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Recording Sessions 1956
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Studio Session for RCA

Recording details:
Place: Nashville, Tennessee
Date: January 10 - 11, 1956
Producer: Steve Sholes
Engineer: Bob Ferris
Recorded Numbers:
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		G2WB
0208-08
I Got A Woman
2:25
January 10
LPM 1254
Elvis Presley
1956

Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year
G2WB
0209-07
Heartbreak Hotel
2:10
January 10
20-6420
Single A Side
1956

Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year
G2WB
0210-SP
Money Honey
2:33
January 10
LPM 1254
Elvis Presley
1956

Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year
G2WB
0211-17
I'm Counting on You
2:24
January 11
LPM 1254
Elvis Presley
1956

Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year
G2WB
0218-07
I Was the One
2:35
January 11
20-6420
Single B Side
1956
Musicians:
Guitar Elvis Presley
Guitar Scotty Moore
Guitar Chat Atkins
Bass Bill Black
Drums D.J. Fontana
Piano Floyd Cramer
Vocals Gordon Stoker, Ben and Brock Speer
More Info:
Most of the original session tapes were recorded over, probably after 1959. Recovered, surving parts are thought to comprise incomplete 'I Got a Woman' (take 6 or earlier) through 'I Was the One' (take 3 or later), with master takes cut from tape. According to BMG, all complete takes have been released and the outtake of 'I Got a Woman' released on 'Today, Tomorrow and Forever' is spliced from the intro of the already released 'Platinum' take (0:00-0:03, "I got a woman") and the second half (0:59-2:26, "way 'cross town"...end) of previously unreleased take. The missing first minute of the take recorded indicates that this is the first of the surving parts on tape and since the 'Platinum' version intro was used it could mean there are no other intros on tape, which would mean that the 'Platinum' version could be take 7 and the incomplete 'TTAF' version might be take 6.

Unfortunately, the 'Today, Tomorrow and Forever' version of 'I Got a Woman' has been ruined by a terrible noise filter resulting in an almost sinus-shaped signal loss between 4 and 8 kHz, centered at 6 kHz. The result could easily be mistaken for "swishy" MPEG artifacts. It has been subjected to hard limiting raising the level more than 100%(+6 dB) than the 'Platinum' outtake. This is thought to be about +3 dB above the natural 0 dB level and is considered to only slightly decrease the dynamics on very loud vocal parts of this recording.The masters from this session have yet to be released in decent sound quality.

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Studio Session for RCA

Recording details:
Place:
Date:
Producer:
Engineer: 		Nashville, Tennessee
January 10-11, 1956
Sam Phillips
Bob Ferris
Recorded Numbers:
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		G2WB
0208-08
I Got A Woman
2:25
January 10
LPM 1254
Elvis Presley
1956

    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year
G2WB
0209-07
Heartbreak Hotel
2:10
January 10
20-6420
Single A Side
1956

    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year
G2WB
0210-SP
Money Honey
2:33
January 10
LPM 1254
Elvis Presley
1956

    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year
G2WB
0211-17
I'm Counting on You
2:24
January 11
LPM 1254
Elvis Presley
1956

    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year
G2WB
0218-07
I Was the One
2:35
January 11
20-6420
Single B Side
1956
Musicians:
Guitar:
Guitar:
Guitar:
Bass:
Drums:
Piano:
Vocals: 		Elvis Presley
Scotty Moory
Chat Atkins
Bill Black
D.J. Fontana
Floyd Cramer
Gordon Stoker, Ben and Brock Speer
More Info:
Most of the original session tapes were recorded over, probably after 1959. Recovered, surving parts are thought to comprise incomplete 'I Got a Woman' (take 6 or earlier) through 'I Was the One' (take 3 or later), with master takes cut from tape. According to BMG, all complete takes have been released and the outtake of 'I Got a Woman' released on 'Today, Tomorrow and Forever' is spliced from the intro of the already released 'Platinum' take (0:00-0:03, "I got a woman") and the second half (0:59-2:26, "way 'cross town"...end) of previously unreleased take. The missing first minute of the take recorded indicates that this is the first of the surving parts on tape and since the 'Platinum' version intro was used it could mean there are no other intros on tape, which would mean that the 'Platinum' version could be take 7 and the incomplete 'TTAF' version might be take 6.

Unfortunately, the 'Today, Tomorrow and Forever' version of 'I Got a Woman' has been ruined by a terrible noise filter resulting in an almost sinus-shaped signal loss between 4 and 8 kHz, centered at 6 kHz. The result could easily be mistaken for "swishy" MPEG artifacts. It has been subjected to hard limiting raising the level more than 100%(+6 dB) than the 'Platinum' outtake. This is thought to be about +3 dB above the natural 0 dB level and is considered to only slightly decrease the dynamics on very loud vocal parts of this recording.The masters from this session have yet to be released in decent sound quality.