home
Recording Sessions
Essential lists
Essential Magazines
Elvis Movies
Elvis The Story
Video footage
Elvis website links
July 25 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
Scoring Session for MGM's Jailhouse Rock
MGM Producer : Jeffrey Alexander
Engineer : Fred Mulculpin
(1.00pm - 5.00pm)

Musicians:   Vocals:
3 Violins with Clarinet, Piano, Bass, Drums & Guitar (2512) Bill Lee (2515)
Trumpet, Baritone Sax, Drums & Bass (2513)  
Piano, Bass, Guitar & Drums (2514, 2516, 2517, 2518 & 2519)  
Piano only (2520, 2521, 2522, 2523 & 2524)  

Peaceful Place
2512 July 25 1957 (Thur: 1:00pm - 1:25pm)
Take 1 NG      
Take 2 (M) 2:35   Soundtrack°

Pretty Far Out
2513 July 25 1957 (Thur: 1:30pm - 1:55pm)
Take 1 NG      
Take 2 Complete 0:46    
Take 3 Complete 0:42    
Take 4 (M) 0:46   Soundtrack°

Don't Leave Me Now (Mickey Alba version - track)
2514 July 25 1957 (Thur: 2:05pm - 2:50pm)
Take 1 Complete 0:46 (Backing vocals from 2026-03)  
Take 2 (M) 0:45    

Don't Leave Me Now (Mickey Alba version - vocal overdub)
2515 July 25 1957 (Thur: 2:50pm - 3:00pm)
Take 1 (M) 0:33 Vocal overdub by Bill Lee to 2514-02
(
movie version has guitar overdub)
 

Bump, Grind & Wiggle Blues
2516 July 25 1957 (Thur: 3:00pm - 3:30pm)
Take 1 Complete 0:54    
Take 2 (M) 0:54   Soundtrack°

Just You, Just Me
2517 July 25 1957 (Thur: 3:34pm - 3:45pm)
Take 1 Complete 0:46    
Take 2 NG      
Take 3 (M) 0:46 (1:00 with count-in) Tape°~Soundtrack°

Don't Leave Me Now (pool version)
2518 July 25 1957 (Thur: 3:55pm - 4:07pm)
Take 1 (M) 2:14   Soundtrack°

Don't Leave Me Now (from bar 26 to end)
2519 July 25 1957 (Thur: 4:07pm - 4:15pm)
Take 1 Complete 1:00    
Take 2 (M) 1:08 (1:31 with count-in) Tape°~Soundtrack°

What A Drag Montage
2520 July 25 1957 (Thur: 4:17pm - 4:25pm)
Take 1 Complete 0:50    
Take 2 (M) 0:50 (1:10 with count-in) Tape°~Soundtrack°

Just You, Just Me (1/1564)
2521 July 25 1957 (Thur: 4:27pm - 4:29pm)
Take 1 NG      
Take 2 (M) 1:14   Tape°~ (faded - 1:04 with count-in)+Soundtrack°

All I Do Is Dream Of You
2522 July 25 1957 (Thur: 4:30pm - 4:41pm)
Take 1 NG      
Take 2 NG      
Take 3 Complete 0:45    
Take 4 Complete 0:45    
Take 5 Complete 0:46    
Take 6 (M) 0:45   Soundtrack°

Booze Me, Pretty Baby
2523 July 25 1957 (Thur: 4:42pm - 4:44pm)
Take 1 (M) 1:36   Soundtrack°

Short One
2524 July 25 1957 (Thur: 4:44pm - 4:48pm)
Take 1 Complete 0:18    
Take 2 (M) 0:18   Soundtrack°

Notes

The musicians are unknown.

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

Thanks to David English for extensive research on these sessions.


Session Logs
Movie Scene Sheets
Jailhouse Rock
Scene Sheets - Reel 1 (Thanks to David English)
Daily Music Report
July 25 1957
Daily Music Report - July 25 1957 (Thanks to David English)
Jailhouse Rock
Movie Song Index
Jailhouse Rock - Movie Song Index

 
Musical Breakdown
Jailhouse Rock
Musical Breakdown
 

back