The definitive release of this session 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.
'Indescribably Blue' has better ambience
on the first CD version of Gold Records Volume
4 than on the BMG remaster. A very good source
of this master is the reel-to-reel Golden Records
Vol.3 & 4 (ST 713-P-DP). Another good source
is the 2007 Sony remaster used on the 30 disc Complete Elvis Presley Masters collection, FTD's Elvis Sings Guitar Man and the Franklin Mint package
The undubbed 'If Every Day Was Like Christmas'
as released on Memories of Christmas actually
has the vocals of master Take 2, although they
can't be synchronized with the master. On average,
this undubbed version runs a little more than
0.5% too slow and has a different piano intro
that is played an octave lower. The piano intro
of bootlegged Take 1 and the FTD release of How
Great Thou Art is however the same as on the
RCA/BMG master so it seems something happened
during remixing of the version on Memories
of Christmas.
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.