1 Playlist June 7th 2015 OPEN 2 The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour - Magical Mystery Tour (EP) (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocals: Paul and John When Paul McCartney was in the U.S. in early April 1967 he came up with the idea for a Beatles television film about a mystery tour on a bus. During the April 11 flight back home he began writing lyrics for the title song and sketching out some ideas for the film. Upon his arrival in London, Paul pitched his idea to Brian Epstein who happily approved. Paul then met with John to go over the details and the two began work on the film’s title track. The title track was written primarily by Paul but was not finished when McCartney brought the song in to be recorded on April 25, 1967. John helped with the missing pieces during the session. On U.S. album: Magical Mystery Tour - Capitol LP The Beatles - The Fool On The Hill - Magical Mystery Tour (EP) (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: Paul Sitting alone at the piano, Paul McCartney recorded a mono two-track demo of “The Fool On the Hill” on September 6, 1967. A more proper recording would take place September 25. On the 25th three takes of the basic rhythm track were recorded, including harmonicas played by John and George. Paul first brought the song to John’s attention in mid-March while the two were working on the lyrics for “With A Little Help From My Friends.” John said to write down the lyrics so he wouldn’t forget them. In the “Magical Mystery Tour” film you can see Paul (by himself) standing atop a hill near Nice, France, during sunrise. The scene also includes ad-libs of Paul spinning, running and dancing, and close-ups of Paul’s moving eyes. It was an interesting trip for Paul as he forgot his wallet, passport and his money! They also didn’t have the correct camera lenses. It ended up costing over 4,000 pounds to film the scene. Paul’s September 6 live piano/vocal solo demo can be found on the “Anthology 2” album. On U.S. album: Magical Mystery Tour - Capitol LP 3 The Beatles - Long Long Long - The Beatles (Harrison) Lead vocal: George George, Paul and Ringo ran through 67 takes of George’s “Long Long Long,” then titled “It’s Been A Long Long Long Time,” on October 7, 1968. John Lennon was not at any of the sessions for the song. Harrison provided the lead vocal, accompanying himself on his Gibson J-200 acoustic guitar, Paul played Hammond organ, and Ringo played drums. George has said the “you” he is referring to in the song is God, and admits that the chords were taken from Bob Dylan’s “Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands,” which is on Dylan’s 1966 album “Blonde On Blonde.” Chris Thomas: “There’s a sound near the end of the song which is a bottle of Blue Nun wine rattling away on the top of a Leslie speaker cabinet. It just happened. Paul hit a certain note and the bottle started vibrating. We thought it was so good that we set the mikes up and did it again. The Beatles always took advantage of accidents.” The rattling sound is best heard in the right channel of the stereo version. 4 The Beatles - Any Time At All - A Hard Day’s Night (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: John Recorded June 2, 1964, the last day of recording for the “A Hard Day’s Night” album. John Lennon: “An effort at writing ‘It Won't Be Long’ - same ilk. C to A minor, C to A minor with me shouting.” The song was in an unfinished state when Lennon brought it to the band to record on June 2. The group worked out the arrangement throughout the day and night. Up against the wall on a deadline to submit the album, the piano section in the middle eight was left without lyrics. They had run out of time. On April 8, 1988, Lennon's handwritten lyrics for “Any Time At All” were sold for £6,000 at an auction held at Sotheby's in London. On U.S. album: Something New - Capitol LP 5 Ringo – I’m The Greatest – RINGO! John Lennon - #9 Dream - Walls And Bridges ‘74 This track had started out with the title of “Walls and Bridges.” It was later renamed as it is much more fitting, and continues John’s fascination with the number nine. May Pang provide backing vocals (“John’s”) – while a message to George Harrison can be heard (as the two men had been arguing). The Beatles - Let It Be - album version - Let It Be (Lennon-McCartney) Lead vocal: Paul “Let It Be” was the last song properly recorded on multi-track at Apple