DAY 2: 03/01/1969
Disc 1
"Hello! The boys in Pentonville this week!"
D1- 01- The Long and Winding Road 3.01
[slate]
[instrumental]
D1- 02- Oh! Darling 3.02
Paul McCartney: [singing] Oh, darling, please believe me / I’ll never do you no harm / Believe me when I tell you / I’ll never do you no harm / Oh, darling / Please believe me / I’ll never do you no harm / Believe me when I tell you / I’ll never do you-
D1- 03- Oh! Darling 3.02
[slate]
D1- 04- Unknown 3.04
[instrumental]
D1- 05- Maxwell’s Silver Hammer 3.05
PM: [singing] Joan was quizzical / Studied pataphysical science in the home / Late nights all alone with a test tube, oh-oh-oh-oh / Maxwell Edison, majoring in medicine / Called her on the phone / Can I take you out to the pictures, Joan? / But as she’s getting ready to go / A knock comes on the door / Bang bang, Maxwell’s silver hammer came down upon her head. / [vocalizing] Clang clang, Maxwell’s silver hammer makes sure that Joan was dead. / Joan was dead.
Ringo Starr: [imitating Paul]
PM: [laughs] [silly voice, gibberish]
PM & RS: [vocalizing, whistling]
PM: [singing] Back in school again, Maxwell plays the fool again / Teacher gets annoyed / Wishing to avoid an unpleasant scene / She tells Max to stay when the class has gone away. [vocalizing] / But as he’s getting ready to go. [mumbling] / Bang bang, Maxwell’s silver hammer came down upon her head.
RS: [laughs]
PM: Clang clang, Maxwell’s silver hammer made sure that Joan was dead / Sure that Joan was dead / She’s dead. [vocalizing]
[instrumental]
RS: [singing quietly, unintelligible]
Michael Lindsay-Hogg: Now, do you guys have any sense of being filmed there?
RS & PM: [laughing] No!
D1- 06- Adagio For Strings 3.06 - D1- 07- Adagio For Strings 3.07
[instrumental]
D1- 08- Tea For Two Cha Cha 3.08
[instrumental]
PM & RS: [giggling]
[instrumental]
PM: I didn’t quite get the chords. [chuckles]
MLH: That’s very madcap for early in the morning.
PM: [silly voice] Well, y’know. We are very madcap.
[laughter]
PM: Fuckin’ madcap is right! [laughs]
D1- 09- Tea For Two Cha Cha 3.09
RS & PM: [giggling]
PM: [vocalizing wildly]
[instrumental]
D1- 10- Chopsticks 3.10
[instrumental]
D1- 11- Unknown 3.11
PM: [vocalizing]
D1- 12- Torchy, The Battery Boy 3.12
[instrumental]
RS: [singing] Torchy, Torchy, Torchy, Torchy. [repeating]
PM: [overlapping singing] The battery boy / Torchy, the battery boy / Pull my tail, [gibberish] slit my throat.
RS: [chuckling]
PM: Torchy, Torchy, the battery boy.
D1- 13- Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On 3.13
[instrumental]
PM: [singing] Well, come on, baby, whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on. Yeah, come along baby, ooh.
[instrumental]
D1- 14- Unknown 3.14
[instrumental]
D1- 15- Let It Be 3.15
[instrumental]
PM: [humming] [singing] When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me / Speaking words of wisdom, let it be / And in my darkest hour, she is standing right in front of me / Speaking words of wisdom, let it be. / Let it be, let it be / Let it be, let it be. [humming]
[instrumental]
D1- 16- Unknown 3.16
[instrumental]
RS: Hi, George.
George Harrison: Sorry for being late, but I…
PM: John’s late.
GH: …fell asleep again.
[instrumental]
GH: [unintelligible] Would you like to sing us a song?
MLH: Okay, we can cut cameras now.
PM: [muffled, eating] I think you’d better cut cameras now. Should be able to give you a wink when you feel it’s not coming on. I just knew I’d never, y’know. I knew I wasn’t sort of moving and all that. So I really just should’ve gone… and you would’ve said [snaps] “Okay, yeah.”
