Beatles "Old Brown Shoe" RARE early version George Harrison teaches song LYRICS ARE HERE
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- čas přidán 24. 02. 2016
- Mid-April 1969?
Or late January with Billy Preston? We hear two pianos.
George Harrison guides others through chord changes. Ringo joins near the end? If Ringo was filming The Magic Christian, is Paul on drums?
George on keyboard!
Paul McCartney provides bass?
I prefer this to the issued record since here George's vocal is up front. In the later released version, George's voice is buried and distant, which is a shame.
On the later session that produced the released version, there are two bass tracks--one by McCartney on a Fender Jazz and one by Harrison on a Fender Telecaster bass.
George is distinctive on bass. In 1987 during an interview for Creem magazine, George recalled playing bass on this the way he plays guitar.
The song has unusual chord changes since George composed this at a piano, not his usual manner of composing.
Lennon's guitar can be heard here. On the issued take Lennon's contribution was removed and replaced by Hammond organ played by Harrison.
In the late 1960s, Lennon rarely participated when Harrison songs were recorded whereas Paul worked hard when George's songs were recorded, taking pride in each Beatles product.
You hear evidence on the records themselves of Paul giving his best when George's songs were recorded--Paul on keyboards, Paul giving vocal harmony, Paul on bass (but, as I said, George himself also plays bass on the issued version of "Old Brown Shoe").
John was often indifferent or absent whereas Paul worked hard when George's songs were recorded. Nonetheless, George turned against Paul in the early 1970s and sided with John.
Quarrels can start for any number of reasons, but it's a shame that George turned against Paul after Paul worked hard on George songs.
To be fair, John was absent during SOME George sessions at Abbey Road in the spring of 1969 due to a car accident.
But John had been absent or indifferent in earlier years when George's songs were covered, and John often expressed indifference in January 1969. That's disconcerting.
On the White Album, John contributes nothing crucial on Harrison songs. John provides only a bass voice at the end of "Piggies." Is John on "Long, Long, Long" or "Savoy Truffles"?
I can't hear John on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (John on rhythm guitar?). Eric Clapton was invited to a session because George earlier sensed apathy from band members.
Is John heard on "Within You, Without Out," "Blue Jay Way," "The Inner Light," or "Here Comes The Sun"? Maybe a vocal harmony.
Paul's bass on "Here Come The Sun" is crucial.
John plays slide guitar on "For You Blue," but is John on "I Me Mine"?
By 1969, Yoko had more influence on John in the studio than George.
Too much is made of Paul and George bickering for 15 seconds in the film Let It Be. I give Paul credit for ALLOWING bickering to STAY in the film, not editing it out. Paul viewed this exchange as no big deal--the normal irritation one expects when musical giants work together. At least Paul communicated in 1969 whereas John retreated into silence.
George quit the Beatles for a weekend in January due to George's frustration with John, who pushed George over the edge.
Lyrics here are different in four places from the released take. George is still working on the song as he teaches it.
George sings this in this early version:
I'd like a love that's right but right is only half of what's wrong.
I want a short haired girl who sometimes wears it twice as long.
Now I'm stepping out of this old brown shoe--baby, I'm in love with you.
But I'm so glad you came here. It won't be the same now, I'm telling you.
You know you hold me up from where some try to drag me down, and when I
see your smile replacing every thoughtless frown, you got me escaping
from this zoo--baby, I'm in love with you.
I'm so glad you came here. It won't be the same now, I'm telling you.
If I grow up, I'll be a singer, wearing rings on every finger,
not worrying what they or you say. I'll live and love, and maybe
someday--who knows, baby?--you'll still comfort me.
LYRICS IN RELEASED VERSION:
I want a love that's right but right is only half of what's wrong
I want a short haired girl who sometimes wears it twice as long
Now I'm stepping out this old brown shoe, baby, I'm in love with you
I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now, I'm telling you
You know you pick me up from where some try to drag me down
And when I see your smile replace every thoughtless frown
Got me escaping from this zoo, baby, I'm in love with you
I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now when I'm with you
If I grow up I'll be a singer wearing rings on every finger
Not worrying what they or you say I'll live and love and maybe someday
Who knows, baby, you may comfort me
I may appear to be imperfect--my love is something you can't reject.
