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The Beatles - Ultra Rare Trax Vol. 1 (Pitch Corr) (best) (1970)

Track listing:
  1. I Saw Her Standing There (take 2) 3:06
  2. The One After 909 (take 2) 2:55
  3. She's A Woman (take 2) 3:20
  4. I'm Looking Through You (take 1) 3:16
  5. If You've Got Trouble (take 1 Sessions mix) 2:23
  6. How Do You Do It (take 2) 1:57
  7. Penny Lane (take 9 RM9) 3:12
  8. Strawberry Fields Forever (take 26) 3:32
  9. From Me To You (take 2) 1:52
  10. Besame Mucho 2:36
  11. The Fool On The Hill (demo take 1) 2:49
  12. Paperback Writer (take 2) 2:36

Notes


1. I Saw Her Standing There (Lennon/McCartney)
Take 2
11 Feb 1963
SS.PPM.01.02
A complete take.

from "Please Please Me" session
Continued from warming up, they start a great live performance in the studio. John a mistake with some lyrics and Paul makes a mistake with some bass lines

Taken from original master
stereo

Pitch correction: +0.8%

2. The One After 909 (Lennon/McCartney)
Take 2
05 Mar 1963

From "From Me To You" session
Composed by John in the late 50's ~ early 60's in the period of the Quarrymen.

Released on the LET IT BE Album but absolutely different

Taken from original master

stereo
Pitch correction: +0.8%

3. She's A Woman (Lennon/McCartney)
Take 2
08 Oct 1964
No lead guitar, piano or additional over dubbed vocals. No fade out at the end. Very primitive version.

Taken from original master

stereo
Pitch correction: -1.2%

4. I'm Looking Through You (Lennon/McCartney)
Take 1
24 Oct 1965
SS.RS.10.01
From "Rubber Soul" session

No chorus made yet. Beginning with percussion vocalson single track.

No fade out at the end.

Taken from original master
Stereo

Pitch correction: -2.0%

5. If You've Got Trouble (Lennon/McCartney)
Take 1
Sessions
18 Feb 1965
RS ?
'Sessions Mix', 1984

From "Rubber Soul" session Taken from original master.
Stereo

Pitch correction: -1.9%

6. How Do You Do It (Murray/Edmond)
Take 2
04 Sep 1962
Take 2, RM1 (4 sep 1962)

From "Please Please Me" session
Prepered as a second single, but never released

Line at around 1:36:

"Wish I knew how you do it to me,I'd do it to you"

Pitch correction: +1.3%

7. Penny Lane (Lennon/McCartney)
Take 9
RM9
17 Jan 1967
Take 9, RM9

Basically same version as on "Rarities" album, but including dialogue and Paul's count in the beginning.

Taken from original master

Pitch correction: -3.0%

8. Strawberry Fields Forever (Lennon/McCartney)
Take 26
15 Dec 1966
The information given is all wrong. Takes 1, 25 and 26 of this song were played in the key of B natural. Takes 2-7 were in B flat. They are a semitone apart. No versions exist in A or C. There is also no acetate of Take 26, only of Take 7, and this isn't it!

stereo

Pitch correction: -6.4%

Liner notes:
There's two takes for this song
First a slower version-A- (key on Bb) and a faster version-B- (key on C)
The previously released version consists of take A & B with controles speed, and it is also remixed.
This version is Take B with a different mix
Taken from original acetate

9. From Me To You (Lennon/McCartney)
Take 2
05 Mar 1963
beginning with Paul's count "1,2,3,4", no harmonica
Absolutely different

Taken from original master

stereo

Pitch correction: -0.4%

10. Besame Mucho (Velazquez/Skylar)
First EMI Session
06 Jun 1962
with Pete Best on drums
A different take from " Decca Tapes"

Taken from original master

Pitch correction: -2.7%

11. The Fool On The Hill (Lennon/McCartney)
Demo
Take 1
06 Sep 1967
Paul's piano demo.

Demo take 1

Paul performs solo demo on piano

Taken from original acetate

Pitch correction: -2.2%

12. Paperback Writer (Lennon/McCartney)
Take 2
13 Apr 1966
SS.PM2.03.02
Beginning with Paul's count "1,2,3,4" on the right channel. Same as the single, but different mix, no echo effects on vocals, and no fade-out at the end

Taken from original master
Stereo