MLH: No, no, that was fine.
PM: No.
MLH: That was nice.
PM: You know what I mean? I just sort of knew in that, I wasn’t really singing anything or doing anything.
MLH: Say that again.
PM: [laughing] Yeah. [thick Liverpool accent] That’s uh, y’know, where it’s at, I suppose.
MLH: See, what we did, is like. What we’re doing in a lot of it, like, we had like a two-shot, not seeing your fingers, we could lay any of the tracks over it. Anything pretty. You see, we might need a bit of mood in the middle of all the rock ‘n’ roll you’re playing.
RS: Oh, yeah. The bounty[?].
MLH: Yeah.
RS: Something to slow the pace a bit. [chuckling]
MLH: Exactly, yeah.
[laughter]
PM: Got three more slow ones.
GH: Beatles Book.
PM: [chuckles] Good this month?
GH: Seems to be getting older and older.
PM: Deteriorating.
RS: Slipping back into its old ways.
GH: Yeah. And it seems to be a good thing.
D1- 17- Taking A Trip To Carolina 3.17
RS: [singing] Taking a trip on an ocean liner / I gotta get to Carolina / Taking a trip on an ocean liner / I gotta get to Carolina / Taking a trip on an ocean liner / I gotta get to Carolina / Taking a trip on an ocean liner [humming].
PM: [background, unrelated] Fuck off. [laughing]
GH: [unintelligible]
D1- 18- Unknown 3.18
[instrumental]
[unintelligible chatter]
D1- 19- Dialogue
GH: [reading from the Beatles Monthly Book] “Baseball winners, George’s U.S. visit, Mal Evans gives you a complete report!” Actually… [chuckles]
PM: [laughing] Terrific. It’s like the Daily Express.
GH: Oh, look! [mumbling] “-on Elvis’ current single, ‘A Little Less Conversation’”
PM: [chuckles] It’s Mal’s… general style. Hey, Mal! Who took the photos? [unintelligible] You’ll see.
GH: Yeah, no, this…
Mal Evans: It’s that old one.
GH: Not really, not really.
PM: It’s not, this is the most recent. It’s [unintelligible]
GH: Is it [unintelligible]? Maybe Tony thingy, um… Tony Bramwell. John Kelly and Tony Bramwell. “What do you think of George’s pseudo-tie sweatshirt?” I think it’s terrible.
[laughter]
PM: [vocalizing]
ME: Do you want tea, or anything?
GH: Uh. I’ll have a cup of tea, yeah. Thanks, Mal. “The True Story Of The Beatles. If you have not been able to obtain it, you can still get it direct” … “Accompanied by his current steady, American photographer Linda Eastman, Paul spent the December week in Portugal visiting the Beatles biographer Hunter Davies!”
D1- 20- Please, Mrs. Henry 3.19
GH: [singing] And I ain’t got a dime.
RS: But, you got a story.
ME: [about the Beatles Monthly Book] I did that one, that one. All the good ones, I took.
RS: [laughs] It’s back into too many old ones, you know.
ME: They don’t get new ones, y’see. That’s why the, uh…
[instrumental]
GH: [singing] Please, Mrs. Henry. Mrs. Henry, please! Mrs. Henry, Mrs. Henry please! I’m down on my knees. And I ain’t got a dime.
RS: Been listening to some blues?
GH: Did you play those? Those tapes of Dylan’s?
RS: Oh, yeah. No, only the one, I played.
GH: They’re really…
[laughter]
GH: Like, the words are too much.
ME: I think I got it.
GH: Yeah. I think you should, uh, do something about his posture, Mal.
[laughter]
GH: Y’know, he’ll get a round back.
D1- 21- Ramblin’ Woman 3.20
ME: Did you read that bit about [unintelligible]? I didn’t plan to get it out.
GH: Oh, yeah, I just read little bits of it. It only just arrived.
