Elvis Presley Recording Sessions

The Love Machine (work part - ending)

Sept. 28 1966 (Wed: 7.30pm - 12.45am)

September 28 1966

(+ 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)

Paramount Studio Recording Stage - Hollywood, California

Soundtrack Session for Paramount's Easy Come, Easy Go

Paramount Producer : Joseph Lilley

Engineer : James Wright

Musicians:		Backup Vocals:
Guitar:	Scotty Moore	The Jordanaires: Gordon Stoker; Neal Matthews; Hoyt Hawkins; Ray
Guitar:	Hilmer J 'Tiny' Timbrell	Walker
Bass:	Bob Moore
Drums:	D.J. Fontana
Drums:	Murrey 'Buddy' Harman
Drums:	Hal Blaine
Drums:	Curry Tjader ('Sing You Children')
Percussion:	Emil 'Richards' Radocchia ('Easy Come, Easy Go' & 'I'll Take Love')
Harpsicord:	Michel Rubini
Trumpet:	Mike Henderson
Trombone:	Wyman 'Butch' Parker
Saxophone:	Jerry Scheff
Guitar / Organ / Harmonica:	Charlie McCoy

Easy Come, Easy Go				UPA3 3805	AOVC	Sept. 28 1966 (Wed: 10.00am - 11.45am / 1.00pm - 6.15pm)
Take 1
Take 2
Take 3
Take 4
Take 5
Take 6
Take 7
Take 8
Take 9	(M)	2:33	Unedited master	Celluloid Rock 2-4°° (track 2 - listed as v.o.)+Celluloid Rock 2-4°° (track 1) +A Legendary Performer Volume 5°°~Volume 9°° (count-in)
Take 10	Complete	2:30		Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°° (count-in)~Hard Knocks (Venus)°°

Faded	M	2:19	Master faded	Complete Elvis Presley Masters 14 (Sony)°°~Casting Call (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 26)°°~Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°° (2:10) +Double Feat - Easy Come, Easy Go / Speedway°°

Easy Come, Easy Go (dubdown)					AO
Dub	(M)	2:33	Dubdown to backing track - Elvis' vocals removed from AOVC-09 (not used)	Tape°

I'll Take Love					BOVC	Sept. 28 1966 (Wed: 1.00pm - 6.15pm)
Take 1	FS	0:21		Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°+Hard Knocks (Venus)°° (count-in)
Take 2a	FS+FS+ Complete	3:10		Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°° (count-in - 2:54)~Hard Knocks (Venus)°° (count-in & extra ending - listed as takes 2a & 3)
Take 2b	Complete	2:30		Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°
Take 3
Take 4	(M)		(used for composite master)
Take 5
Take 6
Take 7
Take 8

I'll Take Love (dubdown)					BO
Dub	(M)	2:29	Dubdown to backing track - Elvis' vocals removed from BOVC-04 (not used)	Tape°

I'll Take Love (pickup)			B1OVC	Sept. 28 1966 (Wed: 1.00pm - 6.15pm)
Take 1		Pickup from second bridge
Take 2
Take 3	(M)	(used for composite master)

I'll Take Love (composite)				UPA3 3810
Spliced	(M)	2:16	Composite of BOVC-04 & B1OVC-03	Complete Elvis Presley Masters 14 (Sony)°°~Casting Call (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 26)°°~Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°° ~A Legendary Performer Vol 7°°~Celluloid Rock 2-4°° (track 4)~Double Features - Easy Come, Easy Go / Speedway°°+Celluloid Rock 2-4°° (track 5 - listed as backing track)

I'll Take Love (movie version - composite)					BCA
Spliced	(M)	2:10	Composite of BOVC-04 & B1OVC-01

I'll Take Love (movie version - overdub)					BTD
Take 1	M	2:10	Backup vocal overdub of movie version composite	Soundtrack°

Sing You Children				UPA3 3809	COVC	Sept. 28 1966 (Wed: 7.30pm - 12.45am)
Take 1	Complete	2:52		Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°~Double Features - Easy Come, Easy Go / Speedway°° (faded)
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	FS+LFS	1:24		Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°° (extra dialogue)~Hard Knocks (Venus)°°
Take 19	Complete	2:27		Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°~Hard Knocks (Venus)°°
Take 20	?	0:17+		Hard Knocks (Venus)°° (count-in only)
Take 21
Take 22	(M)	2:15	Unedited master	Celluloid Rock 2-4°° (track 6)~Double Features - Easy Come, Easy Go / Speedway°°+Celluloid Rock 2-4°° (track 5 - listed as backing track)

