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.
Elvis' harmony vocal and the organ
overdubs were removed on the original release
of 'Promised Land'. The complete harmony
vocal overdub can be found on the Venus
bootleg release Unedited Masters - Stax
1973.
The first cowbell strike is missing from the
beginning of 'Promised Land' on the 2007 remaster
used on Sony's The Complete Elvis Presley Masters box-set and the Franklin Mint set.
'Promised Land' was remixed when used on
the 70s Box and the BMG 2000 release of Promised
Land.
Elvis can be heard singing a few lines of 'Columbus
Stockade Blues' before Take 4 of 'Promised
Land' on Essential Elvis Vol. 5 and Elvis
At Stax - This is actually edited in from before
Take 6.
'Your Love's Been A Long Time Coming' and
'There's A Honky Tonk Angel (Who Will Take Me Back In)' were faded for
release by RCA. The complete unedited overdubbed
masters can be found on the Venus bootleg release Unedited Masters - Stax 1973.
'Your Love's Been A Long Time Coming' and
'There's A Honky Tonk Angel (Who Will Take Me Back In)' were remixed when
used on the BMG 2000 release of Promised Land,
and 'Your Love's Been A Long Time Coming' has a
longer fade out on this release too.
Elvis can be heard singing a part of 'Find
Out What's Happening' before Take 4 of 'Your
Love's Been A Long Time Coming' on Essential
Elvis Volume 5, but this is edited in from before
Take 6 of 'If You Talk In Your Sleep' (December
11) - Elvis actually sings a line of
'A Little Less Conversation' before Take
4 of 'Your Love's Been A Long Time Coming'.
Essential
Elvis Volume 5 contains a different mix of Take 4 of 'Your
Love's Been A Long Time Coming', where the drums have been mixed out of the mix.
On FTD's Promised Land classic album is a splice of Takes
5, 3 and 8 of 'There's A Honky Tonk Angel (Who Will Take Me Back In)' - The order of the splice is as follows:-
Take 5 (00:00 to 01:53) from "When was the
last time..." to "... oh, and there's
an old friend out there".
Take 3 (01:53 to 02:26) from "... and she's
waiting..." to "... 'cause if you don't
want..."
Take 8 (02:26 to 03:03) from "... the love
I can give you..." up to the end.
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 masters used on the Sony 3xCD
set Elvis At Stax have been completely remixed
and remastered from scratch.
