An Afternoon in the Garden is a live musical
album recorded by American singer and musician Elvis Presley at
Madison Square Garden on June 10, 1972. The album was released by
RCA Records on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the concert in 1997.
During the weekend of June 9 through June 11, 1972, Elvis Presley
gave his very first concerts in New York City; he had performed on
television in the 1950s and recorded at studios in the city, but had
never performed in a concert venue before a paying audience. Four
shows in total were scheduled: three for the evenings of Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday, with a matinee performance on Saturday
afternoon as well. Engineers from RCA Records taped the two Saturday
concerts, the results of the evening show released a mere eight days
later on Elvis: As Recorded at Madison Square Garden, while the
tapes for the afternoon show stayed in the vaults until a few months
before the twenty-fifth anniversary of the concerts. (wikipedia
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