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September 5 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 - 4.00pm)

Musicians:    
NA    

Poor Boy (Partial Verse (3) Vocal Overdub)
  September 5 1956
Take 1     S26 (V.O. of Partial Verse Track)  
Take 2     S27  
Take 3     S28  
Take 4     S29  
Take 5     S30  
Take 6 (M) (0:10) S31 (8 seconds used for composite master)  

Poor Boy (Composite)
G2WB 7259
September 5 1956
Spliced M 2:14 (Spliced from take 3 & Partial Verse) 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)°~Complete Single Collection 10°
~50's Box 2°

Let Me (Vocal Overdub)
G2WB 7261
  September 5 1956
Take 1 Incomp.   S32 (Vocal overdub of Track)  
Take 2 Incomp.   S33  
Take 3 Complete 2:04 S34 (Used for spliced master) Jailhouse Rock (1997)° (Vocal channel only "Solo Version")
(Could be Take 4)
Take 4 Complete?   S35 (Used for spliced master)  
         
Spliced M 2:09 (Spliced from takes 3 & 4) 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°

Notes

The master of Poor Boy runs slower than the released take 3 and was spliced like this (if Take 3 is altererd by 0.45%): 0:00.0-1:14.8 of Take 3, 0:41.8- 0:58.6 of Take 3 (repeated), 8 seconds of "Partial Verse" and 1:06.7-1:41.0 of Take 3.

The master of Let Me was spliced the following way: 0:04-0:24 has vocal from "solo version", 0:25-1:35 has vocal from the other used vocal take (take 4?) and finally, 1:36-2:08 has vocal taken from "solo version". "Solo version" is listed as being from both take 3 & 4 in 'A Life in Music'. It could have be a recent splice, but a guess is that it is one take only since 3 & 4 would coincide with the partly different vocal overdub take on the master, also listed as being a combination of takes 3 & 4.

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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Love Me Tender
Love Me Tender
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Love Me Tender
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