The Louisiana Hayride". When the band starts to play "Trying To Get To You", the king suddenly stops them and intones "Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues", a ballad from his current longplayer "Good Times". But of course he returns to the old SUN classic. At first he jokes with a fan, but then he really gets into the song and delivers an outstanding rendition!

He doesn't invest as much energy in his 1957 best-seller "All Shook Up", but it's still a good enough performance.

Up next is "Love Me Tender", the title song of Presley's first motion picture. Today he sings the ballad without kissing a single lady, so he's really focusing on the music.

Compared to the rendition of "Hound Dog" in Fort Worth Elvis invests a bit more of his energy, but he certainly wouldn't have become the king of rock'n'roll with a performance like this. But the fans obviously don't care, for them it's enough to see Elvis shaking his body to the drum beats.

Elvis uses "Fever" to flirt with the fans, drive them wild with some leg-moves and to joke around. The sexiness of his studio recording is nowhere in sight, but the performance certainly is entertaining!

The show is continued with "Polk Salad Annie", a song from his album "On Stage - February 1970". In the past four years the arrangement has changed a lot and Elvis' body action became slower and less. But during the finale he still presents some karate inspired moves and gets the ladies on their feet.

Jokingly Elvis alters his usual announcement "I'd like to ask JD Sumner & The Stamps to sing one of my favorite songs" to "I'd like to ask JD Sumner & The Stamps to leave the stage", which engenders a lot of laughter from The Sweet Inspirations. Then Mr. Sumner takes over the lead vocals while his boss joins The Stamps during the chorus. Afterwards Elvis suggests "Let's do the last part again" and the group gives a little encore.

The mega hit "Suspicious Minds" is presented just like "Polk Salad Annie". Elvis still moves to the music, but a lot less then he had done a few years earlier. However, in general it's still a solid performance and nice to hear.

Now Elvis takes a minute or two to introduce his band. Of course he mentions, that his bass player Duke Bardwell is from Baton Rouge. Jokingly he assumes, that Glen D. Hardin is from Afghanistan.

After provoking a false start the king continues with a solid rendition of "I Can't Stop Loving You".

Elvis tells the crowd, that he has a new record out and one side was called "If You Talk In Your Sleep" and the other one "Help Me". In contrast to the people's expectations he settles for "Help Me". A joking remark to his harmony singer aside, the king delivers an emotional and heartfelt performance of the religious country tune.

Today Mr. Presley doesn't sing as accurate as on the albums "Elvis As Recorded At Madison Square Garden" (1972) or "Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite" (1973). He also clowns around a bit during the part of The Stamps. However, the finale is nothing but impressive.

The tempo of the show picks up with "Let Me Be There", a lovely country-pop that suits Elvis very well.

To take a look at the fans Elvis has the house lights turned up. After a bit of communication with the crowd he segues into "Funny How Time Slips Away". After the line "never know when I'll be back in town" the king quickly adds "tomorrow night". Elvis obviously is proud to have JD Sumner with him on stage, because today he repeats the last line of the country ballad to give him another opportunity to produce some astonishingly deep sounds.

Before he ends the show with the usual "Can't Help Falling In Love", the king presents a rockin' version of "Big Boss Man". Then he thanks the fans for coming to his show and also mentions his concert here tomorrow.

The ballad from "Blue Hawaii" basically is used to shake hands and accept gifts. Then the band moves on to the "Closing Riff", to which Elvis bows in every direction and gives away his final scarf. Tomorrow night he'll be back and do it all again.