Elvis Presley Recording Sessions

Do The Clam (instrumental)

(July 7 1964)

Soundtrack°+Acetate°

June 15 1964

(+ 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 B - Hollywood, California

Soundtrack Session for MGM's Girl Happy

Musical Director for MGM : George Stoll

Engineer : Dave Wiechman

(2.00pm - 6.00pm)

Musicians:		Backup Vocals:
NA		The Jubilee Four: Bill Johnson; George McFadden; Jimmy Adams; Ted
		Brooks ('Wolf Call' - chorus overdub)
		The Carol Lombard Singers: Carol Lombard; Gwen Johnson; Jackie Ward;
		BJ Baker ('Do The Clam' - chorus overdub)

Wolf Call (vocal overdub)				2014	June 15 1964 (Mon)
Take 1		Vocal overdub of 2011-SP
Take 2
Take 3	Complete		Acetate°
Take 4
Take 5	(M)	Unedited undubbed master

Wolf Call (chorus vocal overdub)				SPA3 2005	2505	June 15 1964 (Mon)
Take 1			Bass vocal & backing vocals overdubbed to 2014-05
Take 2
Take 3
Take 4	(M)	2:29	Unedited master

Edit	M	1:29	Master shortened & sped up) Record version	Complete Elvis Presley Masters 11 (Sony)°°~Sun Sand & Surf (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 14)°°~Girl Happy (remastered soundtrack)°°~Girl Happy (FTD)°°~Double Features - Harum Scarum / Girl Happy°°

Wolf Call (movie version - transfer)					2451	(July 7 1964)
Take 1			Mono transfer of 2505-04
Take 2	(M)	2:29		Kid Galahad Sessions Volume 3 (LP)°~From The Bottom Of My Heart Volume 2°+Acetate° (with count-in for 2505-04)

Wolf Call (movie version - overdub / edit)
Overdub	(M)	1:55	Additional whistling and dog barking including full intro of 'track' which is not on record version	Soundtrack°

Do The Clam (vocal overdub)				2015	June 15 1964 (Mon)
Take 1			Vocal overdub of 2010-05
Take 2	(M)	2:45	Unedited undubbed master

Do The Clam (movie version - transfer)					2410	(June 16 1964)
Take 1	(M)	2:48	Mono transfer of 2015-02	Acetate°

Do The Clam (chorus vocal overdub)				SPA3 2009	2504	June 15 1964 (Mon)
Take 1			Backing vocal overdubs to 2015-02
Take 2
Take 3
Take 4
Take 5
Take 6
Take 7
Take 8
Take 9	(M)
Take 10	(M)		(master is Take 9 and/or Take 10) Unedited master

Edit	M	3:21	Master extended - 1:43-2:05 repeated & last verse repeated	Complete Elvis Presley Masters 11 (Sony)°°~Sun Sand & Surf (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 14)°°~Girl Happy (remastered soundtrack)°°~Girl Happy (FTD)°°~Double Features - Harum Scarum / Girl Happy°°+The Mono Masters CD2 (Venus)°+Avventura In Oriente° (soundtrack)

Do The Clam (movie version - transfer)					2410	(June 22 1964)
Take 1	(M)	2:45	Mono transfer of 2504-SP (unedited) (3:05 with count-in)	Acetate° (with count-in for 2015-02)

Fort Lauderdale Chamber Of Commerce (v.o.)				SPA3 2003	2016	June 15 1964 (Mon)
Take 1			Vocal overdub of 2008-07
Take 2	(M)	2:23	Unedited master

Edit	M	1:33	Master shortened	Complete Elvis Presley Masters 11 (Sony)°°~Sun Sand & Surf (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 14)°°~Girl Happy (remastered soundtrack)°°~Girl Happy (FTD)°°~Double Features - Harum Scarum / Girl Happy°°

Fort Lauderdale Chamber Of Commerce (movie vers. - transfer)					2408	(June 16 1964)
Take 1	(M)	2:30	Mono transfer of 2016-02 - unedited	Acetate° (with "2016 Take 2" count-in - too slow [2:54])

Fort Lauderdale Chamber Of Commerce (movie version - edit)					2408	(June 19 1964)
Take 1	(M)	1:28	Movie version shortened	Acetate°
Take 2
Take 3	(M)	1:28		Acetate°~Soundtrack°

Startin' Tonight (vocal overdub)				SPA3 2004	2017	June 15 1964 (Mon)
Take 1			Vocal overdub of 2009-03
Take 2
Take 3
Take 4	(M)	1:57	Unedited master	Acetate°