I'm changing faster than the weather if you and me should get together.
I want that love of yours--to miss that love is something I'd hate. - Zábava
I've always loved this song. A great Harrison tune.
The most underplayed understated beatle track ...and this demos priceless
I agree. It made the Blue Greatest Hits Album but never got any radio play. Completely under-rated. The lyrics are fantastic like many Beatles songs the lyrics need to be listened to.
Indeed
hell yes --- may 1 say well beyond priceless === George's brilliance !!!
Another quality quality b-side, no need to put it on an album. Credit to Paul he is happy to take a back seat (although not sitting) for his backing vocals on both sides & no doubt at all his input too. Just so surreal
I come to this channel for the songs from 1895-1949, but it's great to hear a Beatles song here too. Very nostalgic.
IMO this is the best version of this song, luv it!
george harrison = Great singer/song writer/Great musician
oh hell ... George === unmatched Brilliance ... Eternal Blessings !!!
ADORABLE! !!!!! GREAT George Harrison! !!!! RIP!!!!
I love this song
Always loved it
I can't stop listening to this song
I've loved this tune from the Dawn of Zot...it's fun,it's from the heart, it's beautiful and loaded with rock & rhythm & roll.
I'm here from the documentary damn George was kind of a dark horse this melody is really catchy
great version
George's voice in this version reminds me of his solo song "dark horse"
Love this stuff,demos,different trys. Jt
Rosemarie Tinsley - where you come from + you grow up like me in the first sucessful years from the "Silver Beatles". When I was 12, 13,14 I never heart about this fantastisch music...but they played in the beginning of the 60th in the Starclub from Hamburg + this was the beginning of this "short Carrier" - absolutly so many years too short
Great to hear this!
Sounds like an outtake from April ‘69
Genius
this is the the jam.
Oddly enough, this is my favorite version of this song! Just some good old studio work...
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So amigo
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Fabuloso!!! Gracias!!
On this track I do believe it is Paul on drums. On the released version Paul played piano and Ringo was back and did the drum track.
Agree. This sounds very unsure, like the snippet from Get Back. Not like the tight, metronomic, self-assured drumming on the final recording. Not sure about Paul playing piano though...
It's fun to play on the piano. I consider it a piano tune.
George is certainly playing the piano
George replied in an interview "I played the base"
George played piano, bass and guitar
In the released version, he's playing the bass.
@@ForoArcadia Paul played the bass in the final version, and doubled George’s guitar line in the bridge on bass
@@guyincognito5706 I'm not sure, I think George played piano and sang on the backing track, with Paul on guitar. For the overdubs, George played bass, sort of doubling the bass-like fills Paul did on guitar, and just going off on that, which lines up with George's memory of playing bass on the song.
one of the Very best songs the beatles ever recorded. Haribol.
To be fair, this is an occasion where John actively participated, and in the final version, John plays piano and provides backing vocals along with Paul. Paul plays drums, and overdubbed bass and organ. George plays guitar on the basic track, and overdubbed more guitar and a Hammond organ track. Ringo was on holiday during the sessions
Not accurate at all.
Ringo was filming the Magic Christian
There are 3 versions of Old Brown Shoe; one was recorded with Ringo and Billy Preston during the Get Back / Let it be filming during January 1969. One was solo demo by George In February 1969, and the last one was in April 1969, when Ringo was filming the Magic Christian - on the main recording which was released as a B-side, George plays organ and guitar; Paul plays drums and bass; and John plays piano. Two references for this are Mark Lewinsohn and the Beatles BIble.
@@dannyvine3605 can you do me a favor and tell me how to listen to the Billy Preston one? I'm dying to hear it and I can't find it anywhere :(
@@CarrotFlowers421 It will be in the footage of the film on January 27 & 28 1969 (sessions 18-19). So the early takes of the song played by the band. Billy Preston played the hammond organ on take 2-3 I think. This sounds like it may be one of them as there is obvious other band members playing on this version; you can hear the drums and lead guitar.
