Retrospective Elvis ’69 – Selected Recordings

Selected Recordings celebrates the 55th anniversary of Elvis’ legendary recordings at the American Sound Studio in Memphis, Tennessee plus other recordings from that magical year of 1969. This is the perfect addition to the official CD releases such as the fantastic CD box ‘American Sound 1969’.

This collection is a collection of recordings that have been released over the years on dozens of import CDs and LPs. The collection also contains recordings that have never before been released on CD, as well as some unreleased recordings! Some outtakes that have already been officially released on, for example, ‘American Sound 1969’ can now be heard in the uncut version. Ofcourse, we used the very best sources for these recordings.

Never before has such an extensive and diverse collection from 1969 been brought together, including many other (unique) recordings in addition to the many alternative recordings from the American Sound Studio.

Each CD is beautifully designed and comes with an 8-page CD booklet.

In addition to the official releases, this is the ultimate alternate Elvis 1969 collection!

This one-off edition cd’s are very limited so don’t miss it.

RETROSPECTIVE ELVIS’69 – SELECTED RECORDINGS – JANUARY

JANUARY contains 33 tracks, including recordings from the Draft Mix tape, a vocal only version of ‘Don’t Cry Daddy’, 2 original different mixes of the track ‘Poor Man’s Gold’ (instrumental only), and more! Also the complete rehearsal / session of ‘Come Out, Come Out (Wherever You Are)’.. This complete rehearsal / session was only released on CD once in 2002. After that, the session was only released incomplete. Fortunately, you can hear the complete rehearsal / session on this CD!

DISC 1

FROM THE DRAFT MIX TAPE

01  This Is The Story (Backup vocals overdub)

02  Wearin’ That Loved On Look (Unused composite)

03  In The Ghetto (Backup vocals overdub / urepaired vocals)

04  Rubberneckin’ (Backup vocals overdub – partial backing vocals)

05  Inherit The Wind (Unused composite)

06  Mama Liked The Roses (Harmony vocal overdub by Elvis – not used)

07  Don’t Cry Daddy (Harmony vocal overdub by Elvis)

08  From A Jack To A King (Backup vocals overdub)

09  Suspicious Minds (Harmony vocal overdub by Elvis – not used)

10  Gentle On My Mind (Track replacement / vocal repair)

11  Come Out, Come Out (Wherever You Are)

      (Instrumental take 2)

12  Poor Man’s Gold (Instrumental take)

VOCAL OVERDUB

13  Don’t Cry Daddy (Vocal only)

COME OUT, COME OUT

(WHEREVER YOU ARE)

14  Rehearsal Instrumental

15  Slow tempo rehearsal “Number one” Instrumental

16  Slow tempo rehearsal “Number two” Instrumental

17  Medium tempo rehearsal “Number one” Instrumental

18  Medium tempo rehearsal “Number two” Instrumental

19  Rehearsal (1) Instrumental

20  Rehearsal (2-4) Instrumental

21  Rehearsal (5) Instrumental

22  Rehearsal (6) Instrumental

23  Rehearsal (7) Instrumental

24  Rehearsal (8-10) Instrumental

25  Rehearsal (11-12) Instrumental

26  Rehearsal (13) Instrumental

27  Love Is Strange

28  A Blues Jam (Instrumental)

29  Rehearsal before take 1 Instrumental  (part only)

POOR MAN’S GOLD

30  Instrumental take 12

31  Vocal overdub (part only) take 1 / abandoned (vocal only)

32  Instrumental take 12 with abandoned

      vocal overdub

A PRIVATE PHONECALL

33  Arlene Cogan calls Elvis in Memphis

        Telephone call from Chicago, Illinois to Memphis, Tennessee

RETROSPECTIVE ELVIS’69 – SELECTED RECORDINGS – FEBRUARY

FEBRUARY contains 30 tracks, including many studio outtakes, 

2 original different mixes of the track ‘Memory Revival’ (instrumental only) and some rare recordings from acetate.

OUTTAKES

01  True Love Travels On A Gravel Road (Take 3)

02  Power Of My Love (Rehearsal + take 2)

03  Kentucky Rain (Take 1)

04  Do You Know Who I Am? (Take 7)

05  If I’m A Fool (For Loving You) (Takes 4 & 5)

06  After Loving You (Take 1)

07  Any Day Now (Take 1)

08  Any Day Now (Take 2)

09  And The Grass Won’t Pay No Mind (Rehearsal and tuning)

10  And The Grass Won’t Pay No Mind (Take 1 & take 3)

11  And The Grass Won’t Pay No Mind (Take 4)

12  True Love Travels On A Gravel Road (Take 5)

13  True Love Travels On A Gravel Road (Take 8)

14  True Love Travels On A Gravel Road (Takes 9 & 10)

15  True Love Travels On A Gravel Road

        (Guitar and tambourine overdub – not used / incomplete)

