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 splice of takes 8 and 7 of 'Find Out What's
Happening' on FTD's Raised On Rock classic
album has more dialogue from before Take 8 than
the actual Take 8 on the same album - The same
splice on Elvis At Stax has more dialogue again.
The count-in for Take 9 of 'Find Out What's
Happening' can be found in the dialogue after
Take 8 on FTD's Raised On Rock classic album.
Elvis can be heard singing a few lines of 'Wasted
Years' before Take 9 of 'I've Got A Thing
About You Baby'.
Take 14 of 'I've Got A Thing About You Baby'
on Essential Elvis Volume 5 has part of the
Take 6 Rehearsal edited in before the take.
On Unsurpassed Masters Volume 4 (disc 15) 'I've
Got A Thing About You Baby' is released both
as a 3-channel mix (binaural) and as an instrumental
track with just the two instrumental channels.
This gives the impression that the vocals were
overdubbed, but this is incorrect as slight bleeding
of the vocal track reveals how this mix was done.
The re-recording of 'I've Got A Thing About You Baby' can found on the 2016 albumĀ 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.
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.