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June 20 / 21 1967
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(+ 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) |
| MGM Sound Stage – Hollywood, California |
| Soundtrack Session for MGM’s Speedway |
| MGM Producer : Jeffrey Alexander |
| Engineers : Aaron Rochin / Lyle Burbridge |
| (7.00pm – 12.00am / 1.00am – 4.00am) |
| Musicians: | Backup Vocals: | |
| Guitar: | Chip Young | The Jordanaires: Gordon Stoker; Neal Matthews; Hoyt Hawkins; Ray |
| Guitar: | Hilmer J ‘Tiny’ Timbrell | Walker |
| Bass: | Bob Moore | |
| Drums: | D.J. Fontana | |
| Drums: | Murrey ‘Buddy’ Harman | |
| Piano: | Larry Muhoberac | |
| Steel Guitar: | Peter Drake | |
| Saxophone: | Homer ‘Boots’ Randolph | |
| Trumpet: | Charlie McCoy | |
| Piano: | Charlie Hodge (‘Suppose’ – long & short versions) | |
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There Ain’t Nothing Like A Song
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2001 | June 20 1967 (Tue: 7.00pm – 12.00am) | |||
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| Take 4 | ||||||
| Take 5 | ||||||
| Take 6 | (M) | 2:11 | Undubbed master (2:23 with count-in) (Overdubbed by Nancy Sinatra on June 26) |
Acetate° | ||
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Unknown
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2002 | June 20 1967 (Tue: 7.00pm – 12.00am) | |||
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Your Time Hasn’t Come Yet, Baby (movie version)
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WPA5 2555
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2003 | June 20 1967 (Tue: 7.00pm – 12.00am) | |||
| Take 1 | (M) | 1:55 | (2:04 with count-in) | Speedway (FTD)°°~Acetate° (count-in) | ||
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Your Time Hasn’t Come Yet, Baby (movie version – transfer)
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2533 | (December 14-15 1967) | ||||
| Take 1 | (M) | 1:51 | Mono transfer of 2003-01 | Soundtrack° (1:46) | ||
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Your Time Hasn’t Come Yet, Baby (record version)
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WPA1 1023
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2004 | June 20 1967 (Tue: 7.00pm – 12.00am) | |||
| Take 1 | ||||||
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| Take 3 | ||||||
| Take 4 | ||||||
| Take 5 | ||||||
| Take 6 | M | 1:50 | (2:02 with count-in) | Complete Elvis Presley Masters 15 (Sony)°°~Start Your Engines (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 30)°°~Speedway (FTD)°°~Comp. Single Collection 6°°~Double Features – Easy Come, Easy Go / Speedway°° +Celluloid Rock 2-3°° (track 12 – no backing vocals))+Speedway (FTD)° ~The Mono Masters CD3 (Venus)° (master only)+Speedway (FTD)°° (count-in)+Celluloid Rock 2-3°° (track 13) (count-in – no backing vocals) |
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Five Sleepy Heads
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WPA1 1024
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2005 | June 20 / 21 1967 (Tue / Wed) | |||
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| Take 3 | M | 1:30 | (1:40 with count-in) | Complete Elvis Presley Masters 15 (Sony)°°~Start Your Engines (Franklin Mint Comp. Masters Collection 30)°°~Speedway (FTD)°°~Double Features – Easy Come, Easy Go / Speedway°°+Speedway (FTD)° (master only) +Speedway (FTD)°°+Acetate° (count-in) |
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Five Sleepy Heads (dubdown)
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| Dub | (M) | 1:28 | Backing vocals erased from 2005-03 (1:39 with count-in) |
Celluloid Rock 2-3°° (count-in for 2005-03) | ||
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Five Sleepy Heads (movie version – transfer)
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2537 | (December 14-15 1967) | ||||
| Take 1 | (M) | 1:27 | Mono transfer of 2005-03 dubdown | |||
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Five Sleepy Heads (movie version)
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2563 | (December 14-15 1967) | ||||
| Take 1 | New backing vocals overdubbed to 2537-01 | |||||
| Take 2 | ||||||
| Take 3 | (M) | 1:02 | (not used) | |||
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Who Are You? (Who Am I?)
