Elvis Presley Recording Sessions

February 18 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:	Reggie Young
Drums:	Gene Chrisman
Organ:	Bobby Emmons
Bass:	Tommy Cogbill
Piano:	Bobby Wood
Piano:	Elvis Presley (After Loving You - Takes 1 & 2)
Harmonica:	Ed Kollis (Power Of My Love)

And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind				XPA5 1267	February 18 1969 (1.00am - 4.00am)
Rehearsal & Tuning		0:46		The American Way Volume 3°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°
Take 1	FS	0:47		Back In Memphis (FTD)°°+The American Way Volume 3°° ~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~There's Always Me Volume 3°°
Take 2	LFS	2:20		Back In Memphis (FTD)°°+The American Way Volume 3°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~There's Always Me Volume 3°°
Take 3	LFS	1:38		Back In Memphis (FTD)°°+The American Way Volume 3°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~There's Always Me Volume 3°°
Take 4	LFS	1:25		The American Way Volume 3°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~There's Always Me Volume 3°°
Take 5	FS+LFS	2:28		Back In Memphis (FTD)°° (LFS only - Ending Edited)+The American Way Volume 3°° ~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~There's Always Me Volume 3°°
Take 6	FS+(M)	3:56	(Undubbed Unrepaired Master)	Back In Memphis (FTD)°° (Count-in+FS+M)~Memphis Sessions (FTD)°° (FS+M)~The American Way Volume 3°° (FS+M)~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°° (FS+M)~American Crown Jewels°° (Master only)

V.O.	(M)	3:32	Vocal Repair on February 22 ?	Back In Memphis (FTD)°°

Overdub	(M)		String overdubs on May 7 (Aft)
Overdub	M	3:10	Brass overdubs on May 7 (Eve)	Complete Elvis Presley Masters 17 (Sony)°°~The Memphis Sessions (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 33)°°~From Elvis In Memphis (Legacy)°°~Inspirational (DSD)°°~Back In Memphis (FTD)°°~(24 Bit)°° ~Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology°°~60's Box 4°°

Power Of My Love				XPA5 1268	February 18 1969 (7.30pm - 10.30pm)
Take 1	SFS+PB	4:44	(Preceded by Rehearsals - Followed by Intro - Tape Rewound) "This is 1"	From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°° (SFS+PB)~Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology°° (SFS+PB)~American Crown Jewels°° (PB) ~There's Always Me Vol. 3°° (PB only)+The American Way Volume 4°° ~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°° (4:36)
Take 2	SFS	1:01	(Preceded by Rehearsals) "This is 2"	From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°°~The American Way Vol. 4°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~There's Always Me Volume 3°°
Take 3	PB	3:20	"Three"	From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°°~The American Way Vol. 4°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~Platinum 3°°~There's Always Me Vol. 3°°
Take 4	4xFS	3:03	(Followed by Rehearsal) "Are You Waiting Just For Me"	From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°° (Talking only)+The American Way Vol. 4°° ~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~There's Always Me Volume 3°°
Take 5	LFS	0:36		The American Way Volume 4°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~There's Always Me Volume 3°°
Take 6a	FS+	0:27		The American Way Volume 4°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°
Take 6b	LFS+PB	5:38	(LFS Announced as "Seven") "Amen"	From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°°~Memphis Sessions (FTD)°° (PB only) +The American Way Vol. 4°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°° (LFS+PB) ~There's Always Me Volume 3°° (LFS only)
Take 7	(M)	3:22	(Announced again as Take 7) (Undubbed Master) "Walk Away"	From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°°+The American Way Vol. 4°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~There's Always Me Volume 2°°

V.O.	(M)	1:13+	Harmony V.O. by Elvis on Feb 22	Memphis Memories (LP)° (Acetate - Incomplete - Too Fast)
Overdub	(M)		Brass overdubs on March 19 (Eve)
Overdub	M	2:36	Backup V.O's on March 25 (Eve ?) (SPA1 4121)	From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°°~Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 18 (Sony)°° ~The Memphis Sessions (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 33)°° ~From Elvis In Memphis (Legacy)°°~From Elvis In Memphis°°~Suspicious Minds-The Memphis '69 Anthology°°~60's Box 4°°+The Memphis Record°° +The Other Side Of Memphis°°

After Loving You				XPA5 1269	February 18 1969 (11.00pm - 2.00am)
Take 1	LFS	1:32	(Preceded by Rehearsal) "I'm gonna play piano"	From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°°~Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology°° (Talking only)+The American Way Volume 2°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~There's Always Me Volume 2°°
Take 2	PB	3:33		From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°°~Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology°°~The American Way Vol 2°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°° ~There's Always Me Vol 2°°+Guitar Man°°~Too Much Monkey Business°° (Overdubbed)
Take 3	PB	3:45	(Preceded by Rehearsal)	From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°°~Memphis Sessions (FTD)°°+The American Way Volume 2°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-13°°~There's Always Me Vol 2°° ~American Crown Jewels°°
Take 4	(M)	3:15		From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°°~Keep Rollin' On (Venus)°° (Count-in)

Faded	M	3:07	(Master Faded) (SPA1 4128)	From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°°~Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 18 (Sony)°° ~Country Roots (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 8)°°~From Elvis In Memphis (Legacy)°°~From Elvis In Memphis°°~Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology°°~60's Box 5°°+The Memphis Record°° (Different Mix)+Memphis Memories (LP)° (Acetate - Too Fast)

The date is also unknown when the Backup Vocal overdubs were added to Power Of My Love - A possible explanation of this could be as follows:-

There is a page missing from the session logs between March 25 and May 5 1969, and as there appears to have been no backup vocals overdubbed to any songs in May (Apart from May 6 & 7 where Brass was also overdubbed) it is safe to assume that it is from March. The date of the job number at the bottom of the March 25 overdub session log is March 28, so it would be safe to assume that this missing overdub session would be before March 28. The March 25 overdub session was for "Strings" and "Backup Vocals" and was held from 2.00pm until 5.00pm but it may well be that another session was held in the evening of March 25 but just for the backup vocalists (Sonja Montgomery, Millie Kirkham, Dolores Edgin, Hurshell Wigington and Joe Babcock) to add their vocals to the missing six tracks.

Just before Take 1 of Power Of My Love on 'Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology' Elvis can be heard singing part of Ernest Tubb's "Are You Waiting Just For Me", but this actually comes from after take 4.

Remixed versions of of Power Of My Love and After Loving You can be found on 'The Memphis Record'.

Elvis played piano on early takes of After Loving You.

Take 2 of After Loving You was used instead of the master in 1980 for the "Guitar Man" overdub sessions.

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).

'Sessions III' lists vocal repair of And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind as being done on September 26, but this surely cannot be the case as the strings and backup vocals were overdubbed on May 7. The most likely date for the vocal repair of And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind is February 22.

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 18 1969