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January 10 1956
(+ 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 Studios - Nashville, Tennessee
Producer : Steve Sholes
Engineer : Bob Farris

Musicians:    
Guitar: Elvis Presley  
Guitar: Scotty Moore  
Guitar: Chet Atkins (except 'I Got A Woman')  
Bass: Bill Black  
Drums: D.J. Fontana  
Piano: Floyd Cramer  

I Got A Woman
G2WB 0208
  January 10 1956 (Tue: 2.00pm - 5.00pm)
Take 1       (recorded over?)
Take 2       (recorded over?)
Take 3       (recorded over?)
Take 4       (recorded over?)
Take 5       (recorded over?)
Take 6 (In)Comp. 1:32+ (guessed take number) Elvis Presley (FTD)°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°+Today Tomorrow And
Forever 1° (spliced with intro of Take 7)
Take 7 Complete 2:26 (guessed take number) Young Man With The Big Beat 4 (Legacy)°~Elvis Presley (FTD)°
~Platinum 1°~Elvis Presley / Elvis (Sony)°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°
Take 8 M 2:29   Young Man With The Big Beat 1 (Legacy)°~Elvis Presley (FTD)°~(DSD)°
~Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 1 (Sony)°~The Early Years (Franklin Mint
Complete Masters Collection 28)°~Elvis 75 - Good Rockin' Tonight 1
(Legacy)°~Complete Single Collection 1°~Elvis 56 (DSD)°~50s Box 1°
~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°+Mono To Stereo (MRS)°° (digitally extracted
stereo)

Heartbreak Hotel
G2WB 0209
  January 10 1956 (Tue: 2.00pm - 5.00pm)
Take 1       (recorded over?)
Take 2       (recorded over?)
Take 3       (recorded over?)
Take 4 (In)Comp. 1:07+   Elvis Presley (FTD)°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°+Flashback (FTD)°
(last 1:07 spliced with Take 5)
Take 5 Complete 2:17   Elvis Presley (FTD)°~Elvis 56 (DSD)°~CD Single°~Studio Sessions '56
(MRS)°+Flashback (FTD)° (first 1:12 spliced with Take 4)
Take 6 Complete 2:16   Young Man With The Big Beat 4 (Legacy)°~Elvis Presley (FTD)°
~Platinum 1°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°
Take 7 M 2:09   Elvis' Golden Records (FTD)°~Young Man With The Big Beat 1 (Legacy)°
~Elvis Presley (FTD)°~(DSD)°~Complete Elvis Presley Masters 1 (Sony)°
~Songs Of The Fifties (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 1)°
~Elvis 75 - Good Rockin' Tonight 1 (Legacy)°~Elvis 75 CD1°~Complete
Single Collection 1°~Elvis Rock (DSD)°~Elvis 56 (DSD)°~50s Box 1°
~E1 (30 #1 Hits)°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°+Mono To Stereo (MRS)°°
(digitally extracted stereo)
         
Re-Recording 2:22 2014 re-recorded backing track If I Can Dream (Special Vinyl box-set)°°

Money Honey
G2WB 0210
  January 10 1956 (Tue: 7.00pm - 10.00pm)
Take 1       (recorded over?)
Take 2       (recorded over?)
Take 3       (recorded over?)
Take 4       (recorded over?)
Take 5     (used for spliced master)  
Take 6     (used for spliced master)  
Take 7       (recorded over?)
Take 8       (recorded over?)
Take NA Fragments 0:08   Elvis Presley (FTD)°
Take 10 (In)Comp. 0:24+   Elvis Presley (FTD)°~Flashback (FTD)°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°
         
Spliced M 2:36 Spliced from takes 5 & 6 Young Man With The Big Beat 1 (Legacy)°~Elvis Presley (FTD)°~(DSD)°
~Complete Elvis Presley Masters 1 (Sony)°~The Early Years (Franklin
Mint Complete Masters Collection 28)°~Complete Single Collection 2°
~Elvis 56 (DSD)°~50s Box 1°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°+Mono To
Stereo (MRS)°° (digitally extracted stereo)

Notes

The outtake of 'I Got A Woman' released on Today, Tomorrow And Forever is spliced from the intro of the already released Platinum take (0:00-0:03, "I got a woman") and the second half (0:59-2:26, "way 'cross town"...end) of previously unreleased take.

"(In)Complete" in this context means that the take is incomplete because the rest was erased by a recording engineer, when the tape was reused for sessions with another artist. What is left of this session is presented perfectly on the Follow That Dream release of Elvis Presley.

The re-recording of 'Heartbreak Hotel' can found as an additional track on the 2015 special vinyl UK box-set release of If I Can Dream. The standard CD release of If I Can Dream, 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, did not contain this track.

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.


Session Logs
Master Tape
January 10-11 1956
Master Tape - January 10-11 1956
Recording Information
January 10 1956
January 10 1956
Heartbreak Hotel
Handwritten Lyrics
Heartbreak Hotel - Handwritten Lyrics


Music Sheets
Music Sheet
I Got A Woman
I Got A Woman
Music Sheet
Heartbreak Hotel
Heartbreak Hotel
Music Sheet
Money Honey
Money Honey


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