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March 9 1965
(+ 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)

MGM Sound Stage - Hollywood, California
Soundtrack Session for MGM's Harum Scarum
MGM Producers : Fred Karger & Gene Nelson
Engineer : Bill Vandevort
(Session times unknown)

Musicians:   Backup Vocals:
NA
   

Harem Holiday (vocal overdub)
SPA3 6755
  March 9 1965 (Tue)
Take 1     Vocal overdub of 'track'  
Take 2        
Take 3        
Take 4        
Take 5        
Take 6     (used for spliced master)  
Take 7     (used for spliced master)  
         
Spliced M 2:18 Spliced from v.o. takes 7 & 6
(C2105)
Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 11 (Sony)°°~Around The World (Franklin
Mint Complete Masters Collection 20)°°~Harum Scarum (FTD)°°~Double
Features - Harem Holiday / Girl Happy°°~Command Performances°°

Harem Holiday (movie version - transfer)
2413  
Take 1 (M)
  Mono transfer of C-2105
Acetate°

Harem Holiday (movie version - transfer)
2420  
Take 1 (M)   Mono transfer of C-2105
Acetate°

Harem Holiday (movie version)
   
N/A (M)
1:20   From Santa Monica Blvd - Part 3 (Elvis One)° (track 8)~Avventura In
Oriente°~Soundtrack°
N/A (M)
3:15 (Reprise)
From Santa Monica Blvd - Part 3 (Elvis One)° (track 9 - score at end only)
~Avventura In Oriente°~Soundtrack°

Mirage (vocal overdub)
SPA3 6756
  March 9 1965 (Tue)
Take 1     Vocal Overdub of Track-05  
Take 2        
Take 3     (used for spliced master)  
Take 4     (used for spliced master)  
         
Spliced M 2:30 Spliced from v.o. takes 4 & 3
(C2106)
Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 11 (Sony)°°~Around The World (Franklin
Mint Complete Masters Collection 20)°°~Harum Scarum (FTD)°°~Double
Features - Harem Holiday / Girl Happy°°~Avventura In Oriente°°
+Avventura In OrienteĀ°

Mirage (movie version - transfer)
2404  
Take 1 (M)
2:30 Mono transfer of C-2106
Acetate°

Mirage (movie version)
   
N/A (M)
2:30
Avventura In Oriente°~Soundtrack°

Go East - Young Man (vocal overdub)
SPA3 6751
  March 9 1965 (Tue)
Take 1     Vocal Overdub of Track-03  
Take 2        
Take 3        
Take 4        
Take 5        
Take 6        
Take 7     (used for spliced master)  
Take 8     (used for spliced master)  
         
Spliced M 2:30 Spliced from v.o. takes 7 & 8
(C2107)
Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 11 (Sony)°°~Around The World (Franklin
Mint Complete Masters Collection 20)°°~Harum Scarum (FTD)°°~Double
Features - Harem Holiday / Girl Happy°°~Avventura In Oriente°°
+Avventura In OrienteĀ°

Go East - Young Man (movie version - transfer)
2402  
Take 1 (M)
2:30 Mono transfer of C-2107
Acetate°

Go East - Young Man (movie version)
   
N/A (M)
2:03
Avventura In Oriente°~Soundtrack°

Notes

The movie version of 'Mirage' has a few extra bars on the intro.

MGM transfers to acetate for movie purposes are numbered as follows:-
2401 - My Desert Serenade
2402 - Go East - Young Man
2403 - Animal Instinct
2404 - Mirage
2405 - Kismet
2406 - Shake That Tambourine
2407 - Hey Little Girl
2408 - Golden Coins
2409 - Wisdom Of The Ages (rejected version)
2410 - So Close, Yet So Far (From Paradise)

2411 - Harem Holiday (?)
2412 - Wisdom Of The Ages
2413 - Harem Holiday

2414 - ?
2415 - ?
2416 - ?
2417 - ?
2418 - Sabre Dance / Hey Little Girl

2419 - ?
2420 - Harem Holiday

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 Ernst Jørgensen for providing information on the missing movie production numbers.

Session Logs
 
Recording Information
Harum Scarum
Harum Scarum
 


Music Sheets
Music Sheet
Harem Holiday
Harem Holiday
Music Sheet
Mirage
Mirage
Music Sheet
Go East - Young Man
Go East - Young Man (Thanks to Christopher Brown)

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