[instrumental]
PM: [vocalizing]
GH: [singing] Ramblin’ woman / Won’t you please come on home / Ramblin’ woman / Won’t you please come on home / Follow you anywhere / Into wilderness too / Even down to the ocean liners there / Ramblin’ woman / Won’t you please come on home / Ramblin’ woman / Won’t you please come on home / I’ll follow you anywhere / Into wilderness too / Even down to the ocean liners there / Ramblin’ woman / Won’t you please come on home.
D1- 22- Is It Discovered 3.21
GH: [singing, mumbling] Is it discovered…
PM: [reading from the Beatles Monthly Book] “Barbara Pavey is the new Area Secretary for the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland.”
RS: [chuckles]
PM: “Members in these areas can reach her by writing to Mrs. Barbara Pavey.”
[laughter]
PM: 71 Pensioner Street!
GH: I can see that when I’m ninety! The official Beatles fanclub.
PM: But that’s– I like that about it.
GH: The steadiness.
PM: Yeah. It’s just so sort of daft. Even though we just… If we’re all in prison.
[laughter]
PM: [giggling] It’ll still be coming out. “Hello! The boys in Pentonville this week! Send a big hi to all the Bertle Persons! Ringo, doing time in the mailbags-”
RS: [laughs]
PM: “-says, ‘It’s fab in here!’”
RS: [laughing] “Thanks for the cards.”
GH: “Thanks for the guitar.”
D1- 23- Improvisation 3.22
GH: No matter how cheap of a [unintelligible] you say it is.
[instrumental]
GH: It’s like that one of James Ray. It’s as if it’s taken specially there, so to hide…
RS: To hide the humph[?].
[laughter]
PM: And it’s really well-lit. To disguise my, sort of, features. Really try to sort of… Tooth, great…
GH: I think your beard suits you, man.
RS: [in agreement] Mm.
PM: [chuckles] Well, y’know, I’m…
RS: Cap’n.
[laughter]
PM: Yeah. But you know me about it, y’know, I’m just sort of… I don’t know about it, y’know. As always. With anything, I never-
RS: It’s great for the film.
GH: Just keep it on ‘til you do know about it.
PM: Exactly, yeah.
[unintelligible]
GH: But it’s all that, it’s like, to go away is such a [unintelligible]. And, uh… Just, like, all The Band, y’know, it’s too much because they’re, y’know– they’ve got all that gear, but, y’know, that’s– it’s like just the whole thing there is we’re just living, and just, they happen to be a band as well.
PM: Mm.
GH: And, uh. Too much. The drummer is fantastic, ‘cause he plays guitar, really, he’s not really the drummer, y’know, they all just… But he’s the main drummer. Levon Helm, he’s called. And he’s really like that “coats come up from Somerset” y’know, those people. He’s, like, got no neck and all these whiskers, and a happy smiling face. And he’s just playing- [demonstrates on guitar]. It’s all their scene, is just singing all those songs. You’d go down a bomb with ‘em.
PM: [laughing] ‘Cause you’re no-neck.
GH: Y’know, ‘cause it’s all that really country western and their favorite track was Ringo’s track. Because, y’know, all around there, because it’s like… [playing and vocalizing Don’t Pass Me By]. That’s their scene completely.
PM: Yeah, great. [to RS] Are you going to write another?
RS: [exhales]
PM: Yeah, okay. I understand.
RS: Yes, I am, but y’know, it’s just…
PM: I realize it’s a daft question.
RS: I really do get-
PM: “Are you gonna write us another?”
GH: I was gonna write for him someday.
RS: Yes, I know, ‘cause I really do get fed up with…
D1- 24- Picasso 3.23
PM: Not knowing the chords?
RS: [beings playing piano] How do you do it?
GH: Oh, what’s that one? He’s got a great one!
PM: “Picasso”?
GH: Yeah.
RS: Yeah, but I can’t fit it in when I play it, that’s the only drag with that.
PM: Let’s hear it, ‘cause actually, it’s a fast one too, isn’t it?
