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September 2 1956
(+ 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)

Radio Recorders Studio 1 - Hollywood, California
Producer : Steve Sholes
Engineer : Thorne Nogar
(1.00pm - 4.00pm / 4.30pm - 7.30pm / 8.00pm - 11.00pm)

Musicians:   Backup Vocals:
Guitar: Elvis Presley The Jordanaires: Gordon Stoker; Neal Matthews; Hoyt Hawkins; Hugh
Guitar: Scotty Moore Jarrett
Bass: Bill Black  
Drums: D.J. Fontana  
Piano: Elvis Presley ('Old Shep')  
Piano: Gordon Stoker ('Anyplace Is Paradise')  

Paralyzed
  September 2 1956 (Sun)
Take 4 Complete   (continued from September 1)  
Take 5        
Take 6 Complete      
Take 7        
Take 8        
Take 9 Complete      
Take 10        
Take 11        
Take 12 Complete? (2:18) (used for composite master)  

When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
G2WB 4925
  September 2 1956 (Sun)
Take 1 Complete 2:21 "N.G." (recorded over?)
Take 2 Complete 2:22   (recorded over?)
Take 3     "N.G." (recorded over?)
Take 4   2:18   (recorded over?)
Take 5     "N.G." (recorded over?)
Take 6     "N.G." (recorded over?)
Take 7     "Instrumental Out" (recorded over?)
Take 8     "N.G." (recorded over?)
Take 9 Complete 2:22   (recorded over?)
Take 10 M 2:20   Young Man With The Big Beat 2 (Legacy)°~Comp Elvis Presley Masters 2
(Sony)°~Songs Of The Fifties (Franklin Mint Comp Masters Collection 1)°
~Elvis (FTD)°~(DSD)°~Complete Single Collection 10°~50s Box 2°~Studio
Sessions '56 (MRS)°
       
Mono to Stereo (M) 2:20 Digitally extracted stereo PRESLEY - The Essential '50s Masters 2 (RDM Edition)°°
+Mono To Stereo (MRS)°°

Long Tall Sally
G2WB 4926
  September 2 1956 (Sun)
Take 1 Complete 1:51   (recorded over?)
Take 2     "N.G." (recorded over?)
Take 3     "N.G." (recorded over?)
Take 4 M 1:51   Young Man With The Big Beat 2 (Legacy)°~Comp Elvis Presley Masters 2
(Sony)°~The King Of Rock 'n' Roll (Franklin Mint Complete Masters
Coll. 36)°~Elvis (FTD)°~(DSD)°~Elvis Rock (DSD)°~50s Box 2°~Studio
Sessions '56 (MRS)°+Mono To Stereo (MRS)°° (digitally extracted stereo)
       
Mono to Stereo (M) 1:51 Digitally extracted stereo PRESLEY - The Essential '50s Masters 2 (RDM Edition)°°
+Mono To Stereo (MRS)°°

Old Shep
G2WB 4927
  September 2 1956 (Sun)
Take 1 M 4:08 "M2 - Insert 1" (4:19 with count-in) Young Man With The Big Beat 2 (Legacy)°~Comp Elvis Presley Masters 2
(Sony)°~Country Roots (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 8)°
~Elvis (FTD)°~(DSD)°~Comp. Single Collection 10°~50s Box 2°~Studio
Sessions '56 (MRS)°+Tape° (count-in)
Take 2     "N.G - Insert 2." (recorded over?)
Take 3 Complete 3:55   (recorded over?)
Take 4 Complete 3:58   (recorded over?)
Take 5 Complete 3:55 "M" (4:01 with count-in) 50s Box 5°~Elvis Presley / Elvis (Sony)° (3:53)+Elvis (FTD)°~Studio
Sessions '56 (MRS)° (count-in)
       
Mono to Stereo (M) 4:08 Digitally extracted stereo PRESLEY - The Essential '50s Masters 2 (RDM Edition)°°
+Mono To Stereo (MRS)°° (track 25)
Mono to Stereo 3:55 Digitally extracted stereo Mono To Stereo (MRS)°° (track 31)

Paralyzed (insert)
  September 2 1956 (Sun)
Take 1        
Take 2        
Take 3        
Take 4        
Take 5     (used for composite master)  

