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April 21 - 23 1958
(+ 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)

Paramount Scoring Stage - Mexico City, Mexico
Scoring Sessions for Paramount's King Creole
Paramount Producer : Hal Wallis

Musicians:    
Orchestra: ?  

Steadfast, Loyal And True (movie version)
2B (February 19 1958)
Take NA (M) 0:41 Recorded on the movie set King Creole (FTD)°~The Making Of King Creole 1 (FTD)°~The Complete
'50s Movie Masters And Session Recordings 1 (MRS)° (edited)
+The Best Of British - 1957-1958°~Soundtrack°

Broken Bottles
2C April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:36   Soundtrack°

A Tough Danny
3B April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:33   Soundtrack°

Lover Doll
3C (January 16 1958)
PB (M) 2:12 Playback of HTDX-1 Soundtrack°

The Stripper
4B April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:05   Soundtrack°

The Blue Shade No. 2
4C April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 1:44   Soundtrack°

The Blue Shade No. 3
4D April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:41   Soundtrack°

Drum Roll & Cymbal Crash
4D1 April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:03   Soundtrack°

Intro Into 'Trouble'
4E April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:05   Soundtrack°

Trouble
4F (January 15 1958)
PB (M) 2:15 Playback of CTD-1 Soundtrack°

New Orleans
4G April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:50   Soundtrack°

No Party - New Orleans
5B April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 2:12   Soundtrack°

Young Dreams (piano solo)
5C April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 1:10   Soundtrack°

King Creole (street scene No. 1)
5D April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 1:58   Soundtrack°

Crawfish
  5E (January 15 1958)
PB (M) 0:34 Playback of FTD-3 (edit)
(Kitty White vocals only)

Soundtrack°

Piano Solo - Young Dreams
6B April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 1:03   Soundtrack°

Don't Ask Me Why (Garden Radio)
6C April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:57   Soundtrack°

Bourbon Street March (street scene No.2)
6D April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:15   Soundtrack°

Banana (Liliane Montevecchi)
  6E (January 29 1958)
PB (M) 1:55 Playback of STD-1
The Making Of King Creole 1 (FTD)° (1:32 - instrumental break edited out)
+Soundtrack°

Banana (bow music for ending)
7A April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:10   Soundtrack°

Drum Roll & Fanfare
7B April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:11   Soundtrack°

Dixieland Rock
7C (January 16 1958)
PB (M) 1:44 Playback of GTD-1 Soundtrack°

Bourbon Street March (street scene No.3)
7D April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:10   Soundtrack°

River Trip
7E April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 2:40   Soundtrack°

Young Dreams
7F (January 23 1958)
PB (M) 2:21 Playback of QTD-1 Soundtrack°

Presley Bounce
8C April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:24   Soundtrack°

New Orleans (movie version)
8D  
Spliced (M) 1:56 Composite of DTD-1 & W-1 (backing vocals) Soundtrack°~The Best Of British - 1957-1958°

Bourbon Street March (backstage no.1)
9B April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:40   Soundtrack°

Dixieland Rock (backstage no.2)
9C April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:34   Soundtrack°

Hard Headed Woman
10B (January 15 1958)
PB (M) 0:32 Playback of BTD-1 (edit) Soundtrack°

Danny (movie version)
10C  
Spliced (M) 1:56 Composite of UTD-1 & UHC-3
(not used)
 

King Creole (tommy gun effect - drum)
10DD April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M)      

King Creole (guitar sweetener)
10DDG April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M)      

Jew's Harp Effect (for guitar gliss)
   
Take NA (M)      

King Creole (movie version)
10D  
Spliced (M) 2:05 Composite of EXTD-1, 10DD,
10DDG & Jew's Harp Effect
Soundtrack°

As Long As I Have You (Carolyn Jones)
11B (February 20 1956?)
Take NA (M) 0:13 Carolyn Jones vocal - recorded
on the movie set
Soundtrack°

As Long As I Have You
11C April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 1:09 "Remember that one..." Soundtrack°

Danny's Defeat
11D April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:56 (Consisting of:
'As Long As I Have You' &
'Danny's Defeat')
Soundtrack°

Don't Ask Me Why (guitar sweetener)
11EEG April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M)      

Don't Ask Me Why (sax sweetener)
11EEAS April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M)      

Don't Ask Me Why (movie version)
11E  
Spliced (M) 2:05 Composite of JTD-1, 11EEG,
& 11EEAS
Soundtrack°

King Creole (street scene)
11F April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 1:03   Soundtrack°

Church Bells (high)
   
Take NA (M) 0:37   Soundtrack°

Church Bells (low)
   
Take NA (M) 0:37   Soundtrack°

The Other Man
12B April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:35   Soundtrack°

Alley Fight (revised)
12C April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 6:26   Soundtrack°

Ronnie Helps Danny
13A April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:32   Soundtrack°

The Montage
13B April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:34   Soundtrack°

Danny Recovers
13C April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 1:31   Soundtrack°

The End Of Maxie And Ronnie
13D April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 1:54 (Consisting of:
'The End Of Maxie And Ronnie',
'As Long As I Have You' &
'The End Of Maxie And Ronnie')
Soundtrack°

Lover Doll (street scene no.6)
13E April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:14   Soundtrack°

Nellie Returns
13FG April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:40 (Consisting of:
'Danny' & 'Young Dreams')
Soundtrack°

Intro To 'As Long As I Have You'
13HH April 21 - 23 1958 (Mon - Wed)
Take NA (M) 0:16   Soundtrack°

As Long As I Have You
13J (January 16 1958)
PB (M) 1:48 Playback of KTD-1 Soundtrack°

Notes

These are scoring sessions for the movie King Creole.

On February 20 1958, the motion picture musicians union went on strike. To get around this problem Hal Wallis decided to send the film to Mexico City for post-production work, hence the scoring sessions being held there. Because Paramount producer Walter Scharf was a member of the union, he couldn't couldn't be seen to be breaking the strike, so Hal Wallis oversaw these sessions personally, relaying daily updates to Walter Scharf over the phone each night.

The movie version of 'Steadfast, Loyal And True' is the first verse of the song, then repeated faster, and was recorded on the movie set.

The movie version of 'New Orleans' contains additional vocals ("Where") by The Jordanaires, taken from Track "W", and finger-clicks recorded on the movie set.

The movie version of 'King Creole' contains a "Tommy Gun" drum overdub, a "Jew's Harp" effect guitar gliss, a guitar sweetener, and finger-clicks recorded on the movie set.

All timings in the 'Musical Breakdown' below are taken from the Blu-Ray release of the movie.

Thanks to David English for research.


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