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The Making Of G.I. Blues - 65th Anniversary Collector's Edition FTD-233 (506020 975201) December 2025
Deluxe Book / CD Package, with two hardback books, five CDs containing the complete soundtrack recording sessions, and a 33rpm vinyl EP.

CD1  
The Original Album - Side 1
1. Tonight Is So Right For Love
2. What's She Really Like
3. Frankfort Special (remake)
4. Wooden Heart
5. G.I. Blues
The Original Album - Side 2
6. Pocketful Of Rainbows (remake)
7. Shoppin' Around (remake)
8. Big Boots
9. Didja' Ever (spliced master)
10. Blue Suede Shoes (remake)
11. Doin' The Best I Can
Alternate Song
12. Tonight's All Right For Love
April 27 1960 Sessions
13. Shoppin' Around (instrumental) (1, 2)
14. Shoppin' Around (instrumental) (3 - master) (acetate)
15. Shoppin' Around (instrumental) (4)
16. Shoppin' Around (1st version) (1)
17. Shoppin' Around (1st version) (2, 3, 4)
18. Shoppin' Around (1st version) (5)
19. Shoppin' Around (1st version) (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
20. Shoppin' Around (1st version) (11)
21. Shoppin' Around (1st version finalé) (14 - master)

CD2  
April 27 1960 Sessions
1. Didja' Ever (1)
2. Didja' Ever (2 - original master)
3. Didja' Ever (spliced master)
4. Doin' The Best I Can (1, 2, 3)
5. Doin' The Best I Can (4, 5, 6, 7)
6. Doin' The Best I Can (8, 9)
7. Doin' The Best I Can (10, 11, 12)
8. Doin' The Best I Can (13 - master)
9. G.I. Blues (1)
10. G.I. Blues (2, 3, 4)
11. G.I. Blues (5)
12. G.I. Blues (6)
13. G.I. Blues (7)
14. G.I. Blues (pickup) (8, 9, 10)
15. G.I. Blues (composite master)
16. Tonight Is So Right For Love (1, 2)
17. Tonight Is So Right For Love (3)
18. Tonight Is So Right For Love (4)
19. Tonight Is So Right For Love (5, 6, 7)
20. What's She Really Like (1, 2)
21. What's She Really Like (3, 4, 5)

CD3  
April 27 1960 Sessions (continued)
1. Frankfort Special (1st version - fast) (1, 2)
2. Frankfort Special (1st version - fast) (3, 4, 5)
3. Frankfort Special (1st version - fast) (6, 7)
4. Frankfort Special (1st version - fast) (8)
5. Frankfort Special (1st version - fast) (9, 10, 11, 12, 13 - master)
6. Tonight Is So Right For Love (8)
7. Tonight Is So Right For Love (9)
8. Tonight Is So Right For Love (10, 11 - master)
April 28 1960 Sessions
9. Whistling Blues (instrumental) (2 - master)
10. Tonight Is So Right For Love (music and chorus - "Barcarolle" from "The Tales Of Hoffman") (1, 2, 3, 4 - master)
11. Wooden Heart (gramafunken version - instrumental) (1, 2 - master)
12. Big Boots (fast tempo) (1, 2)
13. Big Boots (fast tempo) (3)
14. Big Boots (fast tempo) (4)
15. Big Boots (fast tempo) (5)
16. Big Boots (fast tempo) (6, 7 - master)
17. Big Boots (slow tempo) (1)
18. Big Boots (slow tempo) (2, 3)
19. Big Boots (slow tempo) (4)
20. What's She Really Like (6, 7)
21. What's She Really Like (8, 9, 10, 11)
22. What's She Really Like (12, 13)
23. What's She Really Like (14, 15, 16)

CD4  
April 28 1960 Sessions (continued)
1. What's She Really Like (17, 18, 19)
2. What's She Really Like (insert) (20, 21, 22)
3. What's She Really Like (composite master)
4. Pocketful Of Rainbows (1st version) (1, 2)
5. Pocketful Of Rainbows (1st version) (3)
6. Pocketful Of Rainbows (1st version) (4, 5, 6, 7)
7. Pocketful Of Rainbows (1st version) (8)
8. Pocketful Of Rainbows (1st version) (9)
9. Pocketful Of Rainbows (1st version) (10)
10. Pocketful Of Rainbows (1st version) (11, 12 - alternate master)
11. Pocketful Of Rainbows (1st version) (13, 14)
12. Pocketful Of Rainbows (1st version) (15, 16)
13. Blue Suede Shoes (remake) (1 - master)
14. Wooden Heart (1)
15. Wooden Heart (2, 3, 4 - master)
16. Pocketful Of Rainbows (1st version) (17)
17. Pocketful Of Rainbows (1st version) (18, 19, 20)
18. Pocketful Of Rainbows (1st version) (21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
19. Pocketful Of Rainbows (1st version) (26, 27, 28)

CD5  
May 6 1960 Sessions
1. Big Boots (fast tempo remake) (1)
2. Big Boots (fast tempo remake) (2 - master)
3. Shoppin' Around (remake) (1, 2)
4. Shoppin' Around (remake) (3, 4, 5)
5. Shoppin' Around (remake) (6, 7 - master)
6. Pocketful Of Rainbows (remake) (1, 2 - master)
7. Pocketful Of Rainbows (remake) (3)
8. Frankfort Special (remake) (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
9. Frankfort Special (remake) (6, 7, 8)
10. Frankfort Special (remake) (9, 10 - master)
11. Tonight's All Right For Love (1)
12. Tonight's All Right For Love (2, 3, 4, 5)
13. Tonight's All Right For Love (6)
14. Tonight's All Right For Love (7, 8)
15. Tonight's All Right For Love (9, 10)
16. Tonight's All Right For Love (11, 12)
17. Tonight's All Right For Love (14, 15)
18. Tonight's All Right For Love (16, 17)
19. Tonight's All Right For Love (tempo - insert) (1, 2)
20. Tonight's All Right For Love (composite master)
21. Big Boots (slow tempo remake) (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
22. Big Boots (slow tempo remake - insert) (2, 3, 4)
23. Tonight's All Right For Love (music and chorus - "Tales From The Vienna Woods") (1, 2, 3, 4)
24. Tonight's All Right For Love (music and chorus - "Tales From The Vienna Woods") (5 - master)
25. Big Boots (composite master)

Vinyl EP
Side 1
1. Tonight Is So Right For Love (mono)
2. G.I. Blues (mono)
Side 2
1. Shoppin' Around (remake) (mono)
2. Blue Suede Shoes (remake) (mono)
3. Doin' The Best I Can (mono)

Notes

Book by David English and Pål Granlund.

CDs Produced by Ernst Mikael Jørgensen / Mixed and Mastered by Vic Anesini and Sebastian Jeansson / Vinyl mastering by Marc Vich.

This ultimate collector's edition includes two hardback books, which give a fascinating and comprehensive insight from script to screen into the making of the movie.

Also included are five compact discs, featuring the complete recording sessions mixed and remastered from the original 3-track tapes sequenced in recording order, and a vinyl Compact 33 EP.

The Making Of G.I. Blues - The Movie is a hardback coffee style deluxe book containing 384 pages with many newly discovered photographs, details on deleted scenes, pages from the script, the shooting schedule, memos, contracts and memories from the cast and crew.

The Making Of G.I. Blues - The Music, contains 84 pages of photos, documents and detailed session information.