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August 4 1965
(+ 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)

Radio Recorders Studio B - Hollywood, California
Soundtrack Session for Paramount's Paradise, Hawaiian Style
Paramount Producer : Joseph Lilley
Engineer : Dave Wiechman
(7.00pm - 12.30am)

Musicians:   Backup Vocals:
NA
  NA

House Of Sand (movie opening)
  H1V August 4 1965 (Wed)
Take 1 Complete
0:17   Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°
Take 2 Complete 0:20   Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°
Take 3 FS 0:07   Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°
Take 4 FS 0:08   Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°~Come What May°
Take 5 Complete 0:15   Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°~Come What May°
Take 6 Complete 0:19   Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°~Come What May°
Take 7 (M) 0:05 "A house of sand is an empty..."
(used for composite movie version)
Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°
Take 8 Complete 0:15   Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°
Take 9 FS 0:06   Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°
Take 10 Complete 0:31   Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°

House Of Sand (part)
  H2V August 4 1965 (Wed)
Take 1 (M)   "...work of art"
(used for composite movie version)
 

House Of Sand (movie version - composite)
    August 4 1965 (Wed)
Spliced (M) 2:13 Edited composite of HO-07, H1O-02,
H2O-02, H1V-07, H2V-01 & HOV-01
Soundtrack°

A Dog's Life (vocal overdub)
  EOV August 4 1965 (Wed)
Take 1 Complete
2:12 Vocal overdub of track EO-05
Come What May°
Take 2 Complete 1:58    
Take 3 Complete 1:58    
Take 4 Complete 2:17 "Star Spangled Banner" Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°° (Count-in & Complete)~Elvis Aron
Presley 2°° (announcement only - edited in before Take 6)
Take 5 LFS 1:19 (KPA5 9562) Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°° (count-in & LFS)~Elvis Aron
Presley 2°° (LFS only - edited)
Take 6 Complete 2:07 (continued Later) (KPA5 9562) Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°° (count-in)~Elvis Aron Presley 2°°

Datin' (vocal overdub)
TPA3 3843 BOV August 4 1965 (Wed)
Take 1 FS
0:30 Vocal overdub of track BO-02
Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°
Take 2 FS 0:10   Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°
Take 3 LFS 0:58   Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°
Take 4 Complete 1:40 "Flying Saucers Rock 'n' Roll"
Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°
Take 5 FS      
Take 6 FS 0:41 (KPA5 9560) Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°+Elvis Aron Presley 2°° (extra dialogue)
Take 7 FS 0:13 (KPA5 9560) Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°+Elvis Aron Presley 2°° (extra dialogue)
Take 8 FS 0:15 (KPA5 9560) Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°~Elvis Aron Presley 2°°
Take 9 FS      
Take 10 Complete      
Take 11 FS 0:42 (KPA5 9560) Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°° (extra dialogue)~Elvis Aron Presley 2°°
Take 12 Complete 1:38 (KPA5 9560) Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°° (extra dialogue)~Elvis Aron Presley 2°°
Take 13 FS      
Take 14 M 1:25   Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 12 (Sony)°°~Elvis In Hawaii (Franklin Mint
Complete Masters Collection 21)°°~Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°
~Double Features - Frankie & Johnny / Paradise Hawaiian Style°°

Datin' (dubdown)
     
Dubdown (M)
1:25 Elvis' vocals partially removed from
BOV-14
 

Datin' (movie version)
     
Overdub (M)
1:19 Vocal overdub of dubdown by
Donna Butterworth
Soundtrack°+Nineteen Sixty Five Studio Sessions 1°

Queenie Wahine's Papaya (vocal overdub)
  JOV August 4 1965 (Wed)
Take 1 FS
0:53 Vocal overdub of track JO-03
Tape°~Paradise Hawaiian Style Sessions 2°
Take 2 LFS 1:39   Tape°~Paradise Hawaiian Style Sessions 2°
Take 3 Complete 1:48   Tape°~Paradise Hawaiian Style Sessions 2°
Take 4 Complete 1:54   Tape°~Paradise Hawaiian Style Sessions 2°~Paradise Hawaiian Style
(FTD)°° (dialogue at end only - edited in after 'Drums Of The Islands'
Take 5)
Take 5 Complete 2:02   Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°° (with dialogue at end from another
take)+Tape°~Paradise Hawaiian Style Sessions 2° (Extra Dialogue)
Take 6 (M) 1:47 (used for composite master) Tape°~Paradise Hawaiian Style Sessions 2°

Queenie Wahine's Papaya (Open - Vocal Overdub)
  J1V August 4 1965 (Wed)
Take 1 FS 0:19 Vocal overdub of track JO-03
Tape°~Paradise Hawaiian Style Sessions 2°
Take 2 (M) 0:26+ (used for composite master) Tape°~Paradise Hawaiian Style Sessions 2° (part used for master cut
from tape)