Faded	M	2:07	Master faded	Complete Elvis Presley Masters 14 (Sony)°°~Gospel Jubilee (Franklin Mint Comp. Masters Collection 11)°°~I Believe - The Gospel Masters 4°° ~Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°

Sing You Children (dubdown)					CO
Dub	(M)	2:29	Dubdown to backing track - Elvis' vocals removed from COVC-22 (not used)	Tape°

Sing You Children (movie version)					CTDX
Take 1	(M)	1:14	COVC-22 - edited (not used)

Sing You Children (movie version)					CTDY
Take 1	M	1:36	COVC-22 - edited	Soundtrack°

The Love Machine					DOVC	Sept. 28 1966 (Wed: 7.30pm - 12.45am)
Take 1	FS	1:01		Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°
Take 2	FS	0:29		Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°
Take 3	Complete	2:42		Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°~Today, Tomorrow & Forever 3°°
Take 4	3xFS	1:17		Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°
Take 5	LFS	1:03	"Keep Your Hands Off Of Her"	Double Features - Easy Come, Easy Go / Speedway°° (count-in only) +Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°
Take 6
Take 7
Take 8
Take 9
Take 10
Take 11	Complete	2:23	Alternate master (continued later)	Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°~Double Features - Easy Come, Easy Go / Speedway°°

The Love Machine (composite)					DCA
Spliced	(M)	2:20	Composite of DOVC-11 & D1OVC-04 (not used)	Acetate°

The original 2-Track masters of the six songs used in the movie were released on LP in Australia, New Zealand and Argentina.

Poor digital echo on vocals plagues the Double Features release.

The lyric sheet for 'Easy Come, Easy Go' shows a third verse which was not eventually recorded by Elvis.

In A Life In Music it states that 'I'll Take Love' is spliced from takes 4, 8 and pickup - Take 3, but the it's only a splice of Take 4 and pickup - Take 3.

The intro of 'I'll Take Love' was cut on some of the original mono and 2-Track releases and even on Celluloid Rock.

The originally planned master of 'The Love Machine' was to be a composite of Take 11 (DOVC-11) and Take 4 of a repaired ending (D1OVC-04), but this idea was dropped in favour of continuing recording the song again from Take 12 onwards the following day.

On Celluloid Rock Volume 2 the masters from this session are released both as a 3-channel mix and as instrumental tracks with just the two instrumental channels. This gives the impression that the vocals were overdubbed, but this is incorrect as slight bleeding of the vocal track reveals how this mix was done.

Initially, two songs were selected for scene 94 of Easy Come, Easy Go, which was to be in a discotheque according to the script. The songs were 'Sweet Thing' (Tepper-Bennett) and 'Sand In The Nick Of Time' (Giant-Baum-Kaye), although both songs were rejected in the pre-selection for the movie and replaced by 'Love On The Rocks' (Tepper-Bennett). None of these songs were recorded. Finally, 'Leave My Woman Alone' was selected to be used for scene 94 in the movie and the backing track was laid down ready for Elvis to record his lead vocals, when it was then decided that the scene be dropped altogether from the movie. This is the reason why Elvis never finished the song 'Leave My Woman Alone'.

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 Ernst Jørgensen and Erik Rasmussen.



Acetate Love On The Rocks	Recording Information Easy Come, Easy Go	Recording Information Easy Come, Easy Go



Acetate Easy Come, Easy Go	Demo Acetate Easy Come, Easy Go	Lyric Sheet Easy Come, Easy Go



Acetate I'll Take Love	Demo Acetate I'll Take Love	Lyric Sheet I'll Take Love



Acetate Sing You Children	Demo Acetate Sing You Children	Lyric Sheet Sing You Children



Acetate The Love Machine (Composite)	Demo Acetate The Love Machine	Lyric Sheet The Love Machine (Composite)



Music Sheet Easy Come, Easy Go	Music Sheet I'll Take Love	Music Sheet Sing You Children



	Music Sheet The Love Machine