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June 7 / 8 1970
(+ 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 B - Nashville, Tennessee
Producer: Felton Jarvis
Engineer: Al Pachucki
(6.00pm - 9.00pm / 10.00pm - 1.00am / 1.30am - 4.30am)

Musicians:    
Guitar:
Elvis Presley  
Guitar: James Burton  
Guitar: Chip Young  
Guitar: Charlie Hodge  
Drums: Jerry Carrigan  
Piano: David Briggs  
Bass: Norbert Putnam  
Organ / Harmonica: Charlie McCoy  
Vibes: Charlie McCoy ('I Really Don't Want To Know' & 'Love Letters')

When I'm Over You
ZPA4 1615
  June 7 / 8 1970 (Sun / Mon)
Take 1 (M) 3:35 Unedited undubbed master Elvis Country (FTD)°° (rough mix)+Memories Of Elvis 3 (Victrola)° (3:29)
~Our Memories Of Elvis (FTD - 3)°° (3:04)~Bilko's Gold Cuts°° (3:07)
~More Pure Elvis° (3:17 - too slow)+Make The World Go Away°°~You
Know, It Don't Have To Be Strictly Country Vol 2°° (count-in - acetate)
+From Elvis In Nashville 2°° (count-in)
         
Overdub (M) 2:39 Backup v.o's on October 1 Pure Diamonds Volume 2° (see note)
Overdub (M) 3:40 String overdubs on October 28
Unedited master
Unedited Masters - Nashville Revisited (Venus)°°
Faded M 2:37 Master faded Complete Elvis Presley Masters 20 (Sony)°°~Heartache (Franklin Mint
Comp. Masters Coll'n 6)°°~Love Letters From Elvis (FTD)°°~(20 Bit)°°
+That's The Way It Is - Special Edition°° (different mix)

I Really Don't Want To Know
ZPA4 1616
  June 7 / 8 1970 (Sun / Mon)
Take 1        
Take 2        
Take 3        
Take 4 (M) 2:48 Undubbed master Elvis Country (FTD)°° (rough mix)+Unedited Masters - Life (Venus)°°
(different mix)+Acetate°°~Make The World Go Away°°~You Know, It Don't
Have To Be Strictly Country Volume 2°°+From Elvis In Nashville 2°°
         
Overdub (M)   Brass & string overdubs on June 30  
Overdub M 2:46 Backup v.o's on October 1 Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 20 (Sony)°°~Country Roots (Franklin Mint
Complete Masters Collection 8)°°~Elvis Country (FTD)°°~Great Country
Songs (DSD)°°~70s Box 1°°+Welcome To My World°° (different mixes)
+Complete Single Collection 7°°~The Mono Masters CD4 (Venus)°
~Taking Care Of Business - In A Flash (FTD)° (final drum beat - single
version)

Faded Love
ZPA4 1617
  June 7 / 8 1970 (Sun / Mon)
Take 1 (M) 4:09 Unedited undubbed master Elvis Country (FTD)°° (rough mix)~Make The World Go Away°° (listed
as Take 2)~You Know, It Don't Have To Be Strictly Country Volume 2°°
(count-in)+From Elvis In Nashville 2°°
Take 2 Reh'sal 0:34   Elvis Country (FTD)°°
Take 3 Complete 4:28 Alternate master Elvis Country (FTD)°° (count-in)~Unedited Masters - Nashville Revisited
(Venus)°° (listed as unedited undubbed master)~Essential Elvis Vol. 4°°
+Make The World Go Away°° (listed Take 1)+From Elvis In Nashville 4°°
         
Overdub (M) 4:09 Brass & string overdubs on June 30
Unedited master
Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 20 (Sony)°°~Country Roots (Franklin Mint
Complete Masters Collection 8)°°~70s Box 3°°+Unedited Masters Volume 1
(Venus)°°+Unedited Masters - Nashville 1970 (Venus)°° (count-in)
Faded M 3:03 Master faded Elvis Country (FTD)°°~Elvis Country (24 Bit)°°