Studios during the “Get Back” sessions in January 1969. It was completed in eight takes (numbered Take 20 through 27 to match the film crew clapboard numbers) on January 31, 1969, the day after the rooftop concert. Take 27 had two complete performances of the song and the first of these Take 27 performances was deemed the best. Though the intent of the January 1969 “Get Back” sessions was to capture the Beatles “live” in the studio without benefit of studio trickery like overdubbing, an exception was made on “Let It Be” so that George Harrison could re-record his lead guitar solo. George’s overdub was recorded on April 30, 1969. Author Mark Lewisohn: “It is widely believed that there are two different takes of ‘Let It Be’ publicly available - the single released (in the UK) on March 6, 1970 and the “Let It Be” LP version released (in the UK) May 8, 1970. Certainly the lead guitar solos in the middle eight differ considerably, and the LP version has a longer duration. But, in truth, these are one and the same version. That is, they are derived from the same tape.” 6 QUIZ – The Beatles Rock’n’Roll album came out today June 7th 1976…which Beatle offered to do artwork for the LP but was turned DOWN by Capitol Records!!!! 9.27 BREAK Next weekend JL Kobe..Paul has a Birthday 18th …should be do and ALL WINGS show on the 14th ? Or perhaps every other song a WINGS song? Let me know…OK.. The Beatles - Rock and Roll Music - Beatles For Sale (Berry) Lead vocal: John Incredibly, this stunning cover version of Chuck Berry’s classic hit from 1957 featuring John Lennon on lead vocal was captured in just one take on October 18, 1964. Like “Twist and Shout” and “Money (That’s What I Want)” before it, “Rock and Roll Music” is a prime example of Lennon making a previously known hit his own. The overdubbed piano part features John, Paul and George Martin pounding the SAME piano! The song 7 was featured on the Beatles 1965 European Tour and was the opening song during their 1966 concert tours. On U.S. album: Beatles ‘65 - Capitol LP The Beatles - Bad Boy - A Collection Of Oldies (Williams) Lead vocal: John Recorded specifically for the American market at the urgent request of Capitol Records executives, who needed two songs to fill out their upcoming “Beatles VI” album. Of course, Capitol had four songs in its possession it could have included (“From Me To You,” “Misery,” “There’s A Place” and the German-language version of “She Loves You,” had all yet to appear on an LP in America), but they went to the Beatles and asked for something new ASAP. With no new material ready to go the band pulled two Larry Williams’ songs from their pre-fame club repertoire, “Bad Boy” and “Dizzy Miss Lizzy,” that could be recorded in one day and then the tapes would be air-freighted to Capitol Records in Los Angeles. “Bad Boy” would go unreleased in the UK for another year and a half until it turned up on the hits compilation “A Collection of Beatles Oldies” in December 1966. Recorded on May 10, 1965. On U.S. album: Beatles VI - Capitol LP On UK album: A Collection of Beatles Oldies - Parlophone LP (1966) The Beatles - Dizzy Miss Lizzy - Help! 8 (Williams) Lead vocal: John Recorded specifically for the American market at the urgent request of Capitol Records executives, who needed two songs to fill out their upcoming “Beatles VI” album. Of course, Capitol had four songs in its possession it could have included (“From Me To You,” “Misery,” “There’s A Place” and the German-language version of “She Loves You,” had all yet to appear on an LP in America), but they went to the Beatles and asked for something new ASAP. With no new material ready to go the band pulled two Larry Williams’ songs from their pre-fame club repertoire, “Bad Boy” and “Dizzy Miss Lizzy,” that could be recorded in one day and then the tapes would be air-freighted to Capitol Records in Los Angeles. “Dizzy Miss Lizzy” was added as the album closer on the UK “Help!” LP when several songs earmarked for the project fell through (“That Means A Lot” and “Wait”) and they decided against including the two most recent B-sides. On U.S. album: Beatles VI - Capitol LP “Long Tall Sally” (Johnson-Penniman-Blackwell) Lead vocal: Paul Paul McCartney recorded this Little Richard screecher in just one take on March 1, 1964. Prior to being properly recorded, the Beatles performed the song for an American audience during the Beatles’ first concert appearance, in Washington D.C.