The definitive release of these sessions can be found on Follow That Dream's limited edition The Kid Galahad Sessions 2xCD set, where everything has been remixed and remastered from scratch, and all masters and outtakes are presented in the best possible sound, although the left and right stereo channels are reversed as opposed to the stereo image on all of Follow That Dream's other "Sessions" sets. On the Memphis Recording Service book and 4xCD set The Complete Movie Masters 1960-62 all outtakes released have the channels corrected.
Today, Tomorrow And Forever has Take
3 of 'King Of The Whole Wide World' (1st
version) listed but this is actually the last
part of Take 2 (LFS), then the count-in for Take
3 (but no Take 3!), then the count-in for Take
2 (announced as Elvis says "you guys don't
get paid any overtime..."), then the complete
Take 1. We get takes 1 and 2 in the correct order
on FTD's Kid Galahad extended soundtrack.
Take 31 of 'King Of The Whole Wide World'
(1st version) has the wrong matrix number (WPA1
2551) listed in the booklet for Kid Galahad (FTD).
The master of 'A Whistling Tune' is spliced from the whistling intro of Take 1, and the rest of Take 8.
The alternate master of 'Riding The Rainbow' is spliced as follows:
0:00 - 0:31: M4-09 (Start to "...someone")
0:31 - 0:46: M4-08 ("...who's meant to be mine" to "...whi-i-ile")
0:46 - 1:54: M4-09 ("...I'm riding the rainbow" to end)
The fifteen seconds from M4 Take 9 of 'Riding The Rainbow' was physically cut from the stereo tape reel 4-A, and replaced with the same lines from Take 8, meaning the complete Take 9 now does not exist on that tape. This section does however, exist on the mono tape reel.
The master of 'Riding The Rainbow' (N2PB 3133) is a composite of MX4 Take 7 and the last bars from M4 Take 9.
Some of the original mono masters as first released
in 1962 were shortened for release. They are released
in their original form on FTD's
extended soundtrack of Kid Galahad, along with the longer stereo masters as first
released on Double Features. On Sony's Complete
Elvis Presley Masters collection and the Franklin
Mint set they are released in their original edited
form but in stereo.
Although not listed as a source, a bootleg CD box-set entitled King Of The Whole Wide World - The Kid Galahad Sessions contains everything originally contained on the old vinyl bootlegs (mono sessions) along with stereo outtakes, mono and stereo masters etc... released by FTD and RCA/BMG/Sony.
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 Fred Whobrey Sr. (Ebay user: 1cooldj) for some scans of his acetates.