Guitar Man - The Sessions 1967-68 New FTD Set. Summer 2024

[emjel]

Another email just come through - Guitar Man: The Sessions 67/68 5 CD Set which many have been looking forward to getting released by FTD. That’s a great shot for the cover.

July could be an expensive month with the Celluloid book too. My bank card has scurried off into hiding.
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[jam62]

Fantastic news. This is a " Must Have ", Thanks for posting.

[Walter Hale 4]

Another email just come through - Guitar Man: The Sessions 67/68 5 CD Set which many have been looking forward to getting released by FTD. That’s a great shot for the cover.

July could be an expensive month with the Celluloid book too. My bank card has scurried off into hiding.
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Good one emjel . Bring it on, but without any book!

[sweetangeline]

July could be an expensive month with the Celluloid book too. My bank card has scurried off into hiding.

I would consider a loan at a very reasonable interest rate only because you are a 100% Elvis fan

[Johnny2523]

Plenty of unreleased stuff here and the hilarious first takes of goin home which we only had from acetate, take 5 is a full take with Elvis goofing off and cracking jokes.

Disc 1
01) Big Boss Man
02) You Don't Know Me
03) Guitar Man
04) Singing Tree
05) Just Call Me Lonesome
06) Hi- Heel Sneakers
07) U.S. Male
08) Stay Away
09) You'll Never Walk Alone
10) We Call On Him
11) Mine
12) Going Home
13) Too Much Monkey Business
14) Suppose

September 10, 1967 Sessions
15) Guitar Man takes 1-5
16) Guitar Man - takes 6-9
17) Guitar Man - take 10
18) Guitar Man - takes 11-12 undubbed master
19) Guitar Man - overdub of take 12 - unedited
20) Big Boss Man - takes 1-2
21) Big Boss Man - takes 3-9
22) Big Boss Man -takes 10-11 master

Disc 2 September 10, 1967 Sessions continued
01) Mine - takes 1-4
02) Mine takes 5-7
03) Mine - takes 8-9
04) Mine - takes 10-13
05) Mine - takes 14-16
06) Mine - takes 17-18
07) Mine takes 19-21
08) Mine - take 21 with vocal replacement - master
09) Singing Tree - take 1
10) Singing Tree - takes 2-4
11) Singing Tree - takes 5-7
12) Singing Tree - take 8
13) Singing Tree - takes 9-12)
14) Singing Tree - take 13 alternate master
15) Just Call Me Lonesome - take 1 master
16) Just Call Me Lonesome - takes 2-4
17) Just Call Me Lonesome - takes 5-6 alternate master

Disc 3 September 11, 1967 Sessions
01) Hi-Heel Sneakers,- takes 1-5
02) Hi-Heel Sneakers - takes 6-7 unedited master
03) Hi-Heel Sneakers - Splice of take 7 & first line of take 5- edited master
04) You Don't Know Me- take 1
05) You Don't Know Me - take 2
06) You Don't Know Me - splice of take 1 and last chord of take 2 - master
07) We Call On Him -takes 1-2
08) We Call On Him --take 3
09) We Call On Him - takes 4-5
10) We Call On Him - takes 6-7
11) We Call On Him - take 8
12) We Call 0n Him - take 9 master
13) You'll Never Walk Alone -take 1
14) You'll Never Walk Alone - take 2
15) You'l Never Walk Alone - takes 3-8
16) You' Never Walk Alone - splice of takes 8 &1- master
17) Singing Tree (remake) - takes 1-3
18) Singing Tree (remake) - take 4-5 undubbed master
19) Singing Tree (remake) - - overdub of take 5 master

Disc 4 The January 15, 1968 Sessions
01) Too Much Monkey Business -takes 1-3
02) Too Much Monkey Business - takes 4-9
03) Too Much Monkey Business - take 10
04) Too Much Monkey Business - takes 1 1-13
05) Too Much Monkey Business take 14 undubbed master
06) Too Much Monkey Business - overdub of take 14, take 1
07) Too Much Monkey Business -overdub of take 14. Takes 2-5 master
08) Goin' Home - takes 1-5
09) Goin' Home - takes 6-15
10) Goin' Home - takes 16-21
11) Goin' Home - takes 22-23
12) Goin' Home - takes 24-29
13) Goin' Home - take 30 master

Disc 5 The January 16, 1968 Sessions
01) Stay Away - takes 1-2
02) Stay Away - takes 3-6
03) Stay Away - takes 7- 9
04) Stay Away - takes 10-13
05) Stay Away - take 14
06) Stay Away - take 15 undubbed master
07) Stay Away overdub of take 15, take 1
08) Stay Away - overdub of take 15, take 2
09) Stay Away -(overdub of take 15, take 3 master
10) U.S. Male - takes 1-4
11) U.S. Male - take 5
12) U.S. Male - takes 6-
13) U.S.Male - takes 8-10
14) U.S. Male - take 11
15) U.S. Male - take 12

Overdub Session, March 20, 1967
16) Suppose - Elvis at the piano, 1966 recording
17) Suppose - overdubbed master
18) Suppose - (instrumental) ~ 2

[emjel]

Plenty of unreleased stuff here and the hilarious first takes of goin home which we only had from acetate, take 5 is a full take with Elvis goofing off and cracking jokes.

