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December 14 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 - 12.00am / 1.00am - 3.00am)

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  

Talk About The Good Times
CPA5 1628
  December 14 1973
Take 1 LFS
1:00   Good Times (FTD)°°
Take 2 LFS 0:41 "The Lord's Prayer" Good Times (FTD)°°
Take 3 Complete 3:16   Good Times (FTD)°°+Essential Elvis Volume 5°°
Take 4 (M) 2:55 (Undubbed Master) Good Times (FTD)°°~By Special Request - From Louisiana to Tennessee°
~Tiger Man - An Alternate Anthology Vol 2°
         
Overdub (M) 2:58 Backup V.O's on January 2 1974 Unedited Masters - Stax '73 (Venus)°°
Faded M 2:25 (Master Faded) Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 25 (Sony)°°~Country Legend (Franklin Mint
Comp. Masters Collection 18)°°~Good Times (FTD)°°~70's Box 4°°+Good
Times°° (20 Bit - Too Slow - Faded) (Different Mixes)

Notes

Elvis can be heard singing excerpts of Farther Along and Wasted Years before Take 3 of Talk About The Good Times on 'Essential Elvis Volume 5'. Farther Along is edited in from Take 3 of Loving Arms and Wasted Years is edited in from Take 9 of I've Got A Thing About You Baby.

Talk About The Good Times was faded for release by RCA. The complete unedited undubbed master can be found on FTD's 'Good Times' classic album release and the complete unedited overdubbed master can be found on the Venus bootleg release "Unedited Masters - Stax 1973".

Talk About The Good Times was remixed when used on the '70's Box'.

Although it is the best source with regard to sound quality apart from FTD's 'Good Times' Classic Album, Talk About The Good Times runs approximately 2.4% too slow on the Japanese 20 Bit mastered 'Good Times' release.

During this session they also attempted to record the Waylon Jennings hit We Had It All but nothing was put down on tape.

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 Matthew Worsley for pointing out the difference on the Japanese 'Good Times' release.

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