Mixing the "Get Back" album (3rd compilation)
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On this day, Glyn Johns created a new stereo mix for “Let It Be”.
[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 – Quoted in “Solid State” by Kenneth Womack
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
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 1969 | Compilation 2 – Early May 1969 | Compilation 3 – Late May 1969 | Compilation 4 – January 1970 |
| Mixed: Late January 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 |
| Side one 1. Get Back 2. The Walk 3. Let It Be 4. Teddy Boy 5. Two Of Us Side two 6. Don’t Let Me Down 7. I’ve Got A Feeling 8. The Long And Winding Road 9. For You Blue 10. Dig A Pony 11. Get Back | 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 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 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) |
Last updated on January 13, 2022