January 14 1969

(+ means you need both ~ means same material °° means stereo or binaural ° means mono)
   

American Sound - Memphis, Tennessee

  Producers : Felton Jarvis / Chips Moman
  Engineer : Al Pachucki
   

Musicians:  
       
  Guitar : Elvis Presley  
  Guitar : Reggie Young  
  Sitar : Reggie Young (You'll Think Of Me)  
  Drums : Gene Chrisman  
  Organ : Bobby Emmons  
  Bass : Tommy Cogbill  
  Bass : Mike Leech  
  Piano : Bobby Wood  

 

Come Out Come Out (Wherever You Are) (Track) XPA5 1144 January 14 (2.00am - 5.00am)
  Rehearsal   2:42   Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal LFS 1:40 "Number One " (Slow Tempo) Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°° (Count-in)~There's Always Me Volume 3°°
  Rehearsal LFS 1:47 "Number Two" Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal LFS 0:46 "Number One " (Medium Tempo) Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal LFS 3:07 "Number Two" Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal LFS 1:11   Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal LFS+LFS 1:37 "Take One on the new agenda" Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal LFS+FS 1:13 "Number Two" (Announced Twice) Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal FS 0:34   Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal LFS 1:57 "Number Five" Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal LFS 3:15 "Six" Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal 3xFS 1:05 "Number Seven Gentlemen" Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal FS 0:35 "Here we go Number Eight" Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal FS+FS 0:46 "Here we go Number... Nine" Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal LFS 0:18 "Number Ten... Here we go" Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal 2xFS+PB 3:37 "Take Eleven " Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal FS 0:12   Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal LFS 2:48   Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal FS 0:47 (Bobby Wood - Guide Vocal) Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal FS 0:32   Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Rehearsal LFS 1:19 (Jam / Blues) Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°
  Take 1 PB 0:12+ (Fast Version - Preceded by Rehearsal) Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°° (Faded)
  Take 2 (M)   (Not Used)  
  Take 3 Rehearsal 1:17 ('Memory Revival' Slow Version ?) Draft Mix Tape° (Track 4) (Cut)
  Take 4 (M) 2:14 (Not Used) Draft Mix Tape° (Track 3)
        (Fast 'Track' Re-Recorded on February 21)  

 

 Wearin' That Loved On Look XPA5 1145 January 14 (2.00am - 5.00am)
  Take 1        
  Take 2 FS 0:17   The American Way Volume 2°~A Legendary Performer Volume 6° (Listed as Take 1)~Finding The
          Way Home° (1-1-1)
  Take 3 FS 0:42 "A Little Less Conversation" Memphis Sessions (FTD)°°~The American Way Volume 2°~Finding The Way Home° (1-1-2)
  Take 4 SFS 0:07   The American Way Volume 2°~Finding The Way Home° (1-1-3)
  Take 5 LFS 1:03   The American Way Volume 2°~Finding The Way Home° (1-1-4 Faded)
  Take 6 FS 0:22   The American Way Volume 2°~Finding The Way Home° (1-1-5)
  Take 7 FS 0:30   The American Way Volume 2°~Finding The Way Home° (1-1-6)
  Take 8 FS 0:06   The American Way Volume 2°~Finding The Way Home° (1-1-7)
  Take 9 FS 0:32   The American Way Volume 2°~A Legendary Performer Volume 6°
  Take 10 PB 3:05   Memphis Sessions (FTD)°°~Rhythm & Blues (Time Life Elvis Presley Coll. Vol. 8)°°~The American
          Way Vol. 2°~A Leg. Performer Vol. 6° (Listed as Take 14)~Finding The Way Home° (2-8-4)
  Take 11 LFS 1:39   The American Way Volume 2°~Finding The Way Home° (2-8-1 Faded)
  Take 12 FS+FS 0:30   The American Way Volume 2° (2xFS)~Finding The Way Home° (2-8-2 - 2nd FS only)
  Take 13 LFS 0:58   The American Way Volume 2°~Finding The Way Home° (2-8-3 Faded)
  Take 14 PB 3:00   The American Way Vol. 2° (Listed as Take 10)~Finding The Way Home° (1-1-8 Faded)~American
        Crown Jewels° (Faded)
           
  Take 15 (M)   (Unrepaired Master)  
        (Vocals 1:07-1:22 Used for Final Master)  
           
  V.O. (M)   Vocal Replacement / Repair on January 21  

 

