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September 29 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 Elvis Presley ('Leave My Woman Alone' & 'You Gotta Stop' ?)
Drums: D.J. Fontana Vocal:
Drums: Murrey 'Buddy' Harman Elsa Lanchester ('Yoga Is As Yoga Does' (movie version)
Drums: Hal Blaine ('The Love Machine' & 'She's A Machine')
Drums: Curry Tjader ('The Love Machine', 'Yoga Is As Yoga Does' & 'You Gotta Stop')
Drums: Larry Bunker ('She's A Machine')  
Trumpet:
Mike Henderson ('The Love Machine' & 'She's A Machine')
Trumpet:
Anthony Terran ('The Love Machine', 'Yoga Is As Yoga Does', 'You Gotta Stop' & 'Leave My Woman Alone')
Trombone: Wyman 'Butch' Parker ('The Love Machine' & 'She's A Machine')
Saxophone: Jerry Scheff ('The Love Machine' & 'She's A Machine')
Saxophone: Meredith Flory ('The Love Machine', 'Yoga Is As Yoga Does', 'You Gotta Stop' & 'Leave My Woman Alone')
Saxophone: William Hood ('The Love Machine', 'Yoga Is As Yoga Does', 'You Gotta Stop' & 'Leave My Woman Alone')
Guitar / Organ / Harmonica: Charlie McCoy

She's A Machine
WPA1 8027 EOVC Sept. 29 1966 (Thur: 1.00pm - 3.30pm / 3.30pm - 6.15pm)
Take 1        
Take 2        
Take 3        
Take 4        
Take 5 FS 0:23   Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°
Take 6 FS+LFS 1:08   Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°
Take 7 Rehearsal+
Complete
2:42   Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°
Take 8        
Take 9        
Take 10 Complete 1:52   Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°
Take 11        
Take 12        
Take 13 (M) 1:57 "Harmonica & Organ"
Unused movie version
Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°° (count-in)~Double Features - Easy Come,
Easy Go / Speedway°° (1:38)
Take 14 LFS 1:51   Hard Knocks (Venus)°°
Take 15 M 1:35 "drums" Record version
(1:57 with count-in)
Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 14 (Sony)°°~Girls! Girls! & More Girls!
(Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 17)°°~Easy Come, Easy Go
(FTD)°°~Elvis Sings Flaming Star°°~Double Features - Easy Come,
Easy Go / Speedway°°+Hard Knocks (Venus)°° (count-in)

She's A Machine (dubdown)
  EO (October 13-14 1966 (?)
Dub (M) 1:54 Dubdown to backing track - Elvis'
vocals removed from EOVC-13
(Vocal overdub on October 14)
Tape°

The Love Machine (remake)
UPA3 3806 DOVC Sept. 29 1966 (Thur: 6.15pm - 7.45pm)
Take 12 M 2:50 (take numbering continued)
Record version
Complete Elvis Presley Masters 14 (Sony)°°~Casting Call (Franklin Mint
Complete Masters Collection 26)°°~Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°
~A Legendary Performer Vol. 6°°~Celluloid Rock 2-4°° (track 8)~Double
Features - Easy Come, Easy Go / Speedway°°+Celluloid Rock 2-4°°
(track 7 - listed as backing track)
Take 13 LFS 1:44   Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°+Hard Knocks (Venus)°°
Take 14 (M) 3:01 Movie version Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°+Hard Knocks (Venus)°° (count-in)
~Soundtrack°

The Love Machine (dubdown)
  DO  
Dub (M) 3:02 Dubdown to backing track - Elvis'
vocals removed from DOVC-14
(not used)
Tape°

The Love Machine (unused movie version)
  DTDX  
Take 1 (M)   DOVC-12 - edited (not used)  

Yoga Is As Yoga Does
UPA3 3807 FOVC Sept. 29 1966 (Thur: 9.00pm - 2.05am)
Take 1 LFS 1:56   Hard Knocks (Venus)°°
Take 2 LFS 1:14   Hard Knocks (Venus)°°
Take 3 LFS 1:45   Hard Knocks (Venus)°°
Take 4 Complete 2:07   Hard Knocks (Venus)°°
Take 5 LFS 0:44   Easy Come Easy Go (FTD)°°
Take 6 Complete 2:02   Easy Come Easy Go (FTD)°°
Take 7        
Take 8        
Take 9        
Take 10        
Take 11        
Take 12 M 2:12   Complete Elvis Presley Masters 14 (Sony)°°~Casting Call (Franklin Mint
Complete Masters Collection 26)°°~Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°
~Celluloid Rock 2-4°° (track 10)~Double Features - Easy Come, Easy Go
/ Speedway°°+Celluloid Rock 2-4°° (track 9 - listed as backing track)

Yoga Is As Yoga Does (movie version)
  FTD  
Take 1 (M)   FOVC-12 - edited (not used)  

Yoga Is As Yoga Does (dubdown)
     
