Apart from being slightly edited, the most complete release of these sessions can be found on Follow That Dream's book and 4xCD set The Making Of Blue Hawaii, where everything RCA have, has been restored, remixed and remastered from the original 3-track tapes.

When the master takes were cut from the stereo session tapes, so were some of the take slates and count-in's, which is why some of the remixed masters appear without the take slates and count-in on The Making Of Blue Hawaii. They all remained intact on the mono session tapes.

Elvis and his musicians, including The Jordanaires, travelled to Hawaii on Saturday March 25 1961 for the USS Arizona charity concert. Co-star Joan Blackman, was also on location in Hawaii filming with the second unit during this time, and would lay her vocal track down to the movie version of ‘Almost Always True’ at Paramount Studios on her return to the mainland between April 20 and May 20 1961 (when filming of the number took place).

For the movie version of 'Ku-U-I-Po' the original male backing vocals were eliminated from the master (CO Take 9) and replaced with female backing vocals. Joan Blackman's vocals were recorded on-set at Paramount Studios on May 2 1961.

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 research.