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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
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This was the 29th day of the recording sessions for the “Revolver” album.
The previous day, The Beatles recorded the rhythm track and the first overdubs of Paul McCartney’s “Good Day Sunshine“, under the working title “A Good Day’s Sunshine“. On this day, in an afternoon session lasting from 2:30 pm to 8 pm, they completed the recording of this track by adding more overdubs onto take 1.
George Martin added a honky-tonk piano solo, to complete Paul’s piano, recorded with varispeed (the tape machine was running faster than usual, at 56 cycles per second as opposed to the normal 50, so that it was both slower and lower upon playback).
Ringo Starr supplemented his drum part with additional contributions on snare, bass drum and crash cymbals, the latter at the end of the intro and over the choruses.
Paul, George Harrison and John Lennon provided additional backing vocals for the coda and some hand claps during the final verse and chorus.
Six mono mixes of “Good Day Sunshine” were made at the end of the session. None of those mixes were used and new ones would be made on June 22, 1966.
Last updated on October 21, 2022
Songs recorded
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Staff
Musicians on "Good Day Sunshine"
- Paul McCartney:
- Backing vocals, Hand claps
- Ringo Starr:
- Drums
- John Lennon:
- Hand claps, Backing vocals
- George Harrison:
- Backing vocals, Hand claps
- George Martin:
- Piano
Production staff
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 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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