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The Beatles New Phenomena In Britain - CBS Morning News - 22 November 1963, sixty years ago today !

CBS News special report on The Beatles, broadcasted before the announcement of JFK's assassination later that morning. Footage from The Beatles concert in Bournemouth on November 16th is shown, as well as a backstage interview and their arrival that same day.

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"Who are the Beatles?" - there is another audio report that had been scheduled to be screened on the CBS Evening news that evening but was cancelled due to the tragic death on U S President Kennedy.

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Ready, Steady, Go! (Television House, London, March 20th, Restored, 1964)..



00:00 - Intro
01:20 - It Won't Be Long
03:32 - Award presentation
04:27 - Paul interview
05:12 - John interview
07:03 - This Boy / Art Contest
10:18 - Ringo interview
11:28 - You Can't Do That
14:00 George Interview
15:56 - Can't Buy Me Love
18:11 - Outro

This is The Beatles' second appearance on "Ready, Steady, Go!".
Apart from being interviewed and judging an art contest they also performed 4 songs: "It Won't Be Long"; "You Can't Do That"; "Can't Buy Me Love" & "Please Mister Postman". This entire episode has been released commercially on VHS home video.

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Deconstructing - Here, There And Everywhere (Isolated Tracks)

0:00 Bass
2:13 Drums + Fingersnaps
4:27 Guitars
6:51 Instrumental
9:15 First Backing Vocals
11:27 Second Backing Vocals
13:49 Backing Vocals
16:10 Vocals

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Mix used : Atmos Mix

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Yellow Submarine - Isolated Vocals



Yellow Submarine - Highlighted Isolated Vocal Overdubs


Yellow Submarine - Isolated Acoustic Guitar



Yellow Submarine - Isolated Drums + Tambourine


Yellow Submarine - Isolated Bass



Yellow Submarine - Isolated Sound Effects + Brass

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deconstructing Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! The Beatles - (Isolated Tracks)

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from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Stereo Mix 5.1

0:00 Drums + Tambourine
2:37 Bass
5:16 Harmonicas + Guitar Solo + Organ + Glockenspiel + Tape Loops + Mellotron + Tambourine + Piano (Blocked:
7:55 Organ + Tape Loops + Extras
10:34 Extras
13:13 Vocals


Personnel
John Lennon – double-tracked lead vocals,[20] Hammond organ, tape loops, and harmonica
Paul McCartney – bass guitar, lead guitar
George Harrison – harmonica, tambourine,[20] harmony vocal, shaker
Ringo Starr – drums, tambourine
George Martin – piano, harmonium, Lowrey organ, Wurlitzer organ, Mellotron,[20] Hammond organ, glockenspiel, tape loops[17]
Mal Evans – bass harmonica
Neil Aspinall – harmonica
Geoff Emerick – tape loops

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an audio-only production, worth a listen...

Rooftop Concert, January 30 1969 - Different Cameras (B And C)

00:00 Camera B1, Roll 1147 (Interviews)

14:55 Camera B3, Saville Row Street

20:43 Camera C, Apple Reception Desk

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What was accepted over on YT , was very impressive work on "She Said, She Said" by two regular Beatles diehards -

0:00 Bass
2:31 Drums
5:03 Rhythm Guitars (YT muted it 2 days after release, go check • The Beatles - She Said She Said - Iso... )
7:38 Guitar Overdub + Organ
10:12 Vocals
Guitars + Organ : • The Beatles - She Said She Said - Iso...





Personal:
John Lennon – lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar, Hammond organ
George Harrison – backing vocal, bass guitar, lead guitar
Ringo Starr – drums, shaker
Kevin Howlett and John C. Winn write that McCartney played bass on the rhythm track before leaving the studio. According to Howlett[68] and Winn,[88] the line-up is as follows:

John Lennon – lead and harmony vocals, rhythm guitar, Hammond organ
Paul McCartney – bass guitar
George Harrison – harmony vocal, lead guitar
Ringo Starr – drums

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The demo of She Said, She Said, was recorded in EMI's Studio 3 on April 6 in the sessions of the album revolver, a demo recorded by John where he sings with a guitar, a preliminary version of She Said, a part of this demo was used in the deluxe set of Revolver.

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wow look at this !!!

Some fan has done a wonderful restoration and coloured video for the Beatles live on Shindig, 3 October 1964

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"Rain" - A Very good fan made production with no fade-out...



original mono -

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there are many who would argue RAIN should have merited inclusion on the red album 2023 edition. I agree. What do others think?

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ahhh yes !!! Wonderful production.

Deconstructing Within You Without You The Beatles - (Isolated Tracks)

from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Stereo Mix 5.1

0:00 Tabla
4:37 Dilruba + Sitar + Acoustic Guitar + Strings
9:44 Tambura + Pizzicato
14:51 Vocals
19:20 Svarmandal + Some Strings + Dilruba


Personnel
Tabla: Amiya Dasgupta
Dilruba: Anna Joshi and Amrit Gajjar
Tambura: Neil Aspinall, George Harrison and Buddhadev Kansara
Sitar: George Harrison
Svarmandal: Unknown Musician and George Harrison
Acoustic Guitar: George Harrison
Violins: Erich Gruenberg, Alan Loveday, Julien Gaillard, Paul Scherman, Ralph Elman, David Wolfsthal, Jack Rothstein and Jack Greene
Cellos: Reginald Kilbey, Allen Ford and Peter Beavan
Vocals: George Harrison

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very good archive on songfacts in particular the reference to the 30-minute version


https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-beatles/within-you-without-you


George Harrison wrote this song and was the only Beatle to perform on it. The song is about how the answers are inside us, so we have to look within to find them. We can go to the mountaintop searching to find our truths, but that won't do any good if we're not searching within.

