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March 13 1961
(+ 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)

RCA Studio B - Nashville, Tennessee
Producer : Steve Sholes
Engineer : Bill Porter

Musicians:   Backup Vocals:
Guitar: Elvis Presley The Jordanaires: Gordon Stoker; Neal Matthews; Hoyt Hawkins; Ray
Guitar: Scotty Moore Walker
Guitar: Hank Garland Millie Kirkham
Bass: Bob Moore  
Drums: D.J. Fontana  
Drums: Murrey 'Buddy' Harman  
Piano: Floyd Cramer  
Saxophone: Homer 'Boots' Randolph  

Starting Today
M2WW 0575
  March 13 1961 (1.45am - 5.15am)
Take 1 Complete 2:14   Something For Everybody (FTD)°°~Close Up 3°°+Unsurp. Masters 2-6°°
~There's Always Me °°~Something Complete°° (Count-In)
Take 2 Complete 2:12   Something For Everybody (FTD)°°~Fame & Fortune (FTD)°°~Unsurpassed
Masters 2-6°°~Something Complete°° (Count-In)~24 Carat Gold°°
Take 3 FS+M 2:27   Complete Elvis Presley Masters 6 (Sony)°°~Heartache (Franklin Mint
Complete Masters Collection 6)°°~Something For Everybody (FTD)°°
~60's Box 1°° (Master only)+Unsurpassed Masters 2-6°°~Something
Complete°° (Count-In)

Sentimental Me
M2WW 0576
  March 13 1961 (1.45am - 5.15am)
Take 1 Complete 2:42   Fame & Fortune (FTD)°°~There's Always Me °°+Something For Everybody
(FTD)°°~Unsurpassed Masters 2-6°°~Something Complete°° (Count-In)
Take 2 FS+M 2:55   Complete Elvis Presley Masters 6 (Sony)°°~In The Mood (Franklin Mint
Complete Masters Collection 24)°°~Something For Everybody (FTD)°°
~60's Box 1°° (Master only)+Unsurpassed Masters 2-6°°~Something
Complete°° (Count-In)

Judy
M2WW 0577
  March 13 1961 (1.45am - 5.15am)
Take 1 FS+Comp. 3:16 (MPA5 9181) Fame & Fortune (FTD)°° (Comp)+Something For Everybody (FTD)°°
~Unsurpassed Mast. 2-6°°~There's Always Me°°~Something Complete°°
(Count-In+FS+Complete)~Rare Elvis Volume 3°° (Count-In+FS)
Take 2 FS 0:37 (MPA5 9181) Something For Everybody (FTD)°°~Unsurpassed Mast. 2-6°°~Something
Complete°° (Count-In) ~Rare Elvis Volume 3°° (Edited)
Take 3 LFS 2:06 (MPA5 9181) Something For Everybody (FTD)°° (Faded)+ Unsurpassed Masters 2-6°°
~Something Complete°° (Count-In)~Rare Elvis Volume 3°° (Edited)
Take 4 Complete 2:26 (MPA5 9181) Something For Everybody (FTD)°°~Unsurpassed Mast. 2-6°°~Something
Complete°°~Rare Elvis Volume 3°° (Count-In)
Take 5 FS 0:47 (MPA5 9181) Something For Everybody (FTD)°°~Unsurpassed Mast. 2-6°°~Something
Complete°°~Rare Elvis Volume 3°° (Edited)
Take 6 LFS 1:14   Something For Everybody (FTD)°° (Faded)+ Unsurpassed Masters 2-6°°
~Something Complete°° (Count-In)
Take 7 LFS 1:59 (MPA5 9181) Something For Everybody (FTD)°° (Edited - See Note)~Unsurpassed
Masters 2-6°°~Something Complete°° (Count-In+Complete)~Rare Elvis
Volume 3°° (Talking only)
Take 8 M 2:32   Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 6 (Sony)°°~The Nashville Sessions (Franklin
Mint Complete Masters Collection 27)°°~Elvis 75 - Good Rockin' Tonight 2
(Legacy)°°~Something For Everybody (FTD)°° ~Complete Single Coll. 5°°
~60's Box 1°° (Master only) +Unsurpassed Masters 2-6°°~Something
Complete°° (Count-In)

Put The Blame On Me
M2WW 0578
  March 13 1961 (1.45am - 5.15am)
Take 1 FS+FS 0:56   Fame & Fortune (FTD)°°+Something For Everybody (FTD)°°~Unsurpassed
Masters 2-6°°~Elvis Meets Presley°°~Something Complete°° (Count-In)
~There's Always Me°°
Take 2 Complete 1:56   Fame & Fortune (FTD)°°+Something For Everybody (FTD)°°~Unsurpassed
Masters 2-6°°~Something Complete°° (Count-In)~Elvis Meets Presley°°
~There's Always Me°° (Listed as Take 1)
Take 3 FS 0:29   Unsurpassed Masters 2-6°°~Something Complete°°
Take 4 FS 0:33   Unsurpassed Masters 2-6°°~Something Complete°°
Take 5 M 2:09   Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 6 (Sony)°°~The Nashville Sessions (Franklin
Mint Complete Masters Collection 27)°°~Something For Everybody (FTD)°°
~60's Box 1°° (Master only)+Unsurpassed Masters 2-6°° (Count-In)
~Something Complete°°+Tickle Me (Soundtrack)°

Notes

Most of this session as released on the "Famous Groove" CD "Something Complete" has the left and right channels swapped. This could indicate an MP3 source, or earlier form of compression was used for that release.

On the FTD release of 'Something For Everybody' we get the complete "Take 7" of Judy right up to "Oh please …" (1:52) and then the song is spliced! What we should get from here is Elvis breaking down saying "Oh no, man". On the FTD from this point we get "Come back I promise always to be true, oh Judy, there'll never be anyone else dear but you" looped from from "Take 7" (1:10 - 1:27), and then "Oh Judy, there'll never be anyone else" (looped again from 1:16 - 1:24), and then "dear but you" from "Take 8" (last few seconds of the Master).

Judy - Takes 1 to 4 are listed on the UK 'EP Collection Volume 2' and 'Rare Elvis Volume 3' but the running order is wrong. An estimation of the correct order is as follows:-

0:00 - 0:45 = Take 1 False Start

0:46 - 2:12 = Take 3 Long False Start (With talk before Take 4)

2:13 - 2:33 = Take 2 False Start (Up to "I Don't Know ...")

2:34 - 2:47 = Take 5 (Up to "That's why I dread to know you're gone ... Hold it!")

2:48 - 2:55 = Talking before Take 7

2:56 - 5:08 = Count-In and Take 4

The movie 'Tickle Me' features Put The Blame On Me with overdubbed guitar backing, done during post production of that movie.

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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