The undubbed masters on Our Memories Of Elvis weren't really the pure undubbed masters. They were the fully overdubbed or regular masters but with certain instruments and backing vocal channels removed or stripped down.

The Japanese 24-Bit release of That's The Way It Is runs slow all the way through at differing speeds between tracks, as opposed to the same tracks on the special edition box-set (BMG - 2000) and FTD's That's The Way It Is classic album. The differences between tracks on the 24-Bit CD are as follows:-

I Just Can't Help Believin' (-1,3%)
Twenty Days And Twenty Nights (-1,6%)
How The Web Was Woven (-2,0%)
Patch It Up (-2,3%)
Mary In The Morning (-2,5%)
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me (-2,9%)
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (-0,9%)
I've Lost You (-1,2%)
Just Pretend (-1,7%)
Stranger In The Crowd (-1,5%)
The Next Step Is Love (-1,9%)
Bridge Over Troubled Water (-2,5%)

On the Sony/BMG set Elvis 75, 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me' is listed as being the live performance from Madison Square Garden on June 10 1972, but it's actually the studio version from this session that is on the set.

The re-recording of 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me' can found on the deluxe edition of the 2016 album The Wonder Of You, which contained Elvis' original vocals but with new backings by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The standard CD release of The Wonder Of You did not contain this track.

Elvis can be heard fooling around with 'Mother In Law' before Take 2 of 'It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing)' on the bootleg There's A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and Essential Elvis Volume 4, but this was edited in and is actually part of Take 8. The same one-liner and dialogue can be gheard after takes 1 and 2 on the From Elvis In Nashville box-set.

'It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing)' is not listed in Sessions III as having backup vocals overdubbed on June 22 or September 21, but the master contains female backup vocals as well as brass and strings overdubs. June 22 would be a likely date for backup vocal overdubs as The Jordanaires were present on September 21 but are not present on the final overdubbed master.

Although not listed on the cover or in the booklet, the count-in for Take 8 and a brief rehearsal (Take 10) of 'This Is Our Dance' can be found on FTD's Love Letters From Elvis classic album.

On FTD's Love Letters From Elvis classic album there is what is listed as being 'Heart Of Rome' - Take 3 "Undubbed Master", but what we get in fact is the unedited Take 3 along with the unlisted work part - Take 1. The actual (spliced) undubbed master does not appear on this release.

The undubbed masters of some songs that appear on the bootlegs Pure Diamonds Volume 1 and Rough Cut Diamonds (along with 'Heart Of Rome' on the bootleg Tiger Man Volume 2 - not listed as source) are all probably just the left channel only (centred) of a stereo acetate of the fully overdubbed master. By eliminating the right channel on the same tracks on BMG releases I was able to get the exact same results. This is possible because backing vocals (and occasionally strings) tend to be panned 100% right on the original mixes from these sessions, so you can often eliminate them by cutting out the right channel, with no discernable bleed.

'It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing)', 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me', 'Just Pretend','This Is Our Dance' and 'Life' on the bootleg You Know, It Don't Have To Be Strictly Country (tracks 15 - 19) do not appear to be original mixes. They are possibly just one channel only (centred to mono) of stereo acetates of the fully overdubbed masters which sound like they have been processed to create a fake stereo effect - electronically produced stereo!

The re-recording of 'Just Pretend' 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.

Sessions III lists July 18 as being the date when brass and strings were overdubbed to 'It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing)', 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me', 'Just Pretend', 'This Is Our Dance' and 'Life' but I doubt this date is correct for these overdubs. In the session logs there is a listing dated July 7 that lists all musicians used for these overdubs (as listed in 'Sessions III'). At the bottom right hand corner of the session log there is a date of what looks to be "06/30" indicating a date of June 30 1970 for this overdub session.

Sessions III also lists the date as being October 28 when additional brass & strings were overdubbed to 'It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing)', 'This Is Our Dance' and 'Life' but this is the date of the listing of the session log. At the bottom right hand corner of the session log there is a hand written date "10/27/70" indicating a date of October 27 1970 for this overdub session.

The original mono single version of 'Life' had as slightly different ending to the same master found on CD, but this is probably down to a slightly different mix.

The original title of the Love Letters From Elvis album was entitled Festival, and was going to include the following songs - Hence the inclusion of 'The Sound Of Your Cry' and 'Sylvia' on FTD's Love Letters From Elvis classic album:-

The Sound Of Your Cry
Cindy, Cindy
Got My Mojo Working / Keep Your Hands Off Of It
I'll Never Know
It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing)
This Is Our Dance
Heart Of Rome
When I'm Over You
If I Were You
Sylvia
Love Letters

By taking out two of the four channels from the rare Japanese Quadraphonic LP of Elvis - That's The Way It Is 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.

All outtakes and undubbed masters used on the Sony 4xCD set From Elvis In Nashville have been completely remixed and remastered from scratch.

Thanks to Christian Beiden for detailed analysis of the two You Know, It Don't Have To Be Strictly Country bootleg sets.

Thanks to Erik Rasmussen.