Soundtrack Session for 20th Century Fox: Love Me Tender, August 24, 1956

Studio :

20th Century Fox Stage 1, Los Angeles, California

Producer :

Lionel Newman

Engineers :

Bob Mayer, Ken Runyon, Murray Spivak

We’re Gonna Move

S01-S09

August 24

Take 01

Complete

S01

UN/Lost

Take 02

Incomplete

S02

UN/Lost

Take 03

Incomplete

S03

UN/Lost

Take 04

Complete

2:32

S04. Used for spliced master (2:20-2:26).

50's Box 5°

Take 05

S05

Take 06

Incomplete

S06

UN/Lost

Take 07

Incomplete

S07

UN/Lost

Take 08

Incomplete

S08

UN/Lost

Take 09

Complete

2:39

S09. Used for spliced master (0:00-2:20, 2:26-2:31).

Jailhouse Rock°°

Spliced

(M)

2:31

Spliced from takes 9 and 4. Further overdubs: 

(UN)

Backup vocals and handclaps overdubbed.

Poor Boy

S10-S12(or -S14?)

August 24

Take 01

Complete

:

S10

UN/Lost

Take 02

Complete

:

S11

UN/Lost

Take 03

(M)

1:41

S12. Used for additional vocal replacement of 

Jailhouse Rock°°

part of verse and used for composite master.
S13? Guessing abandoned part of Poor Boy.
S14? Guessing abandoned part of Poor Boy.

Love Me Tender

S15-S16

August 24

Take 01

Complete

S15

UN/Lost

Take 02

(M)

2:43

S16 Stereo Master

Jailhouse Rock 97°°/24 K Hits°°/Can't Help Falling in Love 2003°°

Take 02

M

2:42

S16 Mono Master

G2WB 4767

Heart & Soul 2003°/Jailhouse Rock 97°/50's Box 2°

We’re Gonna Move (backup vocals overdub)

S17-S18

August 24

Take 01

(Alt. M)

S17. Backup v.o./replacement for master

UN/Lost

Take 02

(M)

2:12

S18. Hand claps overdubbed after backup v.o.

(UN)

We’re Gonna Move (hand claps overdub)

S19

August 24

Take 01

M

2:31

S19. Hand claps after additional backup v.o. 

G2WB 7260

Jailhouse Rock 97°/50's Box 2

Poor Boy (remake)

S20

August 24

Take 01

FS

0:44

S20. Abandoned remake

UN

Musicians:

Guitar :

Vito Mumolo

Bass :

Michael “Myer“ Rubin

Drums :

Richard Cornell

Banjo :

Luther Roundtree

Accordion :

Dom Frontieri

Backup Vocals :

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


Notes:

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.

The 'Love Me Tender' soundtrack needs to be released with upgraded sound. Even the so-called DSD masters (2003 Heart & Soul/Can't Help Falling in Love CD's etc.) are derived from the limited 1990's masters. The DCC 24 Karat Hits version is similar, but processed further to sweeten the hiss.

Thanks to Henk Muller for providing some detailed session information (probably first published in Graceland magazine).

Thanks to Johnny Savage for proof-reading.