Elvis Presley Recording Sessions

August 24 1956

(+ means you need both ~ means same material °° means stereo or binaural ° means mono)
(SFS = Short False Start | FS = False Start | LFS or BD (Breakdown) = Long False Start | PB (Playback) or Complete = Complete Take)

20th Century Fox Stage 1 - Hollywood, California

Soundtrack Session for 'Love Me Tender'

20th Century Fox Producer : Lionel Newman

Arranger : Ken Darby

Engineers : Bob Mayer / Ken Runyon

(1.00pm - 6.00pm)

Musicians:		Backup Vocals:
Guitar:	Vito Mumolo	The Ken Darby Trio : Rad Robinson; Jon Dodson; Charles Prescott
Bass:	Michael "Myer" Rubin
Drums:	Richard Cornell
Banjo:	Luther "Red" Roundtree
Accordian:	Dominic Frontieri

We're Gonna Move					August 24 1956
Take 1	Complete		S01
Take 2	Incomplete		S02
Take 3	Incomplete		S03
Take 4	Complete	2:32	S04 (Used for spliced master)	50's Box 5°
Take 5			S05
Take 6	Incomplete		S06
Take 7	Incomplete		S07
Take 8	Incomplete		S08
Take 9	Complete	2:38	S09 (Used for spliced master)	Jailhouse Rock (1997)°°

Spliced	(M)	2:31	(Spliced from takes 4 & 9) (Further Overdubs) (Backup vocals & handclaps)	Unreleased

Poor Boy					August 24 1956
Take 1	Complete		S10
Take 2	Complete		S11
Take 3	(M)	1:41	S12 (Used for composite master)	Jailhouse Rock (1997)°°
			S13? (Abandoned?)
			S14? (Abandoned?)

Love Me Tender				G2WB 4767	August 24 1956
Take 1	Complete		S15
Take 2	(M)	2:44	S16 (Stereo Master)	Elvis (DSD)°°~24 Karat Hits°°~Can't Help Falling In Love (DSD)°° ~Heart & Soul°°~Love, Elvis°°~Jailhouse Rock (1997)°°
Take 2	M	2:41	S16 (Mono Master)	Young Man With The Big Beat 2 (Legacy)°~Comp Elvis Presley Masters 2 (Sony)°~Elvis Goes To Hollywood (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Coll'n 19)°~Elvis 75 - Good Rockin' Tonight 1 (Legacy)°~Elvis 75 CD1° ~Heart & Soul (DSD)°~Comp Single Collection 2°~Jailhouse Rock (1997)° ~50's Box 2°~E1 (30 #1 Hits)°

We're Gonna Move ('Mens Chorus' Overdub)					August 24 1956
Take 1	(Alt M)		S17
Take 2	(M)	2:31	S18 (Additional backup vocal overdubs)	Unreleased

We're Gonna Move ('Hand Claps' Overdub)				G2WB 7260		August 24 1956
Take 1	M	2:31	S19 (Hand Claps / Finger Snaps after additional backup V.O's)	Young Man With The Big Beat 2 (Legacy)°~Comp Elvis Presley Masters 2 (Sony)°~Elvis Goes To Hollywood (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 19)°~Jailhouse Rock (1997)°~50's Box 2°

Poor Boy (Remake)						August 24 1956
Take 1	FS	0:44	S20 (Abandoned)

The master of We're Gonna Move was spliced from take 9 (0:00-2:18) and take 4 (2:18-2:24). It's hard to identify the final chords (2:24-2:30) as being from any of takes 4 or 9 and could be from S18 and S19.

The composite master of Poor Boy is spliced from Take 3 and partial verse (September 5)

Take 3 of Poor Boy in stereo can be found on 'Jailhouse Rock (Love Me Tender - Combined Soundtrack)'. It is not the composite stereo (binaural) master as stated in 'Sessions III'

The original release of 'Heart & Soul' featured the stereo master of Love Me Tender, but on the DSD re-release of that album it contained the mono master.

In March of 2007, Sony decided to go through all of Elvis' masters. They retransferred everything and remastered all tracks including repairing as many clicks, pops, bad edits and dropouts as they could. They have used these newly mastered recordings on their new releases since 2007 including budget soundtracks, 'Legacy' releases, the 30 disc 'Complete Elvis Presley Masters' collection and the Franklin Mint package.



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