As is usual practice, the stereo masters, along with the take announcements, were all cut from the session tape.
On this occasion however, the stereo masters of 'Follow That Dream',
'What A Wonderful Life', 'I'm Not The Marrying
Kind', 'A Whistling Tune' and 'Sound
Advice' are all lost. In one of Paul Dowling's
interviews, Ernst Jørgensen said that the
stereo master of 'Angel' had survived because "they spliced Angel and 'A Whistling
Tune' back on one of the outtake tapes. I don't
know why but they did."
Take 2 of 'Follow That Dream' was released
on the Argentinian CD 25 Grandes Exitos but
is wrongly listed as the lost stereo saster (Take
6) on that release.
An extended Take 2 of 'Follow That Dream' ,
without count-in, can be found on the cassette
version of the box-set Elvis Aron Presley.
Take 4 of 'Follow That Dream' was first
released on Command Performances but is incorrectly
listed as Take 2 on that release and in Ernst
Jørgensens book A Life In Music. We get
Take 4 again on FTD's Follow That Dream extended soundtrack
(with count-in), but it is wrongly listed in the
"In & Outakes" section that Take
4 is unreleased.
The stereo master of 'Angel' on FTD's Follow
That Dream extended soundtrack runs at too slow a speed.
It definitely drags and sounds like an analogue
tape transfer error. The same version of this
song on Double Features, Command
Performances or the Japanese Complete Single
Collection set does not have this fault, and
neither does the version on Sony's Complete Elvis
Presley Masters collection.
The ending of Take 6, along with Take 7 of 'What A Wonderful Life' was all cut from the session tape, and all that exists from after the cut in Take 6 is some dialogue and the unused ending of Take 7.
Take 6 of 'What A Wonderful Life' on FTD's Follow That Dream extended soundtrack is edited at the
end by using "... got friends, anywhere the
rainbow ends, it's a wonderful life, life's good
to me" from earlier in Take 6 (0:32 - 0:41)
and is then spliced with the unused ending of
Take 7.
Take 4 of 'A Whistling Tune' (stereo master
without overdubs) on Collectors Gold and FTD's Follow That Dream extended soundtrack is edited - It
can be found complete on Double Features.
The "recreated" stereo master of 'A
Whistling Tune' was done by isolating Ray Walkers's
whistling from the mono master on FTD's Follow
That Dream extended soundtrack and overlaying it to the
stereo Take 4 from Double Features, but as the Double Features master isn't as long as the
mono master, it folds back to mono in the last
few seconds.
It is unknown who is singing on the two demo's
of 'What A Wonderful Life' on FTD's Summer
Of '61 '(It's A Wonderful Life' and 'This
Is The Life') but it could possibly be one
of the writers (Sid Wayne or Jerry Livingston)
of the song.
Follow That Dream - The Complete Sessions, from the Miracle Surface bootleg label has what was supposed to be the complete session from a DAT tape, including the "lost" stereo masters, although the "Stereo" masters appear to be the digitally extracted stereo masters created by MRS, and tagged on to the stereo outtakes! The take announcements for the masters also appear to be fake, along with the false starts of 'I'm Not The Marrying Kind' and 'Sound Advice' before the masters. Also, what is listed as being the complete Take 7 of 'What A Wonderful Life', is actually the edited version of Take 6 (with repaired ending) from FTD's Follow That Dream extended soundtrack!
The almost complete session can also be found (apart from the stereo masters)
on the Kwimper bootleg CD Keep
Following That Dream, and the
Memory (Czech Fan Club label) release Follow
That Dream Session... Plus which were both
released in 2000, although these two releases run a little fast.
Elvis sings a few lines of 'On
Top Of Old Smokey' in the movie, and this
can be found on the FTD Follow That Dream extended soundtrack.
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 Luuk Bonthond regarding extended versions
of songs on the cassette version of Elvis Aron
Presley.