Great!
The other version from this same session (an earlier track) was all George. He recorded it with just himself at the piano, then dubbed in a bass track, and a guitar solo.This version ended up on Anthology 3. It appeared to be a demo for the rest of the group to learn, and this later take demonstrates that Paul and Ringo had at least some passing familiarity with it.
The single version had two bass tracks, one by McCartney on a Fender Jazz and one by Harrison on a Fender Telecaster bass (one of the first known recordings to contain a Tele-bass). John recorded a rhythm guitar track for it but it's all but obscured by George's Hammond organ.
Only 1 bass, and it is played by George. When you play the song clearly you can notice only 1 bass, not 2
I had this on a45rpm, b -side of ballad of jon n yoko what a slap in George's face should have been № 1 hit
John was injured during "Here Comes the Sun" and can be heard on various outtakes working with George on "Something" regarding music plus lyrics.
Lennon was gone by early 1970. The other three put together "I ME MINE" as well as redoing "Let It Be" with Paul tossing out all of John's playing!!
No one worked with George on "Long Long Long."
Neither Paul nor John thought " Guitar Gently Weeps" was good enough for the White Album.
"Piggies" was the Two Georges!
"Inner Light" was ALL George with exception of J&P adding vocals at very end.
"Within You, Without You" was the Two Georges and the Indian musicians. NO OTHER BEATLE CONTRIBUTED at ALL!
"For You Blue"...all BeaTles.
" BLUE Jay Way"...all Beatles.
" Taxman"...all Beatles.
"Think For Yourself"...all Beatles.
Et Cetera.....
Where do you get your shitty info from anyway?😵😵😲😲😱
Peter Klutinoty ; Were you there ? No you were not . Everyone gets their shitty information where ever they can , like you do so get over yourself . And by the way you are incorrect on what you have said about long long long ,where did you get your shitty information from ?
Long, Long, Long - George Harrison: Guitar, Lead Vocals - Paul McCartney: Hammond Organ, Bass, - Ringo Star: Drums--------No John Lennon at all. --------'Blue Jay Way' - John Lennon only sang back up vocals, he didn't contribute instrumentation for a lot of Harrison songs, but he did sing back up from time to time. 'I Want to Tell You' John Lennon only sang back up vocals to that one too, though he may of did some hand clapping.
(This is Tom, not Sandra.)
My favorite George (Beatle) tune, ever!!!! A very underrated tune, in my opinion. I believe it was a better tune than John's A-side song.
absolutely so !!!
Wow this is better.
From Get back sessions
Crazy lineup. I assume it's John on guitar, George on piano as well as Paul on bass and Ringo on drums.
Strange that we can hear all four instruments despite Ringo supposedly being away to film The Magic Christian. Maybe Paul's drums were recorded beforehand? Or someone other than John is playing the guitar here, maybe it's John on piano and George on bass which would leave Paul on drums?
Alternative lineup is, of course, Paul: DRUMS, John: PIANO, George: guitar/bass.
You’re confused.
There are 3 versions of Ole Brown Shoe; one was recorded with Ringo and Billy Preston during the Get Back / Let it be filming during January 1969. One was solo demo by George In February 1969, and the last one was in April 1969, when Ringo was filming the Magic Christian - on the main recording which was released as a B-side, George plays organ and guitar; Paul plays drums and bass; and John plays piano. Two references for this are Mark Lewinsohn and the Beatles BIble.
It's never been proven that Ringo filming would leave no space for him to do a record session. It sounds like him here, and the suggestion that it's NOT him only really became public when the Abbey Road box set came out with that assertion. I don't think any Beatles biographer previously assumed that it was Paul.
@@progmeup It's not been proven. The Let it Be box set book is wrong about this. Ringo plays on OBS (with G on piano/vocals and most likely Paul on guitar doing those bass-like fills John would not have done), and this was an afternoon session, then Ringo missed the evening session where the band rehearsed Something with Paul on drums due to film commitments.