RS: [laughing] It’s too fast for me. It’s just that speed. [singing] I bought a Picasso the other day / Looked at it upside- [speaking] I can’t sing it.
PM: We’ll just sing it down the octave.
RS: [singing] I bought a Picasso the other day / [chuckling] Looked at it upside, and the other way / I couldn’t find a lady nowhere / To me it looked like a wooden chair. [speaking] See, and then I need to do something…
PM: [singing] Oh baby.
RS: [singing] Oh baby.
GH: Or do it, “to me it looked like a wooden chair” then what’s the next bit? [singing, mumbling]
RS: Make it longer.
GH: So make it twice as long, then do the “oh baby”. Oh, thanks Mal.
PM: [singing] Ohh baby!
RS: Upside-down, then the other way… I couldn’t find a lady nowhere, to me it looked like a wooden chair.
GH: Y’know, uh. Dylan, Paul-
RS: There was paint everywhere.
GH: Y’know-
RS: Oh baby.
PM: Should do it though, yeah.
D1- 25- Taking A Trip To Carolina 3.24
GH: We’re doing, um.
RS: I’ve got “Taking A Trip To Carolina.” [laughs] In the same.
PM: In his mind.
RS: [singing] I gotta get to- Taking a trip on an ocean liner / I gotta get to Carolina / Taking a trip on an ocean liner / I gotta get to Carolina! [vocalizes] Oh baby.
[laughter]
RS: [singing] I’ve been… [speaking] It’s on the- I’ve got it on the little tape, “I’ve been to LA and New York too.” They’re not very nice. The words, I mean, they’re not very good.
PM: Uh-huh.
RS: “Carolina. Oh baby.”
[laughter]
PM: Just get me back there.
GH: With, um…
PM: What was his name? Peter… Golland.
GH: Holland. Peter… Yolland.
PM & RS: [in agreement] Yolland. [chuckling]
[sipping noises]
D1- 26- Hey Jude 3.25
PM: Have you heard- [singing] Hey Jude… [speaking] By Wilson Pickett?
GH: No, I’ve been trying to get a copy.
RS: I heard it. On Saturday, when we were out.
GH: And Arthur Conley! Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da is supposed to be, that’s gonna knock ‘em all out. That’s too much. So I hear.
PM: I’m glad that that last- y’know, the real people are doing it.
RS: [chuckling] They’re doing it, yeah.
GH: But they did the last ones, didn’t they? Fats [Domino] was good doing that. But he was like, there was a white influence that made him do it.
PM: Yes, right, yeah.
GH: But it was still alright. But what else? There was something else done by, y’know, a heavy one. Solomon Burke, or one of them.
PM: Mm.
GH: Are these really making a film now?
RS: [affirmative] Mm.
PM: See, what he was saying yesterday, it’s good, that.
GH: I keep thinking we’re practicing.
PM: No. [chuckles] But it’s good, because he was saying, it’s like Picasso paints. Where you start from nothing. ‘Cause, y’know, we started from nothing. And it’ll end up as a TV show. But they’ll have all this, sort of… [impression of himself, mumbling] “To G, to D…” [normally] Should be good.
GH: I’ve been thinking of all the tunes I’ve got, and they’re all slowish. I seem to be-
PM: Yeah, most of mine are.
GH: I’ve got that Taxman Part Two.
PM: Oh yeah.
GH: Taxman Revisited.
PM: Five-year slog.
GH: Slog. But that could be very nice. But it should be like, very sad time, y'know, with maybe a string or two.
PM: Mm. We might- yeah.
GH: See, so far, there’s only a couple that I know I could do live with no backing. And that was one of them, that one. [singing] When you’re smiling…
PM: Oh yeah. Just with no backing? Just with a guitar and singing? Can you do that?
GH: Well, y’know, that’s how I’ve been doing it, and that’s, y’know, how it sounded all the time, but…
PM: Yeah.
GH: I mean, it’d probably be nicer to do it…
PM: If you can do that, it’d be great.
RS: It’d be great.
D1- 27- All Things Must Pass 3.26
PM: ‘Cause it’s always that, if you can do it, then that’s it. Much better.
