Celluloid Rock Volume 2 (Cool Romeo)
has a binaural mix used for the masters taken
from the 4-Track tapes.
Take 15 of 'Wonderful World' may have been
considered as alternate master as it survived
on the 'master' Reel.
Take 17 of 'Wonderful World' is presented
twice on Celluloid Rock. Track 15
(wrongly listed as Take 16) and track 16 (listed
as 'vocal + choir') are just different mixes of
the same take from the 4-Track tape.
'Wonderful World' was tried out again (2002-01) as a possible movie version of the song, before Take 7 of production number 2001 was chosen instead.
Take 6 of 'Edge Of Reality' may have been
considered as alternate master as it survived
on the 'master' Reel.
Take 8 of 'Edge Of Reality' is presented
twice on Celluloid Rock. Track 18
(wrongly listed as Take 7) and track 19 (listed
as 'vocal + choir') are just different mixes of
the same take from the 4-Track tape.
Take 16 of 'A Little Less Conversation'
is presented twice on Celluloid Rock.
Track 21 has the count-in and track 22 is listed
as 'vocal + choir' but they are just different
mixes of the same take from the 4-Track tape.
Take 2 of 'A Little Less Conversation', when first discovered on acetate and released on the BMG CD Memories in 1998, was originally thought to have been recorded in June 1968 as part of the recordings for the NBC-TV Special. When the March 7 1968 session tapes were eventually rediscovered, this mistake was realised.
Take 16 of 'A Little Less Conversation' was dubbed down to a backing track by removing Elvis' vocals from the track, as requested by Steve Binder, along with an acetate of Take 2, were both cut for possible use on the NBC-TV Special, either as guide vocals (Take 2) or a guide rhythm track (dubdown of Take 16), as the original concept tracklisting for the NBC-TV Special shows that 'A Little Less Conversation' was originally intended to be used in an "Arena" segment of the show, which eventually never materialised.
This backing track for the dubdown of 2004-16 can be found on the old bootleg LP The '68 Comeback.
Production numbers 2008 and 2009 are for instrumental tracks used in the movie. Other production numbers used for non-Elvis film music recordings for this movie are 2013, 2014 to 2037, 2401 and 2402 (score), and 2501 to 2544 (score).
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 updated session information after the session tapes were rediscovered.
