- Album Songs recorded during this session officially appear on the Let It Be / You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) 7" Single.
- Studio:
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
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On May 17 and June 7, 1967, The Beatles started recording their song “You Know My Name (Look Up That Number)“. The song consisted of five parts. The first part was recorded during those first two sessions. On June 8, The Beatles recorded the four remaining parts, each played in a different musical style.
On this day, June 9, from 7 pm to 11 pm, the five parts were edited together to create Take 30. Take 30 consisted of Take 9 of Part One, Take 12 of Part Two, Take 4 of Part Three, Take 6 of Part Four, and Take 1 of Part Five. A rough mono mix, without any vocals and lasting 6’08”, was then made so that acetate discs could be cut for reference.
After that, work on “You Know My Name (Look Up That Number)” was put on hold for almost two years. The vocals were finally added on April 30, 1969.
Last updated on February 26, 2024
Songs recorded
1.
You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
Editing • Take 30. Editing of part 1 - take 9, part 2 - take 12, part 3 - take 4, part 4 - take 6, part 5 - take 1
2.
You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
Mixing • Mono mixing - Remix 1 from take 30
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!
The third book of this critically - acclaimed series, nominated for the 2019 Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) award for Excellence In Historical Recorded Sound, "The Beatles Recording Reference Manual: Volume 3: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band through Magical Mystery Tour (late 1966-1967)" captures the band's most innovative era in its entirety. From the first take to the final remix, discover the making of the greatest recordings of all time. Through extensive, fully-documented research, these books fill an important gap left by all other Beatles books published to date and provide a unique view into the recordings of the world's most successful pop music act.
If we like to think, in all modesty, that the Paul McCartney Project is the best online ressource for everything Paul McCartney, The Beatles Bible is for sure the definitive online site focused on the Beatles. There are obviously some overlap in terms of content between the two sites, but also some major differences in terms of approach.
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