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March 25 1969 (Overdub)
(+ 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)

RCA Studio A - Nashville, Tennessee
Producer : Felton Jarvis
Engineer: Al Pachucki

Musicians:   Backup Vocals:
NA
  Sonja Montgomery; Millie Kirkham; Dolores Edgin; Hurshell Wiginton;
    Joe Babcock

My Little Friend (overdub)
XPA5 1153
  March 25 1969 (Tuesday Evening ?)

Gentle On My Mind (overdub)
XPA5 1155
  March 25 1969 (Tuesday Evening ?)

Power Of My Love (overdub)
XPA5 1268
  March 25 1969 (Tuesday Evening ?)

Kentucky Rain (overdub)
XPA5 1271
  March 25 1969 (Tuesday Evening ?)

Any Day Now (overdub)
XPA5 1274
  March 25 1969 (Tuesday Evening ?)

Only The Strong Survive (overdub)
XPA5 1272
  March 25 1969 (Tuesday Evening ?)

Notes

The date is unknown when the Backup Vocal overdubs were added to 'My Little Friend'. Sessions III lists 'My Little Friend' as having backup vocals overdubbed on January 23, but the session log shows that as of February 4 (date of the job number) no backup vocals had been overdubbed. You can just about hear the backing singers during the guitar intro on the U.S. Male CD and the Almost In Love LP. This does not appear on any other versions.

The date is unknown when the backup vocal overdubs were added to 'Gentle On My Mind'. Sessions III lists 'Gentle On My Mind' as having backup vocals overdubbed on January 23, but the session log shows that as of February 4 (date of the job number) no backup vocals had been overdubbed.

The date is also unknown when the backup vocal overdubs were added to 'Power Of My Love', 'Kentucky Rain', 'Any Day Now' and 'Only The Strong Survive'.

A possible explanation of this could be as follows:-

There is a page missing from the session logs between March 25 and May 5 1969, and as there appears to have been no backup vocals overdubbed to any songs in May (Apart from May 6 & 7 where brass was also overdubbed) it is safe to assume that it is from March. The date of the job number at the bottom of the March 25 overdub session log is March 28, so it would be safe to assume that this missing overdub session would be before March 28. The March 25 overdub session was for "Strings" and "Backup Vocals" and was held from 2.00pm until 5.00pm but it may well be that another session was held in the evening of March 25 but just for the backup vocalists (Sonja Montgomery, Millie Kirkham, Dolores Edgin, Hurshell Wigington and Joe Babcock) to add their vocals to the missing six tracks.

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March 25 1969 (Overdub)
March 25 1969 Overdub
 

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