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September 26 1969
(+ 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 A - Nashville, Tennessee
Producer: Felton Jarvis
Engineer: Al Pachucki
Technician: Roy Shockley
(6.00pm - 7.00pm)

Musicians:   Backup Vocals:
Guitar:
James Burton Elvis Presley ('Let Us Pray', 'A Little Bit Of Green', 'Johnny B. Goode'
& 'And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind')
    Charlie Hodge ('A Little Bit Of Green')

Let Us Pray (vocal replacement)
ZPA4 1957
M5 September 26 1969 (Fri)
Take 1     Full vocal replacement by Elvis to
'dubdown' to backing track
 
Take 2        
Take 3        
Take 4        
Take 5 M 3:01 (MV5) Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 18 (Sony)°°~Gospel Jubilee (Franklin Mint
Complete Masters Collection 11)°°
~I Believe - The Gospel Masters 4°°
~Double Features - Live A Little, Love A Little / Charro / The Trouble
With Girls / Change Of Habit°°
~The Last Movies (FTD)°° (track 5)+The
Last Movies (FTD)°° (track 27 - vocal only)+Soundtrack° (with chorus)

A Little Bit Of Green (vocal replacement)
XPA5 1148
  September 26 1969 (Fri)
V.O. 1     Full vocal replacement of
January 14 master
 
V.O. 2 (M) 3:57   Back In Memphis (FTD)°° (unedited)

A Little Bit Of Green (harmony Vocal overdub)
XPA5 1148
  September 26 1969 (Fri)
V.O. M 3:22 Harmony vocal overdub by
Charlie Hodge to V.O. 2
Complete Elvis Presley Masters 17 (Sony)°°~The Memphis Sessions
(Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 33)°°
~From Elvis In Memphis
(Legacy)°°
~Back In Memphis (FTD)°°~(24 Bit)°°~Suspicious Minds - The
Memphis 1969 Anthology°°~60s Box 4°°

Johnny B. Goode (vocal repair / guitar solo repair)
XPA5 2314
  September 26 1969 (Fri)
Take NA M 2:20 Vocal repair and guitar solo repair
of live master, originally recorded in
Las Vegas on August 24 1969
Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 18 (Sony)°°~Live In Las Vegas (Franklin
Mint Complete Masters Collection 10)°°
~On Stage (Legacy)°°~Elvis In
Person (FTD)°°
~From Memphis To Vegas°°+Platinum 3°° (matrix number
changed - WPA5 2595 - channels reversed)

Runaway (guitar solo repair)
XPA5 2315
  September 26 1969 (Fri)
Take NA (M)   Guitar solo repair of live master,
originally recorded in Las Vegas on August 25 1969
 
         
Overdub (M)   Backup vocals overdubbed on
March 31 1970

 
Overdub M 2:32 Additional backup vocals
overdubbed on April 1 1970
Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 18 (Sony)°°~Live In Las Vegas (Franklin
Mint Complete Masters Collection 10)°°
~On Stage (Legacy)°°~Elvis In
Person (FTD)°°
~On Stage (1970)°°

Notes

Sessions III lists Elvis' Harmony vocal overdub of 'Do You Know Who I Am?' along with the vocal repair of 'And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind' as being done on September 26, but this surely cannot be the case as the strings and backup vocals were overdubbed on March 25 for 'Do You Know Who I Am?' and May 7 for 'And The Grass Won't Pay No Min'd, and the acetate of 'Do You Know Who I Am?' found on Memphis Memories does not contain these overdubs, meaning it must have been cut before then. The most likely date for Elvis' Harmony vocal overdub of 'Do You Know Who I Am?' and vocal repair of 'And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind' is February 22. This same scenario also applies to 'The Fair's Moving On'.

RCA originally had the date of Elvis recording 'Let Us Pray' as being September 22 1969.

Vocal repairs on 'Words' (XPA5 2313) may have been done at this session, as well as additional material from the American Sound sessions.

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
September 26 1969
September 26 1969
 


Music Sheets
Music Sheet
Let Us Pray
Let Us Pray
Music Sheet
A Little Bit Of Green
A Little Bit Of Green (Thanks to Christopher Brown)
Music Sheet
Johnny B. Goode
Johnny B. Goode

 
Music Sheet
Runaway
Runaway (Thanks to Christopher Brown)
 

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