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VOL. 43

January 26-27, 1969
VOL. 44

January 27-28, 1969
VOL. 45

January 28-29, 1969
January 26, 1969: Apple Studios, London, England
1. (N)        Let It Be  (Lennon/McCartney)
2. (25, 26) dialogue – Suicide  (McCartney)
3. (27)       Dig It  (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey)
4. (27)       Dig It (edit) (master)  (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey)
5. (28-30)  Rip It Up  [Elvis Presley] – Shake, Rattle & Roll  [Joe Turner] – Miss Ann  [Little Richard]
                         – Kansas City  [Wilbert Harrison] – Lawdy Miss Clawdy  [Lloyd Price, Elvis Presley] 
6. (31, 32)  Blue Suede Shoes  [Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley] – You Really Got a Hold on Me  [Miracles]
7. (36)        Let It Be  (Lennon/McCartney)
 8. (N)        The Long and Winding Road   (Lennon/McCartney)
9. (38)        The Long and Winding Road   (Lennon/McCartney)
10. (39)      The Long and Winding Road   (Lennon/McCartney)
11. (N)       Improvisation  (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey) 

January 27, 1969: Apple Studios, London, England 
12. (2)        Strawberry Fields Forever  (Lennon/McCartney) 
13. (N)       Let It Be  (Lennon/McCartney) 
14. (N)       The Long and Winding Road   (Lennon/McCartney)
15. (N)       Old Brown Shoe  (Harrison)
16. (N)       I Told You Before  (Lennon/ McCartney/Harrison/Starkey)
 

January 27, 1969: Apple Studios, London, England
1. (N)        Don’t Let Me Down  (Lennon/McCartney)
2. (3)         Oh! Darling  (Lennon/McCartney)
3. Ringo – the drum sound on “Get Back”
4. (N)         Get Back  (Lennon/McCartney)
5.                Get Back (LP version master)   (Lennon/McCartney)
6. (10)        I’ve Got a Feeling  (Lennon/McCartney) 
7. (12)        You Won’t Get Me That Way (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey) – The Walk  [Jimmy
                         McCracklin]
8. (15)        Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35  [Bob Dylan]
9. (16)        I’ve Got a Feeling  (Lennon/McCartney)

10. Ringo – working on good tracks 
11. Paul – a great little rock & roll band

January 28, 1969: Apple Studios, London, England 
12. (N)        I Dig a Pony   (Lennon/McCartney)
13. (N)        Get Back   (Lennon/McCartney)
14. (N)        Love Me Do  (Lennon/McCartney)
15.               Get Back (single version master)   (Lennon/McCartney)
16. (1b)       Get Back (reprise) (Lennon/McCartney) 
17. (2)         Don’t Let Me Down  (Lennon/McCartney)
18.               Don’t Let Me Down (master)   (Lennon/McCartney)
19. (7)         One After 909  (Lennon/McCartney)
20. (10)       The River Rhine  [Sonny Boy Williamson] – The Long and Winding Road   (Lennon/
                         McCartney)
 

January 28, 1969: Apple Studios, London, England 
1. (12)        I Got to Find My Baby  [Chuck Berry]
2. (N)         Old Brown Shoe  (Harrison)
3. (N)         I Want You  (Lennon/McCartney)
4. (20,21)   Something  (Harrison)
5. (23)        Positively 4th Street  [Bob Dylan]
6. (25)        Teddy Boy  (Lennon/McCartney)
7. (N)         All Things Must Pass  (Harrison)
8. (N)         I Want You  (Lennon/McCartney)

January 29, 1969: Apple Studios, London, England 
9. (N)          I Dig a Pony  (Lennon/McCartney) 
10. (N)        Don’t Let Me Down  (Lennon/McCartney)
11. (N)        Get Back   (Lennon/McCartney)
12. (N)        One After 909  (Lennon/McCartney)
13. (N)        She Came In Through the Bathroom Window  (Lennon/McCartney) 
14. (N)        The Long and Winding Road  (Lennon/McCartney)
15. (N)        For You Blue  (Harrison)
16. (N)        Let It Down  (Harrison)
17. (N)        Something  (Harrison)
18. (N)        Sexy Sadie  (Lennon/McCartney)
 


 

VOL. 46

January 29-30, 1969
VOL. 47

January 30-31, 1969
VOL. 48

January 31-May 5, 1969
January 29, 1969: Apple Studios, London, England
1. (5)          Dig It  (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey)
2. (6)          Vacation Time  [Chuck Berry] 
3. (7)          Cannonball  [Duane Eddy] – Not Fade Away  [Buddy Holly] –  Hey Little Girl  [Dee Clark]
                          – Bo Diddley  [Bo Diddley]  
4. (8)          Maybe Baby  [Buddy Holly] 
5. (9)          Peggy Sue Got Married  [Buddy Holly] – Thinking of Linking  (Lennon/McCartney)
6. (10)        Crying, Waiting, Hoping  [Buddy Holly]
7. (11)        Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues  [Buddy Holly]
8. (12-15)   Besame Mucho  [standard]
9. (N)         Three Cool Cats  [Coasters]
10. (N)       One After 909   (Lennon/McCartney) 
11. (16)      All Things Must Pass   (Harrison)
12. (N)       Teddy Boy   (Lennon/McCartney)
13. (N)       Two of Us  (Lennon/McCartney)
14. (-)         dialogue: getting back onstage 