Dub (M) 2:02 Dubdown to backing track - all
vocals removed from FOVC-12
Tape°

Yoga Is As Yoga Does (movie version - overdub)
  FTDX  
Take 1 (M) 2:12 Some of Elvis' vocals removed
from FOVC-12 & female vocal
overdubbed
Tape° (unedited)

Yoga Is As Yoga Does (movie version)
     
Take 1 (M) 2:00 Score overdubbed to FTDX-1 (edit) Soundtrack°

You Gotta Stop (track)
  GOC Sept. 29 1966 (Thur: 9.00pm - 2.05am)
Take 1 Complete 3:27   Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°° (count-in - listed as Take 6)
Take 2        
Take 3        
Take 4        
Take 5 (M) 2:19 (Vocal overdub on September 30) Celluloid Rock 2-4°° (track 11 - see note)

Leave My Woman Alone (track)
WPA3 1039 HOC Sept. 29 1966 (Thur: 9.00pm - 2.05am)
Take 1        
Take 2        
Take 3        
Take 4        
Take 5 (M) 2:44 (not used - no lead vocals recorded) Easy Come, Easy Go (FTD)°°

Aches & Pains (aka Go-Go Jo)
J
JTD-1 NA "playback record used"

Second Rate Street (aka Freak Out)
K
KTD-1 "playback record (no voices)
not used"
KTDX-1 "Playback record (with vocal)
not used"
KTDY-1 (M) "Playback record (shortened version)
no vocal" "used this one"

My Babe (not recorded)
L
LTD-1 "playback record (dub of commercial
record) not used"

Can I Get A Witness (not recorded)
M
MTD-1 "playback record (dub of commercial
record) used as tempo guide only"

You're A Wonderful One (not recorded)
N
NTD-1 "playback record (dub of commercial
record) not used"

Distortion (not recorded)
"playback record (from prod.
#11547-ATO-1) used as tempo
guide only"

Notes

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.

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.

The movie version of 'The Love Machine' is incorrectly listed in Sessions III as being Take 12 but with verses swapped around. Interestingly, the movie version is also listed as being Take 12 in Paramount's own paper work too.

A possibility as to why an instrumental track was recorded first for 'You Gotta Stop' without Elvis singing live with the band is because they were still having discussions about the lyrics during the recording session and nothing had been finalised regarding which lyrics to use (see scans below). This could be why Elvis did his vocal overdub later, after it was decided which lyrics to use.

The instrumental track (Take 1) of 'You Gotta Stop' on FTD's Easy Come, Easy Go extended soundtrack is incorrectly listed as being Take 6 on the cover.

Elvis sang as part of the backing vocals on the instrumental track of 'Leave My Woman Alone, although Elvis never recorded any lead vocals to 'Leave My Woman Alone'.

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'.

A possibility as to why 'Leave My Woman Alone' was dropped from the movie is that they couldn't get clearance in time, to use the song in the movie.

The implied vocals recorded on the songs 'Aches And Pains' and 'Second Rate Street' (Elvis Sessions by Tunzi) hardly refer to vocals by Elvis as his name is mentioned on the finished songs ("Elvis, Orch. and Jordanaires"), but not on these. A guess is that 'Aches and Pains' (a.k.a. 'Go-Go Jo') is the instrumental used in the movie right after the opening/title track. Other instrumental tracks used in the movie would fit with the listed tracks too.

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.

Session Logs
Recording Information
Easy Come, Easy Go
Easy Come, Easy Go
Recording Information
Easy Come, Easy Go
Easy Come, Easy Go
Recording Information
Easy Come, Easy Go
Easy Come, Easy Go

Acetate
She's A Machine
She's A Machine (Acetate)
Demo Acetate
She's A Machine
She's A Machine (Demo Acetate)
Lyric Sheet
She's A Machine
She's A Machine (Lyric Sheet)

Acetate
The Love Machine (Remake)
The Love Machine - Remake (Acetate)
Demo Acetate
The Love Machine
The Love Machine (Demo Acetate)
Lyric Sheet
The Love Machine (Remake)
The Love Machine - Remake (Lyric Sheet)

Demo Acetate
Yoga Is As Yoga Does
Yoga Is As Yoga Does (Demo Acetate)
Lyric Sheet
Yoga Is As Yoga Does
Yoga Is As Yoga Does (Lyric Sheet)
Lyric Sheet
You Gotta Stop
You Gotta Stop (Lyric Sheet)

Demo Acetate
Leave My Woman Alone
Leave My Woman Alone (Demo Acetate)
Lyric Sheet
Leave My Woman Alone
Leave My Woman Alone (Lyric Sheet)
Acetate
Love On The Rocks
Love On The Rocks - Unused


Music Sheets
Music Sheet
She's A Machine
She's A Machine (Thanks to Piotr Stefaniszyn)
Music Sheet
The Love Machine
The Love Machine (Thanks to Christopher Brown)
Music Sheet
Yoga Is As Yoga Does
Yoga Is As Yoga Does (Thanks to Glen Johnson)

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