- Sessions (album)
Infobox Album |
Name = Sessions
Type = Compilation album
Artist =The Beatles
Released = Unreleased
Recorded =1963 -1969
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = Apple
Producer =George Martin
Reviews =
Last album = "20 Greatest Hits "
(1982)
This album = "Sessions"
(1985)
Next album = "Past Masters, Volume One "
(1988)"Sessions" was a compilation album by
The Beatles , planned byEMI in1985 , but never released because of objections by the surviving Beatles themselves. cite web | title = The Road to Sessions | url = http://www.whizzo.ca/beatles/sessions.html | accessdate = 2008-03-08 |date=2007-05-07 | publisher = Paul Maclauchlan] The album consisted of thirteen finished, but unreleased, Beatles songs, all of which would eventually turn up on the "Anthology" albums (except "Christmas Time is Here Again"). A single, "Leave My Kitten Alone" (with an alternate version of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da ", which was not to appear on the album, as its B-side) was also planned; but it, too, was also unissued."Come and Get It" was a demo recording performed by McCartney solo and eventually recorded by the group
Badfinger . Harrison would re-record "Not Guilty" on his album "George Harrison" in 1979. "How Do You Do It" had been recorded for a possible early single at the request ofGeorge Martin , but scrapped in favour of "Please Please Me". The album also included a Christmas single, finally ending up as the flip side of "Free as a Bird ", issued with "Anthology 1 ".It should be noted that the tracks (both here and on the Anthology releases) are altered from their original states. For example, "Not Guilty" is completely re-edited, removing around a minute of the song. The biggest casualty was arguably "What's The New Mary Jane", which was drastically remixed to make the song more musical and less of a discordant "Revolution 9"-type track.
Track listing
All tracks by
John Lennon andPaul McCartney , except where noted.
#"Come and Get It" (McCartney)
#"Leave My Kitten Alone" (John/Turner/McDougal) - An outtake from the "Beatles For Sale" sessions.
#"Not Guilty" (Harrison) - A "White Album" outtake, heavily edited.
#"I'm Looking Through You " (alternate version, with hand claps)
#"What's the New Mary Jane " - A "White Album" outtake, heavily remixed.
#"How Do You Do It? " (Murray)
#"Besame Mucho" (Velaquez/Skylar) - From the Beatles' first EMI session.
#"One After 909 "
#"If You've Got Trouble" - A "Help!" outtake, with verses edited into a different order than they were originally recorded.
#"That Means a Lot" - A "Help!" outtake.
#"While My Guitar Gently Weeps " (Harrison) - Take 1, with an artificially looped ending.
#"Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues" (Roberts/Katz/Clayton) - An outtake from the "Get Back"/"Let It Be" sessions, heavily edited.
#"Christmas Time (Is Here Again) " (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starr)References
*Russell, Jeff. "The Beatles Album File and Complete Discography."Blanford Books, 1985.
* [http://www.whizzo.ca/beatles/sessions.html The Road To Sessions]
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