The Beatles - Let It Down
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- - Recorded January 2 and 29, 1969 during the Get Back/Let It Be sessions.
- First written by George Harrison in 1968 and later recorded officially for his solo album "All Things Must Pass" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_...
- These recordings have been chopped up, edited, and re-balanced and remastered quite a bit by Red Hector.
0:00 1969-01-02 Let It Down 2.07 (John and George)
2:12 1969-01-29 Let It Down 29.29 (Full Band Version)
5:45 1969-01-29 Let It Down 29.30 (George and Billy Preston)
8:38 1969-01-29 Let It Down 29.31 (George Only)
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Really surprised this song was not picked up for Abby Road.
One of the best from All Things Must Pass.
Yeh, Abbey Road should've been a four or five album collection with their best from their first solo albums that they had composed pre-breakup.
yes it s probably Spector s finest work..such baroque symphony ...and just read the roster of artists that played on it..amazing
@@gordonmorris6359 yeah four solo albums with all of them playing togheter but in their own style and a fifth one toghter,seargeant pepper style would have saved the band probably. Do you think it's a coincidence that ALL FOUR started a SOLO career instead of forming a supergroup like Clapton and others did
Genius George
It's awesome how intuitively Billy Preston picks up on the chord pattern and quickly adds those "churchy" fills. And how wonderful when George says "maybe I should do an album of these songs". Yeah George, you should and it probably would be a great success!! lol
"then I thought, 'Fook all that'"
30% intuition, 70% experience. Billy was a master.
Billy Preston (rip) is a virtuosic organ player who could have picked up any cord pattern without trouble.
preston really shines when there is another talented musician..just look up billy preston the rolling stones..there is a fantastic stage jam with Whyman,Wood and ofc Charlie Watts really making his song a jammer
George : Strumming chords while singing.
John : Trying to fill in lead guitar and failing.
Lennon's way out of tune Especially G and B strings. Ringo spot on as usual.
@@dogguitarbluesman Yep, that too. And horribly so at that. As for Ringo, well, he never needed to tune up.
Genius can sometimes be an illusion just like anything else you see on TV.
@@dnk1870 Lennon always had a lot of guesswork before he delivered something.
So what? They were rehearsing.
George: the very definition of musical brilliance
You are so right.
@@mikemyers1912 i love your movies
you were great in shrek
also george sucks worst beatles
pete forever ringo never
Everything thinks George wanted out so badly yet he is suggesting doing his own album to preserve the Beatles. ATMP is a great album. George was right to do it.
its the only way he could get his music heard
unpopular opinion: I'm glad he did these songs on his solo record. I don't think they wouldve sounded as good on a Beatles record.
he talked repeatedly and often about his desire to leave the group. and you know he actually quit during the let it be sessions. he wanted out pretty badly by this point.
I’m surprised George didn’t stop playing and start laughing at how badly John was trying to play lead.
Omg!!! John was awefull! Yeah I know you have to work things out, but that showed no ability to improvise. We saw how long it actually took him to get something for Get Back.... He played something for it every 5 minutes
Johns playing along to a song he’s never heard and some of his guitar sounded legit awesome
George always had to take a back seat to John and Paul. But, he was the first Beatle to put out a solo album and have it go to #1. They should have listened to him!
In the USA, Paul was the first to top the lp charts with “McCartney”. However George was the first to have a #1 single here with “My Sweet Lord”.
Turns out it went gold, didn't know for years till after he's passed. Britian had a postal strike so nobody realized for years that those sales weren't all tallied and combined at the begining. first time out goes gold. First Beatle to do so. Wiush george had known. Wish they all had know at the time. I remeber a DJ playing the album and so exited saying "it is now quite clear who was the melodic driving force in the beatles that was equeal to L&M. Good old George.
For this song I read that John just played and sang above George. So wrong.
You are correct in that George was the first of the Beatles to put out a solo album and it was called Wonderwall Music from 1968 and then followed up with another album called Electronic Sound from 1969. Neither of these albums charted anywhere near the number-1 position on the album charts. It was 1970s All Things Must Pass that did hit number-1 on the album charts and sold millions of copies......
Beatles: Let It Down!
It: Don't Let Me Down!
Beatles: Let It Be!
It: Ok.
Let me take you down...
Let me whisper in your ear...
Let me hold your hand...
Let me tell you a secret...
Let me roll it...
@@mrswimmyboy Let it bleed.
Let It Rut!
