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Recording Sessions 1954
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Studio Session for Sun Records

Recording details:
Place: Sun Studio Memphis Tennessee
Date: September 10 / 11, 1954
Producer: Sam Phillips
Recorded Numbers:
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:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year
F2WB
8118-NA
Just Because
2:34
September 10
LPM 1254
Elvis Presley
1956

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

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

Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year
F2WB
8043-02
Good Rockin' Tonight
2:10
September 10
SUN 210
Single A-Side
1954

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

____-NA
Just Because

September 10
Musicians:
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.

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Studio Session for Sun Records

Recording details:
Place:
Date:
Producer: 		Sun Studio Memphis Tennessee
September 10/11, 1954
Sam Phillips
Recorded Numbers:
    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:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year
F2WB
8118-NA
Just Because
2:34
September 10
LPM 1254
Elvis Presley
1956

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

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

    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year
F2WB
8043-02
Good Rockin' Tonight
2:10
September 10
SUN 210
Single A-Side
1954

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

____-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
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.