Elvis Presley Recording Sessions

February 17 1969

(+ 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)

American Sound Studio - Memphis, Tennessee

Producers : Felton Jarvis / Chips Moman

Engineer: Al Pachucki

Technician: Roy Shockley

Musicians:
Guitar:	Elvis Presley
Guitar:	Reggie Young
Organ:	Bobby Emmons
Bass:	Tommy Cogbill
Piano:	Bobby Wood
Harmonica:	Ed Kollis
Drums / Tambourine:	Gene Chrisman

Stranger In My Own Home Town				XPA5 1266	February 17 1969 (8.00pm - 11.00pm)
Take 1	(M)	4:55	(Unedited Undubbed Master)	Back In Memphis (FTD)°°~Memphis Sessions (FTD)°° (Unedited) ~Memphis Memories (LP)° (Acetate - Edited) (Too Fast)

Overdub	(M)		String overdubs on May 7 (Aft)
Overdub	M	4:23	Brass & Backup V.O's on May 7 (Eve) (SPA1 4120)	Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 17 (Sony)°°~Rhythm & Blues (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 9)°°~Elvis 75 - Good Rockin' Tonight 3 (Legacy)°°~From Elvis In Memphis (Legacy)°°~Back In Memphis (FTD)°° ~Back In Memphis (24 Bit)°°~Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology°°~60's Box 4°°+The Memphis Record°°+Reconsider Baby°° (Remix & Edited - 3:50)

True Love Travels On A Gravel Road				XPA5 1265	February 17 1969 (8.00pm - 11.00pm)
Take 1	FS
Take 2	PB	2:36		Today Tomorrow & Forever 3°° (Faded)+From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°° ~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°° (Ending only)~The American Way Vol. 4°° (Ending only)
Take 3	PB	2:54	(Continued Later)	Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~The American Way Volume 4°°~American Crown Jewels° (Listed as Take 1)~There's Always Me Volume 3°° (Listed as Take 2)

It's My Way (Of Loving You) / This Time / I Can't Stop Loving You				WPA5 2513		February 17 1969 (8.00pm - 11.00pm)
Take 1	M	3:51	(Jam)	Complete Elvis Presley Masters 30 (Sony)°°~Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology°°~60's Box 5°°

True Love Travels On A Gravel Road				XPA5 1265	February 17 1969 (8.00pm - 11.00pm)
Take 4	4xFS+PB	2:32+	(Continued) (Bass Drum / Intro)	From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°° (Count-in & PB)~Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology°° (PB only)
Take 5	PB	4:01	(No Bass Drum / Intro)	Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~The American Way Volume 4°°~There's Always Me Volume 3°°
Take 6	SFS+FS	1:07	(Preceded by Rehearsal)	From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°°~Memphis Sessions (FTD)°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~The American Way Vol. 4°°~There's Always Me Vol. 3°°
Take 7	PB	3:28		From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°°~Memphis Sessions (FTD)°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~The American Way Vol. 4°°~There's Always Me Vol. 3°°
Take 8	SFS+LFS	2:30		Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~The American Way Volume 4°°~There's Always Me Volume 3°°
Take 9	SFS	0:19		Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~The American Way Volume 4°°~There's Always Me Volume 3°°
Take 10	FS+SFS	1:05		Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~The American Way Volume 4°°~There's Always Me Volume 3°°
Take 11	(M)	3:31	(Undubbed Master)	From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°°+Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~The American Way Volume 4°°~There's Always Me Volume 3°°

Overdub	Incomp.	0:30+	(Guitar & Tambourine Overdub) (Not Used)	Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~The American Way Vol. 4°° (Cut / Erased - Preceded by tape rewound through master take)
V.O.	(M)	2:27	Harmony V.O. by Elvis on Feb 22	Elvis Rocks & The Girls Roll (LP)°
Overdub	M	2:38	Strings & Backup V.O's on Mar 25 (SPA1 4132)	From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°°~Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 17 (Sony)°° ~Country Legend (Franklin Mint Comp. Masters Collection 18)°°~From Elvis In Memphis (Legacy)°°~From Elvis In Memphis°°~Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology°°~60's Box 4°°+The Other Side Of Memphis°° (Channels Missing)+The Memphis Record°° (Different Mix - Without Elvis' Harmony Vocal Overdub)

The February sessions started with a jam of Stranger in My Own Home Town that was edited down, assigned matrix number and was actually used as master.

Take 2 of True Love Travels On A Gravel Road on 'Today, Tomorrow & Forever' has the left and right channels swapped.

A Guitar (Reggie Young) and Tambourine (Gene Chrisman) were overdubbed to True Love Travels On A Gravel Road, but this overdub was not used.

Remixed versions of of Stranger In My Own Home Town and True Love Travels On A Gravel Road can be found on 'The Memphis Record'.

A different edited remix of Stranger In My Own Home Town can be found on 'Reconsider Baby'.

By taking out two of the four channels from the rare Japanese Quadraphonic LP of 'From Elvis In Memphis' is how the "Previously Unreleased Versions" were created on the bootleg "The Other Side Of Memphis" (Bilko).

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.



	Recording Information February 17 1969