Tomorrow Never Comes
ZPA4 1618
  June 7 / 8 1970 (Sun / Mon)
Rehearsal      
Take 1 Incomp.
3:44   Elvis Country (FTD)°° (extra intro)+The Joan Deary Tapes Vol. 1°° (intro
edited, additional dialogue at end - listed as "Slightly Longer Master"!)
Take 2 Complete 4:35   Elvis Country (FTD)°° (extra dialogue & count-in)~Nashville Marathon
(FTD)°° (count-in)~Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On°°
Take 3 Reh'sal
+LFS
3:43   Elvis Country (FTD)°°
Take 4   0:23+   Elvis Country (FTD)°° (count-in only - not listed)
Take 5 FS 0:12   From Elvis In Nashville 4°° (not listed)
Take 6 FS 0:19 "Running Scared" (WPA5 2570) 70's Box 3°°+Elvis Country (FTD)°° (not listed)+Unedited Masters
- Nashville Revisited (Venus)°° (not listed - before 'It Ain't No Big Thing')
~Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On°° (0:13)+From Elvis In Nashville 4°° (not
listed - count-in)
Take 7   0:03+   Elvis Country (FTD)°°~Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On°° (count-in only
- not listed)
Take 8        
Take 9        
Take 10 LFS 1:35   From Elvis In Nashville 4°°
Take 11 Complete 4:24   Elvis Country (FTD)°°+From Elvis In Nashville 4°°
Take 12 LFS 0:48   Elvis Country (FTD)°°
Take 13 (M) 3:56 (used for composite master) Make The World Go Away°° (0:28 - ending only - wrongly listed as work
part ending Take 1)+Tape°°

Tomorrow Never Comes (work part - ending)
  June 7 / 8 1970 (Sun / Mon)
Take 1   0:27+ (used for composite master) Tape°°

Tomorrow Never Comes (composite)
     
Spliced (M) 4:06 Composite of Take 13 & work part
- Take 1

Undubbed master
Elvis Country (FTD)°° (rough mix - extra dialogue / cymbals at end)
~Make The World Go Away°° (wrongly listed as Take 13 - cymbals at end)
+You Know, It Don't Have To Be Strictly Country Vol 2°° (listed as Take 13)
~Acetate°°+From Elvis In Nashville 2°° (cymbals mixed out)
         
Overdub (M)   Brass & string overdubs on June 30  
Overdub M 3:56 Backup v.o's on October 1 Complete Elvis Presley Masters 20 (Sony)°°~Country Roots (Franklin
Mint Comp Masters Collection 8)°°~Elvis Country (FTD)°°~(24 Bit)°°
~Country (2006 - DSD)°°~Unedited Masters - Life (Venus)°°+70s Box 3°°
(with FS from Take 6)

The Next Step Is Love
ZPA4 1619
  June 7 / 8 1970 (Sun / Mon)
Rehearsal 0:34+ (playback of demo) That's The Way It Is (FTD)°°
Take 1        
Take 2 FS 0:16   That's The Way It Is (FTD)°°
Take 3 FS 0:54 (followed by rehearsal) That's The Way It Is (FTD)°° (0:36)+From Elvis In Nashville 3°° (0:52)
Take 4 FS 0:06   From Elvis In Nashville 3°°
Take 5 LFS 0:35   From Elvis In Nashville 3°°
Take 6 Complete 3:44   Today, Tomorrow & Forever 4°°+That's The Way It Is (FTD)°° (count-in)
+From Elvis In Nashville 3°° (count-in)
Take 7 FS 0:11   That's The Way It Is (FTD)°°
Take 8 LFS 0:55 (followed by rehearsal) That's The Way It Is (FTD)°°
Take 9 LFS 0:52   That's The Way It Is (FTD)°°
Take 10 Complete 4:07   The Nashville Marathon (FTD)°°+That's The Way It Is (FTD)°° (count-in
& extra dialogue)
Take 11 (M) 3:44 Undubbed master Elvis Country (FTD)°° (rough mix)~Make The World Go Away°°+You
Know, It Don't Have To Be Strictly Country Volume 2°°+From Elvis In
Nashville 2°° (count-in)
         
Overdub (M)   Band overdubs on June 9  
Overdub (M) 3:33 Backup vocal overdubs on June 22 You Know, It Don't Have To Be Strictly Country Vol. 2 °° (includes
some later overdubs)
Overdub M 3:48 Brass & string overdubs on June 30 That's The Way It Is - Deluxe Edition 1°°~The Complete Elvis Presley
Masters 20 (Sony)°°~In The Mood (Franklin Mint Complete Masters
Collection 24)°°~That's The Way It Is (FTD)°°~(24 Bit)°°~Complete
Single Collection 7°°~That's The Way It Is CD1°°~70s Box 1°°+That's
The Way It Is - Deluxe Edition 1°~The Mono Masters CD4 (Venus)°
(single version)(3:33)+Unedited Masters - Nashville 1970 (Venus)°°
(count-in - different mix & not faded)+The Other Side Of Memphis°°

