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Soldier Boy FTD-234 (506020 975207) July 2026
Deluxe Book / CD Package, with two hardback books and four CDs containing the complete June 1958 Nashville recording session and home recordings from Germany.

CD1  
The June 1958 Masters
1. I Need Your Love Tonight
2. A Big Hunk O' Love (master - spliced from takes 3 and 4)
3. Ain't That Loving You Baby
4. (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I
5. I Got Stung
The June 1958 Session
6. I Need Your Love Tonight (1, 2, 3, 4)
7. I Need Your Love Tonight (5)
8. I Need Your Love Tonight (6, 7)
9. I Need Your Love Tonight (8, 9)
10. I Need Your Love Tonight (10a)
11. I Need Your Love Tonight (10b, 11, 12, 13)
12. I Need Your Love Tonight (14)
13. I Need Your Love Tonight (15)
14. I Need Your Love Tonight (16, 17, 18 - master)
15. A Big Hunk O' Love (1)
16. A Big Hunk O' Love (2)
17. A Big Hunk O' Love (3)
18. A Big Hunk O' Love (4)
19. Ain't That Loving You Baby (1)
20. Ain't That Loving You Baby (2, 3, 4 - master)
21. Ain't That Loving You Baby (5, 6, 7)
22. Ain't That Loving You Baby (8, 9, 10)
23. Ain't That Loving You Baby (11)

CD2  
The Outtakes
1. (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I (1, 2, 3)
2. (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I (4, 5)
3. (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I (6, 7, 8)
4. (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I (9 - master)
5. I Got Stung (1, 2)
6. I Got Stung (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
7. I Got Stung (9, 10)
8. I Got Stung (11)
9. I Got Stung (12)
10. I Got Stung (13, 14)
11. I Got Stung (15, 16)
12. I Got Stung (17, 18, 19, 20)
13. I Got Stung (21, 22)
14. I Got Stung (23, 24 - master)
Interviews
15. Army Swearing In (March 24 1958 - Kennedy Veterans Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee)
16. Jim Kell (KFSA-TV) Interviews Elvis (March 24 1958 - Army Barracks, Fort Chaffee, Arkansas)
Elvis Sails EP
17. Press Interview With Elvis Presley
18. Elvis Presley's Newsreel Interview
19. Pat Hernon Interviews Elvis (in the library of the U.S.S. Randall at sailing)

CD3  
Home Recordings - Room 10, Hotel Grunewald, Bad Nauheim, Germany (December 1958 - January 1959) - Guitar Tape
1. Intro
2. He Knows Just What I Need (complete)
3. Working On The Building (few lines)
4. He Knows Just What I Need (2 x long false starts & complete)
5. He Knows Just What I Need (complete)
6. He Knows Just What I Need (rehearsing the ending & 2 x long false starts)
7. He Knows Just What I Need (complete)
8. He Knows Just What I Need (long false start, rehearsing & false start)
9. He Knows Just What I Need (complete)
10. Cool Water
11. Like A Baby (Elvis)
12. Like A Baby (Red West)
13. His Hand In Mine (complete & rehearsing the ending)
14. Young Love (Red West)
15. Her Hand In Mine (complete)
16. Return To Me (part) / Her Hand In Mine (rehearsing the ending)
17. Her Hand In Mine (complete)
18. Her Hand In Mine (complete)
19. Her Hand In Mine (complete)
20. Just A Closer Walk With Thee (part) / If I Didn't Care (part) / Are You Sincere (part)
21. Are You Lonesome Tonight? (complete) / Once Upon A Time (one line)
22. Stand By Me (complete, ending & complete)
23. Oh Lonesome Me
Home Recordings - Room 10, Hotel Grunewald, Bad Nauheim, Germany (August - October 1959) - Guitar Tape
24. I'm Beginning To Forget You
25. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You) (ending only) / Mona Lisa
26. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You) / Guitar Piece (unknown)
27. Danny Boy (1)
28. Danny Boy (2 & rehearsing a few lines)
29. Loving You
30. I'm Beginning To Forget You (Elvis)
31. Santa Claus Is Back In Town / Loving You (part)
32. I'm Beginning To Forget You (3 x incomplete versions)
33. I'm Beginning To Forget You (incomplete & complete)

CD4  
Home Recordings - Room 10, Hotel Grunewald, Bad Nauheim, Germany (April - May 1959) - Piano Tape
1. I Asked The Lord (1, 2)
2. Apron Strings (1)
3. Soldier Boy (1)
4. Such A Night (part) / Soldier Boy (2)
5. I Asked The Lord (3, 4)
6. I Asked The Lord (rehearsing the ending)
7. I Asked The Lord (incomplete take, working on the final notes & working on the conclusion)
8. Piano solo (unknown) / Earth Angel (1, 2)
9. I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen (fast - 1)
10. Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) / Hound Dog (1) / Piano solo (unknown) / At The Hop
11. I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen (slow - 1)
12. Apron Strings (2)
13. It's Been So Long Darling
14. Earth Angel (intro) / I Will Be True
15. There's No Tomorrow
16. I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen (slow - 2) / Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) / Hound Dog (2)
17. I Asked The Lord (5 & rehearsing the ending)
18. I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen (fast - 2)
19. Apron Strings (3)
20. The Titles Will Tell
21. At The Hop / Give Me Oil In My Lamp (piano solo) / Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) / Hound Dog (3)
22. Send Me Some Lovin'
23. Send Me Some Lovin'
Home Recordings - 14 Goethestrasse, Bad Nauheim, Germany (April 1959) - Piano Tape
24. The Fool (1)
25. The Fool (2, 3)
26. The Fool (4)

Notes

Book by David English and Pål Granlund.

CDs Produced by Ernst Mikael Jørgensen / CD1 Mastered by Kevan Budd / CD2 Mastered by Kevan Budd (tracks 1-14) and Anthony Stuchbury (tracks 15-19) / CD3 & CD4 Mastered by Anthony Stuchbury.

Book 1 (Memphis To Brooklyn) details Elvis' army career, from his induction in March 1958, basic and advanced training in Texas, and his departure from Brooklyn to Germany in September 1958. The book also includes a detailed analysis of Elvis' recording session in Nashville in June 1958.

Book 2 (Germany) provides the most detailed comprehensive record of Elvis' first three months in Germany, from October 1 to December 31 1958.