The definitive release of these sessions can be found on Follow That Dream's limited edition The Elvis Is Back! Sessions 4xCD set, where everything has been restored and remastered from scratch, and all masters and outtakes are presented in the best possible sound.
The tape is missing that contains the session for 'I Will Be Home Again' and 'Reconsider Baby' - all that exists are the masters and count-in's, although this could just mean that these weren't complete takes and were erased.
Only bass and two drums were used on 'Fever'.
An edited (2:02) version of 'Fever', with
omitted verses ("Fever in the morning, Fever
all through the night..." to "Fever
with thy flaming youth"), was released in
1987 on the BMG Ariola release The Definitive
Love Album.
'It's Now Or Never' is spliced from Take
4 and the ending of Take 2.
The re-recordings of 'Fever' and 'It's Now Or Never' can found on the 2015 album
If I Can Dream, which contained Elvis' original vocals but with new backings by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and which actually went to number one in the UK album charts.
The movie Tickle Me features 'Dirty, Dirty,
Feeling' with overdubbed orchestral backing,
done during post production of that movie in October 1964.
The book Life: Elvis Remembered - 30 Years Later comes with a CD claiming to have an unreleased
take of 'The Girl Of My Best Friend' which
is in fact Take 3 that was previously available
on FTD's Fame And Fortune and Elvis Is Back! packages.
The master of 'Are You Lonesome Tonight?'
is spliced from Take 5 and the ending of work
part - Take 2.
What remains on tape of the work part is a bit
of a mess. The intro of work part Take 1 is not
there. The tape machine was stopped after its announcement
and recording picks up again in the middle. The
ending of work part Take 2 (WP2) was physically cut out, but a long
intro remained.
By combining the surviving work part Take 2 intro
with the surviving main part of work part Take
1 a "complete" work part could be done
- and this is what is found on FTD's Elvis Is
Back!.
Different remixed versions of 'Are You Lonesome
Tonight?' can be found on Elvis 30 #1 Hits
(E1) and Top Ten Hits.
'I Gotta Know' and 'Such A Night' were
released without backing vocals on the 1980 1st
pressing of the German RCA release Elvis Forever
Volume 2 (with matrix number CL 42853). This
was done by eliminating one of the stereo channels.
When RCA discovered the mistake they made a new
LP master with new matrix number CPL 42853. These
two tracks can also be found on the bootleg Easy
Come, Easy Go (AJR080379).
Thanks to Adrian V Stokes regarding the edited
versions of songs on the BMG Ariola set of Definitive albums.
In March of 2007, Sony decided to go through all of Elvis' masters. They retransferred everything and remastered all tracks including repairing as many clicks, pops, bad edits and dropouts as they could. They have used these newly mastered recordings on their new releases since 2007 including budget soundtracks, Legacy releases, the 30 disc Complete Elvis Presley Masters collection and the Franklin Mint package.
