Let It Be/Get Back 50th Anniversary Releases! (Content and Sound Quality Discussion Only)!

A droogy, sulky character on some boards likes to say the edited Teddy Boy is “butchered”.

I guess some people like things rambling, sloppy, and repetitive…

 

You could include the 1968 jam of "Let it Be" from the White Album box as the earliest recorded version of the song. Anthology 2 also has an extended version of You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) with a whole other section to it.

 

I believe it is already there as 'unnumbered rehearsal'

 

It’s like fate wanted these quotes to be in consecutive posts!

 

I did list the Anthology 3 I've Got a Feeling, but yeah I missed For You Blue and Two of Us, will add those; thanks!
I believe the Let It Be… Naked performance of The Long and Winding Road is the one on disc two of this set, and everything else you mention is on this set (Dig It in both the Let It Be edit and also in the longer Get Back edit) and any earlier release where any of them appear they were same performances — unless there is an officially released alternate of any of those I missed.

 

One of my favorites, and I left it out! I guess I never think of it as a Get Back / Let It Be track since it was started in 1967 and then not resumed and finished until after the Get Back sessions were over, but for sure it is associated— it's the b-side of Let It Be, after all — so I will add to revised list once I sort thru all the feedback. Not the kinda feedback missing from Teddy Boy; I mean the replies here.

 

1968 is fair game for Across The Universe I figure since a 1968 recording of that song was used on final Get Back and on Let It Be , but yeah I did decide to leave out going back to 1963 for their rocking One After 909.
On a different note, I also did not consider Fly On The Wall snippets.

 

In that case here's my playlist:

Get Back (Let It Be....Naked)
Two of Us (Let It Be....Naked)
Dig A Pony (Take 14) 2021
Across The Universe (2021 Mix)
I Me Mine (1970 Glyn Johns Mix) & because this is so short it actually blends into:
I Me Mine (2021 Mix) which sort of swells from the previous track
Let It Be (Take 28)
I've Got A Feeling (1969 Glyn Johns Mix)
One After 909 (Take 3)
The Long And Winding Road (1969 Glyn Johns Mix)
Don’t Let Me Down (Single Version / 2021 Mix)
You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) (Mono Masters 2009)

(Last 2 tracks may need tweaking to better versions)

 

MrsVandebilt,
Maybe try my revised ordering of the album; it perhaps highlights the advancing acumen of the Lennon-McCartney songwriting team a bit better:

No Reply’
‘I’m A Loser’
‘Baby’s In Black’
‘I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party’
‘She’s A Woman’
‘Every Little Thing’
‘I Feel Fine’
‘Words Of Love’
‘I’ll Follow The Sun’
‘What You’re Doing’
‘Honey Don’t’
‘Rock And Roll Music’
‘Eight Days A Week’
‘Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby’

 

I've Got a Feeling (Glyn Johns mix)? That broke down with John saying "I c**ked it up trying to get loud." Not meant to end there. To me, it's a bad take. Rooftop all the way for me!

 

Following feedback (thanks, all), updating this listing of officially released different performances (not just different mixes, and not counting little bits of other performances like the dialogue from previous take's I Me Mine on Anthology 3, etc) of tracks associated with the Get Back / Let It Be album which are not included as part of the 2021 Let It Be “Super Deluxe” set.

Across The Universe —
1995) Anthology 2 : (take 2) 3 February 1968
2018) The Beatles (50th anniversary) : (take 6) 4 February 1968
{Leaving out other earlier recordings of songs the band revisited during these sessions— One After 909 from 1963, Love Me Do, various covers, etc — but including this since a February 1968 recording is what’s used on Get Back (1970) and Let It Be}

All Things Must Pass —
1996) Anthology 3 : 25th February 1969 demo [composite]
{Old Brown Shoe and Something from same day also on Anthology, but keeping those associated with Abbey Road…}

Dig A Pony —
1996) Anthology 3 : Apple Studios 22 January 1969

Don't Let Me Down —
2003) Let It Be… Naked : rooftop 30 January 1969 [composite of first & second performance but mostly the first which is on this new set]

For You Blue —
1996) Anthology 3 : Apple Studios 25 January 1969

Get Back —
1996) Anthology 3 : rooftop 30 January 1969 (third/final performance)

Isn’t It a Pity —
2009) Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison | iTunes bonus track : 26th January 1969 demo
{Left this out first round on technicality of Let It Roll being a Harrison collection, not a Beatles release; adding it now but still leaving out numbers like Another Day and Gimme Some Truth, of which other released performances only exist from post-Beatles sessions.}

I've Got A Feeling —
2003) Let It Be… Naked : rooftop 30 January 1969 [composite of first & second performance]

Let It Be —
1996) Anthology 3 : Apple Studios 25 January 1969
2018) The Beatles (50th anniversary) : unnumbered rehearsal

Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues —
1996) Anthology 3 : Apple Studios 29 January 1969

Rip It Up / Shake, Rattle and Roll / Blue Suede Shoes (medley) —
1996) Anthology 3 : Apple Studios 26 January 1969

Teddy Boy —
1996) Anthology 3 : Apple Studios [composite of 24 January 1969 & 28 January 1969]

Two of Us —
1996) Anthology 3 : Apple Studios 24 January 1969

You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) —
1970) Let It Be single, b-side : 17 May 1967 / 8 June 1967 / 30 April 1969 • later included on the Rarities (UK 1978 & US 1980) and Past Masters / Mono Masters ( 1987 & 2009) compilations
1995) Anthology 2 : stereo remix
{Hadn’t though of this as associated with Get Back/Let It Be — but hey, it’s the b-side of the latter’s title track, it had yet to be released, and John does bust it out briefly at Twickenham.}

 

Over 500 pages - wow!

 

Late guitar swells in Come Together.

 

I can't think of any track with the initials OOPS. Please say what OOPS is, in your post.

 

That’s super! Thought we’d have to live with that wonky mix but guess not

I am no Audacity expert but will have to try doing this. Hopefully there are easy online instructions.

Another strike for Apple’s QC! Wonder what their process is to check for such issues before release….

 

OOPS is not a song title abbreviation. It is:

Out of Phase Stereo - Wikipedia

 

Is this performance really different from the one included on the new Get Back album ?

 

Cheers.

 

Many thanks! I will definitely give this a try.

 

Amazon just delivered my Get Back book. There goes my work week….

 

It's certainly an incomplete take and therefore has no place on an official album "as is".

That said, up to the breakdown, I think it's the best they ever played the song (& certainly ever sung it) so I run with my composite edit of that & the official LIB album take as my "go to" version - it ain't perfect (the dramatic shift in stereo mix balance doesn't work on headphones), but it is an absolutely rockin' take of IGAF that also ends properly!

 

That was how we got a bit of deconstruction/ remix fun in the 70s/early 80s! Hearing how James Taylor's isolated guitar was so awful on Carole King's You Got a Friend but sounded great in the mix was very revealing!

 

I know.. off topic. But really cool.

 

Paul really really needs an instrument in his hand.

 

You're right. Could be.