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June 12 1966
(+ 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)

RCA Studio B - Nashville, Tennessee
Producer : Felton Jarvis
Engineer : Jim Malloy

Musicians:   Backup Vocals:
NA
  NA

Indescribably Blue (vocal overdub)
TPA4 0982
  June 12 1966 (Sun: 7.00pm - 10.00pm)
Take 1 Complete 2:57 Vocal overdub of June 10 track Today, Tomorrow And Forever 3°°+Elvis Sings Guitar Man (FTD)°°~How
Great Thou Art Sessions Vol. 3°~Unsurpassed Mast. 4-12° (count-in)
~There's Always Me Vol. 2°+The How Great Thou Art Sessions 5 (FTD)°°
Take 2 M 2:46 (2:56 with count-in) Complete Elvis Presley Masters 13 (Sony)°°~Loves Lost (Franklin Mint
Complete Masters Collection 12)°°~Elvis Sings Guitar Man (FTD)°°
~Complete Single Collection 5°°~Gold Records Vol. 4°°~Tomorrow Is A
Long Time°°~Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4 (FTD)°°+The How Great Thou
Art Sessions 1 (FTD)°°~60s Box 3°°+Elvis' Gold Records Vol. 4 (FTD)°
~The Mono Masters CD2 (Venus)°+Elvis By The Presleys 1°° (no echo)
(master only)+How Great Thou Art Sessions Vol. 3° (count-in only)
+Unsurpassed Masters 4-12°° (count-in & different stereo mix)+The How
Great Thou Art Sessions 5 (FTD)°°

I'll Remember You (vocal overdub)
TPA4 0983
  June 12 1966 (Sun: 7.00pm - 10.00pm)
Take 1 Complete 4:14 Vocal overdub of June 10 track
(used for spliced master)
Unsurpassed Masters 4-12°~How Great Thou Art Sessions Volume 3°
~Complete Spinout Sessions°~There's Always Me Vol 2° (2:34 - part used
for master cut from tape)+The How Great Thou Art Sessions 5 (FTD)°°
Take 2 Complete 4:23   Elvis Sings Guitar Man (FTD)°°~So High (FTD)°°+Unsurp. Masters 4-12°
~How Great Thou Art Sessions Vol. 3°~Complete Spinout Sessions°
~There's Always Me Volume 2° (count-in)+The How Great Thou Art
Sessions 5 (FTD)°°
Take 3 Complete 4:12 (used for spliced master) Unsurpassed Masters 4-12°~How Great Thou Art Sessions Volume 3°
~Complete Spinout Sessions° (3:12 - fragments only, parts used for
master cut from tape)+The How Great Thou Art Sessions 5 (FTD)°°
         
Spliced M 4:10 Spliced from v.o. takes 3 & 1
Unedited master
Elvis Sings Guitar Man (FTD)°°+The How Great Thou Art Sess' 5 (FTD)°°
(with count-in for Take 3)~Tomorrow Is A Long Time°°~60s Box 3°°
Edit M 2:45 Master edited (TPA4 5391) Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 13 (Sony)°°~Songs Of The Sixties (Franklin
Mint Complete Masters Collection 2)°°~Elvis Sings Guitar Man (FTD)°°
~The How Great Thou Art Sess' 1 (FTD)°°~Complete Single Collection
10°°~Spinout (FTD)°°

If Every Day Was Like Christmas (vocal overdub)
  June 12 1966 (Sun: 7.00pm - 10.00pm)
Take 1 FS 0:24 Vocal overdub of June 10 track How Great Thou Art (FTD)°°~Unsurpassed Masters 4-12°~How Great
Thou Art Sessions Vol. 3°+The How Great Thou Art Sessions 5 (FTD)°°
Take 2 (M) 3:02 Undubbed master (MWA5 9102)
Memories Of Christmas°°+How Great Thou Art (FTD)°°~Unsurpassed
Masters 4-12°°~How Great Thou Art Sessions Volume 3° (count-in)
+The How Great Thou Art Sessions 5 (FTD)°°
         
Overdub M 2:54 (Master overdubbed on June 20) Complete Elvis Presley Masters 13 (Sony)°°~Christmas With Elvis
(Franklin Mint Comp Masters Collection 4)°°~How Great Thou Art (FTD)°°
~Complete Single Collection 5°°~Christmas Peace°°~If Every Day Was
Like Christmas°°~The How Great Thou Art Sessions 1 (FTD)°°
+The Mono Masters CD2 (Venus)°

Notes

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.

Session Logs
 
Recording Information
June 10 / 12 1966
June 10 / 12 1966
 


Music Sheets
Music Sheet
Indescribably Blue
Indescribably Blue (Thanks to Christopher Brown)
Music Sheet
I'll Remember You
I'll Remember You
Music Sheet
If Every Day Was Like Christmas
If Every Day Was Like Christmas

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