Friday, April 25, 1969

Mixing "Two Of Us"

For The Beatles

Last updated on April 2, 2025

Location

Recording studio: EMI Studios, Room 4, Abbey Road • London • UK

Timeline

Session Apr 18, 1969 • Recording and mixing "Old Brown Shoe", "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"

Session Apr 20, 1969 • Recording and mixing "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", "Oh! Darling"

Session Apr 25, 1969 • Mixing "Two Of Us"

Session Apr 26, 1969 • Recording "Oh! Darling", "Octopus's Garden"

Session Apr 29, 1969 • Recording and mixing "Octopus's Garden"

Master release

Let It Be
By The Beatles

On this day, from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm, a rough mono mix of “Two Of Us” — still titled “On Our Way Home” at this stage — was prepared from the recording made on January 31, 1969. The mix was used to cut an acetate disc, intended for the Apple-signed American group Mortimer.

Mortimer went on to record the song in late April 1969, but their version remained unreleased until 2017.

Session activities

Two Of Us
Written by Lennon - McCartney
Mixing • DDSI.31.? • Mono mixing - Remix 1

Staff

Production staff

Peter Mew : Engineer
Chris Blair : Second engineer

Going further

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)

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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