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.
Elvis can be heard fooling around with 'Surrender'
before Take 3 of 'If You Don't Come Back'
on Essential Elvis Volume 5 and in a different
mix on Elvis At Stax, but it is edited in from
before Take 6 (rehearsal) of 'Love Song Of The
Year' (December 12
1973).
Some of Elvis' vocals were mixed out of 'It's
Diff'rent Now' when it appeared on the 70s
Box. The more complete rehearsal can be found
on FTD's Raised On Rock classic album and Elvis
At Stax, but it is edited at the end.
Elvis can be heard singing a line of 'Wasted
Years' before Take 9 of 'Three Corn Patches'
and can be heard singing a line of 'Three Coins
In A Fountai'n (From the 1954 movie Three
Coins In The Fountain) before Take 13 of 'Three
Corn Patches'.
Take 3 of 'Take Good Care Of Her' is listed
on the Today, Tomorrow And Forever box-set, but this is
actually Takes 2a and 3a including some of the rehearsal
of Take 1. It is also incorrectly listed in the "In And Outtakes" section of the booklet with
FTD's Good Times classic album that Take 3 appeared
on Today, Tomorrow And Forever. Takes 1, 2
and 3 are also listed on Elvis At Stax but it
is just the complete Take 1 (FS, rehearsal &
complete Take 1). The running order of takes could
be deemed to be Take 1, Take 2a, Take 3a, Take
2b, Take 3b, Take 4 etc...
The undubbed master of 'Take Good Care Of Her'
on Our Memories Of Elvis and the bootleg Pure Diamonds
Volume 3 have the left and right channels
reversed.
An edited (2:10) version of 'Take Good Care
Of Her', with omitted verse ("Just take
good care of her, take good care of her..."
to "So remember when you take my only treasure..."),
was released in 1987 on the BMG Ariola release
The Definitive Country Album.
Some of the rough mixes found on FTD's Raised
On Rock and Good Times classic albums are longer
than the final masters.
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 masters used on the Sony 3xCD
set Elvis At Stax have been completely remixed
and remastered from scratch.
Thanks to Adrian V Stokes regarding the edited
versions of songs on the BMG Ariola set of Definitive albums.
