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The Beatles - Lost Pepperland Reel (1970)

Track listing:
  1. All You Need Is Love 4:34
  2. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 3:38
  3. Good Morning, Good Morning - Animal Noises 1:42
  4. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band - Just The Intro 0:59
  5. Billy Shears Applause 0:38
  6. Yellow Submarine 2:47
  7. It's All Too Much 8:19
  8. All Together Now 2:18
  9. Only A Northern Song 3:30
  10. Hey Bulldog 3:08
  11. Mellotron Music No.4 1:50
  12. Penny Lane 6:33
  13. Good Morning, Good Morning 1:05
  14. Breakdown 1:48
  15. She Can Talk To Me 1:23
  16. She Can Talk To Me 1:55
  17. Across The Universe 1:30
  18. You Know My Name 2:49
  19. Chi Chi's 3:11
  20. Mellotron Music No.5 1:58

Notes


1. All You Need Is Love
Take 58
RM11
25 Jun 1967
Edit of RM11 (1 nov 1967)

Early mix with longer ending and no fade. (contains an extension edit and ends cold unlike other versions)

2. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Take 8
RM20
2 Mar 1967

Unused version for Yellow Submarine cartoon with opening lines sung by Boob character (undocumented overdub by Dick Emery)

3. Good Morning Animal Noises
RM20
Tape compiled 28 feb 1967, copy called RM20, 1 nov 1967

Just the animal sound effects from the end of "Good Morning, Good Morning"

4. Intro To Sgt. Pepper
Tape compiled 6 mar 1967, copy called RM20, 1 nov 1967
Crowd noise tapes used for "Sgt. Pepper" opening.

5. Billy Shears Applause
RM20
tape compiled 6 mar 1967, copy called RM20, 1 nov 1967

6. Yellow Submarine
Take 5
26 May 1966

The Beatles
RM5 (3 jun 1966), copy on 1 nov 1967

7. It's All Too Much
Take 2
RM1
2 Jun 1967
RM1 (12 oct 1967), copy 15 nov 1967

Long version w/ extra verse and extended fade
The unedited version, previously available only as an external recording in poor quality is "Arrive Without Aging"

8. All Together Now
Take 9
12 May 1967
RM6 (12 may 1967), copy 15 nov 1967

Mono mix of standard version. Unreleased officially. This has nothing to do with the mono CV. The mono CV is a combination of the two stereo channels of the stereo CV.

9. Only A Northern Song
Take 3 & 11
RM6
20 Apr 1967

Mono mix of standard version (unreleased officially)

10. Hey Bulldog
Take 10
RM2
11 Feb 1968
Mono mix of standard version

11. Mellotron Music No. 4
Instrumental
Jul 1968
John Lennon experiment with Mellotron and tape loops.

The Mellotron Music tracks are continued from Vigotone "Revolution" CD, where #1, #2 & #3 are located.

12. Penny Lane Overdub Session
9 Jan 1967
John's personal tape of between-takes conversation by the musicians taping overdubs this day for "Penny Lane".

Not sourced from The Lost Lennon Tapes. This is the longest known tape of the session.

13. Good Morning Good Morning
Demo
Jan 1967
John on the Mellotron.

Not sourced from The Lost Lennon Tapes. This is better quality and has 0:02 extra audio than the LLT tape.

14. Breakdown
Sgt. Pepper session breakdown with John and Ringo.

15. She Can Talk To Me
Demo
Dec 1967
John's work tape for what would become "Hey, Bulldog". This track and the next one is pretty much just John repeating the "You can talk to me" section (with "she" instead of "you")

Longest known tape of this work. This is a continuous tape divided on two tracks. The whole length is 3:19 (or 3:06 at A=440Hz)

16. She Can Talk To Me
Demo
Dec 1967
John's work tape for what would become "Hey, Bulldog". This track and the next one is pretty much just John repeating the "You can talk to me" section (with "she" instead of "you")

Longest known tape of this work. This is a continuous tape divided on two tracks. The whole length is 3:19 (or 3:06 at A=440Hz)

17. Across The Universe
Home Recording
1967
HR091
Work tape with John at the piano. At this point all he has is the chorus, which he works his way through a few times.

Source tape, a longer excerpt from the demo of "Cry Baby Cry" (found on "Arrive Without Aging").

18. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
Instrumental Demo
Mar 1968
A Lennon work tape on piano. This is some noodling around that eventually bears fruit with a piece of "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)"

19. Chi Chi's Cafe
1967
Late 1967 home tape by John & Ringo
Stereo

Some stream-of-conciousness Lennon humor, probably from the Lost Lennon Tapes

20. Mellotron Music No. 5
Instrumental
Jul 1968
Experimental Lennon piece with Mellotron and tape loops.

Then 7 seconds blank space and:
"Have you got time to rectify..." bit of "Think For Yourself" from the Yellow Submarine soundtrack.

The Mellotron Music tracks are continued from Vigotone "Revolution" CD, where #1, #2 & #3 are located.