| Original date / label: | not released before as an album |
| Catalog no.: | 506020-975064 |
| Label: | Follow That Dream Records / Sony Music Entertainment |
| Country produced: | Denmark |
| Country pressed: | EU |
| Release date: | 2013 December |
| Copies: | ? |
| Value (source): | 21,26 Euro (It's Elvis Time) |
| FTD follow-up no.: | 124. (Elvis Australia) |
| 124. (World Of FTD 3, page 960) | |
| 129. (Elvis On CD) | |
| FTD serie: | 7" Classic Album |
| Produced by: | Ernst Mikael Jorgensen and Roger Semon |
| Mastered by: | Sebastian Jeansson and Vic Anesini |
| Package: | 7" triple fold out cover outside / inside |
| 12 page booklet |
| Following on from the success of FTD's classic album versions of "From Elvis In Memphis" and "Back In Memphis",
FTD presents the remaining recordings from his legendary sessions at American Sound in Memphis recorded in 1969. "From Elvis At American Sound Studio" completes the 69 Memphis trilogies, and fittingly gets the FTD classic album treatment to complement the other two releases. |
| FTD's '69 trilogy of the American Sound sessions. |
| Tracks: | 21 |
| Time: | 76:32 |
| Matrix: | IFPI L555 506020-975064DISC1 A0102231934-0102 15 A00 |
| Mould: | IFPI 94K1 |
| Recording type: | Masters and outtakes |
| Location: | American Sound Studio, Memphis |
| Dates: | 1969 January 13-16 & 20-23 |
| 1969 February 17-22 |
| The Masters: | |||
| 01. Kentucky Rain | master: take 10 overdubbed | 03:16 | 1969 January 19 |
| 02. I'll Be There | master: take 3 overdubbed | 02:26 | 1969 January 23 |
| 03. Mama Liked The Roses | master: take 4 / composite vocal overdub 1&2 | 02:40 *1) | 1969 January 15, 21 |
| 04. If I'm A Fool (For Loving You) | master: take 9 overdubbed edited | 02:45 | 1969 January 21 |
| 05. Don't Cry Daddy | master: take 3 / composite vocal overdub 1&2 | 02:51 *2) | 1969 January 15, 21 |
| 06. Rubberneckin' | master: take 2 overdubbed | 02:15 | 1969 January 21 |
| 07. Hey Jude | master: take 7 overdubbed | 04:30 | 1969 January 21 |
| 08. My Little Friend | master: overdubbed faded | 02:52 *3) | 1969 January 16, 21 |
| 09. Who Am I? | master: take 1 overdubbed | 03:24 | 1969 January 22 |
| Bonus track: | |||
| 10. Memory Revival | instrumental | 04:04 *4) | 1969 January 21 |
| First takes: | |||
| 11. Kentucky Rain | takes 1 long false start, 2 three false starts, 3 | 07:14 *5) | 1969 January 19 |
| 12. I'll Be There | takes 1, 2, 3 (master) | 04:39 | 1969 January 23 |
| 13. If I'm A Fool (For Loving You) | takes 1, 2, 3 | 05:55 | 1969 January 21 |
| 14. Rubberneckin | takes 1, 2 (master) | 02:50 | 1969 January 21 |
| January outtakes: | |||
| 15. Come Out, Come Out (Wherever You Are) | instrumental take 2 (master) | 02:46 *6) | 1969 January 14 |
| 16. You'll Think Of Me | take 7 | 04:51 | 1969 January 14 |
| 17. Poor Man's Gold | take 12 (master) with abandoned vocal overdub | 03:38 *7) | 1969 January 15, 22 |
| 18. Mama Liked The Roses | with alternate vocal overdub | 02:29 | 1969 January 15, 21 |
| 19. In The Ghetto | take 19 | 03:08 | 1969 January 20 |
| 20. Hey Jude | take 1 | 04:45 | 1969 January 21 |
| 21. I'll Be There | takes 4, 5, 6 | 03:14 | 1969 January 23 |
| *1) The rhythmn track of "Mama Liked The Roses" was recorded on January 15, with the track master being take 4. Elvis recorded two vocal overdubs (VO1 and VO2) to this backing track on January 21, with VO2 being the master vocal. |
| *2) The rhythmn track of "Don't Cry Daddy" was recorded on January 15, with the track master being take 3. Elvis then recorded vocals to this backing track on January 22, along with two harmony vocal overdubs. The first harmony vocal (VO1) was only on the second chores, but an additional harmony vocal (VO2) was overdubbed to the first chores too for the final vocal master. |
