According to Sebastian's Elvis Recordings website, the acetate version of "My Baby's Gone" is take 5 of the song, which was originally released from a tape source as take 11 on The Complete Sun Sessions LP and CD in 1987. I think this take also appeared o Sunrsie Disc 1.Tallhair AKA Ger Rijff wrote:... I just had a brief talk with Ernst over the phone asking him what his thoughts are on Uncle Pen? He has talked to many people in The South over the last so many years, asking had they ever heard Elvis performing this song? A lot of other songtitles were mentioned, including Country weepers from the songbook of a then famous lady singer who recorded on the RCA label [ sorry, cant recall her name...] but nobody ever mentioned "Pen". In an indepth interview with Scotty, his reply was a straightforward "No". He added : "The lyrics, mentioning playing a fiddle, never wouldve fitted in the direction, musically, we were heading for during those first 18 months..."
...Uncle Pen, was such a well known song at the time,Scotty said, I would remember doing it back then..
Something that has popped up in my memory, is speaking with Roy Carr,once editor of NME, that had featured the ad for Pen on the Pyramid label, "It was a clever way in getting attention in the media for a new record label". Roy didnt believe there was an Uncle Pen by Elvis...
...Ernst will deal with the Pen mystery in his book on Sun.
He did ask me if somebody out there can tell what take number My Babys
Gone is [ the acetate version] ?? He is, more or less, convinced its out
there, with the other takes of "Im Left Youre Right ", featured on the Sun
Sessions vinyl edition [ with gatefold sleeve] from RCA, as released in the
80s?? If not, hes got to find himself a copy of the Dutch "Please Release
Me" vinyl album...
Anybody out there willing to compare the outtakes of "Im Left" to the "My
Babys Gone" version ?!
The original acetate was sold to the Blues Museum in Memphis Long time ago, and has disappeared since then...
Ernst is doing a lot better, and sends his regards!
Glad to hear that Ernst is feeling better.
BTW, in Roy Carr's Elvis: An Illustrated Discography, there is a good discussion on the unreleased Sun songs. It seems that many of the alleged unreleased songs derive from the Jukebox folio. Some of the songs, such as That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch, were pitched by Steve Sholes to Elvis in late 1955, so that's probably why they were added to the folio.
