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O.P.D.

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Disc 1

  1. One After 909

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    3:07 • Live • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation

    Concert From "The rooftop concert" in London, United Kingdom on Jan 30, 1969

    Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

    Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

  2. Medley

    1. Rocker

      Written by Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Fats Domino, Al Lewis, Sylvester Bradford

      2:17 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation

      Session Recording: Jan 22, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London

      Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

      Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

    2. Save The Last Dance For Me

      Written by Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman

      2:17 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation

      Session Recording: Jan 22, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London

      Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

      Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

    3. Don't Let Me Down

      Written by Lennon - McCartney

      2:17 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation

      Session Recording: Jan 22, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London

      Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

      Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

  3. Don't Let Me Down

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    3:52 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation

    Session Recording: Jan 22, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London

    Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

    Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

  4. Dig A Pony

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    4:09 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation

    Session Recording: Jan 23, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London

    Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

    Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

  5. I've Got A Feeling

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    2:50 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation

    Session Recording: Jan 22, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London

    Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

    Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

  6. Get Back

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    3:01 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation

    Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

    Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

Disc 2

  1. For You Blue

    Written by George Harrison

    2:52 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation

    Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

    Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

  2. Teddy Boy

    Written by Paul McCartney

    3:43 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation

    Session Recording: Jan 24, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London

    Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

    Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

  3. Medley

    1. Two Of Us

      Written by Lennon - McCartney

      4:11 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation

      Session Recording: Jan 24, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London

      Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

      Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

    2. Maggie Mae

      Written by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, George Harrison

      4:11 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation

      Session Recording: Jan 24, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London

      Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

      Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

  4. Dig It

    Written by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, George Harrison

    5:20 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation

    Session Recording: Jan 24, 1969 • Studio Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London

    Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

    Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

  5. Let It Be

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    4:10 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation

    Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

    Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

  6. The Long And Winding Road

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    3:44 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation

    Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

    Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

  7. Get Back

    Written by Lennon - McCartney

    0:42 • Studio version • From Glyn Johns' 2nd "Get Back" compilation

    Session Mixing: March - May 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London

    Session Mixing: May 09, 1969 • Studio Olympic Sound Studios, London


From O.P.D. | beatlegs:

This LP is particularly interesting because it represents the only full-length issue of an undocumented version of the unreleased GET BACK LP, containing a few more seconds after the song Get Back and various small edits here and there and compiled in early May ’69. It includes a longer version of Dig It compared with other releases of the time and the complete, unedited version of For You Blue.

​The unreleased GET BACK LP was known since the mid seventies (after the Wizardo and Kornyphone records); it was mixed at EMI on May 28th, 1969. The differences of the mix which originated O.P.D. are the following:

TRACK 7, Get Back.

The O.P.D. mix has the original unedited version with a longer coda unavailable elsewhere.

The May 28th mix has the officially released version (45 mix), which is the same O.P.D. version, with the coda from another take edited onto the ending.

TRACK 12, Dig It

The O.P.D. mix is over 5 minutes long, on the promo GET BACK it clocks at 4’20″. Compared with the longest available version, this edit of Dig It starts at 1’56’’ and lacks the following segments, probably edited at EMI during the mixing: from 2’18’’ to 2’57’’, from 5’56’’ to 6’26’’ and from 7’05’’ to 7’33’’.

TRACK 13, Let it be (take 27).

The May 28th mix is the same as the O.P.D. mix, plus the “Are we supposed to giggle in the solo” spoken intro (from take 23) edited onto the beginning.

​This undocumented early mix of the GET BACK album was first aired on September 20, 1969 by WKBW in Buffalo (from a tape they apparently had obtained from a Toronto radio station).

Thanks to the research of contributors to Belmo’s Beatleg News fanzine, we know that by mid-october tape copies had reached Cincinnati, where, according to a high school paper, a fourth generation copy of the tape was in the possession of a local FM radio station; and Detroit, a staff-writer of the Free Press reporting to have heard the yet unreleased GET BACK album on an «unmixed tape» and commenting the line-up track by track.

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