2 New FTD Titles: Love Me Tender (2CD) - Stay Away Joe (Vinyl)

2 New FTD Titles: Love Me Tender (2CD) - Stay Away Joe (Vinyl)

2 FTD's are coming. Set for release in May are "Love Me Tender" and "Stay Away Joe". The 2-disc 7” set celebrates Elvis’ first motion picture "Love Me Tender from 1956. Elvis first performed ‘Love Me Tender’ on the Ed Sullivan Show (September 9) and pre-sales reached over 1 million before its release on September 28. It features a 16-page booklet with great photos, movie trivia, memorabilia and full recording data. Disc 2 features the legendary live show from the Mississippi Alabama State Fair and Dairy Show held in Tupelo on September 26.

THE ORIGINAL EP –SIDE 1

1) Love Me Tender 2:44 (Vera Matson/Elvis Presley)
2) Let Me 2:11 (Vera Matson/Elvis Presley)

SIDE 2

3) Poor Boy 2:16 (Vera Matson/Elvis Presley)
4) We're Gonna Move 2:31 (Vera Matson/Elvis Presley)

BONUS TRACKS

5) Love Me Tender – end title version 1:09
6) 20) The Truth About Me 2:09 Original spoken word 45 rpm disc included in Teen Parade magazine

THE OUTTAKES

07) We’re Gonna Move –take 4 2:47
08) We’re Gonna Move – take 9 4:39
09) Poor Boy – take 3 original 3 verse master 1:51
10) Poor Boy –remake take 1 1:00
11) Poor Boy – extended verse. Vocal overdub take 6 0:37
12) Let Me – vocal overdub take 3 2:21
13) Let Me – vocal overdub take 4 2:19

STEREO MASTERS

14) Love Me Tender 2:52
15) Let Me 2:11
16) Poor Boy 2:16
17) We’re Gonna Move 2:32

INTERVIEW

18) The Truth About Me Interview 10:04

Recorded August 22 on the set of Love Me Tender, Hollywood, California

All songs recorded for the motion picture LOVE ME TENDER

Recorded August 24, September 4 and 5, and October 1, 1956 at Fox Stage 1, Hollywood.

Producer / A&R: Lionel Newman / Ken Darby

Engineer: Bob Mayer & Ken Runyon

Guitar: Vito Mumolo; Bass: Mike ”Myer” Rubin; Drums: Richard Cornell; Banjo: Luther “Red” Roundtree; Accordion: Carl Fortina, Dominic Frontieri; Vocals: Rad Robinson, Jon Dodson, Charles Prescott

DISC 2 - Mississippi-Alabama State Fair & Dairy Show, Tupelo. 

AFTERNOON SHOW

1) Heartbreak Hotel 2:43 (Mae Boren Axton/Tommy Durden/Elvis Presley)
2) Long Tall Sally 2:43 (Richard Penniman/Robert Blackwell/Enotris Johnson)
3) Introductions and presentation 2:36
4) I Was The One 3:19 (Aaron Schroeder/Claude DeMetrius/Hal Blair/Bill Peppers)
5) I Want You, I Need You, I Love You 2:52 (Maurice Mysels/Ira Kosloff)
6) Elvis talks 0:34
7) I Got A Woman 2:53 (Ray Charles)
8) Don’t Be Cruel 2:52 (Otis Blackwell/Elvis Presley)
9) Ready Teddy 2:15 (Robert Blackwell/John Marascalco)
10) Love Me Tender 2:58 (Vera Matson/Elvis Presley)
11) Hound Dog 2:48 (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)
12) Vernon and Gladys Predsley 1:44
13) Nick Adams 1:42
14) A fan 2:26 
15) Elvis 1:53

16) EVENING SHOW

17) Love Me Tender 1:49 (Vera Matson/Elvis Presley)
18) I Was The One 2:47 (Aaron Schroeder/Claude DeMetrius/Hal Blair/Bill Peppers)
19) I Got A Woman 2:52 (Ray Charles)
20) Announcement 1:45
21) Don’t Be Cruel 2:12 (Otis Blackwell/Elvis Presley)
22) Blue Suede Shoes 2:34 (Carl Perkins)
23) Announcement 1:03
24) Baby Let’s Play House 2:43 (Arthur Gunter)
25) Hound Dog 3:53 (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)

Amateur recording made September 26, 1956. Guitar: Scotty Moore. Guitar: Elvis Presley. Bass: Bill Black. Drums: D.J.Fontana. Vocals: The Jordanaires

Source: www.elvismatters.com