@@mrswimmyboy
Let me hear you say the words i love to hear (Words of Love)
@@ohvnaq I missed that one!
so haunting that he said 'i got all these songs and i wanna do an album' and the rest were like "yeah, sure, whatever"
and then the biggest post beatles album came to be, I'm sure their jaws dropped to the floor in the end
George HARRISON is forever in heaven writing more songs
Fuck heaven. He should be here writing them. WTF is the use of writing them there.
Love the chords in this, wow georgie “that’s a great chord”
Unreal. GEORGE !!!!
It's an E9
@@Dwightpower88 The Jimi Hendrix chord ?
Great song by George.
Despite of all the troubles on that Let It Be fase, they were all having fun, jamming and making great music!
Love the trembling chords in the version at 8:38. It’s super psychedelic and quite spooky.
Sounds like he's playing through a Leslie Rotating speaker. Same effect as Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and John's voice in Tomorrow Never Knows.
It’s so cool. One of my favorite songs. On All Things Must Pass.
He had outgrown his role in the Beatles by this point. All these new songs were perfect for his solo career and worked better than had the Beatles recorded them.
How The Beatles overlooked this song is mind blowing..
Look how out of touch they are--John dicking around and Paul jivey. This one song is so much more subtle and profound than anything they were doing at the time. Turns out George was the real musician in the group.
They were too busy being John and Paul, as George himself said
Absolutely brillant, Let it down is one of the highlights of All things must pass.
Fascinating to hear this in such good quality. I only ever had a poor copy boot of this one before.
The Let Be sessions are an eye opener. George introduced so many great songs, which would eventually appear on the All Things Must Pass LP. Many of Lennon and Mc.s song were tried and made it on to Abbey Road but only George's Something. George is a fantastic song writer.
And “Here Comes The Sun”
@@joeforidaho1873 Did George play or introduce Here comes the sun during the Let it Be sessions?
@@joeforidaho1873 I am slowly working through the New Blue Soap tapes which seems to have all the recordings made each day during the Let it be film sessions. They are really interesting.
@@peterliston1697 Nope. He wrote it a little later, in February I believe, during a round of gruelling business meetings whose minutes included what to do with Get Back.
@@stitchgrimly6167 I believe it was in Eric Clapton's garden, so the story goes
Notice how no one is twisting George's arm about doing a solo album. "Noooooooo, George; we want these for the Beatles!"
nobody cares about his songs
its a downright shame
@@SimonRobeyns Paul seemed to have all he could do getting John on the same page. Giving George his undivided attention was kind of a tall order. Let's face it, George's credibility was harmed because he'd put forth some mediocre things through the years.
@@kevinobrien9626 the last songs he put out for the beatles were highlights though, sure he didn't have the repertoire to back everything up but still.
@@SimonRobeyns Furthermore, Paul must have known that John was not going to rise to the challenge of mastering complex/new chord voicings and patterns. John was too inclined to goof off at that point. It was going to be a slog, slog, slog, eating up time they could not afford. Note that John did not play on the final versions of I ME MINE or HERE COMES THE SUN. They bypassed the problem by leaving John out of it.
@@kevinobrien9626 Well I'm sure they did the right thing there
Paul would've killed the bassline if this was a beatles song!
is still like the same tho in the george
This could have been a Beatles classic...It is a George CLASSIC...I tear up when I hear this song...I've been here...
John really takes the piss when talking about having an album for every little chord George has.
Did he say that? I heard him saying "every *mode* you want".
😂
George was right on
he was so very groovey!
I think the Let it Be/Get Back sessions were quite obviously George saying, I think ill do quite fine with out you guys
It's so cool !
It's frustrating to hear George trying to delicately convince the others that he has so many more songs they could possibly be doing. That he has a whole album's worth of "tunes" ready.
John recognized that and in the recently discovered tape recording, we hear him trying to get Paul to accept a new Beatles format, in which each 3 would have 4 songs each on their next album. Too ''democratic'' for Paul's taste. If you want to know who REALLY broke up the Beatles, look no further.
@@angelomisterioso I believe Ringo was to have 2 songs
@@maloz63 Ringo maybe wrote the lyrics of ''his'' songs, but he couldn't do much else, apart from the drumming. IMO most of his songs could be categorized as Beatle songs, as JPG probably came up with the rest of the stuff.
You should watch this ua-cam.com/video/m--gIaUEZtA/v-deo.html&ab_channel=PopGoesthe60s ;)
@@angelomisterioso You're having a laugh. Have you not heard Lennon on Harrison becoming prolific song writer? John was quoted as saying “I don’t fancy spending 6 months in a recording studio laying down tracks for one another”. Again he was quoted as saying due to Harrison’s increasing song contributions “He didn’t fancy doing triple albums either.”
Not exactly being respectful to Harrison was he?
