The definitive release of these sessions can be found on the Follow That Dream 5xCD set Guitar Man - The '67/'68 Sessions, where all outtakes and masters have been remixed and mastered from scratch. However, on this release some editing has been done to take out some swearing and inappropriate language, or they have muted (turned down) Elvis' vocal channel at some points. With the 'Goin' Home' session, for example though, they have edited out some swearing and bad language, but left other swearing in! If they were going to edit out everything, fine, but to edit out some, and leave other swearing in, is just nonsensical! The thought process used on this set makes no sense at all!
During the 'Too Much Monkey Business' and 'Goin' Home' sessions,
we get to hear some pre-song banter between Elvis
and the guys and we get a snippet of Elvis singing
'When Irish Eyes Are Smiling' before Take 10 of 'Too Much Monkey Business', as well
as Elvis joking with Jerry Reed about the song
'Tupelo Mississippi Flash' ("Squirrely", "Whyyyy", "Kill the boy...") throughout both sessions.
Before Take 4 of 'Too Much Monkey Business' Elvis can be heard fooling around with the lyrics of the very old (early 20th century) tenor song 'Because', also recorded by Mario Lanza in 1951, and featured in his Great Caruso movie.
Takes 16 to 26 (28) of 'Goin' Home' can
be found on the bootlegs Going Home (Audifon) and I'm Going Home (Stay
Away Records) but have very bad noise reduction
used. This second half of the session can also
be found on the bootleg The American Way
Volume 5 - Going Home To Memphis in a much
improved sound quality.
Elvis can be heard singing part of the song 'Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow'
by The Rivingtons during take 26/28 of 'Goin'
Home', and also makes reference to the song
during earlier takes too.
Thanks to Emrah Çoruh for information
regarding the song 'Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow', and Ray Reeves for pointing out the song 'Because' before Take 4 of 'Too Much Monkey Business'.
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.
The following is a breakdown of the complete 'Goin' Home' session to show the edits Follow That Dream made on the 5xCD set Guitar Man - The '67/'68 Sessions.
‘Goin’ Home’ session
Take 1 (0:32)
Felton Jarvis: “Okay, here we go, we’re rolling”
False start (drums and first few words only)
Elvis sings: “This proud mmm… what the fuck key am I in man?”
Take 2 (0:43)
Al Pachucki: “Two, man”
Elvis: “Wait a minute man, hey, hey give me… you gave me the finger instead of the head there, give me the chord so I know where I am” (laughing)
Elvis trying to get the tempo: ”Okay, okay”
Al Pachucki: “Okay this is take 2”
False start (drums only) (laughing)
Take 3 (1:03)
Al Pachucki: “Ha, three”
Elvis: “Okay, let’s, let’s, let’s do this, okay, and do it right this time man… Redskin son-of-a-bitch”
(“Redskin son-of-a-bitch” edited out on FTD)
Elvis: “Okay let’s go… DJ quit farting around over there, let’s go”
False start (first line only)
Elvis sings: “This proud land where the wind blows free, never (mumbles) a fuck to me… (laughing)”
(“Never (mumbles) a fuck to me…” edited out on FTD)
Elvis: “Can we get a pickup from there?”
Take 4 (0:35)
Al Pachucki: “Four”
Elvis: “Okay”
Jerry Reed: “Hey this song’s about our land ain’t it?”
Elvis: “(laughing) Our land’s going to hell after this song… Okay”
Jerry Reed: (laughing) “Sure is… (whole) fucking country”
Elvis: “Alright”
False start (drums only)
Elvis: “That sounds bad man, I ain’t shitting you… (laughing) this shit’s terrible… (laughing) aww hell man”
(“I ain’t shitting you… (laughing) this shit’s” edited out on FTD)
Take 5 (3:44)
Al Pachucki: “On five”
Jerry Reed: “Is them pills wearing off?”
(“Is them pills wearing off?” edited out on FTD)
Elvis: “Let’s see, did we have a different k…, eh, can we have a little, little more on the drums, on the opening a little, you know, play it like you did later… that’s right, put a little life into the motherfucker man (laughing) play, play it like a dead ass war dance”
(“To the motherfucker man” edited out on FTD)
Jerry Reed: “(laughing) You silly bastard. Two fucking forty fucking five and fucking horny fucking…”
Elvis: “Who, who is that talking?”
