Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite (album) 1973, platinum and 2× Platinum on May 20, 1988, 3× Platinum on July 15, 1999, and 5× Platinum on August 1, 2002, by the RIAA. On April 15, 2016, the BPI certified the album Silver for sales of 60,000 units. "Aloha from Hawaii" is a two-disc set—only the second such release of Presley's career (the first being 1969's double set "From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis", which contained one album each of studio and concert recordings). It was initially released only in quadraphonic sound, becoming the first album in the format to top the "Billboard" album chart. The album
Thai greeting The "wai" is also common as a way to express gratitude or to apologise. The word often spoken with the "wai" as a greeting or farewell is "sawatdi" (RTGS for , , sometimes romanized as "sawasdee"). This verbal greeting is usually followed by "kha" when spoken by a female and by "khrap" when spoken by a male person (see note on Thai polite particles). The word "sawatdi" was coined in the mid-1930s by Phraya Upakit Silapasan of Chulalongkorn University. Derived from the Sanskrit "svasti" (स्वस्ति meaning 'well-being'), it had previously been used in Thai only as a formulaic opening to