Something ft. Paul McCartney
Aug 14, 2010•3 min
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Episode description
Something was Sinatra's 'favorite Lennon-McCartney Song'. It appears that it has now become McCartney's Favourite Harrisong.
Macca perfoms Something at almost any concert now, in a sober production featuring mainly ukele and some piano parts.
So here - in a World Premiere - are the Macca vocals in a lush George Martin production.
NB: the BDJ engineers unveiled an urbain myth while mixing this track. In his book "Here There and Everywhere' Geoff Emerick remembers that Harrison wanted to redo his solo. They had only one empty track left, and that needed to record the orchestra. According to Emerick, Harrison then decided to play the solo 'live' into the track with the orchestra (which menat he had the do the whole solo first time right !).
BDJ management were uneasy about this story for a while, for several reasons: listening to Abbey Road, it is clear that the orchestra was recorded in stero, hence occupying 2 tracks, and not the one track that Emerick remmebers. Secondly, would George Martin really run out of tracks so easily, necessitating this extraodrinary effort for a guitar solo ?
The answer came while remixing Something: in the Orchestra (stereo) tracks there is indeed a guitar, but it is the chorus/rythm guitar, NOT the solo ! So George DID play guitar while the orchestra was recorded, but the rythm guitar part is a lot easier to accomplish in one go !
Macca perfoms Something at almost any concert now, in a sober production featuring mainly ukele and some piano parts.
So here - in a World Premiere - are the Macca vocals in a lush George Martin production.
NB: the BDJ engineers unveiled an urbain myth while mixing this track. In his book "Here There and Everywhere' Geoff Emerick remembers that Harrison wanted to redo his solo. They had only one empty track left, and that needed to record the orchestra. According to Emerick, Harrison then decided to play the solo 'live' into the track with the orchestra (which menat he had the do the whole solo first time right !).
BDJ management were uneasy about this story for a while, for several reasons: listening to Abbey Road, it is clear that the orchestra was recorded in stero, hence occupying 2 tracks, and not the one track that Emerick remmebers. Secondly, would George Martin really run out of tracks so easily, necessitating this extraodrinary effort for a guitar solo ?
The answer came while remixing Something: in the Orchestra (stereo) tracks there is indeed a guitar, but it is the chorus/rythm guitar, NOT the solo ! So George DID play guitar while the orchestra was recorded, but the rythm guitar part is a lot easier to accomplish in one go !
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