Make The World Go Away
  June 7 / 8 1970 (Sun / Mon)
Rehearsal 0:43   Elvis Country (FTD)°° (not listed)
Take 1 Incomp. 1:52   Elvis Country (FTD)°°
Take 2   0:11+ (cut from reel) Elvis Country (FTD)°° (not listed)
Take 3 Complete   (used for composite master)  

Make The World Go Away (work part - ending)
  June 7 / 8 1970 (Sun / Mon)
Take 1 (M)   (used for composite master)  

Make The World Go Away (composite)
     
Spliced (M) 3:42 Composite of Take 3 & work part
- Take 1

Undubbed master
Elvis Country (FTD)°° (rough mix - listed as Take 3)~Acetate°°~Make
The World Go Away°° (listed as Take 3)~You Know, It Don't Have To Be
Strictly Country Volume 2°°+From Elvis In Nashville 2°°

Overdub Take 3   Backup vocal overdubs on Sept. 21  
Overdub Take 3   Additional backup v.o's on Oct. 1  
Overdub Take 3 3:38 String overdubs on October 28
Alternate Master?
Unedited Masters - Nashville 1970 (Venus)°° (count-in)+Welcome To
My World (LP)°° (different mix)
         
Overdub WP-1   Backup vocal overdubs on Sept. 21  
Overdub WP-1   Additional backup v.o's on Oct. 1  
Overdub WP-1 1:12 String overdubs on October 28 Unedited Masters - Nashville 1970 (Venus)°° (count-in)

Make The World Go Away (composite overdub)
ZPA4 1620
   
Overdub M 3:33 Composite of overdub of Take 3
and overdub of work part - Take 1
Complete Elvis Presley Masters 20 (Sony)°°~Country Roots (Franklin
Mint Comp. Masters Collection 8)°°~Elvis Country (FTD)°°~(24 Bit)°°
~Great Country Songs (DSD)°°~70s Box 3°°+The Definitive Country
Album°° (edited)+Pure Diamonds Volume 2°~For The Good Times°
(with October 1 overdubs ? - see note)

Funny How Time Slips Away (remake)
ZPA4 1621
  June 7 / 8 1970 (Sun / Mon)
Take 1 (M) 4:25 Unedited undubbed master Elvis Country (FTD)°° (rough mix)~A Leg. Performer Vol. 8°° (4:19)
+Make The World Go Away°° (acetate)~You Know, It Don't Have To Be
Strictly Country Vol 2°°+Unedited Masters - Life (Venus)°° (different mix)
+From Elvis In Nashville 2°°~Digital Single (2020)°°
         
Overdub (M)   Backup vocal overdubs & piano
overdub on September 21
 
Overdub (M) 4:36 Additional backup v.o's on Oct. 1 Pure Diamonds Volume 2° (too slow)
Overdub M 4:19 String overdubs on October 28 Complete Elvis Presley Masters 20 (Sony)°°~Country Legend (Franklin
Mint Comp. Masters Collection 18)°°~Elvis 75 - Good Rockin' Tonight 4
(Legacy)°°~Great Country Songs °°~70s Box 3°°~Country (2006 - DSD)°°
+Elvis Country (FTD)°°~(24 Bit)°°~(LP)°° (different mixes)+The Definitive
Country Album°° (edited)

I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
ZPA4 1622
  June 7 / 8 1970 (Sun / Mon)
Take 1 (M) 5:20 Unedited undubbed master Pure Diamonds Vol 2°° (4:22)+Elvis Country (FTD)°° (rough mix - 4:32)
~Essential Elvis Volume 4°° (4:57)+Acetate°°~Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin'
On°°~You Know, It Don't Have To Be Strictly Country Vol. 2°° ("Oh Shit")
+From Elvis In Nashville 2°°~Digital Single (2020)°°
         
Overdub (M) 5:24 Brass & string overdubs on July 20 ?
Unedited master
Unedited Masters - Nashville 1970 (Venus)°°~Unedited Masters - The
Next Generation (Venus)°°
Faded M 4:57 Master faded Complete Elvis Presley Masters 20 (Sony)°°~Country Legend (Franklin
Mint Comp. Masters Collection 18)°°~Elvis 75 - Good Rockin' Tonight 4
(Legacy)°°~70s Box 3°°
Faded M 3:53 Master faded Elvis Country (FTD)°°~(24 Bit)°° (intro clipped)+Unedited Masters - Life
(Venus)°° (complete intro)