Really like this particularly all the conversation parts and should be albums of these demos alone. Would still sell in a reasonable quantity.
Agreed! I'd definitely buy it
I think Derek Taylor had it right, he said there were the Beatles, then everybody else?
George was on another spiritual level . Very laid back and then you can only put on about eight songs on an album. Paul and John were getting rich off their writing . Paul and John didn’t let go easily of their kingdom . It all worked out even better for George. Got him a big hit album from all the rejections . His best songs were written while he was a Beatle.
Frankly, the boys needed George Martin to keep their focus. Had they kept him on, 'Let It Be' would have been a far better album.
No wonder George quit the group for a few days after that.
Great!
Three beatles were in Paul's band just before the break up. Paul had too much say, alot of John and Paul's songs were just OK at the time of the break up. George's songs were brilliant and shouldn't have been overlooked.
This should of been on Abbey road, it's unique. I think Paul used parts of this song on his own wings tracks, listen too I read the note.
I'm curious to know of some examples of this.
Please list what tracks of Paul’s you are referring to .
Well to me this song sounds like a McCartney tune . If Paul had sung it it would have been sounded better. Paul was a better singer, probably that's the difference. A tube might be brilliant, but when you're in The Beatles you need the best singer at it.
I don't think anyone had done it at this stage, but later in the 1970's we had a number of bands where 'band albums' were released, but individual members also released solo albums in-between the group releases. That would have been the way forward - release solo stuff, but every now and again get together for a group project. This would probably have happened in time if John hadn't gone off to gun-mad America and been murdered.
ビートルズのアルバムに入ったかもしれない曲。未完成ながら、いい曲。
can someone tell me what is the effect that George is using in the last part?
its chorus through a leslie speaker
Interesting that many comments make Harrison's songs an "either" "or" relative to The Beatles or their solo albums. Harrison took a long time to finish songs should be mentioned and not just the competition with Lennon and McCartney. All Things Must Pass a great album, but he took really long time to make. Even on Get Back many pieces of songs but many not finished. His wife left him the night before he quit the Beatles during Get Back also a factor. Other great solo songs and solo albums same 2 years (Songs: Instant Karma, Give Peace A Chance, Cold Turkey, Imagine, Maybe I'm Amazed; Albums Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, McCartney). Lots of good music no need to say its an either or.
Let It Be and Don't Let Me Down ... but Let IT Down.
Emajs7 to Dadd9(no 3rd) - then on the descending line - its E down to Dadd9/A to Cadd9/G , Fsharp to F(these to chords have open 1st strings sounding) to E7 - on other passes there is no C/G chord ?. verse Enaj7 to Amaj7 . At about 8:49 min the form takes better shape…Emaj to C(9)/G chord whose sound functions like a 4 chord or a 4 minor chord, then back to Emaj7 then at 8:57 the descend pattern occurs - one could say starts with D(9)/A - 2beats - then C(9)/G for 2 beats then the F# (open 1st string making the chord an F#7 actually) for 2 beats then F(open 1st string making the chord an Fmaj7) for 2 beats to the ending E7. His songs had complexity but logic. Billy would have been right on top of it all having come out of Gospel music. Its the Let it down hook the looses the C/G chord - that chord line is the Emaj7 down to D(9)/A then straight the F#7(open 1st string) then Fmaj7(open 1st string) [Note these chords are derived from the E shape bar chord but don't use the bar. They are playable due to the thin electric neck by using the thumb for the 6th string bass note and while the fingers are on single notes on strings 5 to 2 - the first string is left open to ring out from the strum. I think its important to state since those guitarists who may have played a lot of nylon neck guitars dont use the thumb or cant easily use the thumb for bass notes due to the thickness of classical guitar necks…as a said classical player I want to express that issue for others who may want to play the song and will later go to All things must pass Lp and play along. God Bless and Enjoy
Get this guy some lunch
Infatuated with a Ma7 chord
billy preston and paul is in prime here wat if beatles still going
Neat novelty.
Reminds me a bit of, 'Here Today' by Macca. Subconscious plagiarism Paul...?
Had to go listen and i aint hearing your comparison at all.
Your imagining things.
Someone needs to tune their bloody guitar!
Jeez us, this is rough as feck. Hope for me yet! I'm laughing my head off listening to this dodgy stuff!
Well to me this song sounds like a McCartney tune . If Paul had sung it it would have sounded better. Paul was a better singer, probably that's the difference. A tune might be brilliant, but when you're in The Beatles you need the best singer at it
John struggling with chords & progressions 🤣
The released version = ua-cam.com/video/V-7IE3Cq3Cw/v-deo.html
Frankly, I can see where John and Paul were skeptical. George's were a bit of a dirge. John only wanted to do straight-ahead rockers. John lacked the ambition and technical expertise to nail something like this without a very lengthy incubation.
