2003: Let It Be Naked

Apple November 17. 2003.  07243 595438 0 2

side 1:

Get Back  
Dig A Pony 
For You Blue 
The Long and Winding Road 
Two of Us 
I've Got A Feeling 

side 2:

One After 909 
Don't Let Me Down 
I Me Mine 
Across The Universe 
Let It Be 

Single,"Fly on the Wall", side 1:

Sun King
Don't Let Me Down
One After 909
Because I Know You Love Me So
Don't Pass Me By
Taking A Trip To Carolina
John's Piano Piece
Child Of Nature
Back In The USSR
Every Little Thing
Don't Let Me Down
All Things Must Pass
 

Single,"Fly on the Wall", Side 2:

She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Paul's Piano Piece
Get Back
Two Of Us
Maggie Mae
Fancy My Chances With You
Can You Dig It?
Get Back

This "de-spectorised" version of the "Let It Be" LP was released in 2003, featuring the same old songs as on the original LP, minus Dig It and Maggie May, but including Don't Let Me Down. The songs sounds different due to having been cleaned up and stripped from the arrangements done by Phil Spector in 1970. All the in-between banter has also been removed, making it a more coherent, "official"-sounding LP. In some instances, different takes of the songs have been used. A single, playable on 33 1/3 was included in the package, featuring fragments and snippets from the infamous "Get Back"-sessions. The LP had a gatefold sleeve and a booklet with pictures and text from the original "Get Back"-book from the Let It Be boxed set.

RECORDINGS:

GET BACK - Take number unknown. [Takes were not numbered.] Recorded Tuesday, January 28, 1969.
DIG A PONY - Rooftop version. [Only one was recorded.] Recorded Thursday, January 30, 1969.
FOR YOU BLUE - Take 6. Recorded Saturday, January 25, 1969. George Harrison lead vocal overdub recorded on January 8, 1970. [NOTE: Some, but not all, of this vocal overdub appears on "Let It Be...Naked."
THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD - Take 19. Recorded Friday, January 31, 1969.
TWO OF US - Take 12. Recorded Friday, January 31, 1969.
I'VE GOT A FEELING - Composite of rooftop versions 1 and 2. [NOTE: The bulk of this is version 2.] Recorded Thursday, January 30, 1969.
ONE AFTER 909 - Rooftop version. [NOTE: Only one was recorded.] Recorded Thursday, January 30, 1969.
DON'T LET ME DOWN - Composite of rooftop versions 1 and 2. [mostly version 1.] Recorded Thursday, January 30, 1969.
I ME MINE - Take 16. Recorded Saturday, January 3, 1970. Electric piano, electric guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals, organ and second acoustic guitar overdubs recorded later that day.
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE - Take 7. Recorded Sunday, February 4, 1968. John Lennon lead vocal overdub recorded later that day.
LET IT BE - Composite of Takes 27 A and B. [mostly Take 27A.] Recorded Friday, January 31, 1969. Backing vocal overdubs recorded on January 4, 1970. Bass guitar overdub recording date unknown. [The bass was recorded as an overdub because the original Glyn Johns "Get Back" mix features the exact same take, but with a completely different bassline, played live by John Lennon.]

EDITS:

• Get Back: same take as Spector's LP version, no coda.
  
• Dig A Pony: rooftop, with intro/outro edited, also vocal error in second verse repaired.
  
• For You Blue: same master as Spector's w/overdubbed vocal. LIBN includes the original lead vocal, but elements of the overdub also appear ("Elmore James got nothin' on this, baby!", for instance). The acoustic guitar has been mixed louder, and what we are hearing on LIBN includes an acoustic guitar track, or at least an intro, not previously heard on any released variation..
  
• Long and Winding Road: based on the take of the song seen in the film, but with Paul's vocalizing over Billy Preston's keyboards mixed out.
  
• Two Of Us: at least one bit has been "fixed", there is a very subtle sour note hit on John's acoustic guitar near the end of the song as they go into the whistling bit, and on LIBN that has been replaced with a good sounding version of that tiny riff from elsewhere in the song.
  
• I've Got A Feeling: edit of two rooftop performances:
  1st verse/chorus: 2nd take
  2nd verse: 2nd take
  2nd chorus(Yeah, yeah, I've Got A Feeling): 1st Take
  Middle: 1st Take
  3rd verse/chorus: 2nd take
  4th verse(John's verse): 1st Take + 2nd take(last 2 lines, "Everybody pulled their socks up. Everybody put their foot down") Instrumental break: 1st Take
  Last verse: 2nd take
  Coda: 1st Take
  
• One After 909: rooftop
  
• Don't Let Me Down: edit of two rooftop performances, Lennon actually flubbed completely different lyrics in both rooftop versions: the beginning of the last verse in the first version, and the beginning of the *first* verse in the second version. Here, the lyrics are correct.
  
• I Me Mine: a remix of the LIB version, repeating Spector's editing, but with the edit point at at different spot. The guitar overdubs and organ parts are mixed in and out to make the repeated verse sound different - no orchestra
  
• Across The Universe: original master, just guitar tamboura and tom tom, which means they have "silenced" Gayleen Pease and Lizzie Bravo's backing vocal overdubs, as well as the Beatles' own vocal and maraca overdubs.
  
• Let It Be: edit of two performances:
  Basically using the overdubbed (on Jan. 1970) bass and backing vocals overall.
  Complicated edit of takes 27A & 27B as follows,
  Basically take 27A has been used but the next parts are from take 27B.
  2nd Chorus: 2nd half (actually the fill-in on the last bar of the 1st half and subsequently) Guitar solo (note: the start of it is from 27A)
  3rd chorus: 1st "Let it be"?
  3rd verse (note: "Speaking words of wisdom" is from 27A)
  Last chorus- 1st half: 1st "Let it be" only
  Last chorus- 2nd half: On "(Let it/27A) be, let it be, let it be, let it be" and only the ad-lib guitar line on "Whisper words of wisdom, let it be"(at least vocal and drums on this section are from 27A)
  Coda: Guitar only.

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