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May 28 1966
(+ 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 : Felton Jarvis
Engineer : Jim Malloy (1.00am - 5.00am) / Al Pachucki (7.00pm - 1.00am)

Musicians:   Backup Vocals:
Guitar:
Scotty Moore The Jordanaires: Gordon Stoker; Neal Matthews; Hoyt Hawkins; Ray
Guitar: Chip Young Walker
Drums: Murrey 'Buddy' Harman The Imperials (1.00am - 5.00am): Armond Morales; Jake Hess; Gary
Drums: D.J. Fontana McSpadden; Sherril 'Shaun' Nielsen;
Piano: Floyd Cramer Millie Kirkham; June Page; Dolores Edgin; Sandra Posey (7pm - 1am)
Bass: Bob Moore  
Bass: Henry Strzelecki (7.00pm - 1.00am)  
Steel Guitar: Peter Drake  
Saxophone: Homer 'Boots' Randolph  
Saxophone: Rufus Long  
Organ: Henry Slaughter (1.00am - 5.00am)  
Trumpet: Ray Stevens (7.00pm - 1.00am)  
Guitar: Ray Edenton (10.00pm - 1.00am)  
Bass / Harmonica / Guitar: Charlie McCoy (Not 10.00pm - 1.00am)  

If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side
TPA4 0922
  May 28 1966 (1.00am - 5.00am)
Take 1 Complete
2:29   How Great Thou Art (FTD)°°~Today, Tomorrow & Forever 3°° (Listed as
Take 4)~Unsurp. Masters 4-12°+Where No One Stands Alone (Reeltrax)°
~How Great Thou Art Sessions Volume 2° (Count-in & extra dialogue)
Take 2 LFS 1:23   How Great Thou Art (FTD)°°+Where No One Stands Alone (Reeltrax)°
~How Great Thou Art Sessions Volume 2° (Extra dialogue)
Take 3 FS 0:22   How Great Thou Art (FTD)°° (Count-in)~You'll Never Walk Alone
(Reeltrax)°+How Great Thou Art Sessions Volume 2° (Count-in & extra
dialogue)~Where No One Stands Alone (Reeltrax)° (Count-in only)
Take 4 Complete 1:45   How Great Thou Art (FTD)°° (Count-in)~Unsurpassed Masters 4-12°
+You'll Never Walk Alone (Reeltrax)°~How Great Thou Art Sessions
Volume 2° (Count-in)
Take 5 M 1:50   Complete Elvis Presley Masters 13 (Sony)°°~Gospel Jubilee (Franklin Mint
Complete Masters Collection 11)°°~I Believe - The Gospel Masters 2°°
~How Great Thou Art (FTD)°°~(24 Bit)~Ultimate Gospel°°~Peace In The
Valley 1°°~Amazing Grace°° (Master)+You'll Never Walk Alone (Reeltrax)°
~How Great Thou Art Sessions Volume 2° (Count-in only)
Take 6 Complete 1:49   How Great Thou Art (FTD)°° (Count-in)~So High (FTD)°°+You'll Never
Walk Alone (Reeltrax)° (Not Listed)~Unsurpassed Masters 4-12°~How
Great Thou Art Sessions Volume 2° (Count-in & extra dialogue)

Where Could I Go But To The Lord
TPA4 0923
  May 28 1966 (1.00am - 5.00am)
Take 1 FS 0:32   Where No One Stands Alone (Reeltrax)°~How Great Thou Art Sessions
Volume 2°
Take 2 M 3:42   Complete Elvis Presley Masters 13 (Sony)°°~Moved By Faith (Franklin
Mint Comp. Masters Collection 13)°°~I Believe - The Gospel Masters 2°°
~How Great Thou Art (FTD)°°~(24 Bit)°°~Ultimate Gospel°°~Peace In The
Valley 1°°~Amazing Grace°°+Where No One Stands Alone (Reeltrax)°
~How Great Thou Art Sessions Volume 2° (Count-in only)+The Definitive
Gospel Album°° (Edited)