I'm getting this sheet music
You never seen a picture of George holding a bass during the Beatles era? Google is your friend ("George Harrison bass" if you can't figure what to search). Two tips: Revolver sessions and Abbey Road Sessions...
On the Two Of Us, I believe, on the Let It Be album George performs the bass riffs on his electric guitar while Paul plays acoustic guitar. So essentially there was no bass in that song whatsoever. George also plays base on let It Be. Maybe photos are not easy to find but I know that the Lads shifted instruments a lot.
this 1 is George 1966 during Revolver Sessions tilonlysilenceremains.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/64burns-nusonic.jpg?w=882 and this is during Abbey Road Sessions (played bass on a few songs) blackjacketsymphony.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/abbey-gtr-2.jpg -- George is playing bass in the film Let It Be & on Two Of Us. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Bass_VI
B-side of “Ballad of John and Yoko.”
The Middle Eight is actually a Middle Twelve here.
John Lennon played piano on the Studio version. Paul played drums cause Ringo was working in his film. GEORGE played guitar and Hammond organ.
It doesn't sound like Paul playing drums. Ringo probably had some time to spare.
@@progmeup Negative. Ringo is not there
@@Solomongrundy68 Ringo's typical fills (unison triplets on snare and low tom) are all over the track and it's not the easiest song to play. I think Paul is underrated as a drummer, but he said he can't do a shuffle well, and I don't see why he would imitate Ringo to that degree.
@@progmeup Yes, completely agree. Paul as a drummer very underrated
"Is John heard on "Within You, Without Out," "Blue Jay Way," "The Inner Light," or "Here Comes The Sun"? Maybe a vocal harmony here and there."
I'd like to answer this one: John features in "Blue Jay Way" playing organ. He also sings harmony on "The Inner Light".
John also plays organ on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Paul couldn't have done piano and organ at the same time.
@@progmeup George Harrison played organ on WMGGW.
And they put it on b side
Unbelieve session Abbey Road
I think you are being very disingenuous about John Lennon to be honest! To quote John Lennon -
“I remember the day he [Harrison] called to ask for help on 'Taxman', one of his first songs. I threw in a few one-liners to help the song along, because that's what he asked for. He came to me because
he couldn't go to Paul, because Paul wouldn't have helped him at that period”.
It is true that John never helped much in the later years from 1967 onwards on George’s songs, but Paul did very little also -so let’s not make him out to be a saint!
Paul McCartney tended to take over when working on George’s songs, as Harrison’s comments about the bass line on Something being too complicated and over-worked -which was totally against what he had wanted. But, to get the song out as a Beatle’s song he had to go along
with Paul.
Also, John Lennon acknowledged a lot of Harrison’s songs. Lennon talking about ‘Within you Without you’- "One of George's best songs. One of my favorites of his, too. He's clear on that song. His mind and his music are clear. There is his innate talent. He brought that sound
together."
John stopped helping because George left Northern/Maclen and John wasn't making money on George's songs anymore
@@victorarena23 George never left Northern songs. To the best of my knowledge he retained his 1.6 % share until his death. Also Harrisongs, George's publishing company, owned the rights to his songs. Unlike Lennon & McCartney. Maclen was purely a Lennon & McCartney company to gather their royalties and had nothing to do with George. It was dissolved in 1970 after Paul sued the Beatles.
that's Paul on drums.. I didn't really believe it was him on the record. But this shows he's trying to figure it out. Very tentative and a bit sloppy places. Ringo wouldn't have done that.
So who was the inspiration for this song?
One way to answer that: a piano. George Harrison composed this while seated at a piano (not a guiitar). It inspired him to go in a new or different direction. What there a lady who inspired the lyrics? George Harrison never said...
Never expected to read a novel out of that description
This is one of those songs that I really don't prefer the remastered version. The remastered version is too clear and dampens the song.
Tons of misinformation in this video, it’s unreal
👎 Good concept; poor execution. The lyrics are wrong.
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