Gents, the reference to "A.P. Nashville" is a notation by RCA engineer Al Pachucki (who worked on numerous Elvis sessions between 1968 and 1973) who was pulling songs from the Viva Las Vegas tapes for the Singer Presents Elvis Singing Flaming Star LP which hit stores in the fall of 1968. "Night Life," "Do The Vega" and "Yellow Rose of Texas/Eyes of Texas" all were used on the LP.

@EAPSociety

Жыл бұрын

Very cool! Thanks for the info, Michael!

@michaelcavino8009

Жыл бұрын

@@EAPSociety You're welcome. I agree with your assessment regarding the packaging is not the best for taking the cds in and out. I pop the discs in rice paper sleeves before putting them back into the box. That protects them really well. Also, I agree your desire for complete sessions released in order. FTD essentially did this the "Elvis Presley" and "Golden Records Volume 2" Classic Albums sets where they gave us all existing 1956 sessions takes form January - April of that year and the complete June 10-11, 1958 session tapes (which is the only session from the 1950s where RCA has the complete tapes). I suspect the June 1958 sessions survived the 1959 vault clean out because RCA wasn't sure which songs would put out on singles from these tapes. Given this, I don't think we will ever see a 1950s Complete Sessions release.

@EAPSociety

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelcavino8009 Good call on the rice paper, actually - I may do that, too (though I digitize all my music, so they don't get played physically much). You're absolutely right on the "Elvis Presley" and "Gold 2" Classic Albums, I was both surpsied and VERY happy when those came out - and while that does probably mean that we won't get sessions releases for them, I still wouldn't mind if they did; Kevan did an incredible job on those releases, but mastering and cleanup has progressed a bit for the label since then, and it would be nice to have them as part of the broader set. I definitely don't want to see them released until close to the end of the line, of course, but I'd still like to see it.

@elvispresleycollectorsgroup

Жыл бұрын

Yes was thinking the same - tracks for Singer Presents

wow... that was some nice background history for the FTD session releases... they listened to the fans... 😄👍

@EAPSociety

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Helge! Yeah, it's pretty cool that they listened to the fans on the releases! 😁

Hey hey Jamie & John , how are you my friends ? Jamie i totally agree with you about the look of the boxes, everything what you said im with you buddy :) i got those boxes when they came out, thank GOD, love them very much , wish GIRL HAPPY will release in this complete box with everything ;) Take care, Excellent video , thank you , your friend: Lior

@EAPSociety

Жыл бұрын

Hey, Lior!! Thanks so much - and we're good, hope you are, too! And very glad you got those when they came out, they're pretty pricey now. Also, completely agreed on the Girl Happy sessions, though I think that will be a later release since they're still looking for missing tapes. That's a big one on our lists, too!

Great video. I like the classic album format, but also like the complete format. They messed this one up.

@EAPSociety

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Col! 😁 Yeah, they did mess this one up, but hopefully it won't stop them from doing a corrected re-release in the future (or once we build up enough support, maybe they'll license it to us - we'll do it!)

Wasn't there a story out that when Ernst was looking for these session tapes in the 90's they were were missing from the vaults. Ernst had to find them and put them back? If true we are so lucky they were found. I always find it sad that were wasn't an offical Viva sountrack LP. The material here is so strong, and much stronger then some of the other soundtracks releases at the time it's a real shame it was given a full LP release.

@EAPSociety

Жыл бұрын

Yes, that's very true - the tapes were a mess when Ernst first came across them. I have nitpicks with several choices over the years, but we've been lucky to have him, overall. And I agree, this should have been an LP!

@michaelcavino8009

Жыл бұрын

Ernst and Roger started looking for missing tapes back in 1989. There are two excellent articles by the late Ger Rijff detailing how he spent several days tagging along with Ernst and Roger searching the New York and Indianapolis vaults for session tapes. You can easily find the articles online. The missing sessions tapes for the Elvis Is Back and Viva Las Vegas sessions were only reacquired in the late 1990s. Ernst tracked these down by studying shipping invoices to determine at what point and in what city the tapes went missing. Beside Ernst and Roger, we need to pay huge debt of gratitude to Bones Howe who rescued the January 1957 binaural tapes from the dumpster of Radio Recorders back in 1960 -- he made a deal with RCA in the 1980s which led to Essential Elvis Volume 2 in 1988. In my humble opinion, the final FTD release should be a book detailing the tales and stories behind how Ernst and Roger located the missing tapes. That would be a great way to wind up the label.

I have all of the FTD session sets that have been released thus far. One thing that I have an issue with on these and other FTD releases is the censoring FTD does with Elvis’ colorful comments. It’s though they still try to perpetuate the image that was cultivated by Parker. As someone who has collected uncensored “import” releases for decades, the American Sound Sessions is a glaring example where lots of the sessions were butchered.

