Elvis Presley Recording Sessions

June 12 1964

(+ 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)

Radio Recorders Studio B - Hollywood, California

Soundtrack Session for MGM's Girl Happy

Musical Director for MGM : George Stoll

Engineer : Dave Wiechman

(7.00pm - 10.40pm)

Musicians:		Backup Vocals:
Guitar:	Scotty Moore	The Jordanaires: Gordon Stoker; Neal Matthews; Hoyt Hawkins; Ray
Guitar:	Tommy Tedesco	Walker
Guitar:	Hilmer J 'Tiny' Timbrell
Bass:	Bob Moore
Drums:	D.J. Fontana
Drums:	Murrey 'Buddy' Harman
Drums:	Frank Carlson
Piano:	Floyd Cramer
Saxophone:	Homer 'Boots' Randolph

Startin' Tonight (track)					2009	June 12 1964 (Fri)
Take 1	Complete	2:00		The Girl Happy Sessions 1 (FTD)°°
Take 2	FS
Take 3	(M)	1:52	(Vocal overdub on June 15)	Acetate°

Do The Clam (track)					2010	June 12 1964 (Fri)
Take 1	LFS
Take 2	FS
Take 3	Complete	2:39		The Girl Happy Sessions 1 (FTD)°°
Take 4	FS
Take 5	(M)	2:41	(Vocal overdub on June 15)	Avventura In Oriente° (count-in)

Wolf Call (track)					2011	June 12 1964 (Fri)
Take 1	FS
Take 2	FS
Take 3	Complete	2:33
Take 4	FS
Take 5	FS
Take 6	FS
Take 7	FS
Take 8	Complete	2:33	(used for composite 2011 track)	Acetate° (count-in)

Intro for Wolf Call (track)			2012	June 12 1964 (Fri)
Take 1	FS	"Intro for spliced 2011 Track"
Take 2	(M)	(used for composite 2011 track)

Intro for Wolf Call (track)					2013	June 12 1964 (Fri)
Take 1	(M)		(used for composite 2011 track)

Wolf Call (composite 2011 track)					2011
Spliced	(M)		Composite of 2011-08, & 'intro' of 2012-02 and / or 2013-01 (Vocal overdub on June 15)

The definitive release of these sessions can be found on Follow That Dream's limited edition The Girl Happy Sessions 3xCD set, where everything has been mixed and remastered from scratch, and all masters and outtakes are presented in the best possible sound.

MGM transfers to acetate for movie purposes are numbered as follows:-
2401 - Puppet On A String
2402 - The Meanest Girl In Town
2403 - Girl Happy
2404 - Cross My Heart And Hope To Die
2405 - Spring Fever
2406 - Do Not Disturb
2407 - I've Got To Find My Baby
2408 - Fort Lauderdale Chamber Of Commerce
2409 - Startin' Tonight
2410 - Do The Clam
2411 - Wolf Call
2412 - Spring Fever
2451 - Wolf Call

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.



Tape Legends June 11 & 12 1964	Recording Information Girl Happy	Acetate Wolf Call (track)