2:28 PM 11/20/2006
The Beatles - Hodge - Podge
Publisher: Black Dog Records
Reference :BD 001
Date :1992
Made In :Luxembourg
Quality :
Booklet & packaging :Track comments
Total duration: 44:41
1. Yesterday (Lennon/McCartney)
1:42
TV
James Paul McCartney
Mar 1973
The Beatles
The centerpiece of this collection is the original acetate of Yesterday, Take 1 (MISTAKE !!!).
This was recorded on June 14, 1965 and mixed for mono three days later.
Although published information lists both remixes as deriving from Take 2 (the released version), obviously at least one remix was made of Take 1, because here it is!
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Misrepresented in the liner notes as "an acetate of Take 1". This is entirely untrue. The version presented here is from the end of the TV special "James Paul McCartney". It has been edited to delete the part where the local TV station announcer came on and did a voice-over, advertising the next program that would be on. Furthermore, it was taken from a VERY scratchy record. Just another case of bootleggers not knowing whereof they speak.
2. (Medley) (unknown)
3:07
(unidentified)
(date unknown)
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (Lennon/McCartney)
Take 1
Excerpt
12 Oct 1965
The Beatles
The engineer's announcement and some pre-song chatter preface Take I of this song (then known simply as This Bird Has Flown).
We've omitted most of the take here, which can be found on Yellow Dog's Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 2.
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (Lennon/McCartney)
Take 2
21 Oct 1965
The Beatles
What's really new here is Take 2, which, as one would expect, falls musically halfway between take 1 and the finished take 4.
3. (Medley) (unknown)
8:51
(unidentified)
(date unknown)
12-Bar Original (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey)
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Take 1
Breakdown
4 Nov 1965
SS.ETC.10.01
The Beatles
Take 1 lasts only 10 seconds before breaking down.
Surprisingly, this Green Onion variant lasts only 10 seconds before breaking down.
12-Bar Original (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey)
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Take 2
4 Nov 1965
SS.ETC.10.02
The Beatles
Take 2 is a 6:36 performance.
This was recorded live without overdubs and some instruments are hidden in the background.
The take 2 that surfaced is in very poor quality although it's found on stereo on some bootlegs.
Even though Take 2 appears on the Yellow Dog CD Acetates, it appears here in true stereo for the first time.
12-Bar Original (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey)
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Rehearsal
Excerpt
4 Nov 1965
SS.ETC.10.Reh
The Beatles
Before recording the two takes of 12-Bar Original, The Beatles rehearsed the whole song and taped it.
The two takes were recorded over the rehearsal and we only have about 1:50 left of the end of the rehearsal.
Even more surprisingly, the long Take 2 is followed by another (fragmentary) two-minute performance, undocumented in published sources.
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"12 Bar Original" is 4 Nov 1965 Takes 1 (breakdown) and 2 (complete), followed at the end by the ends of two different unnumbered takes they did as rehearsals with the tape recorder running, then wound back to the beginning to record anew.
4. (Medley) (unknown)
3:01
(unidentified)
(date unknown)
That Means A Lot (Lennon/McCartney)
Take 23
30 Mar 1965
The Beatles
These are the only available tapes of the up-tempo "re-make" from March 30, 1965.
Unlike the dirge-like take 1 (available on Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 2), this more lively rendition at least shows some promise.
The second of the two takes, introduced by McCartney as a "test", is probably take 24.
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"That Means A Lot" is Takes 22, 23, 24 and "Test". The last one is an unnumbered take requested by Paul, just so they could fool around.
That Means A Lot (Lennon/McCartney)
Take 24
30 Mar 1965
The Beatles
These are the only available tapes of the up-tempo "re-make" from March 30, 1965.
Unlike the dirge-like take 1 (available on Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 2), this more lively rendition at least shows some promise.
The second of the two takes, introduced by McCartney as a "test", is probably take 24.
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"That Means A Lot" is Takes 22, 23, 24 and "Test". The last one is an unnumbered take requested by Paul, just so they could fool around.
That Means A Lot (Lennon/McCartney)
Test Take
30 Mar 1965
The Beatles
These are the only available tapes of the up-tempo "re-make" from March 30, 1965.
Unlike the dirge-like take 1 (available on Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 2), this more lively rendition at least shows some promise.
The second of the two takes, introduced by McCartney as a "test", is probably take 24.
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"That Means A Lot" is Takes 22, 23, 24 and "Test". The last one is an unnumbered take requested by Paul, just so they could fool around.
