Tape reel #2 from this session is missing, and
this is the reel that would have included the
last takes of 'I'm Leavin' and the outtakes
of 'We Can Make The Morning'.
An excerpt of 'Listen To The Bell' can be
heard edited in before 'It's Only Love' on
Essential Elvis Volume 4 - This is from before
Take 4 of 'A Thing Called Love' (May
19).
Remixed versions of 'I'm Leavin' and
'It's Only Love' can be found on the Elvis Aron
Presley box-set.
Extended versions of 'I'm Leavin' and
'It's Only Love' were featured on the cassette
only release of the Elvis Aron Presley box-set.
'It's Only Love', from the cassette release was also
released as a 12" Single in 1980, and was
also featured on the UK LP The Sound Of Your
Cry.
The unedited master of 'I'm Leavin' on
the Madison bootleg Let It Roll is listed as
Take 8. Do Madison know something?
The undubbed masters of 'I'm Leavin' and 'It's Only Love' on the 4xCD box-set Elvis Back In Nashville is presented without backing vocals, although they can be heard faintly, bleeding through Elvis' microphone.
'It's Only Love' on the bootlegs Pure Diamonds Volume
1 and Rough Cut Diamonds is probably just the
left channel only (centred) of a stereo acetate
of the fully overdubbed master. By eliminating
the right channel on the same track on the 70s
Box 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.
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 Elvis Back In Nashville have been completely remixed and remastered from scratch.
Thanks to Luuk Bonthond regarding extended versions
of songs on the cassette version of Elvis Aron
Presley.