Come What May
TPA4 0924
  May 28 1966 (7.00pm - 10.00pm)
Take 1 FS+LFS
2:27   How Great Thou Art Sessions Volume 3°° (Count-in)~Come What May°
Take 2 Complete 1:59   So High (FTD)°° (Clipped)+Elvis Sings Guitar Man (FTD)°° (No Count-in
- Extra dialogue)+How Great Thou Art Sessions Vol 3°°~Come What May°
(Count-in)
Take 3 FS 0:16   Today, Tomorrow & Forever 3°°+Elvis Sings Guitar Man (FTD)°°~How
Great Thou Art Sessions Volume 3°° (Count-in)
Take 4 Complete 2:12   Today, Tomorrow & Forever 3°°+Elvis Sings Guitar Man (FTD)°°~How
Great Thou Art Sessions Volume 3°° (Count-in)~Come What May°
Take 5 FS 0:54   Elvis Sings Guitar Man (FTD)°° (Guitar picking before FS edited in
before Take 6)+How Great Thou Art Sessions Vol. 3°° (Count-in)
~Come What May°
Take 6 Complete 2:04   Collectors Gold 2°°~Elvis Sings Guitar Man (FTD)°°+How Great Thou Art
Sessions Volume 3°° (Count-in)
Take 7 Complete 2:20 (Preceded by Rehearsal) Elvis Sings Guitar Man (FTD)°° (Count-in & dialogue)~Tomorrow Is A
Long Time°°~60's Box 3°°~How Great Thou Art Sessions Volume 3°°
Take 8 M 2:01   Complete Elvis Presley Masters 13 (Sony)°°~The Nashville Sessions
(Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 27)°°~Elvis Sings Guitar
Man (FTD)°°~Long Lonely Highway (FTD)°° (Clipped)+Rare Elvis°

Fools Fall In Love
TPA4 0925
  May 28 1966 (7.00pm - 10.00pm)
Take 1 3xFS 0:30   Elvis Sings Guitar Man (FTD)°°
Take 2 FS      
Take 3 FS      
Take 4 Complete 2:11   Elvis Sings Guitar Man (FTD)°°~Long Lonely Highway (FTD)°° (Clipped)
Take 5 M 3:10 (Preceded by Rehearsal) Complete Elvis Presley Masters 13 (Sony)°°~The Ultimate Love Songs
(Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 25)°°~Elvis Sings Guitar
Man (FTD)°°~Tomorrow Is A Long Time°°~Elvis Chante Leiber & Stoller°°
~60's Box 3°° (2:06)+Unsurpassed Masters 4-12°° (Count-in+M)+How
Great Thou Art Sessions Volume 3°° (Rehearsal+Count-in+M)

No Selections Recorded
  May 28 1966 (10.00pm - 1.00am)
         

Notes

Some of the mono sessions as released on the "2001" Bootlegs "The How Great Thou Art Sessions - Volumes 1, 2 and 3" sound heavily compressed, as if they were taken from an MP3 source. The stereo sessions on the same releases however, actually sound better than the same takes released by BMG, as they are clipped, and too loud, on some of the BMG releases.

Take 1 of If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side appears on 'Today, Tomorrow & Forever' but is wrongly listed as Take 4.

An edited (2:03) version of Where Could I Go But To The Lord, with omitted verses (Leaving only the first and last verse), was released in 1987 on the BMG Ariola release 'The Definitive Gospel Album'.

The long lost stereo master of Come What May was severely and audibly clipped when finally released on FTD's 'Long Lonely Highway'. The same goes for Take 4 of Fools Fall in Love.

Thanks to Adrian V Stokes regarding the edited versions of songs on the BMG Ariola set of 'Definitive' albums.

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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May 28 1966
May 28 1966
Music Sheet
Where Could I Go But To The Lord
Where Could I Go (Thanks to Glen Johnson)
 

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