No songs were recorded at this evening's first
session, as Elvis went into the studio early to
see Roy Hamilton, who is recording another album
for Chips Moman. Elvis offers Roy one of the songs
he is planning to record himself, 'Angelica'
and spends a few hours with him before resuming
his own recording session at 12.30am (January
23).
There are two draft mono mix tapes, of which
at least one is dated February 28, 1969. A tape
log of a later tape copy of both these tapes (except
for the last three tracks of the second tape
- 'Don't Cry Daddy', 'A Little Bit Of Green' & 'You'll Think Of Me') was shown
in the magazine The Man and His Music #13 listed
as "Basic + Alt. Vocals". This source is referred
to as the "Draft Mix Tape". This mono tape was
actually the source of the 1992 bootleg American
Rejects (AR 1569), although the notes claimed
acetate source for that. The tape contains nothing recorded after January 26 1969.
The tape is a later copy of two draft rough mix tapes of January 1969 recordings (Tape 1: 'I'm Movin' On' - 'Without Love (There Is Nothing)', dated February 28, 1969, and Tape 2: 'From A Jack To A King' - 'You'll Think Of Me'). A breakdown of what the tape contains is as follows:
1. I'm Movin' On - draft composite of Elvis' original and re-recorded vocals (January 22), containing overdubbed backing vocals (January 19 morning) and band and brass overdubs (January 19 evening).
2. Wearin' That Loved On Look - with overdubbed backing vocals (January 19 morning), guitar overdub (January 22) and Elvis' replaced vocals (January 24).
3. Come Out Come Out (Wherever You Are) - fast instrumental track (January 14).
4. Come Out Come Out (Wherever You Are) - slow instrumental track (January 14), with tape cut.
5. This Is The Story - with Elvis' replaced vocals (January 24) and overdubbed backing vocals (January 25).
6. Gentle On My Mind - with track replacement overdubs and Elvis' vocal repair (January 20).
7. Long Black Limousine - with Elvis' vocal repair (January 22), brass and piano overdubs (January 22) and overdubbed backing vocals (January 25).
8. Suspicious Minds - with overdubbed backing vocals (January 24) and Elvis' harmony vocal overdub (January 24).
9. I'll Be There - takes 5 (false start) and 6 (alternate master) with overdone vocal echo (January 23).
10. I'll Hold You In My Heart (Till I Can Hold You In My Arms) (January 23).
11. Without Love (There Is Nothing) - take 1 (alternate master) (January 23).
12. From A Jack To A King - with Elvis' original mock voice at end (January 22) and overdubbed backing vocals (January 26).
13. Hey Jude - take 7 (undubbed master) (January 21).
14. Rubberneckin' - with partially overdubbed backing vocals (January 26).
15. In The Ghetto - with Elvis' original take 22 vocals (January 20) and overdubbed backing vocals (January 25).
16. My Little Friend - Elvis' vocal overdub to track (undubbed master) (January 21) with short count-in at start.
17. Mama Liked The Roses - with Elvis' master vocal overdub to track (January 21) and Elvis' harmony vocal overdub (January 24), with short count-in at start.
18. Inherit The Wind - draft composite of vocal overdub takes 1 and 2 (January 21), containing overdubbed backing vocals (January 26).
19. Poor Man's Gold - instrumental track (January 15).
20. Don't Cry Daddy - Elvis' vocal overdub to track (January 22) and Elvis' two harmony vocal overdubs (January 24).
21. A Little Bit Of Green - with Elvis' original take 3 vocals (January 15).
22. You'll Think Of Me - take 23 rhythm track with Elvis' replaced vocals (January 24).
Sessions III lists 'Without
Love' having backup vocals overdubbed
on January 23, but the session log shows that
as of February 5 (date
of the job number) no backup vocals had been
overdubbed. According to Mary Holladay Pederson's logbook, 'Without Love (There Is Nothing)' had backup vocals overdubbed on May 8.
On the 1999 Ultimate Collection Series CD Country,
the two false starts before 'I'll Hold You In
My Arms (Till I Can Hold You In My Heart)' have been edited out.
Remixed versions of 'Without Love (There Is Nothing)' and 'I'll Hold You In
My Arms (Till I Can Hold You In My Heart)' can be found on The
Memphis Record.
Just before take 7 of 'Suspicious Minds'
on Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology Elvis can be heard singing part of 'Save
The Last Dance (Take) For Me', this is actually
edited in from before Take 8.
Sessions III lists that 'Suspicious Minds'
had backup vocal overdubs done on January 22,
but surely this cannot be the case as the song
wasn't recorded until the early hours of January
23!
The brass overdubs (August 7) for 'Suspicious
Minds' only exist on the final mono and stereo
masters, and the mono and stereo masters both
have different brass performances. According to
Bill Porter, the reason for this procedure was
that all the eight tracks were full. Porter also persuaded
Felton to do the final stereo and mono mixes at
the same time as this overdub session. This is
also the reason why both the remastered attempts Memphis Record (1987, missing the brass) and Elvis 30 #1 Hits (E1) (2002, flanging due to mixing stereo
master with 8-track) failed. Remastering 'Suspicious
Minds' must involve faithful re-recording of
the brass section. Maybe that even can be justified
now that there is no clear definition of "original"
master in the first place.
Remixed versions of 'Suspicious Minds' can
be found on Elvis 30 #1 Hits (E1) and Elvis'
Gold Records Volume 5.
'Suspicious Minds' on The Sound Of Your
Cry which was the first release in the UK of
the stereo master, has the left and right channels
swapped!
The re-recording of 'Suspicious Minds' can found on the 2016 album The Wonder Of You, which contained Elvis' original vocals but with new backings by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and which actually went to number one in the UK album charts.
By taking out two of the four channels from the
rare Japanese Quadraphonic LP of From Elvis In
Memphis is how the "previously unreleased
versions" were created on the bootleg The
Other Side Of Memphis (Bilko).
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.