Dit tweede gouden album uit 1959 kwam als geroepen om Elvis tijdens zijn legerdienst nog wat beter in de kijker te houden. De FTD-uitgave biedt als eerste extraatje nog heel wat opnames uit de leger-sessie van Elvis in juni 1958. Het tweede extraatje is de inhoud van de “Elvis Sails” EP die in diezelfde periode verscheen.
Het eerste extraatje is perfect passend hier. De interviews van Elvis Sails hadden misschien beter de “For LP Fans Only” of “A Date With Elvis” kunnen sieren.
DISC 1
Original Album – Side 1
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – mt18
- 570906 Don’t – mt7
- 580201 Wear My Ring Around your Neck – mt22 od
- 570906 My Wish Came True – mt28
- 580611 I Got Stung – mt24
Original Album – Side 2
- 570223 One Night – mt10
- 580610 A Big Hunk O’ Love – msp:3,4
- 570223 I Beg Of You
- 580610 (Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I – mt9
- 580201 Doncha’ Think It’s Time – msp 40,39 LP version
Bonus Masters
- 580201 Your Cheatin’ Heart – mt10
- 580610 Ain’t That Loving You Baby – mt4
- 580201 Doncha’ Think It’s Time – msp 47,40,48 single version
February ’58 Sessions
- 580201 Wear My Ring Around Your Neck – udm22
- 580201 Your Cheatin’ Heart – t9
- 580201 Doncha’ Think It’s Time – t39 acetate
- 580201 Doncha’ Think It’s Time – t40 acetate
- 580201 Doncha’ Think It’s Time – t47 acetate
- 580201 Doncha’ Think It’s Time – t48 acetate
June ’58 Sessions
- 580610 A Big Hunk O’ Love – t1
- 580610 A Big Hunk O’ Love – t2
- 580610 A Big Hunk O’ Love – t3
- 580610 A Big Hunk O’ Love – t4
- 580610 Ain’t That Loving You Baby – t1
- 580610 Ain’t That Loving You Baby – t2
- 580610 Ain’t That Loving You Baby – t3
- 580610 Ain’t That Loving You Baby – t4
- 580610 Ain’t That Loving You Baby – t5
- 580610 Ain’t That Loving You Baby – t6
- 580610 Ain’t That Loving You Baby – t7
- 580610 Ain’t That Loving You Baby – t8
- 580610 Ain’t That Loving You Baby – t9
- 580610 Ain’t That Loving You Baby – t10
- 580610 Ain’t That Loving You Baby – t11
DISC 2
June ’58 Sessions
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t1
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t2
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t3
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t4
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t5
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t6
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t7
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t8
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t9
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t10a
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t10b
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t11
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t12
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t13
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t14
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t15
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t16
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t17
- 580610 I Need Your Love Tonight – t18
- 580610 (Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I – t1
- 580610 (Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I – t2
- 580610 (Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I – t3
- 580610 (Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I – t4
- 580610 (Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I – t5
- 580610 (Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I – t6
- 580610 (Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I – t7
- 580610 (Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I – t8
- 580610 (Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I – t9
- 580611 I Got Stung – t1
- 580611 I Got Stung – t2
- 580611 I Got Stung – t3
- 580611 I Got Stung – t4
- 580611 I Got Stung – t5
- 580611 I Got Stung – t6
- 580611 I Got Stung – t7
- 580611 I Got Stung – t8
- 580611 I Got Stung – t9
- 580611 I Got Stung – t10
- 580611 I Got Stung – t11
- 580611 I Got Stung – t12
- 580611 I Got Stung – t13
- 580611 I Got Stung – t14
- 580611 I Got Stung – t15
- 580611 I Got Stung – t16
- 580611 I Got Stung – t17
- 580611 I Got Stung – t18
- 580611 I Got Stung – t20
- 580611 I Got Stung – t21
- 580611 I Got Stung – t22
- 580611 I Got Stung – t23
- 580611 I Got Stung – t24
Elvis Sails EP
- 580922 Press Interview with Elvis Presley (At Brooklyn Army Terminal)
- 580922 Elvis Presley’s Newsreel Interview
- 580922 Pat Hernon Interviews Elvis (In The Library Of The U.S.S. Randall At Sailing)
The album master (spliced from take 40 and 39) of Doncha’ Think It’s Time was released originally on Elvis’ Golden Records Volume 2. Strangely, on the Japanese 24 Bit mastered CD version of Elvis’ Golden Records Volume 2 the single master (spliced from takes 40, 47 and 48) was used. The album master is also normally incorrectly listed as just being take 40 (as listed in the session logs), and does not mention that it is a splice with take 39 too.
The album master of ‘Doncha’ Think It’s Time’ can be distinguished from the ‘single’ master, from the first chorus. On the ‘Album’ master Elvis sings “Kiss me honey tell me you’re mine…” but on the ‘single’ master he sings “Love me honey tell me you’re mine…”
- album master of ‘Doncha’ Think It’s Time’ is spliced as follows:-
- 0:00-0:44 (up to “…a-doncha think it’s time”) = Take 40
- 0:44-0:59 (from drum beat “I don’t want to walk without you…” to “…any other guy”) = Take 39
- 0:59-1:21 (from “I get so warm when you touch-a-my cheek” to “…Walking right by my side…”) = Take 40
- 1:22-1:58 (from “It hurts me to see you talking…”) = Take 39
- single master of ‘Doncha’ Think It’s Time’ is spliced as follows:-
- 0:00-1:15 (up to “…Doncha think it’s time”) = Take 47
- 1:16-1:41 (from drum beat “I don’t want to walk without you…” to “…make me feel so fine”) = Take 40
- 1:42-1:58 (from “…a-doncha think it’s time…”) = Take 48
On the CD version of Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits Volume 1 the undubbed master of ‘Wear My Ring Around Your Neck’ was used, however on the original 4 LP set of Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits Volume 1 the overdubbed master was used.
