Get Back/Let It Be-sessioner: Dag 20
Samlade som vanligt i Apple Studios var producenten George Martin, ljudteknikern Glyn Johns och den assisterande ljudingenjören Alan Parsons.
Paul McCartney och Ringo Starr i väldigt god stämning. George Harrison något mer reserverad.
Paul McCartneys bror Michael McCartney var i studion denna dag. Han ser en aning bekymrad ut, eller hur?
En betydande del av tiden ägnades åt att diskutera det kommande liveframträdandet med enbart George Harrison som var lite mot själva idén. De tre övriga beatlarna var alla med på planerna med arrangemangen satta på plats av film- och studiopersonalen. Var och en av nyckellåtarna som kom att framföras på taket – Get Back, Don’t Let Me Down, One After 909 och Dig A Pony – framfördes alla under denna session.
John Lennon visar upp ett fighting face.
Ringo Starr verkar vara på gott humör den här dagen.
Instead, they spent most of the day working on other songs. These included versions of ‘Two Of Us’, ‘The Long And Winding Road’ and ‘Let It Be’, plus others which didn’t make it to the Let It Be album.
The Beatles tackled a number of Harrison’s songs, perhaps hoping that one would be suitable for inclusion in the film. The album version of ‘For You Blue’ had been taped on 25 January, but three more takes were performed on this day. Also played were ‘Something’, ‘All Things Must Pass’, ‘Let It Down’, and ‘Old Brown Shoe’, although none sounded like polished versions ready for release.
Requiring work was ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’, destined for inclusion on Abbey Road. The Beatles and Billy Preston had first jammed the song on the previous day, and evidently thought it worth continuing with.
Also returned to was ‘Dig It’, although the album recording was from 26 January. This day’s version had Lennon singing a list of some of the key songs played during the sessions, most of which made it to the Let It Be album.
Come on and dig it… dig it every night and day… dig it any time of day. You can dig it for breakfast, dig it for your tea. You can dig it in the morning, dig it for dinner, any day… ‘Don’t Let Me Down’, ‘Get Back’, ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’, ‘Two Of Us’, ‘All I Want Is You’, ‘Teddy Boy’, ‘One After 909’, ‘All Things Must Pass’, ‘Dig It’, ‘Let It Be’, ‘The Long And Winding Road’, ‘For You Blue’, ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’…
The final part of the session was mostly devoted to cover versions. Among them was Buddy Holly’s ‘Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues’, which was heavily edited and included on Anthology 3. The Beatles also played ‘Besame Mucho’, as seen in the Let It Be film.
The day ended, however, with a return to ‘Teddy Boy’ and ‘Two Of Us’. Paul McCartney aside, the group’s enthusiasm for playing the songs was noticeably waning by this stage.
Performances of ‘Dig It’, ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’, and ‘Two Of Us’ from this day appeared in part three of the 2021 documentary Get Back.
The full list of songs recorded on this day, including fragments and off-the-cuff, unpublished songs with presumed titles (plus primary composer/best-known performer):
- ‘Singing The Blues’ (Guy Mitchell; five versions)
- ‘Rule Britannia’ (trad)
- ‘I Walk The Line’ (Johnny Cash)
- ‘Dig A Pony’
- ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’
- ‘Don’t Let Me Down’
- ‘Get Back’
- ‘One After 909’ (three versions)
- ‘She Came In Through The Bathroom Window’ (three versions)
- ‘Two Of Us’ (three versions)
- ‘Let It Be’
- ‘The Long And Winding Road’ (two versions)
- ‘For You Blue’ (three versions)
- ‘Something’ (two versions)
- ‘All Things Must Pass’ (Harrison; four versions)
- ‘Let It Down’ (Harrison; four versions)
- ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’ (two versions)
- ‘Sexy Sadie’
- ‘Old Brown Shoe’
- ‘Dig It’
- ‘Besame Mucho’ (Consuelo Velázquez)
- ‘Three Cool Cats’ (The Coasters)
- ‘I Got To Find My Baby’
- ‘Some Other Guy’ (Richard Barrett)
- ‘Honky Tonk’ (Bill Doggett)
- ‘Vacation Time’ (Chuck Berry)
- ‘Cannonball’ (Duane Eddy)
- ‘Not Fade Away’ (Buddy Holly)
- ‘Hey Little Girl (In The High School Sweater)’ (Dee Clark)
- ‘Bo Diddley’ (Bo Diddley)
- ‘Maybe Baby’ (Buddy Holly)
- ‘Peggy Sue Got Married’ (Buddy Holly)
- ‘Thinking Of Linking’ (Lennon-McCartney)
- ‘Crying, Waiting, Hoping’ (Buddy Holly)
- ‘Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues’ (Buddy Holly)
- ‘Teddy Boy’ (McCartney)
- ‘Bring Your Own Band’ (McCartney)
- ‘Lotta Lovin” (Gene Vincent)
- ‘Sorry Miss Molly’* (McCartney)
- ‘Also’* (McCartney)
- ‘She Gets Heavy’* (Lennon)
* förmodad titel.