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WPA1 1025
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2006 | June 20 / 21 1967 (Tue / Wed) | |||
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| Take 4 | ||||||
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| Take 6 | M | 2:32 | (2:51 with count-in) | Complete Elvis Presley Masters 15 (Sony)°°~Start Your Engines (Franklin Mint Comp. Masters Collection 30)°°~Speedway (FTD)°°~Double Features – Easy Come, Easy Go / Speedway°°+Speedway (FTD)° (master only) +Celluloid Rock 2-3°°+Speedway (FTD)°°~Acetate° (count-in & extra dialogue) |
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Who Are You? (Who Am I?) (movie version – transfer)
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2535 | (December 14-15 1967) | ||||
| Take 1 | Mono transfer of 2006-06 | |||||
| Take 2 | (M) | 2:25 | Soundtrack° | |||
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Speedway
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WPA1 1026
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2007 | June 20 / 21 1967 (Tue / Wed) | |||
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| Take 4 | FS+(M) | 2:45 | Unedited master | Speedway (FTD)°° (Extra dialogue)~Complete Spinout Sessions°° ~A Legendary Performer Volume 7°°~Celluloid Rock 2-3°° (count-in, FS & complete)~Acetate° (complete) |
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| Faded | M | 2:12 | Master faded | Complete Elvis Presley Masters 15 (Sony)°°~Start Your Engines (Franklin Mint Complete Masters Collection 30)°°~Speedway (FTD)°°~Double Features – Easy Come, Easy Go / Speedway°°+Speedway (FTD)° |
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Speedway (movie version – transfer)
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2523 | (December 14-15 1967) | ||||
| Take 1 | (M) | 2:10 | Mono transfer of faded 2007-04 | |||
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Speedway (movie version)
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| Edit | (M) | 1:48 | Edit of 2523-01 | Soundtrack° | ||
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Suppose (long version)
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WPA1 1027
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2008 | June 20 / 21 1967 (Tue / Wed) | |||
| Take 1 | M | 3:00 | Alternate master (3:21 with count-in) |
Double Features – Easy Come, Easy Go / Speedway°°+There’s Always Me Volume 2°° (different mix)+Speedway (FTD)° (master only) +Celluloid Rock 2-3°°+Speedway (FTD)°° (count-in) |
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Suppose (short version)
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WPA1 1028
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2009 | June 20 / 21 1967 (Tue / Wed) | |||
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| Take 5 | ||||||
| Take 6 | ||||||
| Take 7 | M | 2:01 | (2:08 with count-in) | Complete Elvis Presley Masters 15 (Sony)°°~Start Your Engines (Franklin Mint Comp. Masters Collection 30)°°~Speedway (FTD)°°~Double Features – Easy Come, Easy Go / Speedway°°+Speedway (FTD)° (master only) +Speedway (FTD)°°+Celluloid Rock 2-3°°~Acetate° (count-in) |
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Suppose (movie version – transfer)
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2532 | (December 14-15 1967) | ||||
| Take 1 | Mono transfer of 2009-07 | |||||
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Suppose (movie version)
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2564 | (December 14-15 1967) | ||||
| Take 1 | New backing vocals overdubbed to 2532-02 | |||||
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| Take 4 | (M) | (not used) | ||||
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Except for masters and alternate masters – all original 4-Track tapes are lost. Celluloid Rock Volume 2 (Cool Romeo) has a binaural mix used for the masters taken from the 4-Track tapes. The sound quality of vocals and vocal presence on the original 2-channel LP-mix (and 2007 Sony remasters) are perhaps not as good as on most soundtracks albums. BMG’s Double Features remix from 4-Track has the usual amount of digital echo. Production number 2002 is possibly for an instrumental used in the movie. ‘Your Time Hasn’t Come Yet, Baby’ is presented twice on Celluloid Rock. They are both the same versions (track 13 has a count-in) but just different mixes from the 4-Track tapes. This may have been intended to give the false impression that Track 12 was the movie version! The movie version of ‘Speedway’ is edited – part of the second verse (“Flag it down, pistons pound, plenty of engine to rip in the ground … on the Speedway”) is edited out. 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. |