THE BEATLES - ACETATES COLLECTION

ACETATES COLLECTION

(CD 2001 EMIDISC 001)

1. Ain't She Sweet (1 Sided 10" MGM/Verve Acetate)
2. She's A Woman (Emidisc 7" 1 Sided Mono Acetate Take 6)
3. She's A Woman (Emidisc 7" 1 Sided Mono Acetate Take 7/8)
4. Paperback Writer (8" Capitol Acetate)
5. Strawberry Fields Forever (Emidisc Take 7 RM3 29.11.66)
6. Blue Jay Way (1 Sided 10" Emidisc)
7. Intervista (1 Sided 10" Emidisc Acetate)
8. Kenny Everett Musical Workshop (2 Sided 8" Apple Acetate)
9. Across The Universe (Emidisc Acetate)
10. Revolution 9 (Apple Mono 2 Sided Acetate Take 1 RS1 21.6.68)
11. Let It Be (10" Apple Acetate)
12. Long & Winding Road (10" Apple Acetate)
13. Mary Jane - Original Master - RS4 (1 Sided Cutting Room Acetate)
14. Mary Jane - Complete/Overdub - RS5 (1 Sided Cutting Room Acetate)
15. Mary Jane - Edit Version (1 Sided Cutting Room Acetate)

CD Notes:

This CD brings together a collection of Acetates from 1961-69, some you may have seen before
on previous releases, but some discs here make their debut to CD and have
remained previously unreleased until now.

Firstly an MGM/Verve Acetate of The Beatles June 24, 1961 recording of "Aint She Sweet".
This Is followed by two 7", 1 sided Emidisc Mono Acetates of "She's A Woman". The first
being take 6, the released take, but the second compiles a false start and take 7, these
acetates were probably cut the same day as the mono mixing for "She's A Woman" on October
12, 1964. This Is followed by an 8" stereo Capitol Acetate of "Paperback Writer", take 2,
the same as the released take.

The third of three mono remixes for "Strawberry Fields Forever" Take 7, was chosen for acetate
cutting on November 29, 1966. These rough mixes were later scrapped In favour of a re-make of
the recording, takes 9-24 on December 9, 1966.

We have also Included a white label Emidisc with hand written notes, of "Blue Jay Way", this
Is quite a bazaar stereo mix, which Is totally different to the disc that appeared on Yellow
Dog's 'Acetates' CD In 1991.

What follows Is the Infamous "Intervista" acetate, a Kenny Everett Interview with John, Paul
and Ringo for Inclusion on his Radio show aired that Sunday, the 9th of June. This was recorded
at EMI Studio Two on June 6, 1968. This Is a 1 sided 10" Emidisc which clocks In at over 14 Minutes.
Continuing on the Everett madness, we have Included a rare 2 sided 8" Apple acetate, "Kenny Everett
Musical Workshop" which contains various jingles from his radio program, some of which were used
In his Beatles broadcasts.

"Across The Universe" was originally recorded as early as February 1968 for Inclusion as a single
release (In which "Lady Madonna" was chosen Instead) this was later used on a charity compilation
album "No One's Gonna Change Our World" In December 1969, then released on the "Let It Be" album
with an orchestra accompaniment and new overdubs. Presented here Is an Emidisc acetate of the original
1968 recording, take 8 with no overdubs or speed variants. This disc was cut on February 8, 1968
from one of two mono mixes made that day.

"Revolution 9" was mixed for stereo on June 21 & 25, 1968. Track 10 Is an Apple Mono 2 Sided Acetate,
this also appeared on Vigotone's 'Revolution' CD In 1994, but sounds a little cleaner here. The
following two Apple acetates, "Let It Be" & "The Long And Winding Road" are the released takes, but
sound like uncompressed mixes, with high dynamics opposed to the official versions.

The last three tracks have been taken from a 'Cutting Room Inc.' 1 sided stereo acetate. The first
two recordings from this disc have appeared on previous Bootlegs over the years, most notably on
"What A Shame, Mary Jane Had A Pain At The Party", a 12" Bootleg E.P released In 1979 on a fake EMI
label. For some unknown reason the third song was not Included here and has remained unreleased.
Here for the first time on CD, we have Included that 'Edit-Version' of "What's The New Mary Jane".

A Japanese silver pressed CD copy of Unicorn's title previously released this year,
artwork has totally been revised, although CD notes are copied from the Unicorn release.
The makers of this Japanese pressing chose to declick some of the Acetates on this CD,
which has resulted In some weird sounds on parts of the tracks due to computerized declicking
methods. Overall comment, nice to have on an original silver CD, but I'd tend to go for
the Unicorn set, as this has received no after production remastering.