Love Letters (remake)
ZPA4 1623
  June 7 / 8 1970 (Sun / Mon)
Take 1 Complete 2:11   Love Letters From Elvis (FTD)°°+The Nashville Marathon (FTD)°°
(different mixes)+From Elvis In Nashville 4°° (count-in)
Take 2        
Take 3 Incomp. 1:52   Love Letters From Elvis (FTD)°°
Take 4        
Take 5 (M) 2:55 Undubbed master Elvis Country (FTD)°° (rough mix)~Acetate°°~Make The World Go
Away°°~You Know, It Don't Have To Be Strictly Country Volume 2°°
+From Elvis In Nashville 2°°
         
Overdub M 2:52 String overdubs on October 28 Complete Elvis Presley Masters 20 (Sony)°°~Songs Of The Seventies
(Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 3)°°~Love Letters From
Elvis (FTD)°°~(20 Bit)°°+That's The Way It Is - Special Edition°°
(different mix)
         
Re-Recording 2:52 Re-recorded backing track The Wonder Of You°°

Notes

The undubbed masters on Our Memories Of Elvis weren't really the pure undubbed masters. They were the fully overdubbed or regular masters but with certain instruments and backing vocal channels removed or stripped down.

The Japanese 24-Bit release of That's The Way It Is runs slow all the way through at differing speeds between tracks, as opposed to the same tracks on the special edition box-set (BMG - 2000) and FTD's That's The Way It Is classic album. The differences between tracks on the 24-Bit CD are as follows:-

I Just Can't Help Believin' (-1,3%)
Twenty Days And Twenty Nights (-1,6%)
How The Web Was Woven (-2,0%)
Patch It Up (-2,3%)
Mary In The Morning (-2,5%)
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me (-2,9%)
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (-0,9%)
I've Lost You (-1,2%)
Just Pretend (-1,7%)
Stranger In The Crowd (-1,5%)
The Next Step Is Love (-1,9%)
Bridge Over Troubled Water (-2,5%)

'When I'm Over You' and 'Make The World Go Away' on the bootlegs Pure Diamonds Volume 2 and For The Good Times are probably just the left channel only (centred) of a stereo acetate of the fully overdubbed masters. By eliminating the right channel on the same tracks on Love Letters, Elvis Country and the 70s Box I was able to get the exact same results. This is possible because backing vocals (and occasionally strings) tend to be panned 100% right on the original mixes from these sessions, so you can often eliminate them by cutting out the right channel, with no discernable bleed.

'The Next Step Is Love' on the bootleg You Know, It Don't Have To Be Strictly Country - Volume 2 (track 21) does not appear to be an original mix. It is possibly just one channel only (centred to mono) of a stereo acetate of the fully overdubbed master which sounds like it has been processed to create a fake stereo effect - electronically produced stereo!

The unedited undubbed master (Take 1) of 'When I'm Over You' can be found on the bootleg Make The World Go Away taken from acetate. Take 1 of 'When I'm Over You' that can be found on the bootlegs Bilko's Gold Cuts and More Pure Elvis is edited and is not the unedited undubbed master - The verse from 2:07 to 2:51 is edited to the end and then faded!

The masters of 'When I'm Over You' and 'Faded Love' were edited for original release.

The count-in for Take 3 of 'Faded Love' can be found after Take 2 on CD2 of FTD's Elvis Country classic album.

The first releases on CD of the song 'I Really Don't Want To Know' were missing the drum-beat ending.
It can be heard on the original single release and the 4-LP set The Other sides Wordwide Gold Award Hits Volume 2 with drum beat ending.
On later releases RCA/BMG released the master again with drum-beat ending.

The count-in for Take 4, the false start of Take 6 and the count-in for Take 7 of 'Tomorrow Never Comes' can all be found on FTD's Elvis Country classic album, although they aren't listed.

There are strange goings on with 'Make The World Go Away'. Take 2 is cut from the tape reel, and all that is left is the count-in before, and dialogue after Take 2. Take 1 is also on the reel, along with the undubbed spliced master, which is Take 3 spliced with the work part ending. The actual unedited Take 3 (but with overdubs) can be found on Welcome To My World and more recently on the bootleg Unedited Masters - Nashville 1970 along with the overdub of work part - Take 1.

The master of 'Make The World Go Away' on Elvis The Concert 1999 World Tour featured an overdubbed applause.

An edited (2:23) version of 'Make The World Go Away', with omitted musical intro, verse and instrumental break, was released in 1987 on the BMG Ariola release The Definitive Country Album.

'I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water' is not listed in Sessions III as having brass or strings overdubbed, but the master contains brass and strings overdubs.

