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Recording Sessions 1956

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Studio Session for RCA Studio B

Place: Nashville, Tennessee
Date: April 14, 1956
Producer: Steve Sholes
Engineer: Bob Ferris
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year
G2WB
0270-SP
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
2:37
April 14
20-6540
Single A Side
1956

Personnel:

Guitar Elvis Presley
Guitar Scotty Moore
Guitar Chat Atkins
Bass Bill Black
Drums D.J. Fontana
Piano Marvin Hughes
Vocals Gordon Stoker, Ben and Brock Speer
More info: The master of 'I Want You, I Need You, I Love You' is listed as being spliced from takes 14 and 17. This is hardly true for any vocal part if the outtake released on 'A Legendary Performer' vol. 2 really is take 14. The first vocal part of alternate take 16 (released on the 50's Box) sounds very close to the master. The 5 second instrumental intro of the master was either pitched about 1.5% slower or recorded in a lower key and a slower tempo. This 5 second intro could be from take 14 as corresponding pitch adjustment makes it fairly synchronized with the master.

On both take 14 and 16, Elvis goes up on the first "...with all...". So this part must be from take 17 on the spliced master. There is a dropout on take 16 after 23 seconds. Perhaps the master was spliced from take 14 (instrumental intro, 1.5% slower) (0:00-0:005), take 16 (0:05-0:23) and take 17 (0:23-2:41).The spliced master suffers from dynamic compression. The correct matrix number of 'I Want You, I Need You, I Love You' ought to be G2WB 0270. It's annonced as G2WB 0270 and that number is printed on the master log. For some reason Jørgensen and Tunzi have always listed it as G2WB 0271.

Studio Session for RCA Studio B

Place:
Date:
Producer:
Engineer:

Nashville, Tennessee
April 14, 1956
Sam Phillips
Bob Ferris

Matrix

Nr

Titel

Time

Date

1st Release

Album

Year


G2WB

0270-SP

I Want You, I Need You, I Love You

2:37

April 14

20-6540

Single A Side

1956

Musicians:

Guitar:
Guitar:
Guitar:
Bass:
Drums:
Piano:
Vocals:

Elvis Presley
Scotty Moory
Chat Atkins
Bill Black
D.J. Fontana
Marvin Hughes
Gordon Stoker, Ben and Brock Speer



The master of 'I Want You, I Need You, I Love You' is listed as being spliced from takes 14 and 17. This is hardly true for any vocal part if the outtake released on 'A Legendary Performer' vol. 2 really is take 14. The first vocal part of alternate take 16 (released on the 50's Box) sounds very close to the master. The 5 second instrumental intro of the master was either pitched about 1.5% slower or recorded in a lower key and a slower tempo. This 5 second intro could be from take 14 as corresponding pitch adjustment makes it fairly synchronized with the master.

On both take 14 and 16, Elvis goes up on the first "...with all...". So this part must be from take 17 on the spliced master. There is a dropout on take 16 after 23 seconds. Perhaps the master was spliced from take 14 (instrumental intro, 1.5% slower) (0:00-0:005), take 16 (0:05-0:23) and take 17 (0:23-2:41).The spliced master suffers from dynamic compression. The correct matrix number of 'I Want You, I Need You, I Love You' ought to be G2WB 0270. It's annonced as G2WB 0270 and that number is printed on the master log. For some reason Jørgensen and Tunzi have always listed it as G2WB 0271.