Elvis Presley Recording Sessions

January 18 1957

(+ 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)

Paramount Sound Stage - Hollywood, California

Soundtrack Session for 'Loving You'

Paramount Producer : Walter Scharf

Engineer : Phil Kahgan

(9.00am - 2.00pm / 3.30pm - 6.00pm / 7.00pm - 11.25pm)

Musicians:		Backup Vocals:
Guitar:	Scotty Moore	The Jordanaires: Gordon Stoker; Neal Matthews; Hoyt Hawkins; Hugh
Guitar:	Hilmer J. 'Tiny' Timbrell	Jarrett
Bass:	Bill Black
Drums:	D.J. Fontana
Piano:	Gordon Stoker
Piano:	Dudley Brooks
Piano:	Hoyt Hawkins

One Night Of Sin (Elvis Special)				NPA5 5820	O (?)	January 18 1957
Take NA	M	2:37		Loving You (FTD)°~(DSD)°~Complete Elvis Presley Masters 28 (Sony)° ~50's Box 3°+Reconsider Baby° (Acetate)

Blueberry Hill			WPA5 2589	P (?)	January 18 1957
Take 1
Take 2	M	3:12	Loving You (FTD)° (Correct Speed)~Platinum 1° (Too Slow) (Acetate)

Hot Dog			H2WB 2196	Q	January 18 1957
Take 1
Take 2
Take 3
Take 4
Take 5
Take 6
Take 7
Take 8
Take 9
Take 10
Take 11
Take 12
Take 13
Take 14
Take 15
Take 16
Take 17	M	1:15	Loving You (FTD)°~(DSD)°~Complete Elvis Presley Masters 3 (Sony)° ~Elvis Goes To Hollywood (Franklin Mint Comp. Masters Coll. 19)° ~Elvis Chante Leiber & Stoller°~50's Box 3°

Got A Lot O' Livin' To Do! (Finale)				WPA5 2587	R	January 18 1957
Take 1
Take 2
Take 3
Take 4
Take 5
Take 6
Take 7
Take 8
Take 9
Take 10
Take 11
Take 12
Take 13	M	1:20	(SPA5 2871)	Loving You (FTD)° (Count-In)~Loving You (DSD)°~Essential Elvis Vol. 1° (Count-In)

Got A Lot O' Livin' To Do! (Movie Version Finale)					RTDX	January 18 1957
Spliced	M	1:38	(R-13 with 1st verse repeated)	Soundtrack°

The 'studio talk' before One Night (Of Sin) on 'Reconsider Baby' is actually from Don't Leave Me Now from February 23 1957.

The two-bar guitar ending from One Night (February 23) was spliced to the end of One Night (Of Sin) on 'Reconsider Baby', replacing the original bass, drums and piano ending.

A version of One Night (Of Sin) with a Saxophone overdubbed was used in the ballet 'Blue Suede Shoes' and was released on the accompanying CD of the show. This version can also be found on the Madison release "A Legendary Performer Volume 5".

The movie version finale of Got A Lot O' Living To Do! is Track R-13 with the first verse repeated and an instrumental ending added.

At around 13 minutes into the movie 'Loving You' a forty second instrumental version of Candy Kisses can be heard but it's unknown when this was recorded or it it was just recorded on the movie set. It had been rumoured over the years that Elvis actually laid down vocals for this song, but no proof has ever surfaced.

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.



Recording Information January 18 1957	Acetates 'Loving You' Acetates	Session Log January 15 - 18 1957