Although slightly edited, the definitive release of these sessions can be found on Follow That Dream's limited edition The How Great Thou Art Sessions 5xCD set, where everything has been compiled and remastered from scratch, from the original 3-track tapes, and all masters and outtakes are presented in the best possible sound.
Some of the mono sessions as released on the
2001 bootlegs The How Great
Thou Art Sessions - Volumes 1, 2 and 3 sound
heavily compressed, as if they were taken from
an MP3 source. The stereo sessions on the same
releases however, actually sound better than the
same takes released by BMG, as they are clipped,
and too loud, on some of the BMG releases.
Takes 3 and 4 of 'Somebody Bigger Than You
And I' are listed on the bootleg Where No
One Stands Alone (Reeltrax) when in fact it's
takes 1 and 2.
The takes of 'Somebody Bigger Than You And I' and 'Without Him' on the Memphis Recording Service book and 6xCD set Back In Living Stereo are actually mono but have been manipulated to create a strange stereo sound effect.
Take 1 of 'If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side' appears on the Today, Tomorrow And Forever box-set but is wrongly listed as Take 4.
An edited (2:03) version of 'Where Could I
Go But To The Lord', with omitted verses (leaving
only the first and last verse), was released in
1987 on the BMG Ariola release The Definitive
Gospel Album.
Thanks to Adrian V Stokes regarding the edited
versions of songs on the BMG Ariola set of Definitive albums.
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.