From: cstadbg@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M J Brown)
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Subject: BEATLES ANOMALIES UPDATE Part 1 of 3
Date: 6 Nov 1992 10:14:07 -0000
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Beatles Anomalies -- Update ! (Date of entry 7-11-92)

On 28 October 1992, Michael Weiss (weiss@boole.seas.ucla.edu) posted a list
of Beatles anomalies. I have added to this list, please feel free to comment
on these entries, or add to the list. All times in recordings are approximate
and where I have quoted Michael, I use MW> preceding the lines.

Additions can be posted into the newsgroup or mailed to 
cstadbg@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Michael Brown)

I will repost this list at intervals (if there are changes to it!)

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Between the words "your window..." and "I saw the light" (0:13 - 0:16),
there is a cough and some speech (right channel).
Loss of tape reverb at 0:33 to 0:34 on words "telePHONE" to "were not home"
I think two takes were joined here?

Baby's in black
+++++++++++++++

At 1:30 there is a poor edit, best heard on right channel, in the words 
"Baby's in black", the strummed guitar pops up here suddenly.
There is a double tracking error at 1:44, John sings :-

  John 1 - And though he'll never come back....
  John 2 - But though she'll never come back...

And at the very end of the song, there is a rattle of paper (Right ear 2:04)

Words of Love
+++++++++++++

Ringo's drumkit needs oiling, hence the squeak in the left channel on every
downbeat of this song. Also there is a drop-in in the guitar riff at 0:59 to
1:04 (listen to left channel only, it is obvious then.)

I should have known better
++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Double track on John's voice is lost at 2.01, followed by a bad edit at 2.17,
between the words "love me to-oo-oo" " And when I ...", and double track is
regained with the words "mine--ha-hine" at 2.20

And I love her
++++++++++++++

This too loses the double track from 1.08 to 1.17 (Two lines of song). Also
someone accidently hums the guitar part (Dum-Dum-Dum-Dummmm) just after the
last "And I love her" at 2.11

Tell me why
+++++++++++

Bad edit at 1.42 between the words "I'm so in love with you" and "Tell me 
why..."

Glass onion
+++++++++++

A wind instrument breaks through between guitar strikes at 0.58. The end
string piece is edited on very sharply at 1.46

Ob-la-di Ob-la-da
+++++++++++++++++

  MW> After the line "Let's the children lend a hand"...George says "arm" 1.42
                                                        John Says "leg"
  MW> and John says "foot" later at 2.33

Also :- At the start, there is laughing and joking at 0:02, and Paul?? trying
out the first few notes, and one clap (0.10) to mark the start of the vocal
track. (All this is best heard by cancelling out the music in the middle with
a vocal eliminator.)

I don't think that repeating the line about "ring" is an accident as he also
does this for the line ending "sing". John does indeed shout home at 1.18,
and slowly says "Home....H-O-M-E" later. I'm not sure that it is John the
second time though.

The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

At the end, the "eeh up" is actually not a spontaneous comment, but is
prompted by one of the other beatles, quietly in the same channel.

While my Guitar Gently Weeps
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Tambourine playing Beatle, after guitar solo, switches from playing the 
pattern :- "Bass Bass Snare Tambourine" during the lines ending "diverted"
 to     :- "Bass Tamb Snare <blank!!> " during the lines ending "inverted"

It is lucky that the song fades out where it does, as the chord riff at the
end starts to get very sloppy after this, especially the bass guitar, which
loses grip of the music completely for 2 seconds before total silence.

Martha my dear
++++++++++++++

The second "Take a good look around you" at 1.01 has an overlap of the words
"Take a", as if from a previous take (an effect like used on Elvis songs!)

I'm so tired
++++++++++++

At the same time as the "So" in "I'm so tired" at 1.05, there is a strange
vocal or instrumental sound. And of course there is the "message" at the end
(1.55) thought to be "Paul is Dead .... Miss him ... Miss him " <backwards>

Blackbird
+++++++++

At the very start of this song, someone says in a high pitched voice "play"

Don't pass me by
++++++++++++++++

0.07 (Right channel) Someone shouts something (unintelligible)
1.45 (Left channel)  An alarm bell rings on the word "so unFAIR"
2.35 (Left channel) "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8...ooop" - someone (can't remember who)
                     counts out the bars, at the same time in the right 
                     John says "Give it some more!"

Julia
+++++

0:08 "Just to reach you" double tracks on first two words for no reason.

Long Long Long
++++++++++++++

MW > bottle rattles on one of the speakers 2:31 to 2:56

This is in the left ear, and sounds more like a door creaking or a coin being
spun round. I was expecting a tinkling sound :-)

Sexy Sadie
++++++++++

Again, a well timed fade out, as the music falls apart with bad notes etc...

Helter Skelter
++++++++++++++

At 2.29 Paul sings " Well look out....Helter Skelter...."
                   " She's coming down fast...."
                   " Yes she is ...... "
                   " Yes she is ...... "
                   " Coming down fast ......"

But then, nearer the microphone, and somewhat oddly, says

                   " Can you hear me speaking ..... Wooooo!"

Then at 2.54, when the drumming stops (listen to the left ear) Paul says
"Can you hear that silly b*gger". It is just before the "pling pling pling"
on the electric guitar, and later at 3.00 he says "He lives here, and so do we"
in the left ear again. Then the drums re start.

Also, the "I've got blisters on my fingers...." is prompted with the words
"I've got...." from another Beatle.

Revolution 1
++++++++++++

Recording error results in "Take 18" being punched into multitrack tape.
This is according to Mark Lewisohn book....However I think it sounds more 
like "Take 2".....What does it sound like to you...come one lets start a vote!

Savoy Truffle
+++++++++++++

After the words "you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy 
Truffle" and before "You might not feel it now..." , someone makes a purring
sound in the left ear, and again after the words "gonna know and how"


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