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I've read the Beatles played "Love Me Do" during the January 1969 recordings of "Let It Be" on January 28, the same day the released versions of "Get Back" and "Don't Let Me Down" were recorded.

For anyone who has heard this recording, how bad is it? How does John's harmonica sound? I've questioned if he did play the harp on this version, but I've got to be an idiot if I didn't think he did.

I'm not sure a recording of it exists, but if it's anything like their stirring rendition of You Can't Do That, or three cool cats... It may be better of lost.

I have it. It's pretty awful You're thinking of a take proper. John has no harmonica. Paul is just plunking along on his bass, singing in that mock-Elvis-Lady-Madonna voice with some occasional falsetto and I think John joins in here and there and it devolves in about a minute or two into "Two of Us" maybe or some other piece of another classic.

It's not pretty, like most of the Get Back sessions.

It's certainly not a remake or even serious attempt to rehearse "Love Me Do". It's just a loose jam...

Lets face it, most of the stuff coming out of the Get Back sessions (as exhaustively collected in "THE GET BACK JOURNALS") is pretty boring.

The only songs I liked from the Get Back/Let It Be session:

Two of Us (album version)
Dig a Pony (film version)
I've Got a Feeling (album version)
Get Back (single version)
Don't Let Me Down (Naked version)
The Long and Winding Road (Anthology 3 version)
Let It Be (Naked version)
For You Blue (Get Back version)
Teddy Boy (Get Back version)
One After 909 (rooftop version)
I Me Mine (Naked version)

Almost everything else sucks