Edit	M	1:21	Master edited	Complete Elvis Presley Masters 11 (Sony)°°~Sun Sand & Surf (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 14)°°~Girl Happy (remastered soundtrack)°°~Girl Happy (FTD)°°~Double Features - Harum Scarum / Girl Happy°°

Startin' Tonight (movie version - transfer)					2409	(July 6 1964)
Take 1			Mono transfer of 2017-04 - edited
Take 2	(M)	1:35		Acetate° (with count-in for 2017-04 & 2009-03)

Startin' Tonight (movie version - transfer)					2409	(July 7 1964)
Take 3	(M)	1:21	Mono transfer of 2017-04 - edited	Acetate°

I've Got To Find My Baby (vocal overdub)				SPA3 2011	2018	June 15 1964 (Mon)
Take 1	(M)	2:16	Vocal overdub of 2007-02

Edit	M	1:36	Master edited	Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 11 (Sony)°°~Girls! Girls! & More Girls! (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 17)°°~Girl Happy (remastered soundtrack)°°~Girl Happy (FTD)°°~Double Features - Harum Scarum / Girl Happy°°

I've Got To Find My Baby (movie version - transfer)					2407	(June 16 1964)
Take 1	(M)	2:16	Mono transfer of 2018-01	Memphis Tennessee (LP)°~From The Bottom Of My Heart°

I've Got To Find My Baby (edited movie version - transfer)					2407	(June 19 & 22 1964)
Take 1	(M)	1:36	Movie version shortened	Soundtrack°+Acetate° (with count-in for 2018-01 & 2007-02)

I've Got News For You - slow version (Nina Talbot)					2019 (?)
Take NA	(M)	0:51		Soundtrack°~Original Elvis Film Music Volume 7° (track 21)

I've Got News For You - fast version (Nina Talbot)					2020 (?)
Take NA	(M)	1:26		Soundtrack°~Original Elvis Film Music Volume 7° (track 26)

Unknown					2021

Unknown					2022

Girl Happy (end title - movie version)					2023
Spliced	(M)		Composite of insert #2-NA2, 2003-13 (edited) & insert #1-04

Girl Happy (end title - movie version transfer)					2423	(June 19 1964)
Take 1	(M)	1:28	Mono transfer of 2023	Acetate°~Soundtrack° (2nd version in movie - sped up & contains overdubs)

Girl Happy (original composite)					2403	(June 22 1964)
Spliced	(Alt. M)	2:15	Original composite of 2003-13 & insert #1-05	Memphis Tennessee (LP)°+Acetate° (with count-in for 2003-13)

Girl Happy (composite)				SPA3 2001
Spliced	(M)	2:19	Composite of insert #2-NA1, 2003-13 & insert #1-04	Tape°°

Sped up	M	2:09	Composite master sped up by 7.8%	Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 11 (Sony)°°~Girls! Girls! & More Girls! (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 17)°°~Girl Happy (remastered soundtrack)°°~Girl Happy (FTD)°°~Double Features - Harum Scarum / Girl Happy°°+Soundtrack° (additional overdubs)

Spring Fever (female vocals)					2501
Take NA

Spring Fever (female vocals)					2502
Take NA

Spring Fever (female vocals)					2503
Take NA

Spring Fever (female vocals - composite)					2412	(July 8 1964)
Take NA	(M)	1:45	"Spring Fever" - female vocals Composite of 2501, 2502 & 2503	Acetate° (count-in)

Spring Fever (movie version - composite)
Spliced	(M)	1:52	Composite of 2412 & 2405	Acetate°~Soundtrack°

The instrumentral intro (0:00-0:05) and second verse (0:47-1:25), along with the lead out at the end is cut on the released MGM/RCA master of 'Wolf Call'

The movie version of 'Wolf Call' has overdubbed dog barking noises in the background.

A fake overdubbed version of 'Wolf Call' can be found on the bootlegs Animal Instinct and Fried Bananas Ice Cream & Gatorade, but this has the intro to GOV Take 4 from the Paradise, Hawaiian Style sessions, tagged to the beginning of it!

The middle part of the song (1:02-1:38) and ending (2:00-2:23) is cut on the released MGM/RCA master of 'Fort Lauderdale Chamber Of Commerce'. A tape recording of the unedited acetate of was posted on You Tube in November 2012 - Thanks to 'drghanem'.

The unedited master of 'Startin' Tonight' is as follows. The parts which were edited out of the final master are shown in bold:

Michigan State, M.I.T,
Harvard University;
Vassar, Wellesley, Smith and Brown,
Shakin' up this here town tonight,
Startin' tonight,
Have a ball, do it all, startin' tonight.