Sessions III lists July 18 as being the date when brass & strings were overdubbed to 'I Really Don't Want To Know', 'Faded Love', 'Tomorrow Never Comes' and 'The Next Step Is Love' but I doubt this date is correct for these overdubs. In the session logs there is a listing dated July 7 that lists all musicians used for these overdubs (as listed in Sessions III). At the bottom right hand corner of the session log there is a date of what looks to be "06/30" indicating a date of June 30 1970 for this overdub session. The book Day By Day by Ernst Jørgensen and Peter Guralnick, as well as RCA's own single listing notice lists July 14 as the date when the single 'I've Lost You' / 'The Next Step Is Love' was shipped to suppliers, so these two songs couldn't have had overdubs done on July 18!

Sessions III also lists the date as being October 28 when brass & strings were overdubbed to 'When I'm Over You', 'Make The World Go Away', 'Funny How Time Slips Away' and 'Love Letters' but this is the date of the listing of the session log. At the bottom right hand corner of the session log there is a hand written date "10/27/70" indicating a date of October 27 1970 for this overdub session.

'Funny How Time Slips Away' is listed in the session log as "remake" because there was already alive master of the song (XPA5 2382) recorded at the dinner show in Las Vegas on August 25 1969, although it wasn't released until 1991 on Collectors Gold.

An edited (3:11) version of 'Funny How Time Slips Away', with omitted musical intro and second verse ("How's your new love, I hope that he's doing fine..." to "Mmm, ain't it funny how time slips away..."), was released in 1987 on the BMG Ariola release The Definitive Country Album.

Although there is no paper work confirming it, there appears to be an overdubbed piano, by David Briggs, on the final master of 'Funny How Time Slips Away'. Here is a breakdown of each of the 16 channels as they are marked on the tape log for 'Funny How Time Slips Away'.
1 - Drums
2 - Vocal
3 - Bass Chip's Guit
4 - Piano James Charlie
5 - Kicker Mult
6 - James Guit Mult
7 - Piano Bottom Mult
8 - Piano Top Mult
9 - Charlie Mult
10 - Chip Guit Mult
11 - Voices Girls O.D.
12 - Voices Boys O.D.
13 - Piano O.D.
14 - Hi Strings
15 - Voices O.D. Boys Imp
16 - Violas & Cellos

The only overdub session where 'Funny How Time Slips Away' is listed and there could have been a piano player would be September 21 1970 at RCA Studio A.

The first set of String overdubs for 'Love Letters' may have been done on June 30 instead of July 20.

The re-recording of 'Love Letters' can found on the 2016 album The Wonder Of You, which contained Elvis' original vocals but with new backings by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and which actually went to number one in the UK album charts.

The original title of the Love Letters From Elvis album was entitled Festival, and was going to include the following songs - Hence the inclusion of 'The Sound Of Your Cry' and 'Sylvia' on FTD's Love Letters From Elvis classic album:-

The Sound Of Your Cry
Cindy, Cindy
Got My Mojo Working / Keep Your Hands Off Of It
I'll Never Know
It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing)
This Is Our Dance
Heart Of Rome
When I'm Over You
If I Were You
Sylvia
Love Letters

By taking out two of the four channels from the rare Japanese Quadraphonic LP of Elvis - That's The Way It Is is how the "previously unreleased versions" were created on the bootleg The Other Side Of Memphis (Bilko).

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.

All outtakes and undubbed masters used on the Sony 4xCD set From Elvis In Nashville have been completely remixed and remastered from scratch.

Thanks to Ray Reeves for pointing out the differences on Take 1 of 'When I'm Over You'.

Thanks to Adrian V Stokes regarding the edited versions of songs on the BMG Ariola set of Definitive albums, and Christian Beiden for detailed analysis of the two You Know, It Don't Have To Be Strictly Country bootleg sets.

Thanks to Daryl Restly for information on the piano overdub for 'Funny How Time Slips Away' and the breakdown of the 16-track tape.

Thanks to Erik Rasmussen.

Session Logs
Recording Information
16-Track Tape Log
16-Track Tape Log
Recording Information
June 7 1970
June 7 1970
 


Music Sheets
Music Sheet
When I'm Over You
When I'm Over You
Music Sheet
I Really Don't Want To Know
I Really Don't Want To Know (Thanks to Christopher Brown)
Music Sheet
Faded Love
Faded Love (Thanks to Christopher Brown)

Music Sheet
Tomorrow Never Comes
Tomorrow Never Comes (Thanks to Christopher Brown)
Music Sheet
The Next Step Is Love
The Next Step Is Love
Music Sheet
Make The World Go Away
Make The World Go Away

Music Sheet
Funny How Time Slips Away
Funny How Time Slips Away
Music Sheet
I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water (Thanks to Christopher Brown)
Music Sheet
Love Letters
Love Letters (Thanks to Christopher Brown)

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