Recording Session: Ringo Starr - December 8, 1969

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Event
Date	December 8, 1969
Short description	Ringo Starr recording for "With A Little Help From My Friends" TV special. Songs Recorded: Octopus's Garden.
Location	Abbey Road Studios

A 10:00 AM to 12:15 PM session where Ringo recorded new vocals for Octopus's Garden onto a basic track with different musicians providing bass, lead guitar, and piano than The Beatles version for a TV special called With A Little Help From My Friends where Ringo lip-synched to a version of the song. New instrumentation had to be recorded for the special, though, because the Musicians' Union had strict rules on lip-synching to a recording, so the new instruments and vocals were recorded to seem as if the recording were live. The overdub was recorded in ten takes.

Recorded On This Date

• Octopus's Garden, vocal overdub Take 1 (*)
• Octopus's Garden, vocal overdub Take 2 (*)
• Octopus's Garden, vocal overdub Take 3 (*)
• Octopus's Garden, vocal overdub Take 4 (*)
• Octopus's Garden, vocal overdub Take 5 (*)
• Octopus's Garden, vocal overdub Take 6 (*)
• Octopus's Garden, vocal overdub Take 7 (*)
• Octopus's Garden, vocal overdub Take 8 (*)
• Octopus's Garden, vocal overdub Take 9 (*)
• Octopus's Garden, vocal overdub Take 10 (Bootlegs)

A (*) indicates a performance not available on any release, legitimate or bootleg.

Source

• LEWISOHN M., 1992, The Complete Beatles Chronicle, Hamlyn -- Buy it on Amazon.com