(intro music)
Grab your partner by the hand,
Spread a blanket on the sand;
Three a.m. go for a swim,
Clothes and all, jump right in tonight,
Startin' tonight, pull out the stops,
Call the cops, it's all right

(intro music)
'Cause when the cops have come and gone,
You just keep carrying on;
Don't you worry if you land in jail,
We'll forward your mail, if you can't make bail tonight,
Startin' tonight,
Have a ball, do it all, startin' tonight.

(guitar solo)
'Cause when the cops have come and gone,
You just keep carrying on;
Don't you worry if you land in jail,
We'll forward your mail, if you can't make bail tonight,
Startin' tonight,
Have a ball, do it all, startin' tonight

Anything goes, everything goes, startin' tonight
Startin' tonight.

Another edit of 'Startin' Tonight' (2409) was meant to be used in the movie, but was eventually dropped, where only the instrumental intro's to the verses and the first "Cause when the cops have come and gone" verse are edited out:

Michigan State, M.I.T,
Harvard University;
Vassar, Wellesley, Smith and Brown,
Shakin' up this here town tonight,
Startin' tonight,
Have a ball, do it all, startin' tonight.

Grab your partner by the hand,
Spread a blanket on the sand;
Three a.m. go for a swim,
Clothes and all, jump right in tonight,
Startin' tonight, pull out the stops,
Call the cops, it's all right

(guitar solo)
'Cause when the cops have come and gone,
You just keep carrying on;
Don't you worry if you land in jail,
We'll forward your mail, if you can't make bail tonight,
Startin' tonight,
Have a ball, do it all, startin' tonight

Anything goes, everything goes, startin' tonight
Startin' tonight.

The Instrumental intro (0:00-0:04) and second verse (0:32-1:01) is cut on the released MGM/RCA master of 'I've Got to Find My Baby'.

Two possible production numbers from 2019 to 2022 are the two different versions of 'I've Got News For You' sung by Nina Talbot in the movie, once slow and the other fast.

The composite 'end title' of 'Girl Happy' is spliced as follows and is speeded up:-
0:00-0:02 = 2003 Take 13 (0:00-0:02) (instrumental intro, but this part could also be from 'insert #2')
0:02-0:20 = Insert #2 Take NA2 (0:00-0:18) (guitar & chorus vocal intro - Guitar instrumental & "Girl happy..., girl happy..., girl happy..., girl happy, girl girl happy...")
0:21-0:54 = 2003 Take 13 (0:32-1:08) ("Everytime I see a pretty face... made me jump for joy...")
0:54-1:12 = Insert #1 Take 4 (0:10-0:27) ("...Girl happy, well I'm..." - last chord)
1:12-1:27 = Instrumental overdub

The composite master of Girl Happy is spliced as follows before it was speeded up:-
0:00-0:02 = 2003 Take 13 (0:00-0:02) (instrumental intro, but this part could also be from 'insert #2')
0:02-0:13 = Insert #2 Take NA1 (0:00-0:11) (chorus vocal intro - "Girl happy, yes I'm girl happy, girl happy can't you see, girl happy, girl girl happy")
0:13-1:48 = 2003 Take 13 (0:06-1:41) ("Every girl I see ... just a baby...")
1:48-2:15 = Insert #1 Take 4 (0:00-0:27) ("...boy. First nurse that rocked..." - last chord)
2:15-2:17 = Insert #1 Take 4 (last 6 double guitar notes - missing from MGM tape)

MGM transfers to acetate for movie purposes are numbered as follows:-
2401 - Puppet On A String
2402 - The Meanest Girl In Town
2403 - Girl Happy
2404 - Cross My Heart And Hope To Die
2405 - Spring Fever
2406 - Do Not Disturb
2407 - I've Got To Find My Baby
2408 - Fort Lauderdale Chamber Of Commerce
2409 - Startin' Tonight
2410 - Do The Clam
2411 - Wolf Call
2412 - Spring Fever
2451 - Wolf Call

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 Kevan Budd for providing information on the recording of 'Wolf Call' and edits on 'Startin' Tonight'.

Thanks to Gary Bressler for acetate scans and audio.



Recording Information Girl Happy	Acetate Wolf Call	Acetate Do The Clam



Acetate Fort Lauderdale Chamber Of Commerce	Acetate Do The Clam (instrumental)	Acetate Spring Fever (female vocals)



Acetate Startin' Tonight	Acetate I've Got To Find My Baby	Acetate Girl Happy



Music Sheet Wolf Call	Music Sheet Do The Clam	Music Sheet Fort Lauderdale Chamber Of Commerce



Music Sheet Startin' Tonight	Music Sheet I've Got To Find My Baby	Music Sheet Girl Happy