Studio Session for RCA, October 30-31, 1960

Studio :

RCA Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee

Producer :

Steve Sholes

Engineer :

Bill Porter

Milky White Way

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October 30

Take 01

FS

0:15

Stand By Me 2/Surrender

Take 02

FS

0:10

Stand By Me 2/Surrender

Take 03

Complete

2:39

Platinum 2+"Surrender"/Stand By Me 1/Surrender

Take 04

FS

0:57

Fame and Fortune+"Stand By Me 2/Surrender"

Take 05

Complete

2:23

Fame and Fortune+"Stand By Me 2/Surrender"

Take 06

FS

0:24

Surrender

Take 07

FS+M

2:54

Surrender+Amazing Grace

His Hand in Mine

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October 30

Take 01

FS+Complete

3:45

Surrender(FS)+Platinum 2+"Surrender"/Stand By Me 1/Surrender

Take 02

FS

0:36

Surrender

Take 03

FS

1:39

Surrender

Take 04

FS+Complete

3:41

Ending used for spliced master

Fame and F./Surrender(minus ending)+Surrender(end fr.spliced m.)

Take 05

Complete

3:24

Used for spliced master

Surrender(from spliced master)+Fame and F./Surrender(ending)

Spliced

M

3:16

Spliced from take 5 and ending of take 4

Amazing Grace

I Believe in the Man in the Sky

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October 30

Take 01

Complete

2:29

Essential 6/Season's Greetings/Surrender/Stand By Me 1(no dialog)

Take 02

FS

0:24

Season's Greetings/Surrender

Take 03

LFS

1:20

Season's Greetings/Surrender

Take 04

M

2:17

Amazing Grace+"Surrender"

He Knows Just What I Need

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October 30

Take 01

Complete

2:01

Stand By Me 2+"Surrender"/Surrender/Easter Special

Take 02

FS

0:42

Surrender

Take 03

LFS

0:56

Stand By Me 2/Surrender

Take 04

Complete

2:17

Surrender

Take 05

LFS

1:09

Surrender

Take 06

FS

0:36

Fame and Fortune+"Surrender"

Take 07

Complete

2:08

Fame and Fortune/Stand By Me 2+"Surrender"

Take 08

Complete

2:17

"(Slower) (No solo voice on chorus)"

Stand By Me 1+"Surrender"/Surrender

Take 09

Complete

2:20

"(Slower) (No solo voice on chorus)"

Stand By Me 2+"Surrender"/Surrender

Take 10

M

2:24

Amazing Grace+"Surrender"

Surrender

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October 30

Take 01

Complete

2:02

"(Elvis doesn't go up on ending)"

60's Box 5+"Surrender"/Surrender

Take 02

Complete

2:03

"(Elvis doesn't go up on ending)"

Fame and Fortune+"Surrender"

Take 03

LFS

1:11

"(Slower)"

Surrender

Take 04

(M)

1:46+

Used for spliced master

Surrender(from spliced master without ending)

Take 05

FS

0:38

"(Slower)"

Surrender

Take 06

Complete

1:58

"(Slower)"

Surrender

Take 07

LFS

1:44

"(Could be used w/ending)" "(Slower)"

Surrender(released with ending from take 6)

Take 08

FS

UN

Take 09

Complete

1:53

Essential 6/Always Me 1

Surrender (work part)

October 30

Take 01

Complete

"(N.G.)"

UN

Take 02

FS

UN

Take 03

Complete

UN

Take 04

Complete

"(N.G.)"

UN

Take 05

Complete

"(N.G.)" "(Needs to be faded)"

UN

Take 06

Complete

"(N.G.)"

UN

Take 07

Complete

"(N.G.)"

