Beatles Vocal Tracks

mgauction · Post by **mgauction** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:22 am

Someone sent this to me, a fun listen and a good time for all.

http://www.bennettstudios.com/mysterytracks/

PS: Sgt Pepper Vox has about 10 sec. of silence before the vocal comes in...

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:31 pm

WOW, FANTASTIC....thanks for that.

The Laughing Bird is great.... and Lennon's harmony on This Boy is one of his alltime greatest vocals.

mgauction · Post by **mgauction** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:57 pm

I wasn't sure if this had been brought to the site yet. Yes, Kent, nice to hear clean, clear vocals. Gives you a different perspective on the song. I like how you can clearly hear Paul's bass riff on "Rain."

arrow201 · Post by **arrow201** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:09 pm

this is great...if there's more like this, please
post

...great to hear "If I Fell" ...i never
realized until now that the 2nd "anytime at all"
line was sung by Paul (i always thought the
whole thing was sung by John) ...and Strawberry
Fields...i've always loved the guitar bit...nice
to hear it loud and clear

mgauction · Post by **mgauction** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:24 pm

"...i never realized until now that the 2nd "anytime at all" line was sung by Paul (i always thought the whole thing was sung by John)"

Neither did I!!

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:30 pm

Whats up with the voice that comes in at 0:12 of Strawberry Fields? Does it sound to you like some joker slipped his own voice into the clip.... ?

alanz · Post by **alanz** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:01 pm

That's Paul from the Anthology. He plays the riff and sings the line and then they cut to the actual song.

chucksimms · Post by **chucksimms** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:19 am

Wow... How can I save this to CD? It seems I can only save it as a text file.

8mileshigh · Post by **8mileshigh** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:40 am

I didn't have anything planned for this evening.......I do now

What a great site, Thanks Mike!!

mgauction · Post by **mgauction** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:47 am

I didn't expect this reaction. My friend, Zeke (remember him, Graham?) sent the site to me. I will ask him if there are more.

greg_feo · Post by **greg_feo** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:53 am

Mike,I miss seeing you & Zeke...thanx for the link.
Peace

Greg

revolver323 · Post by **revolver323** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:06 am

Paul's singing Anytime at All is a great example of how well their voices blended, especially early on. I never had trouble telling them apart, but it's pretty remarkable that two singers with such different approaches could blend so well.

teb · Post by **teb** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:16 pm

Sometimes you forget just how good these guys were, but hearing these raw tracks is a real treat. I always used to hate when the engineer would punch up one of my tracks all by it's lonesome. You just sit there with your fingers crossed, hoping you didn't play something full of clunkers that were hidden in the mix.

These tracks are also a really great example of what it was like to record back in the days of four-track machines. The Strawberry Fields cut in particular, shows how we sometimes used to have to search through the song and the various mixed-down tracks to find a space on the tape to put something in when we wanted to add additional bits here and there. By the end of the session you almost needed to make a map for doing the final mix just to keep track of what was where, what had to be done on the board when it came up and what was coming up next. Since mixing was done live with no pre-programing possible, and since few things went into a final mix without needing some sort of volume or EQ adjustment, doing a mix often required a lot of hands on the board tweaking and boosting things as they came up in the song.

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:48 pm

To save these songs, open your 'temporary internet files' folder. The songs are there as mp3's.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:02 am

Thanks for posting those, Mike. great listening.

I'm for a Beatles CD with just vocals and or just backing tracks, ala the Pet Sounds Box. Anyone else?