 You'll Think Of Me XPA5 1146 January 14 (7.00pm - 10.00pm)
  Take 1 FS 1:08 "We're Rolling - Take Number One" The American Way Volume 2°~Finding The Way Home° (1-5-1)
  Take 2 FS 0:15   The American Way Volume 2°~Finding The Way Home° (1-5-2)
  Take 3 FS 0:42   The American Way Volume 2°~Finding The Way Home° (1-5-3)
  Take 4 FS 0:14   The American Way Volume 2°~Finding The Way Home° (2-5-1)
  Take 5 FS 0:35   The American Way Volume 2°~Finding The Way Home° (2-5-2)
  Take 6 PB 4:35   The American Way Volume 2°~Finding The Way Home° (1-5-4)
  Take 7 PB 4:45   Suspicious Minds (2007 UK Single)°~The American Way Volume 2°~Bilko's Gold Cuts°~American
          Crown Jewels°
  Take 8 PB 4:07   Made In Memphis (FTD)°~The American Way Volume 2°~Finding The Way Home° (2-5-3)
  Take 9 FS 0:05+ "Take Number Nine" The American Way Volume 2° (Count-in only)
  Take 10 FS      
  Take 11 LFS      
  Take 12 FS      
  Take 13 FS      
  Take 14 PB 4:33 (Preceded by Rehearsal) Memphis Sessions (FTD)°
  Take 15 FS      
  Take 16 PB 4:34   Suspicious Minds - The Memphis '69 Anthology°°~Elvis Chante Mort Shuman & Doc Pomus°°
          (Listed as Take 14)
  Take 17 LFS      
  Take 18 FS      
  Take 19 FS+FS      
  Take 20 LFS      
  Take 21 FS      
  Take 22 LFS      
  Take 23 (M)   (Undubbed / Unrepaired Master)  
           
  V.O. (M)   Vocals replaced on January 21  

 

 A Little Bit Of Green XPA5 1148 January 14 (10.00pm - 1.00am)
  Rehearsal   4:45+ (End of Rehearsal+Rehearsal - 0:30 / PB - 4:15)  
  Take 1 PB 4:12 "Take Number One" The American Way Volume 2°~Finding The Way Home° (2-10-2)~American Crown Jewels°
  Take 2 FS+LFS 1:13   The American Way Volume 2°~Finding The Way Home° (2-10-1)
  Take 3 (M) 3:02 (Unrepaired Master) The American Way Volume 5°~Draft Mix Tape° (Track 21)~American Rejects°
           
  V.O. (M)   Vocals replaced on September 26  
  Overdubs M 3:22 Charlie Hodge Harmony V.O September 26 The Memphis Sessions (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 33)°°~From Elvis In Memphis
          (Legacy Ed'n)°°~Back In Memphis (24 Bit)°°~Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology°°
          ~60's Box 4°°

 

Notes:

There are two draft mono mix tapes, of which at least one is dated February 28, 1969. A tape log of a later tape copy of both these tapes (except for  the last three tracks of the second tape) was shown in the magazine 'The Man and His Music' #13 listed as 'Basic + Alt. Vocals'. This source is referred to as the 'Draft mix tape'. This mono tape was actually the source of the 1992 bootleg 'American Rejects' (AR 1569), although the notes claimed acetate source for that. 

There are two slow instrumental versions of the song known as Memory Revival on the Rough Mix tape dated February 28. The problem with that is that these Rough Mix tapes of January songs typically have the songs in reverse matrix number order and these slow versions of Memory Revival fit in between XPA5 1145 & XPA5 1143. This implies a matrix number XPA5 1144 for the tracks, but XPA5 1144 is the matrix number of the instrumental known as Come Out Come Out.

Memory Revival was given as title for an uptempo track taken from acetate and released together with mostly February songs with overdubs prior to March 25 1969 ("Memphis Memories" bootleg LP). Perhaps the slow Memory Revival was attempted on January 14 just after Come Out Come Out, without the Matrix number being changed? This would then be what's listed as the Slow takes 3-4 of Come Out Come Out recorded after the fast version (takes 1-2).

Just after Take 3 of Wearing That Loved On Look on 'Memphis Sessions (FTD)' Elvis can be heard singing a couple of lines of A Little Less Conversation.  The same two lines of A Little Less Conversation can be heard spliced to the begining I'm Moving On on 'Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology'.

Takes 10 and 14 of Wearing That Loved On Look on "The American Way Volume 2" are reversed, this means Take 14 listed on "A Legendary Performer Volume 6" is actually Take 10.

Take 7 of You'll Think Of Me (in Mono) was released for the first time 'Officially' in August 2007 on a "Suspicious Minds" single that is part of the 'Elvis The King' singles collection. It's not on the single that is part of the box set, that one contains Take 7 of "Suspicious Minds" as the extra track. The one with Take 7 comes in a jewel case and lists the track as unreleased on the CD sticker. Maybe BMG do not have the stereo tapes for the first part of this session if they're releasing tracks in mono instead of stereo.

Take 16 of You'll Think Of Me released on 'Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology' and 'Elvis Chante Mort Shuman & Doc Pomus' is incorrectly listed as being Take 14 - and also has the left and right channels swapped.

Elvis sings one line of Our Love And Aloha (Ernie Menehune - Roadrunner Records 1313 in 1958) before You'll Think Of Me on 'Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology' - This is actually from before Take 2 of Rubberneckin' (January 20).

In March of 2007 SONY decided to go through all of Elvis' masters and they retransferred everything, 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 including budget soundtracks, 'Legacy' releases and the Franklin Mint package.

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