Queenie Wahine's Papaya (vocal overdub - composite)
TPA3 3834    
Spliced M 1:36 Composite of J1V-02 & JOV-06 Complete Elvis Presley Masters 12 (Sony)°°~Elvis In Hawaii (Franklin
Mint Comp. Masters Collection 21)°°~Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°
~Double Features - Frankie & Johnny / Paradise Hawaiian Style°°

Queenie Wahine's Papaya (dubdown)
     
Dubdown (M)
1:28 Elvis' vocals partially removed from
composite master
 

Queenie Wahine's Papaya (movie version)
     
Overdub (M)
1:44 Vocal overdub of dubdown
by Donna Butterworth
Soundtrack° (1:28)+Nineteen Sixty Five Studio Sessions 2°

Paradise, Hawaiian Style (vocal overdub)
TPA3 3835 GOV August 4 1965 (Wed)
Take 1 Complete
3:02 Vocal overdub of track GO-03
Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°~Tape°~Paradise Hawaiian Style
Sessions 2°
Take 2 FS 0:27   Tape°~Paradise Hawaiian Style Sessions 2°
Take 3 Complete 3:12 (used for spliced master) Tape°~Paradise Hawaiian Style Sessions 2°
Take 4 Complete 3:07 (used for spliced master) Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°° (last 1:06 only)+Tape°~Paradise
Hawaiian Style Sessions 2°
         
Spliced M 2:41 Spliced from takes 4 & 3 Complete Elvis Presley Masters 12 (Sony)°°~Elvis In Hawaii (Franklin
Mint Comp. Masters Collection 21)°°~Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°
~Double Features - Frankie & Johnny / Paradise Hawaiian Style°°
+Paradise Hawaiian Style Sessions 2° (monaural dubdown)

A Dog's Life (vocal overdub)
TPA3 3836 EOV August 4 1965 (Wed)
Take 7 Complete 2:16 Vocal overdub of track EO-05
- continued

Tape°~Paradise Hawaiian Style Sessions 2°
Take 8 LFS 2:21   Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°~Tape°~Paradise Hawaiian Style
Sessions 2°
Take 9 M 1:57 (2:14 with count-in) Complete Elvis Presley Masters 12 (Sony)°°~Elvis In Hawaii (Franklin
Mint Comp. Masters Collection 21)°°~Paradise Hawaiian Style (FTD)°°
~Double Features - Frankie & Johnny / Paradise Hawaiian Style°°
(master only)+Paradise Hawaiian Style Sessions 2° (count-in)

Notes

The movie version of 'House Of Sand' is an edited composite of instrumental tracks HO-07, H1O-02 (guitar solo), H2O-02 (guitar solo) and vocal overdubs H1V-07 (intro - "a house of sand..."), H2V-01 (intro - "is an empty work of art") and HOV-01.

The takes of 'A Dog's Life' and 'Datin' on Elvis Aron Presley have the left and right channels reversed.

On Elvis Aron Presley the takes of 'A Dog's Life' were issued with the matrix number KPA5 9562 and the composite takes of 'Datin' were issued with the matrix number KPA5 9560.

'Queenie Wahine's Papaya' is a composite of:-
0:00-0:05: J1V-02 ("She sells sea shells...")
0:05-1:36: JOV-06 ("but I know...")

Take 5 of 'Queenie Wahine's Papaya' on FTD's Paradise, Hawaiian Style extended soundtrack has dialogue from another take edited in at the end.

'Paradise, Hawaiian Style' is spliced from takes 4 & 3:
0:00 - 0:28: GOV-04 ("Hawaii USA" to "...comin' your way")
0:28 - 0:40: GOV-03 ("Aloha, Hawaii USA" to "Gee it's great")
0:40 - 1:32: GOV-04 ("...to be in that fiftieth state" to "...comin' your way")
1:32 - 2:37: GOV-03 ("Aloha, Hawaii USA" to end)

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.

Thanks to Rudolf Stiller for identifying the splices on the master of 'Paradise, Hawaiian Style'.

Thanks to Josee Brus for help with identifying the one-liners sung during these sessions.

Session Logs
Tape Legend
August 4 1965
Tape Legend - August 4 1965 (Thanks to Henk Muller)
Recording Information
Paradise, Hawaiian Style
Paradise, Hawaiian Style
Demo Acetate
Quenie Wahine's Papaya
Demo Acetate - Queenie Wahine's Papaya


Music Sheets
Music Sheet
House Of Sand
House Of Sand (Thanks to Christopher Brown)
Music Sheet
A Dog's Life
A Dog's Life (Thanks to Christopher Brown)
Music Sheet
Datin'
Datin' (Thanks to Christopher Brown)

Music Sheet
Queenie Wahine's Papaya
Queenie Wahine's Papaya (Thanks to Christopher Brown)
Music Sheet
Paradise, Hawaiian Style
Paradise, Hawaiian Style (Thanks to Christopher Brown)
 


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