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July 21 1973
(+ 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)

Stax Studio - Memphis, Tennessee
Producer: Felton Jarvis
Engineer: Al Pachucki
(9.00pm - 3.00am)

Musicians:   Backup Vocals:
Guitar:
James Burton JD Sumner & The Stamps Quartet: Bill Baize; Ed Enoch; Donnie Sumner;
Guitar: Charlie Hodge David Rowland
Guitar:
Reggie Young Mary Holladay; Ginger Holladay; Kathy Westmoreland; Jeannie Greene
Piano: Bobby Wood  
Bass: Tommy Cogbill  
Drums: Ronnie Tutt  
Drums: Jerry Carrigan  
Organ: Bobby Emmons  
Percussion: Joe Esposito  

If You Don't Come Back
CPA5 4761
  July 21 1973
Take 1 FS
0:25   Raised On Rock (FTD)°°
Take 2 FS 0:32   Raised On Rock (FTD)°°
Take 3 Complete 2:59   Raised On Rock (FTD)°° (Count-in)+Essential Elvis Volume 5°°~Chante
Leiber & Stoller°° (3:06 - "Surrender")
Take 4        
Take 5 Complete 2:39   Raised On Rock (FTD)°°~Made In Memphis (FTD)°°
Take 6 Complete 2:40   Raised On Rock (FTD)°°
Take 7        
Take 8 LFS 0:56 "If you don't fuck up" Raised On Rock (FTD)°°
Take 9 M 2:50 (Master is without overdubs) Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 25 (Sony)°°~Rhythm & Blues (Franklin Mint
Complete Masters Collection 9)°°~Raised On Rock (FTD)°°~(20 Bit)°°
~Our Memories Of Elvis (FTD - 3)°° (See Note)+Bilko's Gold Cuts°~Pure
Diamonds Vol. 3°~More Pure Elvis° (Too slow)+Raised On Rock (FTD)°°
(Different mixes)~Our Memories Of Elvis Vol 3 (Victrola)°° (Different mix)

It's Diff'rent Now
WPA5 2574
  July 21 1973
Rehearsal 2:31   Raised On Rock (FTD)°°+70's Box 4°°~It's Different Now°° (Different
        mixes)

Three Corn Patches
CPA5 4762
  July 21 1973
Take 1 FS
0:09   Raised On Rock (FTD)°°
Take 2 Complete 3:12   Raised On Rock (FTD)°°
Take 3        
Take 4 FS 0:21   Raised On Rock (FTD)°°
Take 5 FS 0:08   Raised On Rock (FTD)°°~Made In Memphis (FTD)°°
Take 6 Complete
3:10   Raised On Rock (FTD)°°+Made In Memphis (FTD)°° (Extra Dialogue)
Take 7        
Take 8        
Take 9 FS 0:32 "Wasted Years"
Raised On Rock (FTD)°°
Take 10 Complete 3:08   Raised On Rock (FTD)°°
Take 11        
Take 12        
Take 13 FS 0:19 "Three Coins In The Fountain" Raised On Rock (FTD)°°
Take 14 Complete 3:18   Raised On Rock (FTD)°° (Count-in)~Essential Elvis Volume 5°°~Chante
Leiber & Stoller°°
Take 15 M 2:46 (Master is without overdubs) Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 25 (Sony)°°~Girls! Girls! & More Girls!
(Franklin Mint Comp.Masters Collection 17)°°~Raised On Rock (FTD)°°
~Raised On Rock (20 Bit)°°+Pure Diamonds Vol. 3°°+Raised On Rock
(FTD)°° (Different mixes)

Take Good Care Of Her
CPA5 4763
  July 21 1973
Take 1 FS+
0:19 "We're rolling, this'll be take one"
Good Times (FTD)°°
  Reh'sal+ 0:41 "Okay, two" Today, Tomorrow & Forever 4°° (Not listed)+Good Times (FTD)°°
  Complete 3:03 "This'll be three" Good Times (FTD)°°~Today, Tomorrow & Forever 4°° (Listed as Take 3)
Take 2 FS 0:14 "Take two, okay" Good Times (FTD)°°
Take 3 Complete 3:08 "Alright, Take three" Good Times (FTD)°°
Take 4 Complete 2:56   Good Times (FTD)°°~Platinum 4°°
Take 5 LFS 0:54   Good Times (FTD)°°
Take 6 (M) 3:00 (Undubbed Master) (HPA5 6380) Good Times (FTD)°° (Count-In)~Pure Diamonds Vol. 3°°+Our Memories
Of Elvis°°~Our Memories Of Elvis (FTD - 1)°° (See Note)
         
Overdub M 2:52 Strings & Guitar overdubs on
September 28
Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 25 (Sony)°°~Country Legend (Franklin Mint
Complete Masters Collection 18)°°~Good Times (FTD)°°~(20 Bit)°°
~Complete Single Collection 8°°~Country (2006 - DSD)°°~70's Box 2°°
+The Definitive Country Album°° (Edited)

Notes

The undubbed masters on 'Our Memories Of Elvis' weren't really the pure undubbed masters. They were the fully overdubbed or regular masters but with certain instruments and backing vocal channels removed or stripped down.

Elvis can be heard fooling around with Surrender before Take 3 of If You Don't Come Back on 'Essential Elvis Volume 5' but it is edited in from before Take 6 of Love Song Of The Year (December 12 1973).

Some of Elvis' vocals were mixed out of It's Diff'rent Now when it appeared on the '70's Box'. The more complete rehearsal can be found on FTD's 'Raised On Rock' Classic Album, but is edited at the end.

Elvis can be heard singing a line of Wasted Years before Take 9 of Three Corn Patches and can be heard singing a line of Three Coins In A Fountain (From the 1954 movie 'Three Coins In The Fountain') before Take 13 of Three Corn Patches.

Take 3 of Take Good Care Of Her is listed on 'Today, Tomorrow & Forever', but this is actually Take 1 including some of the rehearsal of Take 1. It is also incorrectly listed in the 'In And Outtakes' section of the booklet with FTD's 'Good Times' Classic Album that Take 3 appeared on 'Today, Tomorrow & Forever'.

The undubbed master of Take Good Care Of Her on 'Our Memories Of Elvis' and "Pure Diamonds Volume 3" have the left and right channels reversed.

An edited (2:10) version of Take Good Care Of Her, with omitted verse ("Just take good care of her, take good care of her..." to "So remember when you take my only treasure..."), was released in 1987 on the BMG Ariola release 'The Definitive Country Album'.

Some of the Rough Mixes found on FTD's 'Raised On Rock' and 'Good Times' Classic Album are longer than the final Masters.

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

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