On March 30th the procedure was the same. Elvis flew from Baton Rouge to Alexandria and didn't leave his plane until right before showtime. After the concert he quickly returned to the airport and was flown back to his headquarters. For the second concert in Alexandria Elvis wore the "Embroidered Arabian Suit". Due to his worsening condition this show turned out to be the final one of the tour. On the next day the singer simply refused to leave his bed and 13,000 fans had to be sent home after the pre-show. Elvis flew back to Memphis and went straight into the local Baptist Memorial Hospital. However, after only five days he checked himself out and neither acknowledged his problems, nor accepted any help.

Considering the source the audio quality is very good. The sound is bright and clear and the mix leaves little to be desired. Unfortunately the good quality just emphasizes the singer's weary condition and the slurring of his speech.

The recording starts after Elvis welcomed the crowd. Here and there he tries to inject some energy, but in general the man sounds tired and his voice displays a nasal subtone.

The same applies to this country pop. Elvis sings some of the lines a little louder to make his performance sound more dynamic, but too often he somewhat hides behind his harmony singers. In mid-performance one of the microphones causes a feedback.

The same occures during the first bars of "You Gave Me A Mountain", so Elvis stopps the performances and starts again. By now he appears to have warmed up a bit since he sounds more energetic. However, he still is lightyears away from his performance in "Elvis On Tour" (1972) and even doesn't get close to his rendition in the forthcoming tv special "Elvis In Concert".

As expected the man neither sounds rebellious, nor energetic here, but as a quick reminder of everyones' youth the performance works well and the audience happily claps along.

Now Elvis announces Sherrill Nielsen, who sings the Italien classic "O Sole Mio". Then the king takes over with "It's Now Or Never", which is based on the traditional. He sings it well, especially the chorus sounds impressive.

The king wants to follow up with a medley of hits, starting with "Little Sister". Ironically he adds, that he doesn't know how it will end, maybe with "Blue Suede Shoes". His 1961 hit is presented well, Elvis even asks his band to continue a bit longer.

The medley is dedicated to scarfs. His assistant puts it around his neck and after a second or two the king throws them into the audience. It's a ridiculous scene, but the women are falling all over themselves to get one. Of course these scarfs can also be bought at one of the merchandising stands, but these ones have not touched the sweaty neck of the pudgy man on stage. Elvis' vocal performance leaves a lot to be desired, he obviously knows about the stupidity of the procedure.

Now the singer complains about the sound in the multipurpose hall and asks his sound engineers to come on stage and listen to it from his perspective. Strangely though his dissatisfaction with the sound in the various buildings started last year or so - about the same time he started to get fat and weary himself and his performances started to get worse by the minute. However, instead of "Blue Suede Shoes" the king settles for "And I Love You So", a track from his album "Elvis Today". The two years old song is the most recent so far and also his best performance of the evening. However, he cannot help to change the line "....how lonely life has been" to "...how bad the sound has been" and therefore embarresses Bruce Jackson and Felton Jarvis, his sound engineers, even more. For some unknown reason FTD edited out Elvis' awkward actions here. When they released this song as a bonus track on "Amarillo '77" a few years earlier, the part was left in.

After the short nod to the present Elvis quickly returns to the past and presents "Fever". Despite being out of shape he still can turn mature ladies into screaming teenagers, simply by moving his legs to the music.

Once again the king pulls "Love Me Tender" out of the closet. Just like in the old days he's bestowing the females at the edge of the stage with kisses and scarfs and obviously has fun doing so. However, today even his laughs sound tired and old. 

After "Love Me Tender" Elvis introduced his band. As written before the sound engineer didn't tape these 15 minutes of boredom, so we continue with the next song and hear the king announcing "One of our latest records is called HURT". In contrast to the summer of 1976 he doesn't sing the power ballad twice or repeat the finale. Elvis also sounds less powerful than on he record. Nevertheless "Hurt" gets a solid performance with several lines belted out in impressive style.

Now Elvis mubles through a short rendition of "Hound Dog" and doesn't do much more than listlessly repeating the same four lines over and over again. It gets even worse, when he starts to shake his stiff and chubby body to the brass sounds of the orchestra. But the fans see the image and not the real person and so they cheer as if it was 1956.

Despite having rested for a quarter of an hour (Introductions) and having performed just two songs afterwards Elvis needs another break. And so he calls out for Sherrill Nielsen to sing "Danny Boy" and "Walk With Me". The king uses these five minutes or so to sit on a chair and drink some water. Due to legal reasons Follow That Dream Records cannot release these performances and so the recording continues with "Blue Suede Shoes". Elvis delivers a routine performance.

"Thank you very much landies and gentlemen - take it home, son!". That's all the king has to say before he bows out with the usual "Can't Help Falling In Love". He changes the first line to "Wise men know, when it's time to go" and considering his efforts this evening it really may be time to do so. The movie tune is sung the usual way, afterwards Elvis shakes a few hands and gives away his final scarf. Then he leaves the stage to the sounds of the "Closing Riff".