Recording Session - July 15, 1968

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Event
Date	July 15, 1968
Short description	Recording and Mixing Session. Songs Recorded: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, and Cry Baby Cry. Songs Mixed: Revolution and Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.
Location	Abbey Road Studios

John and Paul, who had gotten tape copies of the songs Revolution and Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and listened to them extensively over the weekend, must have decided that they were not good enough in their current form. So from 3:30 to 8:00 PM, two new mono mixes were made of Revolution, while Paul overdubbed a new lead vocal onto Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, then mixing it into mono. From 9:00 PM to 3:00 AM, The Beatles rehearsed Cry Baby Cry, filling four, thirty-minute, tapes with unnumbred and unusable takes.

Contents 1 Recorded On This Date 1.1 Revolution 1.2 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 1.3 Cry Baby Cry 2 Source

[edit] Recorded On This Date

[edit] Revolution

• Revolution, rough mono mix (*)
• Revolution, rough mono mix (*)

[edit] Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

• Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, lead vocal overdub (%)
• Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, rough mono mix, (*)

[edit] Cry Baby Cry

• Cry Baby Cry, numerous rehearsals, (*)

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] Source

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