Disc 1
01) Big Boss Man
02) You Don't Know Me
03) Guitar Man
04) Singing Tree
05) Just Call Me Lonesome
06) Hi- Heel Sneakers
07) U.S. Male
08) Stay Away
09) You'll Never Walk Alone
10) We Call On Him
11) Mine
12) Going Home
13) Too Much Monkey Business
14) Suppose

September 10, 1967 Sessions
15) Guitar Man takes 1-5
16) Guitar Man - takes 6-9
17) Guitar Man - take 10
18) Guitar Man - takes 11-12 undubbed master
19) Guitar Man - overdub of take 12 - unedited
20) Big Boss Man - takes 1-2
21) Big Boss Man - takes 3-9
22) Big Boss Man -takes 10-11 master

Disc 2 September 10, 1967 Sessions continued
01) Mine - takes 1-4
02) Mine takes 5-7
03) Mine - takes 8-9
04) Mine - takes 10-13
05) Mine - takes 14-16
06) Mine - takes 17-18
07) Mine takes 19-21
08) Mine - take 21 with vocal replacement - master
09) Singing Tree - take 1
10) Singing Tree - takes 2-4
11) Singing Tree - takes 5-7
12) Singing Tree - take 8
13) Singing Tree - takes 9-12)
14) Singing Tree - take 13 alternate master
15) Just Call Me Lonesome - take 1 master
16) Just Call Me Lonesome - takes 2-4
17) Just Call Me Lonesome - takes 5-6 alternate master

Disc 3 September 11, 1967 Sessions
01) Hi-Heel Sneakers,- takes 1-5
02) Hi-Heel Sneakers - takes 6-7 unedited master
03) Hi-Heel Sneakers - Splice of take 7 & first line of take 5- edited master
04) You Don't Know Me- take 1
05) You Don't Know Me - take 2
06) You Don't Know Me - splice of take 1 and last chord of take 2 - master
07) We Call On Him -takes 1-2
08) We Call On Him --take 3
09) We Call On Him - takes 4-5
10) We Call On Him - takes 6-7
11) We Call On Him - take 8
12) We Call 0n Him - take 9 master
13) You'll Never Walk Alone -take 1
14) You'll Never Walk Alone - take 2
15) You'l Never Walk Alone - takes 3-8
16) You' Never Walk Alone - splice of takes 8 &1- master
17) Singing Tree (remake) - takes 1-3
18) Singing Tree (remake) - take 4-5 undubbed master
19) Singing Tree (remake) - - overdub of take 5 master

Disc 4 The January 15, 1968 Sessions
01) Too Much Monkey Business -takes 1-3
02) Too Much Monkey Business - takes 4-9
03) Too Much Monkey Business - take 10
04) Too Much Monkey Business - takes 1 1-13
05) Too Much Monkey Business take 14 undubbed master
06) Too Much Monkey Business - overdub of take 14, take 1
07) Too Much Monkey Business -overdub of take 14. Takes 2-5 master
08) Goin' Home - takes 1-5
09) Goin' Home - takes 6-15
10) Goin' Home - takes 16-21
11) Goin' Home - takes 22-23
12) Goin' Home - takes 24-29
13) Goin' Home - take 30 master

Disc 5 The January 16, 1968 Sessions
01) Stay Away - takes 1-2
02) Stay Away - takes 3-6
03) Stay Away - takes 7- 9
04) Stay Away - takes 10-13
05) Stay Away - take 14
06) Stay Away - take 15 undubbed master
07) Stay Away overdub of take 15, take 1
08) Stay Away - overdub of take 15, take 2
09) Stay Away -(overdub of take 15, take 3 master
10) U.S. Male - takes 1-4
11) U.S. Male - take 5
12) U.S. Male - takes 6-
13) U.S.Male - takes 8-10
14) U.S. Male - take 11
15) U.S. Male - take 12

Overdub Session, March 20, 1967
16) Suppose - Elvis at the piano, 1966 recording
17) Suppose - overdubbed master
18) Suppose - (instrumental) ~ 2

Thanks for the track listing. All we need to do now is see what we already have across a couple of the previous Classic Album sets and see how much on this new session set is unreleased especially to see if there are many unreleased complete takes. Looking quickly, I see 11 unreleased takes of Mine, 6 from Singing Tree and about a dozen from Going Home although not known how many are complete takes.

But certainly a set to own if into complete session sets.

