Recording "Penny Lane" #6
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- Album Songs recorded during this session officially appear on the Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane 7" Single.
- Studio:
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
Songs recorded
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Staff
Musicians on "Penny Lane"
- Ray Swinfield:
- Flute
- P Goody:
- Flute
- Manny Winters:
- Flute
- Dennis Walton:
- Flute
- Leon Calvert:
- Trumpet
- Freddy Clayton:
- Trumpet
- ?:
- Flugelhorn, Two piccolos
Production staff
About
The Beatles had so far spent five sessions recording Paul McCartney’s “Penny Lane”, on December 29 and December 30, 1966, and on January 4, January 5 and January 6, 1967.
The goal of the session on this day, which took place from 7 pm to 1:45 am, was to record wind and horn arrangements composed by George Martin.
In contrast to John, who had only the vaguest of ideas about how he wanted “Strawberry Fields Forever” to be recorded, Paul had very definite thoughts about the instrumentation he wanted on “Penny Lane.” George Martin was tasked with creating an arrangement for flutes, trumpets, piccolo, and fluegelhorn, to which were added oboes, cor anglais (English horn), and bowed double bass. Combined with Paul’s stellar bass playing and superb vocals (with backing from John and George), the track was beginning to sound full, polished, and quite finished to me.
Geoff Emerick – From “Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles“, 2006
Four flautists (Ray Swinfield, P Goody, Manny Winters and Dennis Walton) and two trumpeters (Leon Calvert and Freddy Clayton) were present. Three of those musicians also added overdubs for two piccolos parts and a flugelhorn, but it is not known who play played which instruments. These recordings were added onto track three of Take 9.
At the end of the session, two rough mono mixes were created, numbered 5 and 6.
Work on “Penny Lane” would continue the next day, January 10, 1967.
Last updated on February 6, 2023