Elvis Presley Recording Sessions

March 29 / 30 1972

(+ 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 C - Hollywood, California

Producer: Felton Jarvis

Engineers: Al Pachucki / Rick Ruggieri

(7.00pm - 1.00am)

Musicians:		Backup Vocals:
Guitar:	James Burton	JD Sumner & The Stamps Quartet: Bill Baize; Ed Enoch; Donnie Sumner;
Guitar:	Charlie Hodge	Richard Sterban
Guitar:	John Wilkinson
Guitar:	Joe Esposito
Piano:	Glen D. Hardin
Bass:	Emory Gordy
Drums:	Ronnie Tutt

Always On My Mind				BPA3 1259	March 29 / 30 1972 (Wed / Thur)
Take 1	(M)	3:39	Undubbed master	Pure Diamonds Volume 4°°+Let It Roll°° (announcement only)
Take 2	Complete	3:56	"A Hundred Years From Now"	Standing Room Only (FTD)°° (count-in)~Platinum 4°°~Always On My Mind (2007 single)°° (3:32)+Let It Roll°° (extra dialogue)
Take 3	Complete	3:47		Standing Room Only (FTD)°°~6363 Sunset (FTD)°° (3:34)~Unedited Masters - Hollywood To Nashville 1972-1980 (Venus)°° (listed as undubbed master)+Let It Roll°° (count-in)
Take 4	Complete	3:49	"You blew the end"	Standing Room Only (FTD)°° (faded)+Let It Roll°° (announcement only)

Overdub	(M)		Band overdubs on April 27
Overdub	(M)	3:47	Brass & string overdubs on May 8	Unedited Masters Volume 1 (Venus)°°~Unedited Masters - Hollywood To Nashville 72-80 (Venus)°° (unedited - piano intro)+Complete Single Collection Volume 9°°~Always On My Mind°° (no piano intro)+For The Good Times°° (acetate) (piano intro - different mix)
Overdub	M	3:39	Strings removed	Complete Elvis Presley Masters 23 (Sony)°°~Loves Lost (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 12)°°~Elvis 75 - Good Rockin' Tonight 4 (Legacy)°°~Elvis 75 CD3°°~Standing Room Only (FTD)°°~Complete Single Collection 8°°~Country (2006 - DSD)°°~70s Box 2°°+The Mono Masters CD5 (Venus)°+The Definitive Country Album°° (edited)

Re-Recording		3:35	Re-recorded backing track	The Wonder Of You°°

It's A Matter Of Time				BPA3 1260	March 29 / 30 1972 (Wed / Thur)
Take 1	FS	0:22		Standing Room Only (FTD)°°
Take 2	FS+FS	0:37		Standing Room Only (FTD)°°
Take 3	LFS	1:49		Standing Room Only (FTD)°°
Take 4	Complete	3:20		Standing Room Only (FTD)°° (count-in)~6363 Sunset (FTD)°°
Take 5	(M)	3:03	Undubbed master	A Legendary Performer Volume 5°°~Pure Diamonds Volume 4°°~Our Memories Of Elvis (FTD - 3)°°

Overdub	(M)	3:09	Brass & string overdubs on May 8	Unedited Masters Volume 1 (Venus)°°~Unedited Masters - Hollywood To Nashville 72-80 (Venus)°° (count-in)~For The Good Times°°
Overdub	M	3:03	Strings removed	Complete Elvis Presley Masters 23 (Sony)°°~Songs Of The Seventies (Franklin Mint Comp. Masters Coll,n 3)°°~Standing Room Only (FTD)°° ~Complete Single Collection Volume 8°°~70s Box 1°°~Our Memories Of Elvis Volume 3 (Victrola)°°+The Mono Masters CD5 (Venus)°

Strings were removed from 'Always On My Mind' and 'It's A Matter Of Time' before release, although some strings can still be heard on the released master of 'Always On My Mind'.

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.

Takes 2 and 3 of 'Always On My Mind' on the Platinum - A Life In Music box-set and the bootleg Let It Roll have left and right channels swapped.

What is listed as being the undubbed master of 'Always On My Mind' on the Venus bootleg Unedited Masters - Hollywood To Nashville 1972-1980 is actually Take 3.

The ''Strings'' version of 'Always On My Mind' on the 1985 compilation album Always On My Mind and the Japanese Complete Single Collection does not have the piano intro that is present on the overdubbed acetate and the Venus bootleg Unedited Masters - Hollywood To Nashville 1972-1980 - This appears to be a different mix.

An edited (2:27) version of 'Always On My Mind', with omitted verse ("Maybe I didn't hold you all those lonely, lonely times..." to "You were always on my mind, you were always on my mind..."), was released in 1987 on the BMG Ariola release The Definitive Country Album.

The re-recording of 'Always On My Mind' 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.

The overdubbed master of 'It's A Matter Of Time' on the Venus bootleg Unedited Masters - Hollywood To Nashville 1972-1980 comes from a tape source as opposed to the overdubbed master that appeared on For The Good Times from an acetate source.

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.

Thanks to Adrian V Stokes regarding the edited versions of songs on the BMG Ariola set of Definitive albums.



Acetate March 27-29 1972	Recording Information March 29 1972



Music Sheet Always On My Mind	Music Sheet It's A Matter Of Time