Title: The Request Box Shows

Label: Bilko

Date: August 19-20, 1975

Sound Quality (Concert): * * * + / * * * * * +

Concerts Rating: * * * * * / * * * * * +

Tracks: 1. See See Rider 2. Bathroom Story (dialogue) 3. Blue Suede Shoes 4. Young And Beautiful 5. Are You Lonesome Tonight? 6. If You Love Me Let Me Know 7. Softly As I Leave You 8. It's Now Or Never 9. Polk Salad Annie 10. Introducing The Righteous Brothers 11. My Boy 12. And I Love You So 13. Green Green Grass Of Home 14. Fairytale 15. T.R.O.U.B.L.E. 16. Why Me Lord? 17. Until It's Time For You To Go 18. Burning Love 19. Can't Help Falling In Love.

Package: Rather poor in comparison with "see higher" releases: only one photo may be found inside, featuring Elvis and a toy tiger. One sentence comments about Elvis' summer 1975 engagement in Las Vegas and that's all.

Elvis: All summer 1975 Elvis was playing superb!!! It is one of my all time favorite concert era: he is joking, powerfully singing, giving all his energy to the audience, but that could not entail anything except a nervous brake. And it followed: on the morning of August 21 Elvis was flown from Vegas to Memphis and admitted to Baptist Memorial Hospital for treatment of fatigue. After that, Elvis stopped singing Suspicious Minds - it was too exhausting for him. Unfortunately, this release, with a very good sound for an audience recording (the microphone was probably down the stage), does not include this song.

Songs: Almost all of them are masterpieces: a very rare Young and Beautiful, the sentimental My Boy, the gentle Until It's Time For You To Go and so on. But what I consider the real highlight of these shows is Why Me Lord? - Elvis laughs, imitating God when hearing The Stamps. I just can't stop laughing with him, when Elvis says addressing to JD Sumner "Kiss me!". For what I love this CD most, is the fact that Elvis changes the words in the songs: "I'm not a King, I'm just a man, take my scarf (hand)"; "The old home town looks the same, as I fell out (step down) from the train" and this could be endless list of replacements Elvis did that time..

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