Wednesday, May 28, 1969
For The Beatles
Last updated on May 16, 2025
Mixing the Get Back album (2nd & 3rd compilations)
March - May 1969 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Let It Be (50th anniversary boxset - SHM - Japanese edition)
Recording studio: Olympic Sound Studios • London • UK
Previous session May 09, 1969 • Mixing the "Get Back" album (2nd compilation)
Single May 19, 1969 • "New Day / Thumbin' A Ride" by Jackie Lomax released in the US
Article May 22, 1969 • “Hey Jude” wins an Ivor Novello award
Session May 28, 1969 • Mixing the "Get Back" album (3rd compilation)
Article June - July 1969 • The "Get Back" LP rumours • June to July 1969
Next session Jul 01, 1969 • Recording "You Never Give Me Your Money"
March - May 1969 • Mixing the Get Back album (2nd & 3rd compilations)
April - May 1969 • The “Get Back” LP rumours • April to May 1969
May 13, 1969 • Photo shoot of the "Get Back" LP album
May 28, 1969 • Mixing the "Get Back" album (3rd compilation)
June - July 1969 • The "Get Back" LP rumours • June to July 1969
August 1969 • The “Get Back” LP rumours • August 1969
September - December 1969 • The "Get Back" LP rumours • September to December 1969
Dec 15, 1969 • Mixing the "Get Back" album (4th compilation)
On this day, Glyn Johns created a new stereo mix for “Let It Be” and completed his third version of the “Get Back” LP.
[To George Martin’s ears, the mix was] warts and all, with the mistakes and count-ins and breakdowns and so on. That was the album. I thought it was a write-off. I didn’t hear any more, and I thought that was the end of our days. I thought, ‘Well, that’s the finish of the Beatles. What a shame.’
George Harrison – From “Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and the End of the Beatles” by Kenneth Womack, 2019
We all had an acetate. Listening to it one night in June, I thought, Jeez, this is brave, but it’s a great album. It really is just The Beatles stripped back, nothing but four guys in a room. Or five with Billy Preston. It’s almost scary, cos we’d always double-tracked, harmonised and so on, but this was a live album kind of thing.
I remember getting a thrill cos I was in this empty, very white room listening to this album – very minimalist – and thinking, great, very impressed. This is gonna be a great album. And then it was reorganised, re-produced for disc, reorganised for the shops, kind of thing.
Paul McCartney – From “Conversations with McCartney” by Paul du Noyer, 2016
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 1969 | Compilation 2 – Early May 1969 | Compilation 3 – Late May 1969 | Compilation 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.“ |
Mixing • Stereo mixing of take 27
Master tape banding and compilation for GetBack LP
Editing
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