- US release date:
- Jun 15, 1966
- Publisher:
- Capitol
- Reference:
- T-2553
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Side 1
1.
2:31 • Studio version • B1 • Mono • Mono made from [B] by Capitol
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Lead guitar, Rhythm guitar, Vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Cowbell, Drums
- John Lennon :
- Piano, Tambourine, Vocals
- George Harrison :
- Guitar, Harmony vocals
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Norman Smith :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Oct 13, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Oct 26, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
2.
3:03 • Studio version • A • Mono
- Paul McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Bass
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums
- John Lennon :
- Acoustic rhythm guitar, Vocals
- George Harrison :
- Backing vocals, Lead guitar
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Apr 27, 1966
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Three, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Apr 29, May 5, May 6, 1966
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Three, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- May 12, 1966
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Three, Abbey Road
3.
2:44 • Studio version • A • Mono
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Harmony vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums
- John Lennon :
- Acoustic rhythm guitar, Lead guitar, Vocals
- George Harrison :
- Harmony vocals, Lead guitar
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Norman Smith :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Oct 21, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Recording:
- Oct 22, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Oct 25, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
4.
2:17 • Studio version • A • Mono
- Paul McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Bass
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums
- John Lennon :
- Harmonium, Rhythm guitar, Vocals
- George Harrison :
- Backing vocals, Lead guitar, Maracas
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Apr 17, 1966
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Apr 19, 1966
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- May 12, 1966
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Three, Abbey Road
5.
2:07 • Studio version • A • Mono
- Paul McCartney :
- Guitar, Vocals
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Norman Smith :
- Recording engineer
- Tony Gilbert :
- Violin
- Sidney Sax :
- Violin
- Kenneth Essex :
- Viola
- Francesc Gabarró Solé :
- Cello
- Session Recording:
- Jun 14, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Jun 17, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
6.
Written by Johnny Russell, Voni Morrison
2:31 • Studio version • A • Mono
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Harmony vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Sticks, Vocals
- John Lennon :
- Acoustic rhythm guitar
- George Harrison :
- Lead guitar
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Norman Smith :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Jun 17, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Jun 18, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
Side 2
1.
2:03 • Studio version • A • Mono
- Paul McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Handclaps, Lead guitar
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Handclaps, Tambourine
- John Lennon :
- Handclaps, Rhythm guitar, Vocals
- George Harrison :
- Backing vocals, Handclaps, Lead guitar
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Apr 26, 1966
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- May 12, 1966
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Three, Abbey Road
2.
Written by George Harrison
2:23 • Studio version • A • Mono
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Harmony vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Tambourine
- John Lennon :
- Harmony vocals, Rhythm guitar
- George Harrison :
- 12-string electric guitar, Vocals
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Norman Smith :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Oct 16, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Recording:
- Oct 18, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Oct 25, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
3.
2:17 • Studio version • A • Mono
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums
- John Lennon :
- Acoustic rhythm guitar, Harmonium, Vocals
- George Harrison :
- Tambourine
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Norman Smith :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Oct 20, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Oct 28, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs & mixing:
- Oct 29, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
4.
Written by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon
2:48 • Studio version • A • Mono
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Harmony vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Vocals
- John Lennon :
- Harmony vocals, Rhythm guitar
- George Harrison :
- Lead guitar
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Norman Smith :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Nov 04, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Nov 09, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Room 65, Abbey Road
5.
2:56 • Studio version • B • Mono
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Tambourine
- John Lennon :
- Lead guitar, Rhythm guitar, Vocals
- George Harrison :
- Lead guitar, Vocals
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Norman Smith :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Oct 16, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Oct 29, 1965
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
About
See Yesterday and Today (Mono)
I don’t think I ever quarrelled with them musically at all. The only time I ever really came to blows with them was over something quite different, which was a record sleeve. It was one that was never issued here. They were dressed up as butchers, and it came out in America. It was their idea of a joke.
George Martin – From interview with Melody Maker, August 21, 1971
We took the pictures in London at one of those photo sessions. By then we were really sort of beginning to hate it. A photo session was a big ordeal, and you had to try and look normal, and you didn’t feel it. And the photographer was a bit of a surrealist, you know? And he brought along all these babies and pieces of meat and doctors’ coats, so we really got into it, and that’s how we felt, eurgh! So we sort of — I especially — pushed for it to be an album cover, just to break the image, you know?
John Lennon – From John Lennon on the Dennis Elsas Show, WNEW-FM, 28 Sept 1974.
Beatles put firm in a dilemma
A change of mind by the Beatles has put a major US record company in a big dilemma. The company would gladly have paid a fortune for a machine to rip records out of their covers and put them in new wrappers this past week. What happened? A little joke left the record company’s executives grinning rather grimly.
The Beatles sent a photograph from London to grace their new album, “Yesterday and Today,” with the word that this was the cover they wanted.
Picture the Beatles, each widely grinning. wearing stained white butcher’s smocks, their figures draped with dismembered doll torsos and assorted cuts of meat, captured in living colour. The company muttered “no” several dozen times when the picture reached them, but they couldn’t say no too firmly and Brian Epstein and his four charges prevailed.
About one million copies of the album were pressed at the factory and nearly as many album covers had been run off. Then the Beatles’ organisation decided to withdraw the covers from the market and substitute a milder form of art.
Little wonder the company is in a panic.
From Evening Post – June 20, 1966
Red, dead meat Beatles pic costs £25,000!
FIRST, of course, there’s been a great row over the BEATLE album cover with the lumps of red, dead, winking meat. As you may have read, Capitol called in all the covers and destroyed them. Well… almost all. The fly people kept theirs and they’re now collectors’ items.
It was unfortunate for Capitol that they’d sent copies to all the fan club presidents, to the record reviewers and to the radio stations, before deciding to change the cover and substitute what the company call a “more suitable photograph.”
I never heard such controversy over any album cover. Most people are shocked by it; some are very sad about the departure from the jovial wide-eyed Beatle thing; many of us wonder about it and none of us is amused for very long.
Me? I don’t think it’s a good picture. I think the concept is naive.
Enough of that. It’s cost Capitol 500,000 album covers and about 75,000 dollars (£25,000). […]
From Disc And Music Echo – June 25, 1966
BEATLES COVER TROUBLE
The release of the Beatles’ latest U.S. album was held up for a week following protests over the cover. The LP was eventually released last week.
Titled “Yesterday And Today the album’s cover was a colour picture of the Beatles in butchers aprons and surrounded by pieces of meat and sections of dolls.
Many thousands of covers were withdrawn last week and replaced by a “a more suitable” picture.
A spokesman for NEMS told the RM: “We obviously have a say in what goes on the Beatles’ cover, if they put out something that we absolutely hated we would put our foot down. It doesn’t worry us that they aren’t using it. It will not be used as the cover for their next LP here, though.”
From Record Mirror – July 2, 1966
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