Al Pachucki: “Reed”
Jerry Reed: “(laughing) Are you kidding me?”
Elvis: “(laughing) I don’t know where the hell that voice is coming (from)”
Al Pachucki: “He’s back there playing with himself”
Jerry Reed & Elvis: (laughing)
Jerry Reed: “Whyyyy”
Elvis: “Whyyyy, kill the boy, aww shit man…”
Jerry Reed: “Squirrley”
Elvis: “Where’ll they hit him… okay, okay”
(Al Pachucki: “He’s back there playing with himself” (Jerry & Elvis laughing) “Whyyy” “Kill the boy, aww shit man…” “squirrely” edited out on FTD)
Jerry Reed: “Alright, let’s get on with our…”
Elvis: “Let’s just send that tape to ‘em, just that much, man (laughing) okay, let’s get on with it”
Elvis: “That ain’t it, shit, man, wait a minute, okay”
(“Shit, man” edited out on FTD)
Long false start (fooling around during the take - the following is during the song)
Elvis sings: “Yeah, don’t give it no shit there man”
(“Don’t give it no shit there man” edited out on FTD)
Elvis sings: “For a hundred miles a man can see, just about as wild as he wants to be, feels like shitting, shouting” (laughing)
(“Feels like shitting” edited out on FTD)
Elvis sings: “Where the days are hot, the nights are cold, the desert sand in your asshole, these trails were carv…”
(“In your asshole” edited out on FTD)
Jerry Reed & Elvis: (laughing)
Elvis sings: “Where the night winds sing and the eagles shit…”
(“Shit…” edited out on FTD)
Elvis sings: (laughing) “The coyotes howl” (laughing) “Aww shit man”
Elvis sings: (laughing) “My feet are itching to get back home, I’ve had the desert fev…” (laughing) “…some loving so bad” (laughing) “Shit” (laughing) “oh, God damn, man”
(“Shit…” edited out on FTD)
Elvis: “Whyyyy, kill the b…”
Jerry Reed: “Are you kidding me…”
Elvis “Somebody help him…”
Jerry Reed: “…Squirrley”
Felton Jarvis: “Okay, le(t’s)”
Elvis “Let’s… err, let’s try it again…”
Take 6 (0:41)
Al Pachucki: “Okay we’re rolling, this’ll be six”
Elvis: (coughing) “Shit”
False start (drums and guitars only)
Elvis: “Is that it? Oh, excuse me… Jordanaires weren’t ready for that one…”
Take 7 (0:35)
Al Pachucki: “Okay, this is seven”
Elvis: “Cough, Let’s try one more time Felton, if, if it don’t, if it don’t work out we’ll change the whole thing around a little bit, because I think it’s a little, little bit too jumbled up, you know, err, especially that last one, that was, you know” (laughing) “Okay, ready”
False start (drums only)
Elvis: “That ain’t it, man”
Take 8 (0:17)
Al Pachucki: “On eight”
Jerry Reed: “Togetherness”
False start (drums and first word only)
Elvis sings: “This…”
Take 9 (0:56)
Al Pachucki: “This is nine”
Elvis: “Yeah, okay… ahh, w-w-w, okay… won’t you give me a bass lead in Bob, can you do that? okay… that’s it, I’ve used that on seventeen-thousand-records man, shit, they don’t need to stop it now…” (laughing) “Okay… you ready over (there)… is the captain ready”
Jerry Reed: “Hey man, are you kidding?”
