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Recording Sessions 1954

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Studio Session for Sun Records

Place: Sun Studio Memphis Tennessee
Date: September 10 / 11, 1954
Producer: Sam Phillips
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year
F2WB
8115-07
Tomorrow Night
3:00
September 10
66050-2
The King Of Rock 'n' Roll
1992
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year

____-01
Satisfied
1:15
September 10



Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year


4197-NA
I'll Never Let You Go
1:07
September 10
67675
Sunrise
1999

Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year

F2WB
8042-03
I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine
2:27
September 10
SUN 210
Single B-Side
1954

Matrix:
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Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year

F2WB
8118-NA
Just Because
2:34
September 10
LPM 1254
Elvis Presley
1956

Matrix:
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Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year


____-NA
I'll Never Let You Go
2:34
September 10



Matrix:
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Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year

F2WB
8043-02
Good Rockin' Tonight
2:10
September 10
SUN 210
Single A-Side
1954

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____-NA
Just Because

September 10


Personnel:
Guitar Elvis Presley
Guitar Scotty Moore
Guitar Doug Poindexter ('Just Because' - percussive effect, paper through strings
Bass Bill Black
More info In the Outtakes section of Ernst Jorgensen's book, 'A Life in Music', the '50's Box' version of Blue Moon is listed as take 2 and the 'Platinum' version as take 3. The '50's Box' booklet says take 1 so at least one of the notes are wrong. There's no doubt that the two false starts and the complete outtake released on 'Sunrise' are equivalent to track 3 (not take 3) on the tape box notes. This is the only complete take that comes close to the original time note of 2:20. So the only question is which one is take 1 and which is take 2 of the 'Platinum' and '50's Box' versions. It ought to be more likely that typing errors occurred in just one place rather than two. If this is the case, take 1 is on the 50's Box and take 2 is the version released on 'Platinum'.

'Tomorrow Night' reflects the first release of the complete, undubeed Master, which included a long gap in the middle apparently intended for a guitar solo. The song was first released in 1965 on the RCA album 'Elvis For Everyone' (LSP/LPM 3450), n a version overdubbed with guitar, harmonica and backing vocals. A edited version of the original nudubbed Master, with the space for the solo edited out, was released on 'The Complete Sun Sessions (6414-2-R). According to Steve Sholes' original notes on the fifteen Sun tapes purchased by RCA, the following number of takes were definitely recorded: 'Satisfied' 'I'll Never Let You Go'm 'I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shiné' 'Just Because' 'Good Rockin' Tonight'. There may have been manu more as Sam Phillips recorded over many Presley tapes. The Sun tapes that RCA did recieve from these sessions were lost in a vault 'clean-out' in 1959. Elvis Presley, a Life in Music.

Studio Session for Sun Records

Place:
Date:
Producer:

Sun Studio Memphis Tennessee
September 10/11, 1954
Sam Phillips

Matrix

Nr

Titel

Time

Date

1st Release

Album

Year


F2WB

8115-07

Tomorrow Night

3:00

September 10

66050-2

The King Of Rock 'n' Roll

1992

____-01

Satisfied

1:15

September 10

4197-NA

I'll Never Let You Go

1:07

September 10

67675

Sunrise

1999

F2WB

8042-03

I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine

2:32

September 10

SUN 210

Single B-Side

1954

F2WB

8118-NA

Just Because

2:34

September 10

LPM 1254

Elvis Presley

1956

____-NA

I'll Never Let You Go

2:34

September 10

F2WB

8043-02

Good Rockin' Tonight

2:13

September 10

SUN 210

Single A-Side

1954

____-NA

Just Because

September 10

Musicians:

Guitar:
Guitar:
Guitar:
Bass:

Elvis Presley
Scotty Moore
Doug Poindexter ('Just Because' - percussive effect, paper through strings)
Bill Black



In the Outtakes section of Ernst Jorgensen's book, 'A Life in Music', the '50's Box' version of Blue Moon is listed as take 2 and the 'Platinum' version as take 3. The '50's Box' booklet says take 1 so at least one of the notes are wrong. There's no doubt that the two false starts and the complete outtake released on 'Sunrise' are equivalent to track 3 (not take 3) on the tape box notes. This is the only complete take that comes close to the original time note of 2:20. So the only question is which one is take 1 and which is take 2 of the 'Platinum' and '50's Box' versions. It ought to be more likely that typing errors occurred in just one place rather than two. If this is the case, take 1 is on the 50's Box and take 2 is the version released on 'Platinum'.

'Tomorrow Night' reflects the first release of the complete, undubeed Master, which included a long gap in the middle apparently intended for a guitar solo. The song was first released in 1965 on the RCA album 'Elvis For Everyone' (LSP/LPM 3450), n a version overdubbed with guitar, harmonica and backing vocals. A edited version of the original nudubbed Master, with the space for the solo edited out, was released on 'The Complete Sun Sessions (6414-2-R). According to Steve Sholes' original notes on the fifteen Sun tapes purchased by RCA, the following number of takes were definitely recorded: 'Satisfied' 'I'll Never Let You Go'm 'I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shiné' 'Just Because' 'Good Rockin' Tonight'. There may have been manu more as Sam Phillips recorded over many Presley tapes. The Sun tapes that RCA did recieve from these sessions were lost in a vault 'clean-out' in 1959. Elvis Presley, a Life in Music.