GH: No, it’d be nicer with… some backing. It’d be nice with bass and drums. [singing] Sunrise doesn’t last all morning / A cloud- [speaking] Fuckin’ hell. [clears throat] [singing] Sunrise doesn’t last all morning / A cloudburst doesn’t last all day / Seems my love is up and has left you with no warning / It’s not always been that grey / All things must pass / All things must pass away.
PM: Is that tape recording?
GH: Yeah.
PM: [unintelligible]
GH: The ceiling. [coughs]
RS: Comin’ out the speakers.
GH: [coughing loudly]
D1- 28- Don’t Let Me Down 3.27
[instrumental, unintelligible chatter]
D1- 29- Your Name Is Ted 3.28
[instrumental]
GH: [singing] Your name is Ted. Oh yeah.
D1- 30- Crackin’ Up 3.29
[instrumental]
GH: [singing] You’re always talkin’ ‘bout money I spent.
PM: [singing] You’re always hollerin’ ‘bout where I’ve been.
GH: The echo. The echo is bouncing.
John Lennon: [testing the echo] AHP!
D1- 31- Improvisation 3.30
[instrumental]
PM: Gets my face? Spreading out a bit today. [chuckles]
JL: What?
PM: We’re spreading out a bit today.
JL: Yeah.
PM: [singing] You’re always worried ‘bout the money spent.
D1- 32- Crackin’ Up 3.31
GH & PM: [singing] You’re always worried ‘bout the money spent / You’re always worried ‘bout the money I spend / Crackin’ up / Yeah, yeah! / Just crackin’ up!
PM: [impression of Elvis] [gibberish]
D1- 33- All Shook Up 3.32
GH: [singing] Well, bless my soul, what’s wrong with me / I’m sippin’ like a man on a cup of tea / Friends say I’m acting wild as a bug / I’m in love.
PM: I’m all shook up.
PM & GH: [vocalizing] I’m a little mixed up but I feel fine / There’s only one cure for this body of mine / That’s to have that girl that I love so fine! / When she touched my hand, what a chill I got / Her lips are like a volcano that’s hot / I’m proud to say that she’s my buttercup.
PM: I’m in love / I’m all shook up.
GH: Yeah, yeah, yeah!
PM: Well, my knees are [mumbling] / There’s only one cure for this body of mine / That’s the girl that I love so fine!
D1- 34- Your True Love 3.33
PM: [singing] True love, baby / That’s what you give to me.
GH: Well, God made the world and He-
PM: Made it round!
GH: I got my baby / And I’m glad I found / … / True love.
JL & PM: Your love!
GH: True love!
JL & PM: Your love!
GH: True love, baby / That’s what you give to me.
[instrumental]
GH: True love!
PM & GH: Your love!
GH: True love!
PM & GH: Your love!
GH: True love, baby.
PM: That’s what you gave to me! / [mumbles] I’ll have someone to have and hold! / …Never forget! / True love!
PM & GH: Your love! / Your love!
PM: Oh, baby / That’s what you gave to me.
PM & GH: Oh, true love, baby / That’s what you gave to me.
D1- 35- Blue Suede Shoes 3.34
JL: [singing] Well, it’s one for the money!
PM: [giggles]
JL: Two for the show / Three to get ready / Now go, cat, go! / But don’t you step on my blue suede shoes / Well, you can do anything, but stay off of my blue suede shoes.
JL & PM: Well, you can knock me down / Step in my face / Slander my name all over the place / Do anything that you wanna do / Uh-uh honey, lay off them shoes! / Don’t you step on my blue suede shoes / Well, you can do anything, but lay off of my blue suede shoes.
[instrumental]
JL & PM: Blue, blue, blue suede shoes / Blue, blue, blue suede shoes / Well, you can do anything, but lay off of my blue suede shoes.