Elvis: (laughing) “Yeah okay, let’s go”
False start (first line only)
Elvis sings: “This proud land where the wind blows free…” (laughing)
Elvis: “Wait, you caught me, wait a minute”
Take 10 (0:37)
Al Pachucki: “Okay, on ten”
Elvis: “Caught me off guard man, shit… worst fucking song I ever heard in my life, man”
(“Fucking” edited out on FTD)
Jerry Reed: “Bless, I could strap one on you” (laughing)
Elvis: “Okay”
False start (first line only)
Elvis sings: “This proud wild land where the wind blows free has always been a lot… man, forget it…”
Take 11 (0:43)
Al Pachucki: “This’ll be eleven”
Elvis: “I can’t hear without the earphones, I can’t hear with ‘em man… that means I’m fucking deaf, that’s what it means…” (laughing) “Okay… Alright… If you’re waiting for me, you back it up”
(“Fucking” edited out on FTD)
Jerry Reed: (laughing) “He’s trying to tell you something”
False start (first few words only)
Elvis sings: “This proud flaa-flills…” (cough)
Take 12 (1:05)
Al Pachucki: “On twelve”
Elvis: “Man, ah, ah, ah swear I can’t, I can’t, I can’t hear to, to get the intro”
Jerry Reed: “Heyyy”
Elvis: “Let me try it again, let me see if I can catch it right this time… I need old Jeff Alexander’s cross-eyed ass in front of me, you know, that’s what I need, pointing that fucking baton at my nose…”
(“Alexander” and “Fucking” edited out on FTD)
Elvis: “okay… son-of-a-bitch looked like a cross-eyed matador, hah… a picador or something” (laughing) ”Okay… I’m gonna start playing with my peter if I stand here much longer” (laughing)
Musician: “We’ll see about that…”
Elvis: “Okay”
(“I’m gonna start playing with my peter if I stand here much longer” edited out on FTD)
False start (first few words only)
Elvis sings: “This proud la(nd)…” (laugh)
No Take 13 announcement
Take 14 (0:49)
Al Pachucki: “Fourteen”
Elvis: “Damn… (cough) “Okay”
False start (couple of lines only)
Elvis sings: “Proud wild land where the wind blows free has always been a part of me, it’s in my blood I just can’t get it out. For a hundred miles a man can see, be just about as wild as he wants to be, he feels like shit… naaah man, I can’t do that again, man”
Take 15 (1:29)
Al Pachucki: “Fifteen”
Elvis: “I almost had it that time, man… from take 83, we’re getting down, alright”
Long false start (Elvis breaks down on the bridge of the song)
Elvis: “Wai-wai-wait a minute… did I go to the bridge too soon there? I went to the bridge too soon, didn’t I?
Musician: “I thought they said do three”
Elvis: “We’ve been doing three then the bridge, right? Okay”
Take 16 (1:26)
Al Pachucki: “Okay we’re rolling, this’ll be sixteen”
Elvis: “Okay”
Drums starts
Elvis: “Play your ass off DJ”
Long false start (Elvis breaks down on the third verse, before the bridge)
Elvis sings: “Where the night winds sing and the eagles shit” (laughing) ”Man, I’m telling you, is…”
Take 17 (1:17)
Al Pachucki: “Seventeen”
Elvis: “Is-a-is-a-there’s a joke there, man, there’s a joke there, but this, you know… these two guys they’re a bar…” (laughing) “Naa… Ah… I don’t know what I can do to improve it except just go home… heh”
Jordanaire: “Fella’s don’t play so fast”
Elvis: “Okay… Okay”
Al Pachucki: “Seventeen”
Elvis: “There, there is a lot of words, it’s awful wordy… Well a-a-a-a… but if it’s too slow it’ll drag, it’ll drag ass, you know, it’ll drag too much”
(“It’ll drag, it’ll drag ass, you know” edited out on FTD)
Musician: “We could do with a little Indian swing…”
Elvis: “Yeah…” (laughing) “Okay…”
False start (first line only)
Elvis sings: “This proud wild land where the wind blows free, man has…”
Take 18 (0:24)
Al Pachucki: “On eighteen”
Elvis: “I gotta feel” (over drum false start)
Elvis: “Feel it… now I gotta feel it… Ah” (over second drum false start)
Elvis: “Okay…”
2 more drum false starts
Elvis: “I go on golden time in about three minutes…”
Take 19 (2:00)
Al Pachucki: “This is nineteen”
Elvis: “I go on time and a half… okay”
Long false start (Elvis breaks down on the fourth verse, after the bridge)
Elvis: “Fuck the fever, man” (laughing)
Felton: “Right off the top, we’ll make it”
Take 20 (0:35)
Felton Jarvis: “This is twenty… they don’t go to that Indian thing again on the fade Elvis, on the…”
Elvis: “Well that’s okay then”
Felton Jarvis: “Yeah… okay here we go”
False start (first few words only)
Felton Jarvis: “Hold just a minute… Bobby let me hear you”
Bob Moore: “Wasn’t me…”
Take 21 (2:33)
Felton Jarvis: “This is twenty-one”
Complete take
Elvis sings: “Dum, dum, dum, dum” (over the drums)
Take 22 (0:28)
Felton Jarvis: “This is twenty-two”
Elvis: “That, yeah, yeah, yeah”
Felton Jarvis: “Dee (DJ Fontana), I’d like to hear a little more of the back beat, and a little less of the snare if you, I mean of the cymbal, you know”
Elvis: “Yeah, somebody beat Dee in the back a little more…”
Felton Jarvis: “Here we go, this is twenty-two”
Elvis: “Is that it?”