It's also a reminder of our mortality and our place in the Universe, summarized in the last line: "Life flows on within you and without you."
An outlier on the Sgt. Pepper album, this song features Indian instruments played by Harrison and members of the Asian Music Circle, a collective in England that helped Harrison learn about Indian music. Harrison took an interest in Indian music when he was exposed to it on set in a restaurant scene from the 1965 Beatles move Help!. He bought a sitar that he played on the 1965 Rubber Soul track "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)," and then came under the tutelage of Ravi Shankar. Harrison used a sitar to write the 1966 Beatles song "Love You To," which was influenced by Indian music but also incorporated guitars and Western forms. "Within You Without You" was his first song to fully embrace Indian music and also to explore Eastern religion, which became a lifelong quest. Harrison believed in reincarnation, which helped him accept death in 2001 when he lost his life to cancer.
Harrison wrote this as a 30-minute piece that he trimmed down for the album. Speaking with Timothy White in 1992, he explained how he put the song together: "That was quite a complicated one at the time because it was done in three sections, and then I edited the three sections together. It had a solo instrumental in a 5/4 kind of tempo, which was very unusual. I suppose Dave Brubeck was the only person who ever played out of 4/4 or 3/4. See, this is the thing: In Western music, basically the tempo goes 4/4 or 3/4, and that's it. In Indian music they have 108 rhythm cycles, and they can even play in things like 7½. [Laughs.] It's quite complex, but I did learn this little piece, one of my exercises that I used to practice, that was in a 5/4 timing. So I did the solo in 'Within You Without You' into a 5/4, just to show how clever I was."
Harrison based this song on a piece by Ravi Shankar, who helped teach him the sitar. Harrison wrote his own lyrics and shortened it considerably.
The laughter at the end was Harrison's idea to lighten the mood and follow the theme of the album. Some people thought it indicated that the song was included on Sgt. Pepper as a joke.
This was the only song Harrison wrote that made it onto the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. He also contributed "Only A Northern Song" (recorded in February of 1967 as verified by the Anthology 2 album), but it was left off the album at the last minute. It was initially intended to go on the first side of Sgt. Pepper between "She's Leaving Home" and "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite." >>
Harrison would sometimes quote this song when talking about friends who died, as he believed they were still with us, just not physically. On the TV show Aspel & Company in 1988, he said this about John Lennon:

"I think it's unfortunate the way he went out, but it doesn't really matter. He's okay, and life flows on within you and without you."

In 1989, he said this when speaking to MTV news about Roy Orbison, his bandmate in the Traveling Wilburys who had recently passed on:

"We love Roy, and we still do, and he's out there really, his spirit. Life flows on within you and without you, and he's around in his astral body."
In 2007, Oasis covered this for the BBC to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Other artists to cover the song include Sonic Youth and Patti Smith.
In the 2011 documentary The Material World, Sir George Martin says: "'Within You Without You' was not a commercial song by any means. But it was very interesting. [George Harrison] had a way of communicating music by the Indian system of kind of a separate language... the rhythms decided by the tabla player."

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Good research here by Music Box USA


The Beatles: STEREO or MONO? | Secrets and Changes Guide...

We've been listening the Beatles' recordings for so many years that we know the details and sounds of each recording so well. Vinyl, cassettes, CDs, streaming and other formats have standardized the stereo sound, but the Beatles always prioritized their recordings in mono. So today, we present a brief guide to some of the differences in the Beatles' mono and stereo recordings.

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deconstructing Doctor Robert The Beatles - (Isolated Tracks)



0:00 Drums + Maracas
2:14 Bass
4:29 Rhythm Guitar + Lead Guitar
6:43 Lead Guitars + Organ
8:58 Guitars + Organ
11:12 Vocals

Personal:
John Lennon – double-tracked lead vocal, rhythm guitar, harmonium
Paul McCartney – harmony vocal, bass guitar
George Harrison – backing vocal,[28] double-tracked lead guitar, maracas
Ringo Starr – drums

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BBC Radio Debut Tapes HD (1962)

The Beatles' radio debut, still with Pete Best on drums, recorded at the Playhouse Theatre in Hulme, Manchester from March 7-8, 1962 and broadcast on the BBC radio program 'Teenager's Turn - Here We Go' on March 8 and June 15, 1962.

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faster take, possibly with Pete Best on drums. AI can fix this thing.

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a look here at the legendary BBC's Playhouse Theatre (Home of The Beatles radio debut)

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deconstructing Old Brown Shoe The Beatles - (Isolated Tracks)

from the album Past Masters Stereo Mix 5.1

0:00 Drums
3:13 Bass
6:32 Vocals

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Wonderful work here by Beatles diehard, Cristofer, you must check his channel !!!

Now an obvious question: why can't Elvis' fandom counter-parts be as creative and pro-active as what we're seeing going on a variety on the Beatles deconstructions?

deconstructing And Your Bird Can Sing Take 2 The Beatles - (Isolated Tracks)



Deconstructing The Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing (Isolated Tracks)...



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from the album Revolver

0:00 Drums + Tambourine + Handclaps
2:00 Drums
3:59 Cymbal + Tambourine
5:57 Handclaps
6:39 Bass
8:38 Rhythm Guitar
10:36 Lead Guitars
12:22 Vocals + Handclaps


Personal:
John Lennon – lead vocal, rhythm guitar, handclaps
Paul McCartney – harmony vocal, bass, lead guitar,[22] handclaps
George Harrison – harmony vocal, lead guitar, handclaps
Ringo Starr – drums, tambourine, handclaps

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