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February 21 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
Engineers: Al Pachucki / Roy Shockley

Musicians:    
Guitar: Elvis Presley  
Guitar: Reggie Young  
Drums: Gene Chrisman  
Organ: Bobby Emmons  
Bass: Tommy Cogbill  
Piano: Bobby Wood  

Any Day Now
XPA5 1274
  February 21 1969 (1.00am - 4.00am)
Take 1 FS+LFS
3:12   From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°° (FS & talking after LFS)+The American
Way Vol. 3°° ~Unsurpassed Masters 4-14°°~There's Always Me Vol. 2°°
Take 2 PB 4:20 (Preceded by Rehearsal) From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°°~Memphis Sessions (FTD)°° (PB)+The
American Way Volume 3°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-14°° (Rehearsal+PB)
~There's Always Me Volume 2°° (PB)~American Crown Jewels°° (PB)
~Keep Rollin' On (Venus)° (PB - Listed as Unedited Master)
Take 3 6xFS+LFS 5:01 (Preceded by Rehearsal) From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°° (LFS only)+The American Way Volume 3°°
(6xFS+LFS)~Unsurpassed Masters 4-14°° (6xFS+LFS)~There's Always
Me Volume 2°° (Last 3xFS+LFS only)
Take 4 7xFS+LFS
+Pickup
7:08 (LFS followed by Pickup) From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°° (Spliced - LFS+Pickup)+The American
Way Volume 3°° (7xFS+LFS+Pickup)~Unsurpassed Masters 4-14°° (7xFS
+LFS+Pickup)~There's Always Me Volume 2°° (Last 3xFS+LFS+Pickup)
Take 5 2xFS+LFS 2:40   The American Way Volume 3°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-14°°~There's
Always Me Volume 2°°
Take 6 (M) 2:58 (Unrepaired Undubbed Master)
(0:00-1:27 & 2:27-2:57 of vocals
used for Master)
The American Way Volume 3°°(Intro cut)~Unsurpassed Masters 4-14°°
(Intro cut)~There's Always Me Volume 2°° (Intro cut)
         
V.O. (M) 3:15 Vocal Repair of middle part on
Feb 22
(Vocals replaced 1:27-2:27)
From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°°
         
Overdub (M)   String overdubs on March 18 (Aft)  
Overdub (M)   Brass overdubs on March 18 (Eve)  
Overdub M 3:00 Backup V.O's on March 25 (Eve ?)
(SPA1 4123)
From Elvis In Memphis (FTD)°°~Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 18 (Sony)°°
~The Memphis Sessions (Franklin Mint Comp. Masters Collection 33)°°
~From Elvis In Memphis (Legacy)°°~From Elvis In Memphis (24 Bit)°°
~Suspicious Minds - The Memphis '69 Anthology°°~60's Box 5°°+The
Memphis Record°°+The Other Side Of Memphis°° (2 Versions)+From Elvis
In Memphis (Legacy)°

If I'm A Fool (For Loving You)
XPA5 1275
  February 21 1969 (4.30am - 7.30am)
Take 1 FS
0:59 (Preceded by Rehearsal) The American Way Volume 3°~Finding The Way Home (1-10-1)°
Take 2 LFS 3:10   The American Way Volume 3°~Finding The Way Home (1-10-2)°
Take 3 PB 3:15   Memphis Sessions (FTD)°°~The American Way Vol 3°~Finding The Way
Home (1-10-3)°~American Crown Jewels°
Take 4 LFS 1:23   The American Way Volume 3°~A Legendary Performer Volume 6°
Take 5 SFS 0:12   The American Way Volume 3°~A Legendary Performer Volume 6°
Take 6 LFS 1:56   The American Way Volume 3°~Finding The Way Home (2-9-3 Faded -
Listed as Take 5)°
Take 7 FS 0:31   The American Way Volume 3°~Finding The Way Home (2-9-1 Faded -
Listed as Take 6)°
Take 8 LFS 1:24   The American Way Volume 3°~Finding The Way Home (2-9-2 Faded -
Listed as Take 7)°
Take 9 (M) 2:49 (Undubbed Master) The American Way Vol 3°° (Count-in only)+Memphis Memories (LP)°
(Acetate - Too Fast)
         
Overdub M 2:44 String & Backup V.O's on Mar 25 Complete Elvis Presley Masters 18 (Sony)°°~The Memphis Sessions
(Franklin Mint Comp. Masters Collection 33)°°~From Elvis In Memphis
(Legacy)°°~Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology°°
~60's Box 5°°

The Fair's Moving On
XPA5 1276
  February 21 1969 (7.30pm - 10.30pm)
Take 1 (M)   (Unrepaired Undubbed Master)  
         
V.O. (M) 3:17 Vocal Repair on February 22 ? Back In Memphis (FTD)°°~Memphis Memories (LP)° (Acetate - Too Fast)
         
Overdub M 3:09 String & Backup V.O's on Mar 25
(SPA1 4138)
Complete Elvis Presley Masters 18 (Sony)°°~Fun At The Fair (Franklin
Mint Comp. Masters Collection 23)°°~From Elvis In Memphis (Legacy)°°
~Back In Memphis (FTD)°°~(24 Bit)°°~Suspicious Minds - The Memphis
1969 Anthology°°~60's Box 5°°+The Memphis Record°°+From Elvis In
Memphis (Legacy)°

Memory Revival (Fast - Track)
XPA5 1277
  February 21 1969 (11.00pm - 2.00am)
Take NA (M) 3:21 (Not Used) Memphis Memories (LP)° (Acetate - Too Fast)~Tiger Man - An Alternate
Anthology Volume 1°

Notes

The date is unknown when the Backup Vocal overdubs were added to Any Day Now - 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.

Remixed versions of Any Day Now and The Fair Is Moving On can be found on 'The Memphis Record'.

Take 2 of Any Day Now in mono, can be found on the bootleg "Keep Rollin' On" where it is incorrectly listed as being the unedited master with unrepaired vocals.

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.

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