@EAPSociety

Жыл бұрын

The funny thing about the censorship on FTD is the inconsistency; "The Jungle Room Sessions" release had much "worse" than most, and that was left on there, but othets get edited. So far, 99% of the full-on sessions releases have been basically unedited, so hopefully that remains true when we get to the 1969 sessions properly.

@sturmgewehr70

Жыл бұрын

@@EAPSociety Absolutely. If we didn’t, I have the bootlegs.

hello i have this set too as well as the viva las vegas book and 4 cd set too great sets too

this isssssssssssssssss perfect

@EAPSociety

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

It's great they're making these. My fantasy, and it's indeed just a fantasy, would be the session tapes for Hound Dog, Don't Be Cruel, All Shook Up, all that early stuff. They recorded over much of the tapes unfortunately. But at least these ones exist.

@EAPSociety

Жыл бұрын

Definitely - especially now that they're complete and in order. :) And completely agreed - those sessions' tapes would be an incredible find! Maybe someday, we'll find that more are out there. You never know what might appear!

Mono masters should be included in all of these sets

@EAPSociety

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, Steve! (and I will finally get a chance to call you next week, too!)

I think the master of do the vega, was on the Flaming Star camden in 1968.

The mono masters should have been included on Disc 4.

@EAPSociety

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I definitely agree there - if these are the final word on a set (which this wouldn't be, anyway, since it's not complete but for future ones), then it would be nice if the mono and stereo masters were on the first disc, with the others saved for just sessions.

@jonburrows9816

Жыл бұрын

@paulgwyn7836 Disappointing as not many could afford that set. Ernst always seems to save material for future releases. More dollars to fork out for us fans and collectors.

@EAPSociety

Жыл бұрын

@@jonburrows9816 Yeah - imo, all audio needs to be available on at least the semi-affordable (like sessions retail prices at most) level.

sessions should be complete and in order.

this book on ebay costs 1.200 euros it's truly madness crazy what courage i have 140 books by elvis alone i've never spent a book that costs1.200 euros thank goodness i'll never buy buy anymore elvis books i have almost all the photos crazy

@EAPSociety

10 ай бұрын

Hi, Enrico! Do you mean the book "The Making Of Viva Las Vegas"? Yeah, that's gotten pretty pricey! The sessions release is still available for a pretty low price on eBay, thankfully (about $68).

Great video guys. What was the release with the best complete sessions John? Agree with you both, it can been a little frustrating at times collecting. Although love the FTD label and fully support them, but fans do need to push sometimes 👍

@EAPSociety

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely - fans pushing is the only way it happens! And John's answer is the same as mine: all of them except Viva. lol

@elvispresleycollectorsgroup

Жыл бұрын

@@EAPSociety sorry I meant John mentioned a Viva release with all the takes and studio chat he puts on his hard drive. I was interested to know which release is best for the complete Viva Sessions ?

@EAPSociety

Жыл бұрын

@@elvispresleycollectorsgroup Oh! Well, John and I both did session compilations (I did a lot of them a long time ago, and John went through updating those with the newest releases in 2022 since I haven't had a chance to), so I can definitively answer this, as well: there's really not a best release, at the moment - it still has to be pieced together from the Viva Sessions FTD, FTD's Viva vinyl album, etc. FTD's Sessions FTD does come the closest and is in the best quality (by far), but if you absoultely want it as complete as possible, it has to be edited together - and even after editing together all of that, we're still missing takes/chat/etc. It's.... very frustrating, especially to someone like me who's been compiling these things since literally the 1990's, lol

@elvispresleycollectorsgroup

Жыл бұрын

@@EAPSociety thanks Jamie, I must have misheard thinking you had both found the perfect Viva sessions release. Maybe on the 4th FTD issue 😂

@EAPSociety

Жыл бұрын

@@elvispresleycollectorsgroup It's all good - happens to us, too! And yeah, whenever they finally get around to this again, it had better be correct! LOL

Ok, I initially passed on this set, but now I have access on getting 1 copy !? Yay or Nay ???

@EAPSociety

Жыл бұрын

If you can get it for regular price, it's still a lot we don't have elsewhere - if you're good waiting 7ish years for a fixed version, then wait. If not, this is an ok "for now" release.

@FrankieLovesElvis

Жыл бұрын

@@EAPSociety ordered. Thank You.

This soundtrack has never been done right and with respect ever through official releases. ALWAYS made me wonder, because of the stigma concerning Ann Margret making this such a fun movie project for Elvis to be involved in. Just my personal 2 cents.

Someone's chair us creeking. I tuink its j ok John's. Oik that ouooy ir tine to replace. It was distracting. Thank you fuys thiugh for the presentstion..

even if i'm about to die i wouldn't go and buy a book that costs 1.200 euros

@EAPSociety

10 ай бұрын

Agreed!

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