Recording Session - April 7, 1966
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| Event | |
| Date | April 7, 1966 |
| Short description | Recording Sessions. Songs Recorded: Tomorrow Never Knows and Got to Get You into My Life. |
| Location | Abbey Road Studios |
On this date, there were actually two Beatles recording sessions in studio three of Abbey Road Studios, spaced only an hour apart. The first session, from 2:30 to 7:15 PM, saw the recording of various sound effects for Tomorrow Never Knows onto Take 3. Some of these sounds included a distorted guitar sped up to sound like a seagull, and the sound of a guitar and a wineglass. Producer George Martin explained, "We did a live mix of all the loops. All over the studios we had people spooling them onto machines with pencils while Geoff did the balancing. There were many other hands controlling the panning. It is the one track, of all the songs The Beatles did, that could never be reproduced: it would be impossible to go back now and mix exactly the same thing: the 'happening' of the tape loops, inserted as we all swung off the levers on the faders willy-nilly, was a random event." Paul McCartney recalled in Many Years From Now, "We ran the loops and then we ran the track of Tomorrow Never Knows and we played the faders, and just before you could tell it was a loop, before it began to repeat a lot, I'd pull in one of the other faders, and so, using the other people, 'You pull that in there,' 'You pull that in,' we did a half random, half orchestrated playing of the things and recorded that to a track on the actual master tape, so that if we got a good one, that would be the solo. We played it through a few times and changed some of the tapes till we got what we thought was a real good one." The seconds session, from 8:15 PM to 1:30 AM, saw the recording of a new song, Got to Get You into My Life. Five takes were recorded, none of which were included on the final album.
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[edit] Recorded On This Date
[edit] Tomorrow Never Knows
- Tomorrow Never Knows, sound effect overdubs (%)
[edit] Got to Get You into My Life
- Got to Get You into My Life, Take 1 (*)
- Got to Get You into My Life, Take 2 (*)
- Got to Get You into My Life, Take 3 (*)
- Got to Get You into My Life, Take 4 (*)
- Got to Get You into My Life, Take 5 (Anthology 2)
- Got to Get You into My Life, Fragment of unknown Take (The Beatles Anthology TV series, Bootlegs)
A (*) indicates a performance not available on any release, legitimate or bootleg.
A (%) indicates an overdub, edit piece, or basic track available only as part of another recording. The overdub, edit piece, or basic track by itself has not been released.
[edit] Sources
- LEWISOHN M., 1992, The Complete Beatles Chronicle, Hamlyn -- Buy it on Amazon.com
