Tape reel #1 from this session is missing - This
includes takes 1 to 10 of 'The First Time Ever
I Saw Your Face'.
'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' was
originally recorded as a duet with Ginger Holladay
on March 15 and additional backup vocals were
then overdubbed on March 18.
With Elvis and Ginger's original vocals then being removed from the multi-track
tape, leaving only the original Take 12 rhythm
track with backing vocals, on May 21 Elvis tried 'The First Time
Ever I Saw Your Face' again as a duet, this
time with Temple Riser, but this was also not
used. Elvis re-recorded his vocals again on June 9 to the original Take 12 rhythm track.
As tape reel #1 is missing, all that exists for 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' are Takes 11 and 12, although Take 12 now only contains Elvis' June 9 replaced vocals. All that remains of the two duets are acetates.
A remixed version of 'The First Time Ever I
Saw Your Face' was featured on the 70s Box.
An extended version of 'The First Time Ever
I Saw Your Face' was featured on the cassette
only release of the Elvis Aron Presley box-set.
Take 11 of 'Early Mornin' Rain' on FTD's
I Sing All Kinds is presented in a different
mix as opposed to the same take on FTD's Elvis
Now classic album. On I Sing All Kinds there are
no backing vocals in the mix, although between
1:26 - 1:34 you can hear them faintly, and the
harmonica is way back in the I Sing All Kinds mix. The same mix as FTD's Elvis Now is also
on the Venus release Unedited Masters -
Nashville 1971 but is not faded.
The master take (or whether it was spliced) of
'Early Mornin' Rain' cannot be determined
as the complete Takes 3, 10 and 12 seem to have
been lifted, and are missing from the session
reel.
The undubbed masters of 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' and 'Early Mornin' Rain' on the 4xCD box-set Elvis Back In Nashville is presented without backing vocals, although they can be heard faintly, bleeding through Elvis' microphone.
Takes 9 and 10 of '(That's What You Get) For
Lovin' Me' appear on FTD's I Sing All Kinds although only Take 10 is listed. Take 10 is faded
on the Today, Tomorrow And Forever box-set.
Elvis sang a few lines of 'I Want You, I Need
You, I Love You' at this session, and this
can be heard before Take 10 of '(That's What
You Get) For Lovin' Me' on the Venus release
Unedited Masters - Nashville 1971 where Take 10 is listed as an unknown take. The
few lines of 'I Want You, I Need You, I Love
You' actually come from Take 2 of '(That's
What You Get) For Lovin' Me' which is a rehearsal
and false start. Take 10 of '(That's What You
Get) For Lovin' Me' can also be found on FTD's I Sing All Kinds where it isn't clipped at the
beginning and has additional dialogue at the end
of the take.
The master of '(That's What You Get) For Lovin' Me' on the 4xCD box-set Elvis Back In Nashville is presented without backing vocals.
The re-recording of 'Amazing Grace' 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.
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 Elvis Back In Nashville have been completely remixed and remastered from scratch.
Thanks to Luuk Bonthond regarding extended versions
of songs on the cassette version of Elvis Aron
Presley.
