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Mixing the "Get Back" album (1st compilation) #2

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On this Sunday, The Beatles continued their “Get Back” sessions at Apple Studios in London, marking the sixth day at their new studio and the 17th day overall for the project.

That evening, engineer Glyn Johns took several recordings from the day’s session to Olympic Sound Studios, where he prepared a series of rough mixes. He also mixed a version of “Don’t Let Me Down” recorded on January 22. These mixes were not intended for official release — they served as reference versions, allowing The Beatles to hear how the tracks sounded on record and take them home for review.

The following day, January 27, the session began with Glyn Johns playing back the results of his overnight mixes.

Glyn Johns had already mixed tracks from the “Get Back” sessions on the evening of January 24. He returned to Olympic Sound Studios on January 27 and 30 to prepare additional mixes.

About Glyn Johns’ “Get Back” compilations

A few months after the end of the “Get Back” sessions, engineer/producer Glyn Johns was given the task of compiling an actual album. Glyn made four different variants of the album, two of them having been considered for release at some point.

Compilation 1 – January 1969Compilation 2 – Early May 1969Compilation 3 – Late May 1969Compilation 4 – January 1970
Mixed:
January 24, 1969
January 26, 1969
January 27, 1969
January 30, 1969		Mixed:
February 5, 1969
March-May, 1969
March 4, 1969
April 3, 1969
April 4, 1969
April 7, 1969
May 2, 1969
May 7, 1969
May 9, 1969		Mixed:
May 15, 1969
May 28, 1969		Additional recording:
January 3, 1970
January 8, 1970

Mixed:
December 15, 1969
December 21, 1969
January 5, 1970
January 8, 1970
Side one

1. Get Back (false start) — DDSI 23.78
2. Get Back — DDSI 23.79
3. I’ve Got a Feeling (fragment) — DDSI 23.80
4. Help! (fragment) — DDSI 23.81
5. Teddy Boy — DDSI 24.33
6. Two of Us (fragment – false start) — DDSI 24.48
7. Two of Us — DDSI 24.69
8. Dig a Pony — DDSI 23.66
9. I’ve Got a Feeling — DDSI 22.71

Side two

10. The Long and Winding Road — DDSI 26.91
11. Let It Be — DDSI 26.74
12. Don’t Let Me Down — DDSI 22.60
13. For You Blue — DDSI 25.46
14. Get Back — DDSI 27.63
15. The Walk — DDSI 27.83		Side one

1. One After 909
2. Rocker
3. Save the Last Dance for Me
4. Don’t Let Me Down
5. Dig a Pony
6. I’ve Got a Feeling
7. Get Back

Side two

8. For You Blue
9. Teddy Boy
10. Two of Us
11. Maggie Mae
12. Dig It
13. Let It Be
14. The Long and Winding Road
15. Get Back (reprise)		Side one

1. One After 909 — DDSI.30.08
2. Rocker — DDSI.22.58
3. Save the Last Dance for Me — DDSI.22.59
4. Don’t Let Me Down — DDSI.22.80
5. Dig a Pony — DDSI.23.70
6. I’ve Got a Feeling — DDSI.22.71
7. Get Back — DDSI.27.63 & 28.43

Side two

8. For You Blue — DDSI.25.47
9. Teddy Boy — DDSI.24.33
10. Two of Us — DDSI.24.69
11. Maggie Mae — DDSI.24.49
12. Dig It — Excerpt of DDSI.24.85
13. Let It Be — 31.64 + overdubbed guitar solo
14. The Long and Winding Road — DDSI.26.91
15. Get Back (reprise) — DDSI.28.43		Side one

1. One After 909
2. Rocker
3. Save the Last Dance for Me
4. Don’t Let Me Down
5. Dig a Pony
6. I’ve Got a Feeling
7. Get Back
8. Let It Be

Side two

9. For You Blue
10. Two of Us
11. Maggie Mae
12. Dig It
13. The Long and Winding Road
14. I Me Mine
15. Across the Universe
16. Get Back (reprise)
Bootlegged on “Kum Back“Bootlegged on “O.P.D.“

Session activities

  1. The Long And Winding Road

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    Mixing • DDSI.26.91

    AlbumReleased on bootleg Kum Back

  2. Let It Be

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    Mixing • DDSI.26.74

    AlbumReleased on bootleg Kum Back

  3. Don't Let Me Down

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    Mixing • DDSI.22.60

    AlbumReleased on bootleg Kum Back

  4. Dig It

    Written by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, George Harrison

    Mixing • DDSI.26.55

  5. Rip It Up

    Written by Robert Blackwell, John Marascalco

    Mixing • DDSI.26.56

  6. Shake, Rattle And Roll

    Written by Charles E. Calhoun

    Mixing • DDSI.26.57

  7. Miss Ann

    Written by Richard Penniman / Little Richard, Enotris Johnson

    Mixing • DDSI.26.58

  8. Kansas City

    Written by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller

    Mixing • DDSI.26.58

  9. Lawdy Miss Clawdy

    Written by Lloyd Price

    Mixing • DDSI.26.58

  10. Blue Suede Shoes

    Written by Carl Perkins

    Mixing • DDSI.26.59

  11. You Really Got A Hold On Me

    Written by Smokey Robinson

    Mixing • DDSI.26.60

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Drugs, Divorce and a Slipping Image - The Complete, Unauthorized Story of The Beatles' 'Get Back' Sessions

The definitive guide to the Get Back sessions, released in 1994 and updated in 2007. In the author's own words:

New, completely revised edition! This new volume isn t just a compilation of material from the 1994 book Drugs, Divorce and a Slipping Image (also later published as 'Get Back') and 'The 910's Guide To The Beatles Outtakes Part Two: The Complete Get Back Sessions' (2001). I've re-listened to the entire canon of available Get Back session tapes, come up with a bunch of new conclusions (and even a handful of new identifications!), and pretty much re-written half the book from scratch. In addition, great effort has been made to improve readability of the book. Songs have now been put into groups (generally by Nagra reel, or series of them), rather than describing each performance separately, as was done in the original. In every way, this is the book we wished we could have written in 1994.
As the paperback version is out of print, you can buy a PDF version on the author's website

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The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions • Mark Lewisohn

The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions • Mark Lewisohn

The definitive guide for every Beatles recording sessions from 1962 to 1970. We owe a lot to Mark Lewisohn for the creation of those session pages, but you really have to buy this book to get all the details - the number of takes for each song, who contributed what, a description of the context and how each session went, various photographies... And an introductory interview with Paul McCartney!

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The Beatles Recording Reference Manual: Volume 5: Let It Be through Abbey Road (1969 - 1970)

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The fifth and final book of this critically acclaimed series, "The Beatles Recording Reference Manual: Volume 5: Let It Be through Abbey Road (1969 - 1970)" follows The Beatles as they "get back to where they once belonged...". Not once, but twice. With "Let It Be", they attempted to recapture the spontaneity of their early years and recordings, while "Abbey Road" was a different kind of return - to the complexity, finish and polish that they had applied to their work beginning with "Revolver" and through to "The Beatles".

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