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The Beatles - Chronology 3 (1970)

Track listing:
  1. From Me To You (Take 1) 1:30
  2. From Me To You (Take 2) 1:58
  3. From Me To You (Take 3) 1:56
  4. From Me To You (Take 4) 1:53
  5. From Me To You (Take 5) 2:16
  6. From Me To You (Take 6) 0:08
  7. From Me To You (Take 7) 2:09
  8. Thank You Girl (Take 1) 2:10
  9. Thank You Girl (Take 2) 0:26
  10. Thank You Girl (Take 3) 0:08
  11. Thank You Girl (Take 4) 2:00
  12. Thank You Girl (Take 5) 2:06
  13. Thank You Girl (Take 6) 2:20
  14. Thank You Girl (Take 7 Edit Piece) 0:16
  15. Thank You Girl (Take 8 Edit Piece) 0:27
  16. Thank You Girl (Take 9 Edit Piece) 0:29
  17. Thank You Girl (Take 10 Edit Piece) 0:35
  18. Thank You Girl (Take 11 Edit Piece) 0:45
  19. Thank You Girl (Take 12 Edit Piece) 0:54
  20. Thank You Girl (Take 13 Edit Piece) 0:33
  21. From Me To You (Track 2, Take 8) 1:20
  22. From Me To You (Edit Piece 2, Take 9) 1:09
  23. From Me To You (Edit Piece 3, Take 10) 0:26
  24. From Me To You (Edit Piece 4, Take 11) 0:21
  25. From Me To You (Edit Piece 5, Take 12) 0:23
  26. From Me To You (Edit Piece 6, Take 13) 0:24
  27. One After 909 (Take 1) 1:20
  28. One After 909 (Take 2) 2:53
  29. One After 909 (Take 3) 1:50
  30. One After 909 (Take 4) 2:24
  31. One After 909 (Take 5 Edit Piece) 1:14
  32. From Me To You (Edit Of Takes 12,8,9 &10) 2:07
  33. From Me To You (1982 Mix) 1:59
  34. Thank You Girl (Track 2, Take 14) 2:14
  35. Thank You Girl (Take 30) 2:05
  36. One After 909 (Anthology Mix) 2:55

Notes

Immediately after sessions for the Please Please Me album, The Beatles went back on the road for nightly live shows and the second leg of the tour, which had begun 2 February, with Helen Shapiro headlining. Brian Epstein had booked engagements for the band every day Immediately after sessions for the Please Please Me album, The Beatles went back on the road for nightly live shows and the second leg of the tour, which had begun 2 February, with Helen Shapiro headlining. Brian Epstein had booked engagements for the band every day throughout the rest of the month (except for 25 February) as the “Please Please Me” single made its way up the charts. By 19 February, The Beatles had their first number one record in Britain. Between the end of the Shapiro tour and the beginning of a series of live dates including another tour – this one with Tommy Roe and Chris Montez – Brian Epstein and George Martin scheduled a recording session intended to produce the band’s third single. The material on this disc represents nearly everything that made it to tape during those sessions, including five takes of ‘One After 909.’ Repeated breakdowns, resulting from a fourway uncertainty regarding arrangement, assured this would become The Beatles’ first abandoned song. George Martin’s guidance remains very strong, most notably in shaping the structure of ‘From Me To You.’ The song’s overdub reel, typically bootlegged as it appears in EMI’s vaults (in a fragmentary state, reflecting the removal of the edit pieces), has been restored here, revealing step-by-step the process by which the finished recording was constructed.