D1- 36- Three Cool Cats 3.35
PM: [singing] Three cool cats / Three cool cats…
GH: Parked on a corner in a beat-up car / Talkin’ all about how sharp they are / [mumbles]
JL, PM, & GH: [in harmony] Three cool cats / Three cool chicks
GH: Are walkin’ down the street / Swingin’ their hips / Splitting up a bag of potato chips / Three cool cats did-
PM & GH: Three cool flips! / For the-
JL, PM & GH: Three cool chicks / Three cool chicks / Up popped that first cool cat / He said “now look at that, man do you see what I see?”
GH: I want that middle chick!
PM: I want that little chick!
JL: Hey man, save one chick for me!
JL, PM & GH: Three cool chicks / Three cool chicks / [vocalizing] / Three fools of these three cool cats / Three cool cats / Three cool cats / Three cool cats!
PM: [giggles]
JL: [silly voice] Request here from Maisie, Linda, and Josie! The bulldog gang, the clap-stoppers, and the cement mixers guild!
PM: [laughing]
JL: We’d like you to sing “Walk Don’t Run”!
[laughter]
PM: [singing] Three cool cats…
GH: [unintelligible]
D1- 37- Blowin’ In The Wind 3.36
GH: [singing] How many roads must a man walk down?
JL: Before you call him a man?
PM: The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind / The answer is blowing in the wind! / Well, how many [laughing] must a white dove sail? Before-
D1- 38- Lucille 3.37
PM: [singing] -baby / Please don’t do me no harm / Ow! [chuckles] Eep! Ow! Woo!
[instrumental]
PM: I woke up this morning / Lucille was not in sight / I asked my friends about her but all their lips were tight / Lucille / Please come back where you belong / I’m waiting for you, baby / Please don’t do me no harm / Ow! [vocalizing] / [falsetto] Lucille / Please come back where you belong / Lucille / Please come back where you belong / Well, I woke up this morning / Lucille was not in sight / Asked my friends about it / All their lips were tight / Lucille! / Come back where you belong! [vocalizing]
[instrumental]
D1- 39- I’m So Tired 3.38
PM: [singing] I’m so tired / I haven’t slept a wink / I’m so tired / My mind is on the blink / I wonder should I call you / And get myself a drink / No-no-no [speaking] No! Lay off the booze, boy! [singing] ‘Cause I’m so tired / I don’t know what to do, don’t know what to do / I’m so tired / My mind is set on you [chuckles] / I wonder should I get up- call you / But I know what you will do! / Oh no no / You’d say I’m putting you on / But it’s no joke / Doing me harm! / You know I can’t sleep / [mumbling] Three weeks…
JL & PM: I’m going insane!
PM: You know I’d give you anything I’ve got for a little peace of… / I’m so tired / I don’t know what to do / So tired / My mind is on the blink / I wonder should I get up / And fix myself a drink / No-no-no [speaking, laughing] Lay off the booze… [singing] Yeah, doin’ me harm / You know no joke / Doin’ me harm / You know I can’t sleep / …Going insane! / You know I’d give you anything I’ve got for a little peace of mind / I’d give you everything I’ve got for a little peace of mind / I’d give you everything I’ve got for a little peace of mind.
[instrumental]
PM: [gibberish] [laughing] Fellas on the ballrooms, imagine. [gibberish]
JL: [coughs, laughs]
PM: ‘Cause you see ‘em on telly-
D1- 40- Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da 3.39
PM: [singing] Ob-la-di! Ha-ha-ha-ha!
JL: Ring!
PM: Ring!
JL & PM: [silly voices] Desmond has a barrow in the marketplace! / Doris had another in the bog!
JL: Charlie had another and it went to town! / And lordy, lordy, did they have a bag of fun! / Oh my god! / Oh my god! / Oh my god!
JL & PM: [vocalizing, giggling] Desmond and Molly Jones!
JL: Jones! / Desmond had a sparrow in his pocketbook! / Molly had an eagle in the strand / Molly said to Desy “Boy I like your hook / And when it hit me I believe you’re in the band!”
JL & PM: [vocalizing]
GH: La-la life goes on / La-la-la life goes on / La-la-la
GH & PM: Life goes on!