16  Power Of My Love (Take 4)

17  Power Of My Love (Take 5)

18  Power Of My Love (Take 6a)

19  Only The Strong Survive (Rehearsal)

20  Only The Strong Survive (Take 2)

21  Only The Strong Survive (Take 3)

22  Only The Strong Survive (Take 4)

23  Only The Strong Survive (Take 5)

24  Only The Strong Survive (Take 6)

25  Only The Strong Survive (Take 7)

TRACK RECORDING

26  Memory Revival (Instrumental track)

ACETATE RECORDINGS

27  Power Of My Love (Harmony vocal overdub / incomplete)

28  True Love Travels On A Gravel Road (Harmony vocal overdub)

29  Do You Know Who I Am?

(Harmony vocal overdubbed after vocal repair)

30  Memory Revival (Instrumental track)

RETROSPECTIVE ELVIS’69 – SELECTED RECORDINGS – JANUARY – MAY

JANUARY – MAY contains 20 tracks, including recordings from the overdub sessions, 

a rare acetate recording of ‘Mama Liked The Roses’, outtakes from February 1969 + 2 track recordings.

OVERDUB SESSIONS

01  Stranger In My Own Home Town

(Brass overdubbed, after string overdubs)

02  Power Of My Love

(Backup vocals overdub / Unedited master)

03  Only The Strong Survive

(String overdubs)

04  I’m Movin’ On

(Band and brass overdubs / unrepaired vocals)

05  Suspicious Minds (String overdubs)

06  Inherit The Wind )String overdubs – V.O. 1)

07  Inherit The Wind (String overdubs – V.O. 2)

ACETATE RECORDING

08  Mama Liked The Roses

(Strings overdubbed, after brass overdubs)

FEBRUARY OUTTAKES

09  Any Day Now (Take 3)

10  Any Day Now (Take 4)

11  Kentucky Rain (Take 1)

12  Kentucky Rain (Take 2)

13  Kentucky Rain (Take 4)

14  Do You Know Who I Am? (Take 2)

15  Do You Know Who I Am? (Take 3)

16  Do You Know Who I Am? (Take 4)

17  Do You Know Who I Am? (Take 5)

18  Do You Know Who I Am? (Take 6)

TRACK RECORDINGS

19  My Little Friend (Instrumental track)

20  Mama Liked The Roses (Instrumental track)

RETROSPECTIVE ELVIS’69 – SELECTED RECORDINGS – JANUARY – SEPTEMBER

JANUARY – SEPTEMBER contains outtakes from January 1969, soundtrack sessions for ‘Change of Habit’ 

including the complete movie version of ‘Change of Habit’ (with bass by Carol Kaye) and ‘Have A Happy’, 

scoring sessions for the movie, and much more! A total of 36 tracks!

JANUARY OUTTAKES

01  In The Ghetto (Take 1)

02  In The Ghetto Takes (2 & 3)

03  In The Ghetto (Take 12)

04  Wearin’ That Loved On Look (Take 4)

05  Wearin’ That Loved On Look (Take 6)

06  Wearin’ That Loved On Look Takes (7, 8 & 9)

07  Wearin’ That Loved On Look (Take 11)

08  Long Black Limousine (Take 4)

09  From A Jack To A King (Take 4)

10  Rubberneckin’ (Take 1)

VOCAL OVERDUB

11  In The Ghetto (Vocal only)

CHANGE OF HABIT

SOUNDTRACK SESSIONS

12  Change Of Habit 

(Movie version / bass by Carol Kaye)

13  Have A Happy (Movie version)

14  Let Us Pray (Backup vocal overdub on March 26 / not used)

15  Have A Happy (Instrumental track)

CHANGE OF HABIT 

SCORING SESSIONS

16  Universal emblem

17  Emty street

18  Have A Happy

19  Bags of paint

20  Chi Ki – Chi Ki

21  Elvis leads Barbara away

22  Girls enter church

23  Have A Happy

24  Irene at desk

25  Michelle undressing

26  Neighborhood heckling

27  Have A Happy #3

  28  Instrumental (Not used)

29  End Title

FROM THE MOVIE

CHANGE OF HABIT

30  Lawdy Miss Clawdy (Jam session)

31  Let Us Pray (Movie version)

32  Rubberneckin’ (Movie version)

FOR THE MOVIE

CHANGE OF HABIT

33  Radio Spot

34  Interview at Universal City with

Mary Tyler Moore

UNREPAIRED LIVE MASTERS

35  Runaway (August 25, 1969 dinner show)

36  Johnny B. Goode (August 24, 1969 midnight show)