Please Please Me Album (Recording Session), February 11th, 1963

Описание: February 11th, 1963
Studio Two, Abbey Road (10:00am-10:45pm)
P: George Martin.
E: Norman Smith.
2E: Richard Langham.

00:00 There's A Place (Take 1)
02:16 There's A Place (Take 2)
04:19 There's A Place (Take 3)
04:31 There's A Place (Take 4)
06:27 There's A Place (Take 5)
06:50 There's A Place (Take 6)
08:45 There's A Place (Take 7)
09:25 There's A Place (Take 8)
11:22 There's A Place (Take 9)
13:26 There's A Place (Take 10)
15:24 I Saw Her Standing There (Take 1)
18:27 I Saw Her Standing There (Take 2)
21:35 I Saw Her Standing There (Take 3)
22:09 I Saw Her Standing There (Take 4)
22:56 I Saw Her Standing There (Take 5)
23:56 I Saw Her Standing There (Take 6)
25:12 I Saw Her Standing There (Take 7)
25:29 I Saw Her Standing There (Take 8)
25:54 I Saw Her Standing There (Take 9)
28:45 Do You Want To Know A Secret (Take 6)
30:45 Do You Want To Know A Secret (Take 7)
33:31 Do You Want To Know A Secret (Take 8)
35:35 A Taste Of Honey (Take 6)
37:45 A Taste Of Honey (Take 7)
39:56 There's A Place (Take 11)
42:00 There's A Place (Take 12)
42:23 There's A Place (Take 13)
44:23 I Saw Her Standing There (Take 10)
47:22 I Saw Her Standing There (Take 11)
47:52 I Saw Her Standing There (Take 12)
50:58 Misery (Take 1)
52:50 Misery (Take 2)
53:55 Misery (Take 3)
54:12 Misery (Take 4)
54:51 Misery (Take 5)
55:31 Misery (Take 6)
57:42 Misery (Take 7)
59:35 Misery (Take 8)
59:58 Misery (Take 9)
1:01:25 Misery (Take 11)
1:03:13 Anna (Take 3)
1:06:09 Boys (Take 1)
1:08:34 Chains (Take 1)
1:10:57 Baby It's You (Take 3)
1:13:37 Twist And Shout (Take 1)
Extras:
1:16:10 Baby It's You (Take 5)
1:18:48 Baby It's You (Acetate)
1:21:28 Twist And Shout (Control Room Mix)

Three separate sessions took place over the course of the day, with recording finishing at 10.45pm. Only two had originally been scheduled, but the third was added later on.
The first session began at 10am. The Beatles recorded 10 takes of ‘There’s A Place’ and nine of ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, which at the time had the working title ‘Seventeen’.
The first session finished at 1pm and the studio staff took a break for lunch. The Beatles, meanwhile, had other plans.
The second session began at 2.30pm, and finished at 6pm. The Beatles began with work on ‘A Taste Of Honey’. The best version was take five, onto which Paul McCartney double-tracked his lead vocals. This overdub was recorded in two attempts, making the final version take seven.
In between recording the basic track for ‘A Taste Of Honey’ and the vocal overdubs, The Beatles recorded eight takes of ‘Do You Want To Know A Secret’, with George Harrison on lead vocals.
With those two songs finished, John Lennon recorded a harmonica overdub onto ‘There’s A Place’ in three attempts, and handclaps were added to take one of ‘I Saw Her Standing There’.
The final song to be recorded in the afternoon session was ‘Misery’, a Lennon-McCartney original which had originally been offered to Helen Shapiro. The song was recorded with the tapes running at double speed – 30 inches per second – to allow for a piano overdub to be laid down at the slower speed at a later date. This was added on 20 February 1963 by George Martin, without The Beatles being present.
The third session of the day took place from 7.30-10.45pm, although it had been scheduled to finish at 10pm. The Beatles firstly taped 13 takes of ‘Hold Me Tight’, which was later reworked for their second album With The Beatles.
The Beatles then recorded three takes of Arthur Alexander’s ‘Anna (Go To Him)’, followed by a single recording of ‘Boys’, the latter featuring Ringo Starr simultaneously on vocals and drums.
Two more cover versions came next. George Harrison sang The Cookies’ ‘Chains’, written by Goffin and King. Four takes were recorded, although take one was later decided to be the best attempt. The Beatles then performed The Shirelles’ ‘Baby It’s You’ in three takes, with Lennon on lead vocals.
By this time it was around 10pm, the time EMI Studios normally closed. The Beatles, however, still had one song to record. A discussion took place in the canteen about what this should be, and several suggestions were put forward.
The Beatles had been playing ‘Twist And Shout’ for many months, and regularly used it as a show-stopper. And so it was on this day, with The Beatles putting all their energies into one final electrifying performance, with John Lennon singing bare-chested.
Two takes of the song were recorded, but the first was selected for the Please Please Me LP. Although complete, Lennon’s vocals in the second take were too far gone for it to be usable.
Everyone in the studio knew they had witnessed something truly special, and with the recordings complete The Beatles climbed the stairs to the control room to listen to the playback.
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