JL: [shouting] Well if you want some jam!
[laughter]
GH: Jam! Fuckin’ heard him? You want some jam?
PM: Ba-lim-ba-lum-ba-lam. [clicks tongue]
GH: Jimmy Scott missed out on that, too.
PM: [laughs] Promised him some publicity. Well, you got it, Jim. Alimony case.
D1- 41- Get On The Phone 3.40
[phone ringing in background]
JL: [singing] Get on the phone…
PM: I called you up [laughs] / You’re not there / Feelin’ rough.
GH: [speaking] Mal? Gone off?
PM: [singing] Oh yeah!
GH: I’m the great pretender.
JL: We’ve all gone off. It’s a major disaster.
Yoko Ono: [giggles]
GH: Maybe I dimmed it? Could I have stood on the cord?
PM: [vocalizing]
GH: You just take that adapter out, plug that one into the other plug.
PM: [laughing]
GH: Fuckin’ hell. [silly voice] Fuckin’ ‘ell, Mal.
D1- 42- Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da 3.41
PM: [silly voice] There must be some other way!
GH: There must be some other way!
PM: Let’s do “Don’t Let Me Down”!
D1- 43- Don’t Let Me Down 3.42
JL: [singing, silly voice] Don’t let me down!!
PM: Don’t let me down!
JL: [speaking] Have we got a set of words?
PM: [singing] Don’t let me down.
GH: Fats Domino.
PM: [singing] Don’t let me down.
JL: Have you got the words, Mal?
PM: [speaking] Purple Haze.
JL: Gotta shave tonight.
PM: [close to mic] Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh! Eh! Eh!
JL: [close to mic, silly voice] Hello? Hello?
D1- 44- The Third Man Theme 3.43
JL: Have you heard John Lennon’s imitation of Harold Wilson?
PM: [laughs]
JL: [unintelligible] -an alley cat. Have you heard?
[instrumental, background chatter]
JL: Uh, what? Ray Coleman?
D1- 45- Improvisation 3.44
JL: Yes, I thought so. He knows I’m doing silent pieces these days.
GH: Mal?
JL: Okay. Oh, thanks. I’m the only one that needs the words.
GH: Uh, phone Joe.
PM: Can I have some words as well?
JL: We haven’t got any mics, have we?
GH: Mal? The words- my words are in this guitar again-
[slate]
D1- 46- My Words Are My Heart 3.45
JL: [singing, silly voice] My words are in my heart, and my heart is in my pocket, and my pocket’s in my suit, and my suit is in the wardrobe
PM: In the heart you left-
D1- 47- Negro In Reserve 3.46
PM: -behind you.
JL: [singing] There’s a hole in the heart case / There’s a hole in the heart case / And a hole in the heart case! / There’s a hole in the heart!
PM: And the mother’s got a negro in reserve.
JL & PM: And the mother’s got a negro in reserve.
JL: There’s a hole in the heart case / Standing on the shelf / There’s a diaphragm [unintelligible] / All by his self / And his mother’s got a negro [mumbles] left behind / There’s a hole in the head / And his name is Ted
PM: [mumbling]
D1- 48- Don’t Let Me Down 3.47
JL: Okay. [singing] Don’t let me down!
JL & PM: [in harmony] Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down!
JL: [speaking] I don’t-
JL & PM: [singing] Nobody ever loved me like she do.
JL: Yes she does / Yes she does /
JL & PM: And if somebody ever loved me like she do me / Ooh, she do me / Yes she do / Don’t let me down!
PM: [speaking] PA’s off.
JL & PM: Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / I’m in love for the first time.
JL: Don’t you know it’s gonna last / It’s a love that lasts forever!
JL & PM: It’s a love that has no past! / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / And from the first time that she really done me / Ooh, she done me / Yes, she good / [mumbling] Done me / Ooh, she done me / She done me good / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down
JL: [speaking] No, don’t let me down… I’d really like you not to let me down. And when I hold you in your arms! When I feel your pancake[?] next to my trigger.
