Hodge Podge
1. Yesterday
2. Medley:
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
3. Medley:
12-Bar Original
12-Bar Original
12-Bar Original
4. Medley:
That Means A Lot
That Means A Lot
5. I'm So Tired
6. Penny Lane
7. The Inner Light
8. Revolution
9. I'm So Tired
10. I'm So Tired
11. I Am The Walrus
12. (Instrumental)
13. The Long And Winding Road
14. Paperback Writer
NOTES
1. The centerpiece of this collection is the original acetate of Yesterday, Take 1. This was recorded on June 14, 1965 and mixed for mono three days later. Although pub- lished 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!
2. Takes 1 [excerpt], 2 The engineer's announcement and some pre-song chatter preface Take I of this song (then known simply as This Bird Has Flown). This was recorded October 12, 1965. We've omitted most of the take here, which can be found on Yellow Dog's Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 2 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. Takes 1 [break- down), Take 2 and unnumbered Take [excerpt]) Surprisingly, this Green Onion vatriant lasts only 10 seconds before breaking down. Even more surprisingly, the long Take 2 is followed by another (frag- mentary) two-minute performance, undocumented in published sources. Even though Take 2 appears on the Yellow Dog CD Acetates, it appears here in true stereo for the first time.
4. Take 23, "test" 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.
5. reconstruction, Take 14 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. Recorded October 8, 1968.
6. Overdub session On January 9th, 1967 six session musi- cians and George Martin gathered together to add another layer to Pennv Lane. Here's an excerpt from that overdub session, as aired on the American radio series The Lost Lennon Tapes.
7. Backing track The original backing track for the song recorded by Indian musicians during the Wonderwall sessions on January 12th, 1968.
8. video soundtrack 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. Take 14
10. 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 origi- nal guitar and organ parts out.
11. Take 17 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. Recorded September 5, 1967.
12. (Instrumental) (Unknown) 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. 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, pre- dating the Let It Be sessions in early 1969. You be the judge.
14. (Remix) This remix is different flom the raw tracks available on Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 3. Recorded April 13th, 1966.