On January 16, 1975 the tickets for Elvis' tour opening in Macon/Georgia went on sale. It took ten days to retail all 10,242 available tickets, in total the concert generated 96,000 USD in ticket sales and 4,000 USD in the sale of merchandising. Elvis wore the "Two-Piece Suit With Silver Ornaments", that can be seen on the cover. As written before, the sound engineer didn't tape "Also Sprach Zarathustra", "See See Rider" and the medley of "I Got A Woman" and "Amen". Even though the king appears to be a bit tired at times and obviously hadn't learned his new song "T-R-O-U-B-L-E", he was in good voice and presented a very up-to-date repertoire.

Elvis introduces himself as Johnny Cash and the band starts to play a typical rhythm-pattern. Jokingly the king says, how nice it was to be back in Atlanta. After some interactions with the audience he sings "Love Me" and uses the oldie to hand out a scarf or two.

The country pop "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)" was added to the show half a year ago, so I guess nobody in the audience has heared the Presley version of Olivia Newton-John's hit before. It's a peppy rendition, Elvis obviously likes this kind of music.

Up next is "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me", which is known from his album "That's The Way It Is". Today Elvis doesn't sing it as well as back in 1970, but one also cannot say, that it's a bad rendition.

The tempo is raised with a rockin' performance of "Big Boss Man". Even though the singer has become a bit chubby since his last tour, he's moving along to the beat and obviously has fun.

Elvis follows with "It's Midnight", his penultimate single. While the audience preferred the rocker on the b-side and RCA even named his currend album after the track, the king votes for the country ballad. His presentation is outstanding, he sings with a lot of emotion and obviously is in great voice.

As said before, the fans settled for "Promised Land" and so the king gives them what they want and sings the rock'n'roll song, too. He does it well, but not as zesty as on the record.

Now Elvis announces "This next song is a song we have recorded and we hope you like it. It's called Fairytale". It's another country pop, which the king obviously likes very much. His performance is full of enthusiasm and at the end he tells the band to "Walk on" and repeat the finale. But he barely can stop himself and instructs them to do it "One more time". Great stuff.

Up next is his 1972 hit record "Burning Love". At the time he was reluctant to perform it live on stage, but now he presents a rockin' rendition of the tune. At the end he includes some of his famous moves, which come across astonishingly fast and energetic considering his physique.

The quick moves must have taken a toll on the king, because instead of the usual "I'd like to introduce the members of my group" he ironically says "I'd like to lay out for a minute". With the exception of rhythm guitarist John Wilkinson every memeber of the band performs a solo. When the king spontaneously asks Jerry Scheff to lengthen his bass solo, he's obviuosly caught off guard and the whole thing gets somewhat chaotic.

Elvis continues the show with an emotional and dramatic rendition of "My Boy", his current single.

His current 45 is followed by the forthcoming one, a rock'n'roll tune called "T-R-O-U-B-L-E". In advance the singer asks to forgive any mistakes and it soon turns out, that his plea is sorely needed. The band knows the new song inside-out, but Elvis stumbles through the track, doesn't get the lyrics right and fails on the timing. The whole performance simply sounds underrehearsed. It's almost an insult to take money for such a presentation.

Fortunately the next song works as well as expected. It's not as great as his rendition on the "Aloha" album, but also not far from it.

This is Elvis' second Olivia Newton-John cover tonight, but just as "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)" this kind of music fits him well. Compared to previous years' album "Elvis Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis" he has raised the tempo, but this is not a bad thing. The tune sounds a bit more zesty now and the king toys with the melody.

Being in the southern states, a bit of patriotism never hurts. When he's belting out the loud parts of the song, Elvis sounds as impressive as ever. But the quiet and long lines reveal, that he sings less accurate these days and doesn't hold the notes long enough. His rendition is good enough to get the people on their feet, but compared to the performances on the albums "Elvis As Recorded At Madison Square Garden" (1972), "Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite" (1973) and even "Elvis Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis" (1974) it falls short.

Now the king says goodbye to his fans in Macon, sings "Can't Help Falling In Love" and leaves the stage to the sounds of the "Closing Riff". Today's version is quite funky and somewhat differs from the usual incarnations.