15. George & Paul – the idea of a live show

January 30, 1969: Apple Studios rooftop, London, England 
16. (1)        setup – Get Back   (Lennon/McCartney)
17. (2)        Get Back   (Lennon/McCartney)
18. (3,4)     Don’t Let Me Down   (Lennon/McCartney) – I’ve Got a Feeling  (master)  (Lennon/
                          McCartney)
19. (6,7)     One After 909 (master) (Lennon/McCartney) – Danny Boy   (traditional)
20. (8)        I Dig a Pony (master)  (Lennon/McCartney)
 

January 30, 1969: Apple Studios rooftop, London, England 
1. (N)         God Save the Queen  (traditional)
2. (9,10)     I’ve Got a Feeling   (Lennon/McCartney) – A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody  [Irving Berlin]
3. (12)        Don’t Let Me Down   (Lennon/McCartney)   
4. (13)        Get Back   (Lennon/McCartney)

5. Paul & Ringo – going to the bitter end

January 31, 1969: Apple Studios, London, England 
6. (N)         Unknown – Hey, Good Lookin’  [Hank Williams] 
7. (N)         Take This Hammer  (traditional) – Long Lost John  (traditional) – Five Feet High and
                           Rising  [Johnny Cash] – Bear Cat  [Rufus Thomas] – Black Dog Blues  [Blind Blake] –
                           Right String But the Wrong Yo-Yo  [Speckled Red, Johnny Kidd & the Pirates] – Run
                           For Your Life  (Lennon/McCartney) 
8. (1-4)       Two of Us (take 10)   (Lennon/McCartney) – Friendship  [Cole Porter] – Turkey in the
                            Straw  [Big Walter Horton, Bill           
                            Monroe]
9. (N)         Step Inside Love   (Lennon/McCartney)
10. (N)       Friendship  [Cole Porter] – Tales of Frankie Rabbitt  [unknown]
11. (6)        ‘Deed I Do  [Benny Goodman] – In the Middle of An Island  [Tony Bennett] – All
                           Together Now  (Lennon/McCartney)
12. (7)         Two of Us (master)   (Lennon/ McCartney)
13. (11)       The Long and Winding Road (non-take)   (Lennon/McCartney)
14. (16)       Lady Madonna   (Lennon/McCartney)
15. (20)       The Long and Winding Road   (Lennon/McCartney)
16. (N)        I Want You   (Lennon/McCartney) 
17. (24)       Let It Be (take 20)   (Lennon/McCartney)
18. (31)       Let It Be (take 24)   (Lennon/McCartney)
 

January 31, 1969: Apple Studios, London, England 
1. (32)  Let It Be (take 25)   (Lennon/McCartney)
2. (35)  Twelfth Street Rag   [Louis Armstrong]
3. (N)   Oh! Darling   (Lennon/McCartney) 
4. (N)   Oh! Darling   (Lennon/McCartney)
5. (39)  Let It Be (take 27b)   (Lennon/McCartney)

6. John, Paul & George – Apple trouble
7. John – the biggest bastards on Earth

8. George, John, Paul & Ringo – appointing Allen Klein manager and the 3-to-1 schism
         (February 3)

c. February 1969: England 
9. Goodbye (demo)   (McCartney)

10. Ringo – still some magic

February 22, 1969: Trident Studios, London, England 
11. I Want You (early take)   (Lennon/McCartney)

February 25, 1969: EMI Studios, London, England 
12. Old Brown Shoe (demo)   (Harrison)
13. Something (demo)   (Harrison)

14. George & Ringo – George’s drug bust (March 12)

March 12, 1969: London, England 
15. Interview with Paul & Linda on their marriage

March 13, 1969: London, England 
16. Interview with Paul & Linda

 17. Paul – getting married and changing perspectives

18. John – getting married in Gibraltar (March 20)

19. Paul – wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of mine
20. John – it wasn’t Yoko and Linda

21. John – wanting to work with Yoko
22. John – the first bed-in (March 25) 

April 1, 1969: London, England 
23. Interview with John & Yoko

24. John – “The Ballad of John and Yoko”

April 14, 1969: EMI Studios, London, England 
25. The Ballad of John and Yoko (master)   (Lennon/McCartney)

April 16, 1969: EMI Studios, London, England 
26. Old Brown Shoe (master)   (Harrison)

April 20, 1969: EMI Studios, London, England 
27. Oh! Darling (take 26)  (Lennon/McCartney)

April 26, 1969: EMI Studios, London, England 
28. Octopus’s Garden (take 2)  (Starkey)
29. Octopus’s Garden (take 10)  (Starkey)

April 29, 1969: EMI Studios, London, England 
30. Octopus’s Garden (take 32)  (Starkey)

May 5, 1969: Olympic Sound Studios, London, England 
31. Something (take 36)   (Harrison)
 


 
 
 
 


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