[Johnny2523]

Unreleased incl. False Starts and Complete takes:

Guitar Man Take 8
Mine take 10-12, 14-21
Singing Tree take 3, 5-7,9,11,12
Just call me lonesome take 2
Hi-heel sneakers take 2-4
We call on him take 6
Singing tree remake take 4-5
Too much monkey business takes 2,5,7,8,11,13
and the overdub session by jerry reed takes 1-4

Goin home takes take 1-11, 13,14,15,20 (some of these were released from acetate so i count them as unreleased)

Stay away take 7-10, undubbed master take 15 officially unreleased

Stay away overdub take 1 & 2 officially unreleased

U.S male takes 1,3 & 8 officially unreleased

[Elvis2000]

Odd that they left the October 1, 1967 session out, if you give us most of the Stay Away Joe sessions, may as well give us all of what's available. I'm still all in though, the rest of the material is excellent.

[londonflash]

Take my money

[elvis-fan]

In a word... WHOA!
I'm in!

[Johnny2523]

I just hope there's no censoring.

[JeroenNL]

Unreleased incl. False Starts and Complete takes:

Guitar Man Take 8
Mine take 10-12, 14-21
Singing Tree take 3, 5-7,9,11,12
Just call me lonesome take 2
Hi-heel sneakers take 2-4
We call on him take 6
Singing tree remake take 4-5
Too much monkey business takes 2,5,7,8,11,13
and the overdub session by jerry reed takes 1-4

Goin home takes take 1-11, 13,14,15,20 (some of these were released from acetate so i count them as unreleased)

Stay away take 7-10, undubbed master take 15 officially unreleased

Stay away overdub take 1 & 2 officially unreleased

U.S male takes 1,3 & 8 officially unreleased

Thanks! And did we have 'Suppose - (instrumental) ~ 2' before somewhere?

[javilu]

I just hope there's no censoring.

But where is "Wings Of An Angel"?

[Johnny2523]

Unreleased incl. False Starts and Complete takes:

Guitar Man Take 8
Mine take 10-12, 14-21
Singing Tree take 3, 5-7,9,11,12
Just call me lonesome take 2
Hi-heel sneakers take 2-4
We call on him take 6
Singing tree remake take 4-5
Too much monkey business takes 2,5,7,8,11,13
and the overdub session by jerry reed takes 1-4

Goin home takes take 1-11, 13,14,15,20 (some of these were released from acetate so i count them as unreleased)

Stay away take 7-10, undubbed master take 15 officially unreleased

Stay away overdub take 1 & 2 officially unreleased

U.S male takes 1,3 & 8 officially unreleased

Thanks! And did we have 'Suppose - (instrumental) ~ 2' before somewhere?

On bootleg but its just Elvis vocal removed.

Edit i was wrong. Its part of the overdub session we had it on the celluloid rock set

[dougkapp]

Fantastic News!

[Johnny2523]

I just hope there's no censoring.

But where is "Wings Of An Angel"?

Somewhere between corn and a big hairy coon

[Mike C]

I just hope there's no censoring.

I was thinking the same thing. I could see them keeping "The Prisoner's Song" off the set. This occurs just after take 1 of U.S. Male.

[Rob]

It's fine that they left it off. I already have it on several other releases.

No need to run a good thing in the ground.

[Union Ave]

Looks fantastic. FTD delivers the goods again.

No gimmicks, no shady dealings, just the real deal. Thank you.

[Mississippi slim]

I've been looking forward to this!! Thank you ftd.

[Lee Wood]

Another email just come through - Guitar Man: The Sessions 67/68 5 CD Set which many have been looking forward to getting released by FTD. That’s a great shot for the cover.

July could be an expensive month with the Celluloid book too. My bank card has scurried off into hiding.
`

It's been a long time coming. Looking forward to this.

[ORION]

Definitely a 'no brainer' for this old guy. There's not a song I skip from this collection. I look forward to spending many a hour devouring this one. Hopefully, there is a great deal of dialogue left intact between the songs. As we've heard from the various bootlegs, there was a good vibe going on in the studio between Elvis, Jerry Reed, and the musicians. Unfortunately, if this set is scheduled for July that means it will be some time in August before it hits my CD player.

[Rockin_John]

I just hope there's no censoring.

I was thinking the same thing. I could see them keeping "The Prisoner's Song" off the set. This occurs just after take 1 of U.S. Male.

What is this song about really?
English is not my first language, read somewhere that this was racist?

[javilu]

It's fine that they left it off. I already have it on several other releases.

No need to run a good thing in the ground.

How about showing some empathy for those who do not indulge into the shady world of bootlegs, Rob?
The song is all over youtube, it's not like putting it on a limited edition collector's label release will tarnish Elvis reputation.

[elvisarsenal]

Two of my all time favourites…..singing tree and just call me lonesome