Soundtrack Session for 20th Century Fox: Love Me Tender, September 4-5, 1956

Studio :

20th Century Fox Stage 1, Los Angeles, California

Producer :

Lionel Newman

Engineers :

Bob Mayer, Ken Runyon, Murray Spivak

Let Me (track)

S21-S22

September 4

Take 01

FS

S21

UN/Lost

Take 02

(M)

S22. Vocal overdub on September 5

UN

Poor Boy (part of verse, track)

S23-S25?

September 4

Take 01

S23? Abandoned, replaced by part from take 3

UN/Lost

Take 02

S24?  UN/Lost

Take 03

(M) S25?  UN/Lost

Poor Boy (part of verse, vocal overdub)

S26-S31

September 5

Take 01

S26. v.o./replacement of part of verse, take 3 (S12)

UN/Lost

Take 02

S27.  "Don't have a pig ... to pull the plough" UN/Lost

Take 03

S28 UN/Lost

Take 04

S29 UN/Lost
Take 05 S30 UN/Lost
Take 06 (M)

(0:10)

S31. 8 seconds used for composite master

(UN)

Poor Boy (composite)

September 5

Spliced

M

2:15

Spliced from take 3 and part of verse

G2WB 7259

Jailhouse Rock°/50's Box 2°

Let Me (vocal overdub)

S32-S35

September 5

Take 01

Inomplete

S32. Vocal overdub of track-02

UN/Lost 

Take 02

Inomplete

S33

UN/Lost

Take 03

Complete

S34. Used for spliced master

(UN)

Take 04

Complete

2:05

S35. Used for spliced master

Jailhouse Rock(vocal channel only, "solo version")

Spliced

M

2:10

S36. Spliced from takes 3 & 4

G2WB 7261

Jailhouse Rock°/50's Box 2°

Musicians:

Guitar :

Vito Mumolo

Bass :

Michael “Myer“ Rubin

Drums :

Richard Cornell

Banjo :

Luther Roundtree

Accordion :

Carl Fortina

Backup Vocals :

The Ken Darby Trio: Rad Robinson, Jon Dodson and Charles Prescott

 


Notes:

The master of Poor Boy runs 0.45% slower than the released take 3 and was spliced like this (if take 3 is altererd by 0.45%):0:00.0-1:14.8 of take 3, 0:41.8- 0:58.6 of take 3 (reprise), 8 seconds of insert and 1:06.7-1:41.0 of take 3. It seems most spliced, 2nd generation masters from 1956 run a little too slow.

The master of Let Me runs about 0.45% slower as well. The vocal track was spliced the following way: 0:04-0:24 has vocal from "solo version", 0:25-1:35 has vocal from the other used vocal take (take 3) and finally, 1:36-2:08 has vocal taken from "solo version". "Solo version" is listed as being from both take 3 & 4 in 'A Life in Music'. It could have be a recent splice, but a guess is that it is one take only since 3 & 4 would coincide with the partly  different vocal overdub take on the master, also listed as being a combination of takes 3 & 4 (Sample with Master in Left channel and "solo version" in the Right channel - revealing the different and identical vocal parts.) 

Thanks to Henk Muller for providing session information.

Thanks to Johnny Savage.