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Soundtrack Session for 20th Century Fox: Love Me Tender, August 24, 1956 |
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20th Century Fox, Stage 1, Hollywood, California |
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Producer : |
Lionel Newman |
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Engineers : |
Bob Mayer / Ken Runyon / Murray Spivak |
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S01-S09 |
August 24 |
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Take 01 |
Complete |
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S01 |
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UN |
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Take 02 |
Incomplete |
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S02 |
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UN |
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Take 03 |
Incomplete |
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S03 |
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UN |
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Take 04 |
Complete |
2:32 |
S04. Used for spliced master (2:20-2:26). |
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50's Box 5° |
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Take 05 |
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S05 |
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Take 06 |
Incomplete |
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S06 |
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UN |
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Take 07 |
Incomplete |
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S07 |
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UN |
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Take 08 |
Incomplete |
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S08 |
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UN |
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Take 09 |
Complete |
2:39 |
S09. Used for spliced master (0:00-2:20, 2:26-2:31). |
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Jailhouse Rock°° |
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Spliced |
(M) |
2:31 |
Spliced from takes 9 and 4. Further overdubs: | ||
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Backup vocals and handclaps overdubbed. |
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S10-S12(or -S14?) |
August 24 |
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Take 01 |
Complete |
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S10 |
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UN |
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Take 02 |
Complete |
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S11 |
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UN |
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Take 03 |
(M) |
1:41 |
S12. Used for composite master |
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Jailhouse Rock°° |
| S13? Guessing abandoned part of Poor Boy. | ||||||
| S14? Guessing abandoned part of Poor Boy. |
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S15-S16 |
August 24 |
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Take 01 |
Complete |
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S15 |
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UN |
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Take 02 |
(M) |
2:43 |
S16 Stereo Master |
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24 K Hits°°/Can't Help Falling in Love 2003°°/Jailhouse Rock 97°° |
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Take 02 |
M |
2:42 |
S16 Mono Master |
G2WB 4767 |
Heart & Soul 2003°/Jailhouse Rock 97°/50's Box 2° |
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S17-S18 |
August 24 |
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Take 01 |
Complete? |
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S17. Additional backup vocal overdubs of master |
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UN |
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Take 02 |
(M) |
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S18. Hand claps overdubbed after backup v.o. |
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UN |
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S19 |
August 24 |
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Take 01 |
M |
2:31 |
S19. Hand claps after additional backup v.o. |
G2WB 7260 |
Jailhouse Rock 97°/50's Box 2 |
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S20 |
August 24 |
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Take 01 |
FS |
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S20. Guessing abandoned part and song |
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UN |
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Musicians: |
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Guitar : |
Vito Mumolo |
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Bass : |
Michael “Myer“ Rubin |
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Drums : |
Richard Cornell |
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Banjo : |
Luther Roundtree |
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Accordion : |
Dom Frontieri |
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Backup Vocals : |
The Ken Darby Trio: Rad Robinson, Jon Dodson and Charles Prescott |
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The master of We're Gonna Move was spliced from take 9 (0:00-2:18) and take 4 (2:18-2:24). It's hard to identify the final chords (2:24-2:30) as being from any of takes 4 or 9. The spliced master runs almost 1.2% slower than take 9. |
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Everything from the 'Love Me Tender' soundtrack needs to be released with upgraded sound due to poor mastering. It's amazing that so many complaints can be found about the swapped stereo/mono versions of the title song on the 2003 reissues of Heart & Soul/Can't Help Falling in Love CD's when the true reason for complaint is that both of them are labelled "SONY DSD MASTERS" and it's obvious that neither is. Both 2003 releases of Love Me Tender are derived from the bad 1990's masters and still sound as bad as they ever did. The 24 Karat Hits version is basically the same, but with a simple bass boost (below 90 Hz) and high-end reduction (above 2 kHz and upwards) to sweeten the hiss. |
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Thanks to Henk Muller for provding some detailed session information, also thought to have been published in some magazines. |
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