The definitive release of these sessions can be found on the Follow That Dream 5xCD set Guitar Man - The '67/'68 Sessions, where all outtakes and masters have been remixed and mastered from scratch. However, on this release some editing has been done to take out some swearing and inappropriate language, or they have muted (turned down) Elvis' vocal channel at some points.
The spliced master of 'Hi-Heel Sneakers' is spliced as follows:
0:00 - 0:15 = Take 5 (0:00 - 0:15)
0:15 - 1:15 = Take 7 (0:15 - 1:15)
1:16 - 2:48 = Take 7 (3:01 - 4:33)
Elvis can be heard singing part of 'Ode To Billy
Joe' before what is listed as the unedited master of 'Hi-Heel
Sneakers' (Take 7) on the 60s Box and La
Legende - Rock 'n' Roll.
RCA referred to, and first released the song 'Hi-Heel
Sneakers', as 'High Heel Sneakers', but
were ordered to change it to the correct title
after it's first release. It is referred to again as 'High Heel Sneakers' on the Follow That Dream 5xCD set Guitar Man - The '67/'68 Sessions. RCA's own session log (shown below) clearly shows the title as being 'Hi-Heel Sneakers'.
An extended version of the already edited master
of 'Hi-Heel Sneakers' can be found of the
cassette version of the box set Elvis Aron Presley.
The original master of 'You Don't Know Me' is Take
1, and it was originally released as a single,
and also released on the Clambake album. It is also this
that appears on the FTD Clambake extended soundtrack,
the 30 disc Complete Elvis Presley Masters collection
and the Franklin Mint package. For some reason, the master that appeared on
the 60s Box, as well as Tomorrow Is A Long
Time and the Japanese Complete Single Collection is spliced from Take 1 and the last chord of Take
2. The session log lists two timings for the song,
so maybe there has always been two masters.
The spliced master of 'You'll Never Walk Alone' is spliced as follows:
0:00 - 0:33 = Take 8 (0:00 - 0:33) (from start until "... and don't be afraid of the dark ...")
0:33 - 1:57 = Take 1 (3:13 - 4:37) (from "... at the end of the storm ..." until "... and walk a-lo-ho-hone ...")
1:57 - 2:28 = Take 1 (4:01 - 4.31) (from "... walk on, walk on ..." until "... and walk ...")
2:28 - 2:43 = Take 1 (5:08 - 5:24) (from "... a-lo-ho-hone ..." until the end of the song)
'You'll Never Walk Alone' on Greatest Hits
Volume 1 and The Sound Of Your Cry have the
left and right channels swapped.
The fake version of 'You'll Never Walk Alone'
without The Jordanaires "overdub" that
can be found on "The Colonels Collection"
appears to come from a stereo acetate but has
the right channel removed and then centred, as
you can clearly hear The Jordainaires vocals bleeding
through in the background.
Take 2 of 'You'll Never Walk Alone' can be found on the FTD book and CD release His Songs Of Praise Volume 2 where it is listed as being the "Extended Master"!
Elvis can be heard singing a line of 'Danny
Boy' after the count-in for Take 1 of 'Singing
Tree'.
Thanks to Luuk Bonthond regarding extended versions
of songs on the cassette version of Elvis Aron
Presley.
Thanks to Gerald Fernandes for finding the stereo
intro to Take 1 of 'You Don't Know Me' on
the "RCA/Candlelite" 5 LP set released
in 1977.
Thanks to Thomas D. Weiß for identifying the splices on the master of 'You'll Never Walk 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.
