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September 3 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)

Radio Recorders Studio 1 - Hollywood, California
Producer : Steve Sholes
Engineer : Thorne Nogar
(2.00pm - 5.00pm / 5.30pm - 8.30pm)

Musicians:   Backup Vocals:
Guitar: Elvis Presley The Jordanaires: Gordon Stoker; Neal Matthews; Hoyt Hawkins; Hugh
Guitar: Scotty Moore Jarrett
Bass: Bill Black  
Drums: D.J. Fontana  
Piano: Elvis Presley ('First In Line')  
Piano: Gordon Stoker ('Ready Teddy')  

Ready Teddy
G2WB 4930
  September 3 1956 (Mon)
Take 1        
Take 2        
Take 3        
Take 4        
Take 5        
Take 6        
Take 7        
Take 8        
Take 9        
Take 10        
Take 11        
Take 12 M 1:55   Young Man With The Big Beat 2 (Legacy)°~Comp Elvis Presley Masters 2
(Sony)°~The King Of Rock 'n' Roll (Franklin Mint Complete Masters
Collection 36)°~Elvis (FTD)°~(DSD)°~Elvis 56 (DSD)°~50s Box 2°~Studio
Sessions '56 (MRS)°
       
Mono to Stereo (M) 1:55 Digitally extracted stereo PRESLEY - The Essential '50s Masters 2 (RDM Edition)°°
+Mono To Stereo (MRS)°°

First In Line
G2WB 4931
  September 3 1956 (Mon)
Take 1        
Take 2        
Take 3        
Take 4        
Take 5        
Take 6        
Take 7        
Take 8 Complete      
Take 9        
Take 10 Complete      
Take 11        
Take 12        
Take 13        
Take 14 Complete      
Take 15        
Take 16        
Take 17        
Take 18        
Take 19        
Take 20        
Take 21        
Take 22        
Take 23 Complete      
Take 24        
Take 25        
Take 26        
Take 27 M 3:22   Young Man With The Big Beat 2 (Legacy)°~Comp Elvis Presley Masters 2
(Sony)°~The Ultimate Love Songs (Franklin Mint Complete Masters
Collection 25)°~Elvis (FTD)°~(DSD)°~50s Box 2°~Studio Sessions '56
(MRS)°
       
Mono to Stereo (M) 3:22 Digitally extracted stereo PRESLEY - The Essential '50s Masters 2 (RDM Edition)°°
+Mono To Stereo (MRS)°°

Rip It Up
G2WB 4932
  September 3 1956 (Mon)
Take 1       (recorded over?)
Take 2       (recorded over?)
Take 3       (recorded over?)
Take 4       (recorded over?)
Take 5       (recorded over?)
Take 6       (recorded over?)
Take 7       (recorded over?)
Take 8       (recorded over?)
Take 9       (recorded over?)
Take 10 FS 0:37   Elvis (FTD)°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°~Flashback (FTD)° (0:13)
Take 11 FS+FS 0:20   Elvis (FTD)°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°~Flashback (FTD)°
Take 12 FS 0:09   Elvis (FTD)°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°~Today, Tomorrow & Forever 1°
(not listed)+Flashback (FTD)°
Take 13 No Take 0:03 (announcement only - no take) Elvis (FTD)°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°~Today, Tomorrow & Forever 1°
(not listed)+Flashback (FTD)° (not listed)
Take 14 Complete 1:57   Elvis (FTD)°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°~Today Tomorrow & Forever 1°
Take 15 Complete 2:04   Elvis (FTD)°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°+Platinum 1° (with comments
from Take 19)
Take 16 Complete 1:59   Elvis (FTD)°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°~Flashback (FTD)°
Take 17 Complete 2:05   Elvis (FTD)°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°
Take 18 LFS 1:44   Elvis (FTD)°~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)°
Take 19 M 1:53 (2:04 with count-in) Young Man With The Big Beat 2 (Legacy)°~Comp Elvis Presley Masters 2
(Sony)°~The King Of Rock 'n' Roll (Franklin Mint Complete Masters
Coll'n 36)°~Elvis (DSD)°~Elvis 56 (DSD)°~Elvis Rock (DSD)°~50's Box 2°
~Studio Sessions '56 (MRS)° (master only)+Elvis (FTD)° (count-in)
       
Mono to Stereo (M) 1:53 Digitally extracted stereo PRESLEY - The Essential '50s Masters 2 (RDM Edition)°°
+Mono To Stereo (MRS)°°

Notes

In May 2022, Rockhurst Auctions offered several items from the files of the late Trude Forsher. Without a doubt, the most interesting one has to be the apparently unpublished written account of Elvis' September 1956 sessions at Radio Recorders. This was written by Forsher herself, and it was intended to be published by "Look" magazine. This has to be one of the most interesting items to surface in the Elvis World for quite a long time. Scans are shown below.

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.

Thanks to Josep Rulló Guardia for providing scans for the Trude Forsher article on the Phoenix Elvis forum.


Session Logs
Recording Information
September 3 1956
September 3 1956
Tape Log
September 1956
September 1956
Trude Forsher
Presley Feature for "Look" magazine
Unpublished Trude Forsher article


Music Sheets
Music Sheet
Ready Teddy
Ready Teddy
Music Sheet
First In Line
First In Line (Thanks to Christopher Brown)
Music Sheet
Rip It Up
Rip It Up


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