Sessions III incorrectly lists the undubbed master of Wear My Ring Around Your Neck as being released on Gold Records Volume 2 when it was the overdubbed master used on the original release of that album. The undubbed master actually first appeared on the 1984 RCA CD (10 track U.S. version) of Gold Records Volume 2 however, and it’s first commercial (International) release was the 1987 compilation All Time Greatest Hits.
Originally, take 10 of Your Cheatin’ Heart was not deemed suitable as being the master take, and was initially listed as “no master” in the session logs, before listing both takes 9 and 10 as master. It was eventually released in 1965 however on Elvis For Everyone. This could explain how Take 9 was used by mistake on the CD version of Welcome To My World if they went back to the original tapes for that release. An edited (2:15) version of ‘Your Cheatin’ Heart’, which omitted the instrumental intro, was released in 1987 on the BMG Ariola release The Definitive Country Album.
The master of A Big Hunk O’ Love is primarily take 3, but with the first instrumental break spliced in from take 4. Since the release of the 50s Box, it seems more common to have Take 3 of A Big Hunk O’ Love rather than the original spliced master, and it has since appeared on Elvis 30 Number One Hits and the Japanese 24 Bit mastered CD Elvis’ Golden Records Volume 2 among others. On the original RCA CD release of Elvis’ Golden Records Volume 2 however, we get the original spliced master. This may be because in the original session logs take 3 is listed as master and they may have gone back to the original tapes for these more recent releases, and take 3 will have been on the tape reel instead of the spliced master. A good transfer of the original spliced master of A Big Hunk O’ Love can be found on the Japanese 24 Bit mastered CD The Complete Single Collection (CD2), All Time Greatest Hits and FTD’s 50 Million Elvis Fans Can’t Be Wrong and also remastered on Sony’s Complete Masters Collection and the Franklin Mint package.
There was no satisfactory master take of Ain’t That Loving You Baby at this session, and it is listed as such in the session logs. Take 4, however, was eventually released in 1964 as a single so would have been considered to be the master from then on.
In 1984 a new digital master (fast version) of Ain’t That Loving You Baby was made by RCA and issued with a new matrix number (PPA5 2672), that was subsequently used on the album Reconsider Baby.
Elvis Sound Magazine web site has an estimation of how thefast version is spliced – Thanks to Jim Berkeley:
- 0:00.0-0:10.8 = Take 09 (“I could ride around the world” to first “Ain’t that”)
- 0:10.8-0:17.9 = Take 10 (first “loving you baby, ain’t that loving you baby, ain’t that loving you baby”)
- 0:17.9-0:21.3 = Take 11 (first “Ain’t that loving you so, oh oh oh, oh oh oh”)
- 0:21.3-0:41.0 = Take 11 (“I could meet a hundred girls” to second “Ain’t that loving you so, oh oh oh, oh oh oh” – drum bridge #1)
- 0:41.0-0:46.5 = Take 08 (drum bridge #1 and guitar bridge #1)
- 0:46.5-0:49.3 = Take 11 (guitar bridge #1)
- 0:49.3-0:52.0 = Take 08 (guitar bridge #1)
- 0:52.0-1:14.1 = Take 11 (guitar bridge #1 – “If you gave me nine lives like an alley cat” to third “Ain’t that loving you so, oh oh oh, oh oh oh” – drum bridge #2)
- 1:14.1-1:22.1 = Take 08 (drum bridge #2 and guitar bridge #2)
- 1:22.1-1:27.3 = Take 10 (guitar bridge #1)
- 1:27.3-1:33.0 = Take 11 (“I’m putting on my coat” to third “Before the sun goes down”)
- 1:33.0-2:00.6 = Take 11 (third “Ain’t that loving you baby, ain’t that loving you baby, ain’t that loving you baby, ain’t that loving you so, oh oh oh, oh oh oh” – drum bridge #2 and guitar bridge #2)
- 2:00.6-2:13.5 = Take 11 (“I could ride around the world” to first “Ain’t that loving you baby, ain’t that loving you baby, ain’t that loving you baby”)
- 2:13.5-2:17.0 = Take 11 (fourth “Ain’t that loving you so, oh oh oh, oh oh oh”)
- 2:17.0-2:22.5 = Take 11 (fourth “Ain’t that loving you baby, ain’t that loving you so, oh oh oh, oh oh oh”)
- 2:22.5-2:27.3 = Take 11 (fourth “Ain’t that loving you baby, ain’t that loving you so, oh oh oh, oh oh oh”)
- 2:27.3-2:32.0 = Take 01 (ending speeded up by 5%)
Take 8 of (Now And Then There’s ) A Fool Such As I was used on Elvis 30 Number One Hits instead of the master (take 9).
1997 Expanded Edition
1 A Big Hunk O’ Love 2:12
2 My Wish Came True 2:34
3 (Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I 2:36
4 I Need Your Love Tonight 2:04
5 Don’t 2:49
6 I Beg Of You 1:51
7 Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me) 1:51
8 Santa Claus Is Back In Town 2:23
9 Party 1:26
10 Paralyzed 2:23
11 One Night 2:30
12 I Got Stung 1:49
13 King Creole 2:09
14 Wear My Ring Around Your Neck 2:14
15 Doncha’ Think It’s Time 1:56
16 Mean Woman Blues 2:16
17 Playing For Keeps 2:50
18 Hard Headed Woman 1:53
19 Got A Lot O’ Livin’ To Do! 2:31
20 (There’ll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me) 3:21
