Elvis Presley Recording Sessions

July 22 / 23 1973

(+ 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)

Stax Studio - Memphis, Tennessee

Producer: Felton Jarvis

Engineer: Al Pachucki

(11.00pm - 3.00am)

Musicians:		Backup Vocals:
Guitar:	James Burton	JD Sumner & The Stamps Quartet: Bill Baize; Ed Enoch; Donnie Sumner;
Guitar:	Charlie Hodge	David Rowland
Guitar:	Reggie Young	Mary Holladay; Ginger Holladay; Kathy Westmoreland; Mary 'Jeanie' Greene
Piano:	Bobby Wood
Bass:	Tommy Cogbill
Drums:	Ronnie Tutt
Drums:	Jerry Carrigan
Organ:	Bobby Emmons
Percussion:	Joe Esposito

Find Out What's Happening				CPA5 4764	July 22 / 23 1973 (Sun / Mon)
Take 1	FS	0:19		Raised On Rock (FTD)°°
Take 2	FS	0:30		Raised On Rock (FTD)°°
Take 3	FS
Take 4	Incomp.	0:59	"Tell me you son of a bitch"	Raised On Rock (FTD)°°
Take 5	Complete	2:53		Raised On Rock (FTD)°°
Take 6	Complete	3:02		Raised On Rock (FTD)°° (count-in)~Essential Elvis Volume 5°°
Take 7	Complete	3:02		Raised On Rock (FTD)°° (count-in)+Made In Memphis (FTD)°° (Extra Dialogue)
Take 8	Incomp.	2:33	"Star Spangled Banner"	Raised On Rock (FTD)°° (1:49)+Raised On Rock (FTD)°° (spliced with Take 7)+Elvis At Stax 1°° (spliced with Take 7 & additional dialogue)
Take 9	(M)	2:40	Unedited master	Memphis 3°° (remixed)

Faded	M	2:30	Master faded (JPA5 6067)	Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 25 (Sony)°°~Country Legend (Franklin Mint Comp. Masters Collection 18)°°~Raised On Rock (FTD)°°~(20 Bit)°° ~Elvis At Stax 2°°+Pure Diamonds Volume 3°°+Raised On Rock (FTD)°° (rough mix) (different mixes)+Our Memories Of Elvis°°~Our Memories Of Elvis (FTD - 2)°° (no backing vocals - see note)

I've Got A Thing About You Baby				CPA5 4765	July 22 / 23 1973 (Sun / Mon)
Take 1	Complete	2:11		Good Times (FTD)°° (count-in & faded)+The Joan Deary Tapes Vol. 2°° (not faded)
Take 2	Incomp.
Take 3	Incomp.
Take 4	Incomp.
Take 5	Complete	2:16		Good Times (FTD)°°
Take 6	Reh'sal+	0:28		Good Times (FTD)°°~Essential Elvis Volume 5°° (not listed)
	Incomp.	0:31		Good Times (FTD)°°
Take 7	Incomp.	0:06+		Good Times (FTD)°° (count-in only - not listed)
Take 8	Incomp.	1:01		Good Times (FTD)°°
Take 9	FS	0:32+	"Wasted Years"	Good Times (FTD)°° (count-in only - not listed)
Take 10	Incomp.	0:54		Good Times (FTD)°°
Take 11	Complete	2:36		Good Times (FTD)°°
Take 12	FS
Take 13
Take 14	Complete	2:28	"Hold"	Good Times (FTD)°°+Elvis At Stax 1°°+Essential Elvis Volume 5°° (different mixes)
Take 15	(M)	2:19	Undubbed master	Pure Diamonds Volume 3°°+Memphis 3°° (remixed)

Overdub	M	2:20	String & guitar overdubs on September 28	Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 25 (Sony)°°~Country Legend (Franklin Mint Comp. Masters Collection 18)°°~Good Times (FTD)°°~(20 Bit)°°~Comp. Single Collection 8°°~70s Box 2°°~Elvis At Stax 2°° (M only)+Good Times (FTD)°° (rough mix - count-in)+Acetate° (different mixes) +Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°°+Unsurpassed Masters 4-15°° (Track) +This Is Elvis (FTD)°° (edited and remixed)

Re-Recording		2:32	Re-recorded backing track	The Wonder Of You°°

Just A Little Bit				CPA5 4766	July 22 / 23 1973 (Sun / Mon)
Take 1	FS	0:37		Raised On Rock (FTD)°°
Take 2	(M)	2:51	Unedited master (2:56 with count-in)	Memphis 3°° (remixed)+Raised On Rock (rough mix - FTD)°° (count-in)

Faded	M	2:30	Master faded	Comp. Elvis Presley Masters 25 (Sony)°°~Rhythm & Blues (Franklin Mint Comp. Masters Collection 9)°°~Raised On Rock (FTD)°°~(20 Bit)°°~Elvis At Stax 2°°+Pure Diamonds Vol. 3°° (tracks 9 & 15 - different mixes)

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 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.

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.



Recording Information Session Log	Recording Information July 22 1973



Music Sheet Find Out What's Happening	Music Sheet I've Got A Thing About You Baby	Music Sheet Just A Little Bit