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The original 2-Track masters of the six songs used in the movie were released on LP in Australia, New Zealand and Argentina.

Poor digital echo on vocals plagues the Double Features release.

On Celluloid Rock Volume 2 the masters from this session are released both as a 3-channel mix and as instrumental tracks 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 movie version of ‘The Love Machine’ is incorrectly listed in Sessions III as being Take 12 but with verses swapped around. Interestingly, the movie version is also listed as being Take 12 in Paramount’s own paper work too.

A possibility as to why an instrumental track was recorded first for ‘You Gotta Stop’ without Elvis singing live with the band is because they were still having discussions about the lyrics during the recording session and nothing had been finalised regarding which lyrics to use (see scans below). This could be why Elvis did his vocal overdub later, after it was decided which lyrics to use.

The instrumental track (Take 1) of ‘You Gotta Stop’ on FTD’s Easy Come, Easy Go extended soundtrack is incorrectly listed as being Take 6 on the cover.

Elvis sang as part of the backing vocals on the instrumental track of ‘Leave My Woman Alone, although Elvis never recorded any lead vocals to ‘Leave My Woman Alone’.

Initially, two songs were selected for scene 94 of Easy Come, Easy Go, which was to be in a discotheque according to the script. The songs were ‘Sweet Thing’ (Tepper-Bennett) and ‘Sand In The Nick Of Time’ (Giant-Baum-Kaye), although both songs were rejected in the pre-selection for the movie and replaced by ‘Love On The Rocks’ (Tepper-Bennett). None of these songs were recorded. Finally, ‘Leave My Woman Alone’ was selected to be used for scene 94 in the movie and the backing track was laid down ready for Elvis to record his lead vocals, when it was then decided that the scene be dropped altogether from the movie. This is the reason why Elvis never finished the song ‘Leave My Woman Alone’.

A possibility as to why ‘Leave My Woman Alone’ was dropped from the movie is that they couldn’t get clearance in time, to use the song in the movie.

The implied vocals recorded on the songs ‘Aches And Pains’ and ‘Second Rate Street’ (Elvis Sessions by Tunzi) hardly refer to vocals by Elvis as his name is mentioned on the finished songs (“Elvis, Orch. and Jordanaires”), but not on these. A guess is that ‘Aches and Pains’ (a.k.a. ‘Go-Go Jo’) is the instrumental used in the movie right after the opening/title track. Other instrumental tracks used in the movie would fit with the listed tracks too.

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.

Thanks to Ernst Jørgensen and Erik Rasmussen.