Unsurpassed! Vol. 3 - London Town Rarities!

2CD UNSURPASSED! VOLUME 3: LONDON TOWN RARITIES
HMC 063
DISC ONE

1. Girls’ School (take 1) [3:45]
2. London Town (rough mix) [4:15]
3. Girlfriend (rough mix) [4:42]
4. Girls’ School (instrumental take 2) [4:50]
5. Café On The Left Bank (rough mix of backing track) [3.07]
6. I’m Carrying (rough mix of backing track) [2:47]
7. Deliver Your Children (rough mix of backing track) [4:14]
8. I’ve Had Enough (rough mix of backing track) [3:08]
9. With A Little Luck (rough mix of backing track) [5:58]
10. Famous Groupies (rough mix of backing track) [3:35]
11. Morse Moose And The Grey Goose (rough mix of instrumental backing track)
    [6:31]
12. Don’t Let It Bring You Down (rough mix of backing track) [4:34]
13. Find A Way Somehow (rough mix of backing track) [5:34]
14. Mull Of Kintyre (unedited rough mix with count-in) [4:53]
15. Waterspout (unreleased first rough mix) [5:11]
16. I’ve Had Enough (Geoff Emerick master tape) [3:02]
17. Don’t Let It Bring You Down (Geoff Emerick master tape) [4:33]
18. Mull Of Kintyre (bagpipes only) [3:16]
    Total playing time: 79 minutes
    Tracks 1-4: Sessions at Abbey Road Studios, February 7 until March 31, 1977 from
    the Geoff Emerick master tape. NEW FOUNDS! These first sessions for “London
    Town” started in February with Pete Henderson engineering. Geoff Emerick took over
    in March after the McCartneys returned from a vacation in Jamaica. A total of six
    tracks were recorded: Girls’ School, Name And Address, Girlfriend & London Town
    (all four songs taped on February 14), Children Children & B-side To Seaside (both
    taped on February 18 – the latter by just Paul & Linda). (The master for Girls’ School
    was recorded on March 14.) This great tape from the Emerick archives offers us two
    new versions for Girls’ School (take 1 is especially great with Paul singing the song
    like Elvis), Girlfriend & London Town (both lacking several overdubs to be added at
    the last sessions for the album in late 1977 and early 1978.
    Tracks 5-13: These 2 nd batch of recording sessions took place aboard the yacht Fair
    Carol, stationed at Watermelon Bay off the coast of St. John’s near the Virgin Islands,
    between May 1 st and 31 st , 1977. This is a forty-minute compilation tape from May 27,
19. NEW FOUND TAPE WITH IMPROVED SOUND QUALITY!
    Café On The Left Bank was the first track recorded in the Virgin Islands on May 4,
    while I’m Carrying, I’ve Had Enough and Denny Laine’s Find A way were committed
    to tape the day after (May 5). Other songs recorded: With A Little Luck (May 9),
    Famous Groupies & Morse Moose (May 13), Deliver Your Children (May 18) and
    Don’t Let It Bring You Down (May 25).

Track 14: Unedited rough mix with count-in and different ending, late 1977.
Track 15: NEW FOUND UNRELEASED MIX. Recorded at Music Centre Studios on
June 29, 1977 and probably not meant to be included on “London Town” from the
start.
Tracks 16+17: from the Geoff Emerick master tape, early 1978.
Track 18: stripped down version featuring only bagpipes and drums from the
Campbeltown Pipe Band, August 1977.

DISC TWO

1. Girls’ School (take 1 another version) [3:42]
2. Girls’ School (take 2 with vocals) [4:49]
3. With A Little Luck (video edited mix 2007) [3:11]
4. I’ve Had Enough (video mix 2007) [3:01]
5. London Town (video mix 2007) [4:06]
6. Mull Of Kintyre (stereo promo edit) [3:33]
7. Girls’ School (stereo promo edit) [3:21]
8. London Town (USA stereo promo edit) [3:46]
9. With A Little Luck (USA mono promo edit) [3:11]
10. I’ve Had Enough (USA mono promo version) [3:02]
11. London Town (USA mono promo edit) [3:49]
12. Girls’ School (different version) [4:46]
13. London Town (lacking the backing vocals) [4:08]
14. Twelve Of The Clock (instrumental outtake) [1:37]
15. Suicide (studio demo) [3:45]
16. Mull Of Kintyre (demo) [4:16]
17. Backwards Traveller (demo) [3:44]
18. I’ve Had Enough (live at Glasgow) [3:20]
19. Mull Of Kintyre (Mike Yarwood Christmas Show 1977) [3:39]
20. London Town (US radio commercial) [0:28]
21. With A Little Luck (rehearsal) [4:21]
22. I’ve Had Enough (rehearsal) [3:13]
    Total playing time: 78 minutes
    Tracks 1+2: Sessions at Abbey Road Studios, February 7 until March 31, 1977.
    Different versions than on disc 1.
    Tracks 3-5: Newly prepared Stereo Video Mixes for the DVD set “The McCartney
    Years”.
    Tracks 6-11: Promotional mono and stereo mixes/edits to be used for American radio.
    Track 12: Another different version taken from acetate including the ‘three cheers’
    introduction with overdubs recorded at Paul’s Scottish Spirit Of Ranachan Studio in
    August 1977.

Track 13: Another version lacking the backing vocals.
Track 14: This instrumental track was recorded during sessions, but not meant to be
included in the “London Town” album. Without anyone knowing Paul used a snippet
of this song as background music in his Oobu Joobu radio show. NEW FOUND!
Track 15: this studio demo was recorded and mixed for Frank Sinatra on March 8 th ,
1977 during the first batch of “London Town” sessions at EMI.
Tracks 16+17: demos from Paul’s Scottish Rude Studio, Summer 1977.
Track 18: Soundboard recording from the second Glasgow concert at the Apollo
Theatre on December 17, 1979.
Track 19: Live on the Mike Yarwood Christmas show, taped at BBC Television
Centre, London on December 10, 1977. Broadcast by BBC1 on December 25.
Track 20: ‘Available on Capitol Records & Tapes’, US radio ad 1978.
Tracks 21+22: Rehearsals for the cancelled Japanese Wings tour, Lower Gate Farm,
Peasmarsh, East Sussex, UK, January 1980.

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