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How Do You Do It?
Recorded at Abbey Road on Tuesday September 4th 1962. This is the
unaltered, unedited version that differs from the Anthology 1
release.
One After 909
Recorded at Abbey Road on Tuesday March 5th 1963 take 2.
One After 909
Recorded at Abbey Road on Tuesday March 5th 1963. Master - edit
of takes 4 and 5.
I'm A Loser
Recorded at Abbey Road on Friday August 14th 1964. This is the 1983
Abbey Road Show presentation of take
Leave My Kitten Alone
Recorded at Abbey Road on Friday August 14th 1964 take 5
If You've Got Trouble
Recorded at Abbey Road on Thursday February 18th 1964. This is the
Norman Smith stereo remix from Tuesday February 23rd 1965.
That Means A Lot
Recorded and Mixed at Abbey Road on Saturday February 20th 1965.
This Bird Has Flown
Recorded at Abbey Road on Tuesday October 12th 1965. This is the
orginal stereo master of take 1.
I'm Looking Through You
Recorded at Abbey Road on Sunday October 24th 1965. This is the
stereo master of take 1.
Taxman
Recorded at Abbey Road on Thursday April 21 st 1966. Take 12 an
early mono mix with a different ending.
Strawberry Fields Forever
A sequence of Takes 1 and 7. Recorded at Abbey Road on Thursday
November 24th and Tuesday November 29th and Thursday December 8th 1966.
Penny Lane
Later stereo remix - prepared for The Beatles Live At Abbey Road
Show.
A Day In The Life
Later stereo remix - prepared for The Beatles Live At Abbey Road
Show.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Recorded at Abbey Road on Thursday July 25th 1968 this is take 1
with full ending.
Hey Jude
Recorded at Abbey Road on Tuesday July 30th 1968.
Not Guilty
Recorded at Abbey Road on Thursday August 12th 1968. This is take
102. Presented here for the first time ever is the unaltered version of
George's rejected White LP track.
What's The New Mary Jane?
Recorded at Abbey Road on Wednesday 14th August 1968 with overdubs
done on Thursday September 11th 1969 this is the 1982 version mixed for Sessions.
Rip It Up/Shake Rattle and Roll
Recorded at Apple, Saville Row 3, January 26th 1969.
Kansas City/Miss Ann/Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Recorded at Apple, Saville Row 3, January 26th 1969.
Blue Suede Shoes
Recorded at Apple, Saville Row 3, January 26th 1969.
Cannonball/Not Fade Away/Hey Little Girl (in The High School
Sweater)/Bo Diddley
Recorded at Apple, Saville Row 3, January 29th 1969.
Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues
Recorded at Apple, Saville Row 3, January 29th 1969
Come and Get It
Recorded at Abbey Road on Thursday July 24th 1969 this is the stereo
mix of Paul's double tracked vocal, completed in 1 hour and given as a
demo to The Iveys.
Because
Recorded at Abbey Road on Friday August 1 st 1969, this is the stereo
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LINER NOTES
The story begins on January 26th 1976, when The Beatles' nine-year
contract with EMI Records finally expired, six years after the group
itself expired. EMI immediately began to take stock of The Beatles'
back catalogue, seriously considering for the first time the hundreds
of hours of unreleased recordings stored haphazardly in the Abbey Road
Studios' tape vault.
One team focused on repackaging the official releases, with initially
unimaginative results: the entire run of Beatles singles was re-issued in
March 76 in the UK, with the addition of Yesterday, never issued on a
British single before. George Martin was involved with re-equalization
and remastering (though not remixing from the original session tapes)
for a 2-LP compilation, Rock And Roll Music, released in June 76. Martin's
work was done to improve the primitive twin-track master mixes from
1963 in particular, though he may have tweaked some of the later songs
as well. Over the next two years, further uninspired Beatles projects
were issued from EMI: the US album Magical Mystery Tour was finally
issued in the UK in November 76; in the fall of 77, a box set of all
Beatles singles (including Yesterday and Back In The USSR) was released
in the UK; in November 77, another double-album compilation, Love Songs,
came out. But what about some NEW, never-released Beatles material,
the fans cried? Top priority in this arena was the preparation of tapes
recorded by Capitol at the Hollywood Bowl concerts of 1964-1965. Again,
Martin was called in to mix and edit the tapes; a rough mix of the
1964 concert (prepared in Capitol's Los Angeles studios back in 1964)
had apparently been sent to Apple HQ in London in 1971 in acetate form.
This inspired both rumors of an imminent release and dozens of bootlegs
when a copy fell into the 'wrong' hands. But nothing was done until
January 18th 1977, when highlights from all three shows were mixed
from 3-track tapes into stereo. The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl album
was released in May 1977.
Live recordings of familiar Beatles songs were one thing, but rumors of
dozens of unheard Beatles titles had kept the collecting community
drooling since the break-up. The Beatles themselves were vague about
what was left behind in the studio vaults. Titles such as Junk, The
Void, Not Guilty, and What's The New Mary Jane first surfaced in The
Beatles Book Monthly magazine via articles and reports from insiders
like Mal Evans.
An article in the New Musical Express of March 23rd 74 was the first
attempt to compile a list of Beatles' EMI outtakes. Titles mentioned
included How Do You Do It, Suzy Parker, If You've Got Trouble, Jazz
Piano Song, You'll Know What To Do, Pink Litmus Paper Shirt, Penina,
Not Unknown, India, Annie, When I Come To Town, Four Nights In Moscow,
Colliding Circles, and Always And Only. Some of these are correct,
some are misinterpretations apparently based on EMI session sheets
(working titles and the like) and some are clearly made up. The 1975
book All Together Now mentioned all of these, plus the following: Keep
Your Hands Off My Baby, Tell Me If You Can, Peace Of Mind, and Should
Like To Live Up A Tree.
As no official word from either EMI or The Beatles supported or denied any
of this, most of these (non-existent) outtakes were assumed by fans to be
awaiting future release. Further rumored titles were Baby Jane, I'm Sorry,
Bad Penny Blues, Echoes Of The Merseyside, Home, Just Dancing Around,
Maisy Jones, Moonglow, My Kind Of Girl, Portrait Of My Love, Proud
As You Are, Rubber Soul, Swinging Days, and my personal favorite, Zero
Is dust Another Even Number. Looking at the above lists (totalling
some 35 titles), it was no wonder fans daydreamed of three or four
more albums of completely new material to add to The Beatles canon.
While all this was going on, EMI executives first dipped their toes into
the uncharted waters of unreleased Beatles studio material. According to
one employee, EMI "listened to all the material that had not been
released". Considering what they came up with, this statement is laughable,
unless we take it very literally. Apparently they only considered song
titles which hadn't been released, ignoring four hundred hours or so
of rehearsals, demos, alternate takes, arrangements, and mixes of familiar
songs. So their initial skimpy research only came up with about ten
titles considered worthy of attention. According to Mark Lewisohn,
EMI "began doing in-house compilation cassettes" of this material -
one of which found its way into private collectors' hands by late 1978.
The tape was played in 1980 at a Beatles convention, and eventually
released on a bootleg entitled File Under: Beatles.
The materi al was all apparently dubbed directly
from the session tapes, with no attempts at remixing or editing, and
was more of a rough assembly of potential songs for a Beatles ouftake
LP. The titles were as follows: |
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