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The acetate of ‘Black Star’, as released on the Black Star bootleg EP by Bilko, is the original composite master, with repaired ending (spliced from Take 14 & Insert #1 Take 5). The “master” of ‘Black Star’ on Double Features – Flaming Star / Wild In The Country / Follow That Dream, Collectors Gold, Sony’s Complete Elvis Presley Masters collection and even FTD’s extended soundtrack of Flaming Star is just Take 14 without the repaired ending (Insert #1 Take 5).

The master of ‘Summer Kisses, Winter Tears’ on Double Features and Elvis For Everyone has the left and right channels swapped.

The overdubbed master of ‘Britches’ is spliced from Take 5 (0:00-0:33), Take 7 (0:33-1:12) and insert – Take 1 (1:12-1:42). The stereo release on Double Features has a left channel delay on the track of 100ms. The left vocal channel has been mixed with the mono track instead of releasing the song in binaural stereo.

A 2:51 edit of ‘Britches’ was used on a 8-Track Stereo only (CPS1 3082) release of Elvis – A Legendary Performer Volume 3.

The master of ‘A Cane And A High Starched Collar’ on Double Features has the left and right channels swapped.

‘A Cane And A High Starched Collar’ on the Mexican “Promo” D The Heartbreaker is taken from a vinyl source – probably from Elvis – A Legendary Performer Volume 2.

The movie version of ‘Summer Kisses, Winter Tears’ was recorded as follows:-

Take 7 of ‘Summer Kisses, Winter Tears’ was dubbed down to a rhythm track by eliminating Elvis’ and The Jordanaires’ vocals from the multi-track tape (as much as could be eliminated) and leaving just the backing track.

Elvis then did a new vocal overdub to this guide track, of which three takes were completed, with Take 1 being picked as the master vocal.

Drums (bongos) and maracas were then overdubbed to Elvis’ vocal overdub, with the bongos and maracas continuing on for another minute after Elvis stops singing.

What can be heard in the movie at around 42 minutes are the bongos and maracas after Elvis stops singing, with Elvis’ singing part being cut from the movie, where Elvis is sitting around with the indians smoking a peace pipe.