Soundtrack Session for Paramount: Loving You, January 21-22, 1957

Studio :

Paramount Scoring Stage, Los Angeles, California

Producer :

Walter Scharf

Engineer :

Phil Wisdom

Party (record version)

A1X

January 21: 09:00 - 14:00

Take 01

"vocal and group"

Take 02

Take 03

Take 04

Take 05

Take 06

Take 07

Take 08

Take 09

Take 10

Take 11

M

1:28

H2WB 2195

50's Box 3/Loving You

Mean Woman Blues ("alt. intro/ending version")

BX

January 21

Take 01

Take 02

Take 03

Take 04

Take 05

Take 06

Take 07

M

2:11

Intro and ending used for spliced movie version

SPA5 2870

tape

Got a Lot o' Livin' to Do (movie version, composite)

LTD

January

Spliced 

M

1:44

Spliced from L-2 , H2WB 0255-9 and D-17

Soundtrack

Mean Woman Blues (movie version, transfer)

BY

January 21

"Take" 01

2:18

Binaural transfer of record version H2WB 0257-14

Mean Woman Blues (movie version, wild lines)

BDL

January 21

Take 01

(M)

Used for overdubbed movie version.

Mean Woman Blues (movie version, composite)

BYTDZ

January 21

Spliced

M

2:35

Spliced from BX-7 (intro & ending) and BY-01.

LPA5 5812

Soundtrack/Essential 1

BDL-01 overdubbed.

Detour (instrumental, end version)

EX

January 21: 15:30 - 20:00

Take 01

Take 02

Take 03

Take 04

Take 05

Take 06

M

Loving You (farm version 2)

HX

January 22: 08:00 - 11:00

Take 01

Take 02

Take 03

Take 04

Take 05

Take 06

Take 07

Take 08

Take 09

Take 10

Take 11

Take 12

Take 13

Take 14

M

Not used

UN

Musicians:

Guitar :

Scotty Moore

Rhythm Guitar :

Hilmer J. "Tiny" Timbrell

Bass :

Bill Black

Piano :

Dudley Brooks

Drums :

D.J. Fontana

Piano :

Gordon Stoker

Piano :

Hoyt Hawkins

Backup Vocals :

The Jordanaires: Gordon Stoker, Hoyt Hawkins, Neal Matthews and Hugh Jarrett


Notes:

Estimation of how Gotta Lot o' Livin' to Do (movie version) was spliced:

Intro of L-2 (5 s.)

1st 2.5 s. of record version, H2WB 0255-9

1st 6 s. of H2WB 0255-9 (2.5 s. repeat)

(1st chorus of record version omitted)

1st verse and 2nd chorus of H2WB 0255-9

(2nd verse and 3rd chorus of record version omitted)

3rd verse and 4th chorus of H2WB 0255-9

Ending of D-17

(Based on an effort to recreate the movie version using intro and ending from soundtrack and the rest from record version.)

All songs were recorded in binaural stereo.

Thanks to Johnny Savage.