Elvis Presley Recording Sessions

May 7 1957

(+ 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)

MGM Sound Stage - Hollywood, California

Soundtrack Session for MGM's Jailhouse Rock

MGM Producer : Jeffrey Alexander

Engineer : Fred Mulculpin

(1.00pm - 2.00pm)

Musicians:
Drums:	Unknown
Piano:	Jeffrey Alexander

Jailhouse Rock (track intro - short version)					2019	May 7 1957 (Tue: 1:20pm - 1:50pm)
Take 1	(M)	0:18	Piano & drum intro	Elvis In Hollywood (DVD / Video)°

Jailhouse Rock (track intro - long version)					2020	May 7 1957 (Tue: 1:20pm - 1:50pm)
Take 1	(M)	0:21	Piano & drum intro

Jailhouse Rock (long version)					2411	(May 8 1957)
Spliced	(M)	2:58	Composite of 2020-01 & 2001-SP unedited composite master	Acetate°~Youtube°

By this date the title of the movie had been changed from Treat Me Nice to Jailhouse Rock.

Production number 2018 was not used.

All timings in the 'Musical Breakdown' below are taken from the DVD release of the movie.

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 David English for extensive research on these sessions.



Recording Information April / May 1957	Master Tape Jailhouse Rock	MGM Session Log May 7 1957



Jailhouse Rock Movie Song Index	Daily Music Report May 7 1957	Movie Scene Sheets Jailhouse Rock



	Musical Breakdown Jailhouse Rock



	Acetate Jailhouse Rock (Long Version)