False start (drums only)
Elvis sings: “Indian wail, oh shit…” (over the drums)
Take 23 (2:31)
Al Pachucki: “Twenty-three”
Musicians: (laughing) “Spirit God”
Elvis: “(I’ll) Be talking in unknown tongues in a minute, man… alright”
Complete take
Elvis sings: “When a woman looks you (laugh) in the eye” (in the fourth verse)
Take 24 (0:53)
Al Pachucki: “Twenty-four”
Whistling…
Elvis: “Hmmm… well… I said I got a woman way across town (‘I Got A Woman’), no…”
Elvis: “Gimme an E” (over first drum false start)
Elvis sings: “Well since my baby left me, I found a new… (‘Heartbreak Hotel’)” during second false start
(laughing)
Take 25 (2:12)
Al Pachucki: “Ha, ha, ha, twenty-five”
Elvis: “Okay… one more time… twenty-eight”
Long false start (Elvis breaks down on the fourth verse)
Elvis sings: “I need some lovin’ so bad that I could die, oh shit… when a wo… (woman)” (laughing)
Felton Jarvis: “Okay”
Elvis: “Okay… I started to like it there a little bit”
Felton Jarvis: “That’s good, man”
Take 26/28 (1:33)
Felton Jarvis: “Twenty-six”
Al Pachucki: “Twenty-six”
Elvis: “You’re getting a little close to my age now, I’ll get it in a minute… twenty-eight”
Musician: “Do you still want that four on that last verse?”
Felton Jarvis: “Do you still want that four on the la…”
Elvis: “I, I, I, I, I want that four, but I, I still need the back beat, man, I gotta hear that back beat of I’ll lose er… “
Musician: ”The front beat”
Elvis: “The front beat”
(laughing)
Felton Jarvis: “What’d you say buddy? I can’t hear you, I’m sorry”
Musician: “Nobody else is going to a four, it doesn’t really seem to fit, unless everybody else goes into that feel…”
Felton Jarvis: “(Elv)is wants to hear that back beat, so… keep it in”
Musician: “Keep it on two, huh?”
Felton Jarvis: “Okay”
Jerry Reed: “Yeaaah”
Felton Jarvis: “Okay, don’t do it then”
Musician: “Just pretend somebody’s cheating (?)”
Jerry Reed: “Hey, I heard that… listen, mamma McCoy’s joy boy”
Felton Jarvis: “Okay, let’s make it”
Al Pachucki: “Twenty-six”
Felton Jarvis: “No, Elvis said twenty-eight, I’ll go with that…”
Elvis: (laughing)
False start (drums only)
Elvis sings: “Mum, mum, mum, mum, mum… (over false start)
Elvis: “Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow, Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow, Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow… okay”
Musicians: (laughing)
Jerry Reed: “Hey”
False start (drums only)
Felton Jarvis: “Wait a minute, let’s do one more, there was a little laugh in there on the front of that… Reed over there”
Elvis: (laughing) “There’s gonna be a…”
Take 29 (2:41)
Felton: “The hat is loose again”
Al Packucki: “Twenty-nine”
Jerry Reed: “I can’t when I can’t see…”
Elvis: “Was the hat laughing over there?”
Jerry Reed: “Yeah”
Musician: “Very good, you’re fired”
Elvis: “Ha”
Complete take
Take 30 (3:10)
Felton Jarvis: “This is thirty, darlin’”
Elvis: “Wait a minute, you jumped one”
Felton Jarvis: “Twenty-nine now, I don’t care what you said there, Bill” (laughing)
Elvis: “I ain’t gonna…” (singing)
False start (first few words)
Elvis sings: “This proud wild la(nd), blah blah”
Felton Jarvis: “Tilt… thirty”
Elvis “Back to the earphones, you stupid…”
Complete take (master)
