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- Album Songs recorded during this session officially appear on the Revolver (UK Mono) LP.
- Studio:
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
Some songs from this session appear on:
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This was the third day of recording the “Revolver” album, continuing the work done on Paul McCartney’s “Got To Get You Into My Life“ the previous day.
Five takes had been recorded so far, in an acoustic vein. On this day, from 2:30 pm to 9 pm, The Beatles started from scratch, recording three takes (numbered takes 6 to 8), with Paul McCartney on bass, John Lennon on organ, George Harrison on electric guitar, and Ringo Starr on drums.
Recorded with frequency control (varispeed) at a slower than normal tape speed, the backing track played back a semitone higher in pitch as well as faster than the original performance.
From The Beatles Recording Reference Manual – Volume 2 – Help! through Revolver (1965-1966) by Jerry Hammack, 2021
Take 8 was now deemed the best and would become the basis of the final released version. Work on “Got To Get You Into My Life” would continue on April 11, 1966.
Last updated on September 26, 2022
Staff
Musicians on "Got To Get You Into My Life"
Production staff
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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 Beatles Recording Reference Manual - Volume 2 - Help! through Revolver (1965-1966)
The second book of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)-nominated series, "The Beatles Recording Reference Manual: Volume 2: Help! through Revolver (1965-1966)" follows the evolution of the band from the end of Beatlemania with "Help!" through the introspection of "Rubber Soul" up to the sonic revolution of "Revolver". 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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