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Elvis Presley | Leaving Cincinnati, OH on March 22, 1976 after two shows | March 21, 1976

Elvis boarding the Lisa Marie, Cincinnati.

Elvis Presley : Leaving Cincinnati, OH on March 22, 1976 after two shows there on March 21, 1976.

Elvis Presley : Leaving Cincinnati, OH on March 22, 1976 after two shows there on March 21, 1976.

Elvis Presley : Leaving Cincinnati, OH on March 22, 1976 after two shows there on March 21, 1976.

Elvis Presley : Leaving Cincinnati, OH on March 22, 1976 after two shows there on March 21, 1976.

Elvis Presley : Leaving Cincinnati, OH on March 22, 1976 after two shows there on March 21, 1976.

Arriving St Louis, MO

Elvis arriving in St Louis, MO on The Lisa Marie, March 22, 1976 for the last show of his first tour of 1976.

Elvis arriving in St Louis, MO on The Lisa Marie, March 22, 1976 for the last show of his first tour of 1976.

Elvis arriving in St Louis, MO on The Lisa Marie, March 22, 1976 for the last show of his first tour of 1976.

Elvis Presley | Kiel Auditorium St Louis, Miss 8.30pm | March 22, 1976

Elvis At Kiel, Still A Crowd Teaser

By Harper Barnes
St. Louis Post Dispatch - March 23, 1976

Concert Date : March 22, 1976 (8:30 pm). St. Louis, MO

In the movie '2001', heroic strains of 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' signal the presence of Godlike Beings from Outer Space. Last night at Kiel Auditorium, the same music signaled the entrance of Elvis Presley from Tupelo, Miss.

Elvis Presley Kiel Auditorium St Louis, Miss 8.30pm March 22, 1976

A packed house of about 10,500 was on hand to hear Presley, resplendent in spangled black pants, a black vest with a lot of cleavage and a ruffled blue shirt, do a 50 minute set. Presley, like Frank Sinatra, has passed the point of being a mere performer and has entered the realm of an institution. If most of the time he was content to sing his old hits without much conviction and let the band and backup singers carry the load, he would from time to time burst forth with enough power and general jiggling to set the crowd to shrieking.

After the introductory space music had died down and Presley had pranced around the stage like a bullfighter, he launched into 'C.C. Rider', a classic uptempo blues. Hundreds of flash bulbs went off in the audience and the lights rippled like strobes through the auditorium. He followed with the Ray Charles hit, 'I Got A Woman', as his brilliant veteran guitariat James Burton played rapid whining runs behind him. He rode a drum roll into 'Amen, Amen' and slid back into 'I Got A Woman'. He said, a little blurry, 'I hope we have a good time this afternoon'.

Presley snapped into 'Please Please Love Me' and discarded his baby-blue scarf in the direction of the audience. Backup singer Charlie Hodge quickly provided another - and another, and another, as Presley teased the crowd like a good stripper with an inexhaustible supply of long white gloves.

Several hundred fans, mostly women - the audience was at least two-thirds female - pressed against the apron of the stage. A woman in a blue pantsuit with long blond hair ran plumply from the wings and embraced Presley, pressing his arms to his side. For a moment he looked a little scared. She was hustled off stage immediately and as the crowd pressed forward Presley said, 'Mercy, folks'

After that it was 'Don't Be Cruel', 'Heartbreak Hotel', 'Love Me Tender', 'Polk Salad Annie', 'Hound Dog' all done very quickly. Presley, at 41 years old, goes through his old songs almost by rote, but he still has that remarkable charisma that made him famous in the first place.

'I'll still be coming to see him when he's 80 years old', said Jean Rohrbach, who was barely a teen-ager when Presley got his start and was at the concert with her mother, also a fan. With a flurry of scarves tossed to the audience, Presley closed the show with 'Can't Help Falling in Love With You'. There was a crush to the stage and then, as he left the stage followed by at least five bodyguards, a crush in the exits.

Jenny Schumacher of St. Ann learned Presley was staying at the Bel Air Hilton hotel and she and a friend were going to try to catch up with him there. Miss Schumacher had won her ticket on a radio contest. To win, she had to sing a Presley song and she chose 'Hound Dog'. She was a little disappointed in the lack of fire in Presley's performance of the song, but loved the concert anyway.

Generally, the audience was as mixed in age as any that has ever attended a rock concert at Kiel. It was the sort of crowd one might expect to see at an Alice Cooper-Lawrence Welk concert.

Mrs. Gladys Luepcke, a 68-year-old grandmother, was there with her daughter Janet, who spotted Presley on the Ed Sullivan Show more than 20 years ago and grabbed her mother to come in the listen.

'Elvis is for all ages', said Mrs. Luepke, who stood in line for three hours the morning the Presley tickets went on sale to make sure she got some. Like most fans, Janet and Gladys Luepke never got close enought to the stage to get one of the several dozen scarves that Presley threw into the audience. But that was no problem. After the concert, the scarves were on sale in the lobby of Kiel for $5 apiece.

January 1976

Elvis Presley Vail, Colorado | January, 1976
Deputy Chief Robert Cantwell Remembers Elvis Presley

March

Elvis Presley Freedom Hall Johnson City, Tn | March 17, 1976
Elvis Presley Freedom Hall Johnson City, Tn | March 18, 1976
Elvis Presley March 20, 1976. (8:30 pm) Charlotte, NC.
Elvis Presley | March 21, 1976 (8:30 pm) | Cincinnati, OH
Elvis Presley Leaving Cincinnati, OH on March 22, 1976 after two shows | March 21, 1976
Elvis Presley Kiel Auditorium St Louis, Miss 8.30pm | March 22, 1976

April

Elvis Presley Out For A Bike Ride | April 3, 1976
Elvis Presley Kansas City, MO | April 21, 1976
Elvis Presley Kansas City | April 22, 1976

June

Elvis Presley Enroute to the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium | June 25, 1976
Elvis Presley Philadelphia | June 28, 1976

July

Elvis Presley leaving his hotel in Shreveport, LA on his way to Baton Rouge, LA on July 2, 1976
Elvis Presley Fort Worth, Texas | July 3, 1976
Elvis Presley Tulsa, OK | July 4, 1976
Elvis Presley Mid-South Coliseum | July 5, 1976
Elvis Presley July 24, 1976 (2:30 pm). Charleston, WV. Civic Center
Elvis Presley Community War Memorial, Syracuse, Ny | July 27, 1976
Elvis Presley Civic Center, Springfield, Mass | July 29, 1976
Elvis Presley Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, Connecticut. 8:30 p.m July 30, 1976

August

Elvis Presley Roanoke VA | August 2, 1976

October

Vickers Gas Station, Memphis, October 4, 1976
Elvis Presley Chicago Stadium | October 14, 1976
Elvis Presley Chicago Stadium | October 15, 1976
Elvis Presley Minneapolis, Minnesota | October 17, 1976
Elvis Presley University Of Dayton, Dayton, Oh | October 26, 1976

November

Jerry Lee Lewis arrest at the Gates of Graceland
Elvis Presley Cow Palace, San Francisco, 8.30pm | November 28, 1976

September

Elvis Presley Coliseum, Jacksonville, Fl | September 1, 1976
Elvis Presley Huntsville, AL | September 6, 1976

December

Elvis Presley Las Vegas | December 4, 1976
Elvis Presley December 8, 1976
Elvis Presley Las Vegas | December 10, 1976 | Midnight Show
Elvis Presley Las Vegas | December 11, 1976
Elvis Presley Las Vegas | December 12, 1976
Elvis Presley New Years Eve Concert | December 31, 1976

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