Except John’s solos were not rockers. Pleasant but light weight. They said he wasn’t great at complicated arrangements.
@@maureenoneill3902 Plus, he had senioritis. They were fairly openly talking about 'wedding bells breaking up the gang,' and seemed to realize that any album could be their last. John lacked the ambition to knuckle down and give his best effort to the band.
What? A Day In The Life is a rocker? Across The Universe? I’m Only Sleeping? And John wasn’t a virtuoso guitarist, but he had a lot of ambition.
@@JoaoGabriel-lk9cv All the songs you mention were done prior to January 1969. We are talking of the GET BACK/LET IT BE period now. John had no ambition to do anything but Yoko and heroin in early 1969.
@@JoaoGabriel-lk9cv Uh, we are talking about January 1969 here, but thanks for playing.
The voice is not the best but the guitar playing is just great.
His was stronger 5 years earlier. Smoking is rough on the voice.
By this time, George's songs were better than John's.
Except this one
Such a stupid comment. George BECAME a decent writer but his material was never as good as John's or Paul's. One or two songs were great compared to hundreds of John and Paul's .
As joe Biden would say “cmon man”
@@junaid1 John and Paul were the driving force behind the Beatles but it was plain as day both of them were oppressing and suppressing George Harrison as a songwriter and lead vocalist. Even in an interview George introduced himself as playing lead guitar and John followed up by saying that he himself played better guitar. John was only unique because he played banjo chords on a guitar because that was what he was taught. John was a Narcissistic and Paul is an egoist. George Harrison was passionate about his songwriting and music. He clearly indicated he had enough material for the next decade to work with. He was saying he was ready to record his own album.
@Crynaotlod I have to disagree about Paul. That guy is an absolutely insane songwriter, and his music through the 70s was consistently very good. RAM, Band on the Run, Wings at the Speed of Sound, Venus and Mars, etc. are all incredible.
Regarding the Beatles, Paul wrote Blackbird, I Will, Yesterday, Hey Jude, Let it Be, The Long and Winding Road, etc. essentially on his own. I mean yeah he did have John’s help sometimes, but especially on the White Album Paul just kinda worked alone (which in turn let him make Wild Honey Pie and it sucks so bad).
I know he can be silly at times, but there’s a solid argument that Paul is one of the best, if not the best modern melodist alive.
Sounds like Radiohead
Some bands made a career out of Beatles rehearsal.
Actually Radiohead could only hope to sound like a Beatles demo.
@@easy56wedgeyou dont know Radiohead do you
@@Don-ri5ve I do actually. Having spent 18 years in the concert and music business I know them well. My statement stands as does the Beatles music. Ask nearly anyone if they’ve heard of The Beatles and name a song. Then ask the same person if they’ve heard of Radiohead and name a song.
@@easy56wedgeRadiohead is a great band though
Songs such as this one and All Things must pass were great songs, but not great enough to be on Abbey Road. Couldn't have eclipsed gems such as Maxwell's Silver Hammer. (Sarcasm, please don't puke.)
I was wondering where you wear going with that .lol
Oh yes & 113 takes to get the perfect ting ting sound for Paul’s Maxwell Silver hammer.Doesn’t get no better
@@leon15776 Damn, I'd always thought it was 112. I'm ashamed.
Dennis Angers could well be 112
Whichever it is was, it helped turn Mcartney masterpiece that is Maxwells Silver Donger
@@leon15776 Could have made it a bit more exciting : How about ''Maxwell's Silver Dildo?'' Maybe would have needed a bit more than 113 tries to get the right sound on that one and might have sent George and Ringo straight to the loony bin.
They were great songwriters and interpreters, but horrible improvisers.
Paul... stop sabotaging!
He’s trying to help with the arrangement dummy.
@@drummer78 exactly it's only a rehearsal, they're just spitballing ideas
You can hear Paul and Ringo really trying to make it work, but in the end it's just a melancholy, mid-tempo thing which the Beatles were never about. It's why his energetic "Savoy Truffle" made it, while mid-tempo, tired and bored "Not Guilty" and "All Things Must Pass" didn't. Should've stepped it up, George.
Not a very good song.
Find the version on 'All Things Must Pass' - there are numerous videos on UA-cam- and prepare for the shock and awe. It doesn't sound very good here. Do yourself a favour and listen to the released version.
Nope, not good at all. More like, great, outstanding, superlative, stunningly beautiful 😍 🤩. There; now we're getting closer to how magnificent this song is.