UN

Take 08

(M)

Used for spliced master

Surrender (composite)

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October 30

Spliced

M

1:53

Spliced from take 4 and work part of ending take 8

60's Box 1

Mansion over the Hilltop

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October 30

Take 01

Complete

3:11

Easter Special

Take 02

Take 03

FS+M

3:15

Surrender(FS)+Amazing Grace+"Surrender"

In My Father's House

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October 31

Take 01

Take 02

Take 03

Take 04

Take 05

Take 06

Take 07

FS+Complete

2:13

Fame and Fortune

Take 08

(M)

2:09

Used for spliced master

Surrender

In My Father's House (work part)

October 31

Take 01

(M)

0:32

Used for spliced master

Surrender

In My Father's House (composite)

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October 31

Spliced

M

2:05

Spliced from take 8 and work part of ending take 1

Amazing Grace

Joshua Fit the Battle

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October 31

Take 01

Complete

2:45

Easter Special

Take 02

FS+Complete

2:46

Fame and Fortune

Take 03

Take 04

M

2:41

Amazing Grace

Swing Down, Sweet Chariot

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October 31

Take 01

Take 02

FS+FS

0:32

Today, Tomorrow and Forever

Take 03

Complete

2:41

Today, Tomorrow and Forever

Take 04

M

2:34

Amazing Grace

I'm Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs

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October 31

Take 01

M

1:52

Amazing Grace

Take 02

FS+FS

0:36

Easter Special

Take 03

Complete

1:57

Easter Special

Take 04

Take 05

Complete

2:01

Fame and Fortune

If We Never Meet Again

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October 31

Take 01

M

2:00

Amazing Grace

Known Only to Him

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October 31

Take 01

FS

0:27

Easter Special

Take 02

Complete

1:39

Easter Special/Stand By Me 1+"Easter Special"

Take 03

FS

Take 04

FS+FS

Take 05

M

2:08

Chorus intro

Amazing Grace

Crying in the Chapel

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October 31

Take 01

LFS

1:26

Stand By Me 2

Take 02

FS

0:38

Stand By Me 2

Take 03

M

2:32

Amazing Grace+"Stand By Me 2"/Stand By Me 2

Working on the Building

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October 31

Take 01

FS+Complete

2:01

Fame and Fortune+"Stand By Me 2"

Take 02

Complete

2:15

Stand By Me 1+"Always Me 1"/Always Me 1

Take 03

FS

Take 04

FS+Complete

Take 05

M

1:54

Amazing Grace

Musicians:

Guitar :

Hank Garland

Guitar :

Scotty Moore

Guitar :

Elvis Presley

Bass :

Bob Moore

Drums :

D.J. Fontana

Drums :

Murrey "Buddy" Harman

Saxophone :

Homer "Boots" Randolph

Piano :

Floyd Cramer

Backup Vocals :

Millie Kirkham

Backup Vocals :

The Jordanaires: Gordon Stoker, Hoyt Hawkins, Neal Matthews and Ray Walker

Backup Vocals :

Charlie Hodge (on His Hand in Mine, I Believe in the Man in the Sky and He Knows Just What I Need)

Notes:

Source update to follow.
On the 'Peace in the Valley' box BMG added noise between 15-22 kHz to compensate for the poor filters used on 'Amazing Grace' so they are definitely aware now that they screwed up the remastering in the first place. The 'Peace in the Valley' restoration does work; some of the high-end artifacts are masked. Still, they need to get back to the tapes to get it right. The Japanese paper sleeve edition of 'His Hand in Mine' appears to be from a more conservative source although some songs are unnecessarily loud. Overall the Japanese CD has slightly less high-end (between 2500-10000 Hz) than BMG's 'Peace in the Valley' remaster, but it's probably the latter that has been re-equalized. Older US/Japanese CD versions and the old RCA 7.5 ips reel-to-reel will be compared later to solve the eq. on this one.

The outtakes from this session on the FTD CD 'Easter Special' have been subjected to hard limiting, no clipping, just an amplitude raise about 6 dB(or 100%) above "what's possible" with compressed peaks to allow for it. +100% is too much without sacrificing dynamics.