PM: [singing] Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down!
JL: George? You know that, uh- Is it that fretless guitar that makes that sort of… You used it on one of yours. “Long, Long, Long” and the Box Tops used it.
PM: Oh, yes.
JL: Try doing that, y’know, on all these.
GH: No, “Long, Long, Long” is that Gibson.
JL: Oh, ‘cause, you know that tone?
GH: Yeah, well that tone, it sounds like-
JL: If you could do that kind of thing, you know. [singing] Don’t let me down.
D1- 49- Don’t Let Me Down 3.48
[slate]
JL: [singing] Don’t let me-
D1- 50- Don’t Let Me Down 3.49
JL & PM: [in harmony] Nobody ever loved me like she does / Ooh, she does / Yes she does / And if somebody ever loved me like she do me.
JL: [speaking] That’s it. Set one.
JL & PM: Do me / Yes she do / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / I’m in love for the first time / Don’t you know it’s gonna last / It’s a love that lasts forever / It’s a love that has no past / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down
JL: No, no, no, no…
JL & PM: Don’t let me down! / And from the first time that she really done me / Ooh she done me / She done me good / I guess nobody ever really done me / Ooh she done me / She done me good / Don’t let me down! / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down…
PM: Go through it again, and I’ll try and sing the bits with you. [singing] Nobody ever loved me like she do me.
JL: Yeah, we’ll do “like she does” for the first one.
PM: [singing] She does me…
JL: No, no, just “does.” That’s how it was.
PM: She does.
JL: Ooh, she does. Yes she does.
PM: Ooh she does. Yes she does.
JL: Then “done me.”
PM: Mal, can you just lend your pen for a sec? Just correct a couple of bits.
JL: I wonder how long it is.
PM: Time it?
JL: Do you wanna time it, Mal? ‘Cause it’s probably only about half a minute long.
PM: Ooh, have you seen the word “does”?
ME: Does [pronounced doze].
PM: Does. Is that how you spell it?
ME: Yeah.
JL: Oh, dem golden slippers. Schleppers.
ME: “She does me”?
PM: Yeah. No, no, just “she does.”
D1- 51- Don’t Let Me Down 3.50
PM: Love that lasts forever…
D1- 52- Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da 3.51
JL: [singing] Desmond had a sparrow in his parking lot.
PM: Ta. One-
D1- 53- Don’t Let Me Down 3.52
PM: One, two, three, four, one [clicks tongue]
JL: [singing] Don’t let me down! [speaking] Should be one, two, three.
D1- 54- Don’t Let Me Down 3.53
JL & PM: One, two, three.
JL: [singing] Don’t let me down!
JL & PM: [in harmony] Don’t let me down!
JL: [speaking] Hello?
PM: Hello? PA? Playback’s gone off again. The PA’s gone off again.
ME: [unintelligible]
PM: Oh, okay. Sorry.
JL: Should we do it without it? Or should we wait?
PM: I’ll whisper in the ear for that.
JL: Ah. Hello? It’s on again. It’s okay, it’s on.
PM: Just give us a shout if you’re gonna– Or I dunno, I don’t really know.
D1- 55- Don’t Let Me Down 3.54
JL: One, two three. [singing] Don’t let me down!
JL & PM: [in harmony] Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / Nobody ever loved me like she does / Ooh she does / Yes she does / And if somebody ever loved me like she done me / Ooh she do me / Yes she do / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down.
JL: I’m in love for the first time / Don’t you know it’s gonna last / It’s a love that lasts forever!
JL & PM: It’s a love that has no past! / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / And from the first time that she really done me / Ooh she done me / She done me good / I guess nobody ever really done me / Ooh she done me / She done me good / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down / Don’t let me down
D1- 56- Sun King 3.55
PM: Three minutes!
JL: What?
PM: Three minutes.
ME: Three minutes, forty seconds.
JL: That’s fine.
PM: Three minutes forty seconds! Incredible. Long. It sounded just like…
JL: Half a minute.
PM: [silly voice] Half a minute. Okay.
