Elvis Presley Recording Sessions

May 21 / 22 1971

(+ 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 B - Nashville, Tennessee

Producer: Felton Jarvis

Engineer: Al Pachucki

(6.00pm - 9.00pm / 9.00pm - 12.00am / 1.00am - 4.00am)

Musicians:		Backup Vocals:
Guitar:	James Burton	Temple Riser; June Page; Millie Kirkham
Guitar:	Chip Young
Guitar:	Charlie Hodge	Duet:
Guitar:	Joe Esposito	Temple Riser ('The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face')
Drums:	Kenneth Buttrey
Piano:	David Briggs
Bass:	Norbert Putnam
Organ:	Charlie McCoy

Love Me, Love The Life I Lead				APA4 1288	May 21 / 22 1971 (Fri / Sat)
Take 1	LFS	1:03	(followed by rehearsal)	Elvis Fool (FTD)°°
Take 2	LFS	0:53	(followed by rehearsal)	Elvis Fool (FTD)°°
Take 3
Take 4	Complete	3:16		Elvis Fool (FTD)°°+I Sing All Kinds (FTD)°° (different mix)
Take 5	LFS	0:32		Elvis Fool (FTD)°° (0:22)+Elvis Back In Nashville 3°°
Take 6	Complete	3:28		Elvis Fool (FTD)°°+Elvis Back In Nashville 3°°
Take 7
Take 8
Take 9
Take 10
Take 11
Take 12	(M)	3:21	Undubbed master	Elvis Back In Nashville 1°° (no backing vocals)

Overdub	(M)	3:30	Brass & string overdubs on June 21 Unedited master	Unedited Masters - Nashville 1971 (Venus)°°
Faded	M	3:03	Master faded	Complete Elvis Presley Masters 22 (Sony)°°~Heartache (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 6)°°~Elvis Fool (FTD)°°~(20 Bit)°°+Elvis Fool (FTD)°° (track 17 - different mix)

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face				APA4 1255	May 21 / 22 1971 (Fri / Sat)
V.O.	(M)	3:18	Vocal overdub of Take 12 'track' - Duet with Temple Riser (not used)	Pure Diamonds Vol. 1°°~Rough Cut Diamonds°°~Tiger Man - An Alt. Anthology Vol. 2°° (listed as Ginger Holladay duet)~It's Different Now°°

V.O	(M)	3:50	Vocal overdub of Take 12 'track' on June 9 - Undubbed master	Pure Diamonds Vol. 4°° (channels reversed)+Elvis Back In Nashville 1°° (with Take 12 count-in)
Overdub	M	3:42	Brass & string overdubs on June 21	Complete Elvis Presley Masters 21 (Sony)°°~The Ultimate Love Songs (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 25)°°~Complete Single Collection 7°°+Elvis Now (FTD)°°~Rare Elvis°°~Single°°~Elvis Aron Presley 3°°+The Mono Masters CD5 (Venus)°+70s Box 1°° (different mixes)+Elvis Aron Presley (Cassette - 4:19)°°+Unedited Masters - Nashville 1971 (Venus)°° (different mix & additional dialogue) +If I Loved You° (acetate)+Unedited Masters°° (different mix)

The undubbed master of 'Love Me, Love The Life I Need' on the 4xCD box-set Elvis Back In Nashville is presented without backing vocals, although they can be heard faintly, bleeding through Elvis' microphone.

'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' was originally recorded as a duet with Ginger Holladay on March 15 and additional backup vocals were then overdubbed on March 18.

With Elvis and Ginger's original vocals then being removed from the multi-track tape, leaving only the original Take 12 rhythm track with backing vocals, on May 21 Elvis tried 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' again as a duet, this time with Temple Riser, but this was also not used. Elvis re-recorded his vocals again on June 9 to the original Take 12 rhythm track.

As tape reel #1 from March 15 is missing, all that exists for 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' are Takes 11 and 12, although Take 12 now only contains Elvis' June 9 replaced vocals. All that remains of the two duets are acetates.

A remixed version of 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' was featured on the 70s Box.

An extended version of 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' was featured on the cassette only release of the Elvis Aron Presley box-set.

During these sessions, Elvis fooled around with 'Johnny B. Goode' (Let It Roll), 'Lady Madonna' (70s Box), 'Mean Woman Blues' and 'Listen To The Bell' (Essential Elvis Volume 4) among others.

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.



	Recording Information May 21 1971



Music Sheet Love Me, Love The Life I Need	Music Sheet The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face