Paralyzed (composite)
G2WB 4922
   
Spliced M 2:25 Composite of Take 12 & insert
- Take 5
Young Man With The Big Beat 2 (Legacy)°~Comp Elvis Presley Masters 2
(Sony)°~The King Of Rock 'n' Roll (Franklin Mint Complete Masters
Coll'n 36)°~Elvis 75 - Good Rockin' Tonight 1 (Legacy)°~Elvis 75 CD1°
~Elvis (FTD)°~(DSD)°~Elvis 56 (DSD)°~Comp Single Collection 10°
~50s Box 2°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°
       
Mono to Stereo (M) 2:25 Digitally extracted stereo PRESLEY - The Essential '50s Masters 2 (RDM Edition)°°
+Mono To Stereo (MRS)°°

Too Much
G2WB 4928
  September 2 1956 (Sun)
Take 1 Complete      
Take 2        
Take 3        
Take 4        
Take 5        
Take 6 Complete      
Take 7        
Take 8 Complete      
Take 9        
Take 10        
Take 11 Complete      
Take 12 Complete? (2:24) (used for composite master)  

Too Much (insert)
  September 2 1956 (Sun)
Take 1        
Take 2   0:10+ (intro used for composite master)  

Too Much (composite)
G2WB 4928
   
Spliced M 2:33 Composite of Take 12 and insert
- Take 2

Elvis' Golden Records (FTD)°~Young Man With The Big Beat 2 (Legacy)°
~Complete Elvis Presley Masters 2 (Sony)°~The King Of Rock 'n' Roll
(Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 36)°~Elvis 75 - Good Rockin'
Tonight 1 (Legacy)°~Elvis 75 CD1°~Elvis (FTD)°~(DSD)°~Elvis 56 (DSD)°
~Complete Single Collection 2°~Elvis Rock (DSD)°~50s Box 2°
~E1 (30 #1 Hits)°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°
       
Mono to Stereo (M) 2:33 Digitally extracted stereo PRESLEY - The Essential '50s Masters 2 (RDM Edition)°°
+Mono To Stereo (MRS)°°

Anyplace Is Paradise
G2WB 4929
  September 2 1956 (Sun)
Take 1        
Take 2        
Take 3        
Take 4        
Take 5        
Take 6        
Take 7        
Take 8        
Take 9        
Take 10        
Take 11        
Take 12        
Take 13        
Take 14        
Take 15        
Take 16        
Take 17        
Take 18        
Take 19        
Take 20        
Take 21        
Take 22 M 2:27   Young Man With The Big Beat 2 (Legacy)°~Comp Elvis Presley Masters 2
(Sony)°~Rhythm & Blues (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 9)°
~Elvis (FTD)°~(DSD)°~Elvis 56 (DSD)°~50s Box 2°~Studio Sessions '56
(MRS)°
       
Mono to Stereo (M) 2:27 Digitally extracted stereo PRESLEY - The Essential '50s Masters 2 (RDM Edition)°°
+Mono To Stereo (MRS)°°

Notes

The insert of 'Paralyzed' was probably applied after 2:16

Take 5 of 'Old Shep' was used by mistake on some original pressings of Elvis.

On the composite master of 'Too Much', the 'insert' is spliced at the beginning of Take 12.

In May 2022, Rockhurst Auctions offered several items from the files of the late Trude Forsher. Without a doubt, the most interesting one has to be the apparently unpublished written account of Elvis' September 1956 sessions at Radio Recorders. This was written by Forsher herself, and it was intended to be published by "Look" magazine. This has to be one of the most interesting items to surface in the Elvis World for quite a long time. Scans are shown below.

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 Josep Rulló Guardia for providing scans for the Trude Forsher article on the Phoenix Elvis forum.


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September 2 1956
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September 2 1956
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Tape Log
September 1956
September 1956

 
Trude Forsher
Presley Feature for "Look" magazine
Unpublished Trude Forsher article
 


Music Sheets
Music Sheet
Paralyzed
Paralyzed
Music Sheet
When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
Music Sheet
Long Tall Sally
Long Tall Sally

Music Sheet
Old Shep
Old Shep
Music Sheet
Too Much
Too Much
Music Sheet
Anyplace Is Paradise
Anyplace Is Paradise


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