Elvis Presley Recording Sessions

March 28 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)

Paramount Scoring Stage - Hollywood, California

Soundtrack Session for 'Blue Hawaii'

Paramount Producer : Joseph Lilley

Engineer : Phil Wisdom

(1.00pm - 5.22pm)

Musicians:		Backup Vocals:
NA		Loulie Jean Norman; Dorothy McCarty; Virginia Rees; Betty Allen

Moonlight Swim				M2PB 2990		March 28 1961
Overdub	M	2:20	(Backup Vocal Overdub of NO Take 3)	Complete Elvis Presley Masters 7 (Sony)°°~Elvis In Hawaii (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 21)°°~Blue Hawaii (FTD)°°~(24 Bit)°° ~Blue Hawaii (BMG '97)°°

Ku-U-I-Po (Movie Version)					March 28 1961 (?)
		2:20	('Male' Backup Vocals Eliminated from CO Take 9)	Tape°
Overdub	(M)	1:48	('Female' Backup Vocals Overdubbed)	Soundtrack° (Faded)

Island Of Love (Movie Version)						March 28 1961 (?)
Overdub	(M)	1:41	(Backup Vocal Overdub of KO Take 13)	Soundtrack° (Faded)

On FTD's 'Classic Album' edition of 'Blue Hawaii' all outtakes and masters have had the left and right channels corrected as opposed to other releases of this material, where they were reversed (i.e. 'Japanese 24 Bit', 'BMG '97 Collectors Edition', 'Today, Tomorrow & Forever' & 'Close Up').

For the movie version of Ku-U-I-Po the original male backing vocals were eliminated from the Master (CO Take 9) and replaced with female backing vocals.

It is unknown exactly when the female backing vocals were overdubbed to Ku-U-I-Po and Island Of Love but this date would seem logical.

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.



Acetate Moonlight Swim	Tape Legend Blue Hawaii