O.P.D.
By The Beatles • Unofficial album
By The Beatles • Unofficial album
This album was recorded during the following studio sessions:
Get Back sessions - January 22, 1969 - Day 11
Jan 22, 1969
Get Back sessions - January 23, 1969 - Day 12
Jan 23, 1969
Get Back sessions - January 24, 1969 - Day 13
Jan 24, 1969
Mixing the Get Back album (2nd & 3rd compilations)
March - May 1969
Mixing the "Get Back" album (2nd compilation)
May 09, 1969
US radio WKBW broadcasts the “Get Back” LP
Sep 20, 1969
3:07 • Live • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation
Concert From "The rooftop concert" in London, United Kingdom on Jan 30, 1969
Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Medley
Written by Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Fats Domino, Al Lewis, Sylvester Bradford
2:17 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation
Session Recording: Jan 22, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London
Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Written by Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman
2:17 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation
Session Recording: Jan 22, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London
Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
2:17 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation
Session Recording: Jan 22, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London
Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
3:52 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation
Session Recording: Jan 22, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London
Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
4:09 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation
Session Recording: Jan 23, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London
Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
2:50 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation
Session Recording: Jan 22, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London
Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
3:01 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation
Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Written by George Harrison
2:52 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation
Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Written by Paul McCartney
3:43 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation
Session Recording: Jan 24, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London
Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Medley
4:11 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation
Session Recording: Jan 24, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London
Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Written by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, George Harrison
4:11 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation
Session Recording: Jan 24, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London
Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Written by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, George Harrison
5:20 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation
Session Recording: Jan 24, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London
Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
4:10 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation
Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
3:44 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation
Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
0:42 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation
Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London
From O.P.D. | beatlegs:
This LP is particularly interesting because it represents the only full-length issue of an undocumented version of the unreleased GET BACK LP, containing a few more seconds after the song Get Back and various small edits here and there and compiled in early May ’69. It includes a longer version of Dig It compared with other releases of the time and the complete, unedited version of For You Blue.
The unreleased GET BACK LP was known since the mid seventies (after the Wizardo and Kornyphone records); it was mixed at EMI on May 28th, 1969. The differences of the mix which originated O.P.D. are the following:
TRACK 7, Get Back.
The O.P.D. mix has the original unedited version with a longer coda unavailable elsewhere.
The May 28th mix has the officially released version (45 mix), which is the same O.P.D. version, with the coda from another take edited onto the ending.
TRACK 12, Dig It
The O.P.D. mix is over 5 minutes long, on the promo GET BACK it clocks at 4’20″. Compared with the longest available version, this edit of Dig It starts at 1’56’’ and lacks the following segments, probably edited at EMI during the mixing: from 2’18’’ to 2’57’’, from 5’56’’ to 6’26’’ and from 7’05’’ to 7’33’’.
TRACK 13, Let it be (take 27).
The May 28th mix is the same as the O.P.D. mix, plus the “Are we supposed to giggle in the solo” spoken intro (from take 23) edited onto the beginning.
This undocumented early mix of the GET BACK album was first aired on September 20, 1969 by WKBW in Buffalo (from a tape they apparently had obtained from a Toronto radio station).
Thanks to the research of contributors to Belmo’s Beatleg News fanzine, we know that by mid-october tape copies had reached Cincinnati, where, according to a high school paper, a fourth generation copy of the tape was in the possession of a local FM radio station; and Detroit, a staff-writer of the Free Press reporting to have heard the yet unreleased GET BACK album on an «unmixed tape» and commenting the line-up track by track.
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