Elvis Presley Recording Sessions

December 11 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

Engineers: Mike Moran / Dick Baxter

(9.00pm - 2.00am)

Musicians:		Backup Vocals:
Guitar:	James Burton	JD Sumner & The Stamps: Bill Baize; Ed Enoch; David Rowland
Guitar:	Charlie Hodge	Voice : Donnie Sumner; Sherrill Nielsen; Tim Baty; Per Eric "Pete" Hallin
Guitar:	Johnny Christopher	Mary Holladay; Susan Pilkington; Kathy Westmoreland; Jeannie Greene
Piano / Organ:	David Briggs
Bass:	Norbert Putnam
Drums:	Ronnie Tutt

You Asked Me To				CPA5 1619	December 11 1973
Take 1	FS	1:31	"On top of old smokey"	Promised Land (FTD)°°~Made In Memphis (FTD)°°
Take 2a	Complete	3:37		Promised Land (FTD)°° (Faded)+Made In Memphis (FTD)°° (Not Listed)
Take 2b	Complete	3:53		Promised Land (FTD)°°+Essential Elvis Volume 5°° (Count-In from 2a & "Smart ass musicians" comment from 3b)
Take 3a	Complete	3:32		Promised Land (FTD)°°
Take 3b	FS+Comp	3:42	"Smart ass musicians"	Promised Land (FTD)°°
Take 4
Take 5
Take 6	(M)	2:47	(Undubbed Master)	Stax Trax°°+Acetate°°

Overdub	M	3:33	Band overdubs on January 2 1974	Complete Elvis Presley Masters 25 (Sony)°°~Country Legend (Franklin Mint Comp. Masters Collection 18)°°~Promised Land (FTD)°°~(20 Bit)°° +Promised Land (2000)°°~70's Box 4°° (Different Mixes)

If You Talk In Your Sleep				CPA5 1620	December 11 1973
Take 1
Take 2
Take 3
Take 4
Take 5	Complete	2:26		Promised Land (FTD)°°~Today, Tomorrow & Forever 4°°+Unedited Mast. - Stax 1973 (Venus)°° (Track 13 - Clipped at beginning & listed as 'Backing Vocal Overdub')
Take 6	LFS	2:27	"Find Out What's Happening"	Promised Land (FTD)°°
Take 7
Take 8
Take 9	(M)	2:56	(Undubbed Master)	Promised Land (FTD)°° (Unedited)+Our Memories Of Elvis Volume 3 (Victrola)° ~By Special Request - From Louisiana To Tennessee° ~Tiger Man - An Alternate Anthology Volume 2°+Stax Trax°° (Faded)

Overdub	(M)		Backup V.O's on January 2 1974
Overdub	(M)		String overdubs on January 10 1974
Overdub	(M)	2:47	Brass overdubs on January 15 1974	Unedited Masters - Stax 1973 (Venus)°° (Track 3 - Count-in & Unedited)
Faded	M	2:25	(Master Faded)	Complete Elvis Presley Masters 25 (Sony)°°~Loves Lost (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 12)°°~Promised Land (FTD)°°~Complete Single Collection 8°°~Promised Land (20 Bit)°°+(2000)°°~70's Box 2°° (Different Mixes)+Elvis' Gold Records Volume 5°° (Long Outro)

Backup vocal overdubs (January 2 1974) were not used on If You Talk In Your Sleep.

You Asked Me To and If You Talk In Your Sleep were remixed when used on the '70's Box' and the BMG 2000 release of 'Promised Land'.

Elvis can be heard singing a part of Find Out What's Happening before Take 4 of Your Love's Been A Long Time Coming on 'Essential Elvis Volume 5', but this is edited in from before Take 6 of If You Talk In Your Sleep.

If You Talk In Your Sleep has a longer fade out on 'Elvis' Gold Records Volume 5'.

The complete unedited overdubbed master of If You Talk In Your Sleep can be found on the Venus bootleg release "Unedited Masters - Stax 1973".

This session was cut short as Elvis leaves when he realises there is no food available.

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.