| *3) The rhythmn track of "My Little Friend" was recorded on January 16, and Elvis recorded his vocals to this backing track on January 21. |
| *4) The rhythmn track of "Memory Revival" was recorded on February 21, but Elvis never recorded any vocals to this backing track. |
| *5) Take 1 of "Kentucky Rain" is a false start and a long false start, but only the long false start is included here. Take 2 of "Kentucky Rain" is four false starts, but only the first three false starts are included here. |
| *6) The rhythmn track of "Come Out, Come Out" was recorded on January 14 with the track master being take 2, but Elvis never recorded any vocals to this backing track. |
| *7) The rhythmn track of "Poor Man's Gold" was recorded on January 15 with the track master being take 12, and Elvis planned to recorded his vocals to this backing track on January 22, although his vocal overdub was abandoned after only two lines were recorded. |
| Tracks: | 17 |
| Time: | 79:06 |
| Matrix: | IFPI L558 506020-975064DISC2 A0102231935-0202 18 A00 |
| Mould: | IFPI 94V6 |
| Recording type: | Outtakes & unfinished masters |
| Location: | American Sound Studio, Memphis |
| Dates: | 1969 January 13-16 & 20-23 |
| 1969 February 17-22 |
| February outtakes: | |||
| 01. It's My Way (Of Loving You) / This Time / I Can't Stop Loving You | jam | 03:52 | 1969 February 17 |
| 02. True Love Travels On A Gravel Road | take 5 | 03:00 *1) | 1969 February 17 |
| 03. Do You Know Who I Am? | takes 3, 5 false starts and complete | 06:59 *2) | 1969 February 19 |
| 04. Kentucky Rain | takes 5, 6, 7 | 06:06 | 1969 February 19 |
| 05. Kentucky Rain | take 8 | 03:56 | 1969 February 19 |
| 06. Kentucky Rain | take 9 false starts and complete | 03:58 *3) | 1969 February 19 |
| 07. Only The Strong Survive | takes 8, 11, 12 | 05:54 *4) | 1969 February 20 |
| 08. Any Day Now | takes 5, 6 (master) | 05:46 | 1969 February 21 |
| Unfinished masters: | |||
| 09. Long Black Limousine | take 9 (master) with vocal repairs | 04:22 *5) | 1969 January 13, 22 |
| 10. Don't Cry Daddy | take 3 (master) with vocal overdub | 03:04 | 1969 January 15, 21 |
| 11. Mama Liked The Roses | take 4 with vocal overdub 2 | 03:22 | 1969 January 15, 21 |
| 12. My Little Friend | unedited undubbed (master) with vocal overdub | 03:11 | 1969 January 16, 21 |
| 13. Hey Jude | takes 3, 5, 6, 7 (master) undubbed | 06:26 | 1969 January 21 |
| 14. I'll Hold You In My Heart (Till I Can Hold You In My Arms) | take 1 (master) | 04:37 | 1969 January 23 |
| 15. Kentucky Rain | take 10 (master) undubbed | 04:19 | 1969 January 15 |
| 16. If I'm A Fool (For Loving You) | takes 6, 7, 8, 9 (master) undubbed | 06:47 | 1969 February 21 |
| 17. Who Am I? | take 1 undubbed master | 03:27 | 1969 February 22 |
| *1) Take 5 of "True Love Travels On A Gravel Road" is edited here, to take out Elvis' swearing ("...streets paved with fucking gold"). |
| *2) Take 5 of "Do You Know Who I Am?" is six false starts and a complete take, but only the first false start, talking from the fifth false start, the sixt false start, and finally the complete take, are on here. |
| *3) Take 9 of "Kentucky Rain" is three false starts and a complete take, although only the first two false starts are on here. When take 9 appeared on FTD's "Memphis Sessions" it contained only the first false start and the complete take. |
| *4) Take 12 of "Only The Strong Survive" comprises a false start and a complete take, but only the complete is on here. |
| *5) The master of "Long Black Limousine" is take 9, recorded on January 13, but Elvis' did a vocal repair (from "through tear filled eyes / watch..." to end the song) on January 22, but the final master was faded. |