5. I'm So Tired (Lennon/McCartney)
2:05
Reconstruction Take 14
8 Oct 1968
The Beatles
I'm So Tired originally featured prominent organ and guitar parts which were mixed out of the released track.
This is an attempt to re-mix the missing parts back into the song, so we can hear how it might have originally been intended.
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"I'm So Tired" (reconstruction) is a forgery committed by the
bootlegger, in an abysmally unsynchronized overdub of the unused guitar and organ track (available separately elsewhere) over one of the versions from the tape I'm about to explain.
6. Penny Lane (Lennon/McCartney)
2:19
Overdub
9 Jan 1967
The Beatles
On January 9th, 1967 six session musicians and George Martin gathered together to add another layer to Penny Lane.
Here's an excerpt from that overdub session, as aired on the American radio series The Lost Lennon Tapes.
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The "Penny Lane Overdub Session" tape is one of the shortest edits of this piece ever bootlegged, and the quality of the recording, made from "LLT", is poor.
7. The Inner Light (Harrison)
2:33
Backing Track
12 Jan 1968
The Beatles
The original backing track for the song recorded by Indian musicians during the Wonderwall sessions on January 12th, 1968.
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"The Inner Light" is an external recording of a playback (a.k.a. "monitor mix").
8. Revolution (Lennon/McCartney)
3:30
(unidentified)
4 Sep 1968
The Beatles
The backing track here is the same as on the legitimate release, but the vocals were re-recorded on September 4th, 1968 for the promotional film.
9. I'm So Tired (Lennon/McCartney)
2:19
Take 14
(date unknown)
The Beatles
From a safety copy, evidently dubbed from the mixing session of October 15, 1968.
If you listen carefully, you'll notice the unsuccessful attempts to mix the original guitar and organ parts out.
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This is taken, not from a "safety copy", but from the STEED echo tape. This system is explained in detail in "Recording Sessions", wherein a third-engineer type would sit with a box with a knob on it. He would turn the knob back and forth, altering the speed of an open-reel machine that was sending the main feed to the echo chamber. These variable-speed echoes were then mixed back into the main program. This is the tape that came off that machine...that's why the speed wanders back and forth. [Note, however, that the whole tape is not on this CD.
See "Control Room Monitor Mixes".] Engineer Chris Thomas said "I did that for hours...what a boring job!"
10. I'm So Tired (Lennon/McCartney)
2:15
(unidentified)
(date unknown)
The Beatles
Remixes.
From a safety copy, evidently dubbed from the mixing session of October 15, 1968.
If you listen carefully, you'll notice the unsuccessful attempts to mix the original guitar and organ parts out.
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11. I Am The Walrus (Lennon/McCartney)
4:42
(unidentified)
5 Sep 1967
The Beatles
Similar to the basic tracks version that appears on Yellow Dog's Acetates CD.
Although this is from a different source, it might well be the same mix.
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"I Am The Walrus" is a variation on the mix on "Acetates". This is indeed an acetate, but through the heavy scratches, you'll note that a gap of silence has been edited into it, right in the place where the sound of the radio dial being tuned, and the string section would later be put, just before "Sitting in an English garden". This piece made its debut on this CD. It is undocumented in Lewisohn or elsewhere.
12. Instrumental (unknown)
3:46
(unidentified)
(date unknown)
The Beatles
AKA "Rock Peace"
This odd instrumental circulated among collectors as 12-Bar Original before the actual thing surfaced.
A clean version was even used as background on the American Lost Lennon Tapes series.
We're not sure what, when, or even who this is.
13. The Long And Winding Road (Lennon/McCartney)
2:07
Rehearsal
1968
The Beatles
This sounds like a home rehearsal tape -which is suspicious, since the piano style does not really sound like McCartney's.
If a genuine McCartney recording, it would date from 1968, predating the Let It Be sessions in early 1969.
You be the judge.
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"The Long And Winding Road" just may be a Paul home demo from late 1968. If you speed it up in excess of the 8% it runs slow here, to the proper key, it sounds pretty much like Paul playing and working on singing a melody, on an out-of-tune home piano. Maybe not. But maybe it's him! The song is nowhere near complete in format, nor was it when The Beatles started rehearsing it in January 1969. This track also debuted here.
14. Paperback Writer (Lennon/McCartney)
2:04
(unidentified)
13 Apr 1966
The Beatles
This remix is different flom the raw tracks available on Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 3.
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