Gone Tomorrow Here Today 

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Label: Midnight Beat.
Ref: MB CD 113.
Date: 1997.
Sound quality: excellent.
Total Playing Time : 50:53

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Recorded at the Abbey Road Studios, Studio Two on June 11th and July 29th 1968 and at the Trident Studios, Trident House, St Anne's Court, Wardour Street, London W1 on August 28th and 29th 1968.

These takes were compiled for a promotional film made for Apple by Tony Bramwell. More details...

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Track list:

 

1  Hey Jude  Lennon / McCartney 6:16 Take 1 / 29 July 1968. 
Abbey Road Studio 2.
2  Dear Prudence  Lennon / McCartney 3:59 Take 1 / unknown remix / 28 & 29 August 1968. 
Trident Studios. Paul on drums.
3  Blackbird  Lennon / McCartney 1:00 Take 1-32 / 11 June 1968. 
Abbey Road Studio 2.
4  Blackbird  Lennon / McCartney 1:11 Take 1-32 / 11 June 1968. 
Abbey Road Studio 2 (2 takes & studio chat).
5  Blackbird  Lennon / McCartney 2:46 Take 1-32 / 11 June 1968. 
Abbey Road Studio 2 (3 takes).
6  Blackbird  Lennon / McCartney 1:23 Take 1-32 / 11 June 1968. 
Abbey Road Studio 2 (2 takes & studio chat).
7  Helter Skelter  Lennon / McCartney 4:11 11 June 1968. Paul plays an acoustic version of
Helter Skelter + studio chat. Abbey Road Studio 2 
 Gone Tomorrow Here Today  ? 11 June 1968. Paul performs this unknown
acoustic song + studio chat. Abbey Road Studio 2 
 Blackbird  Lennon / McCartney Take 1-32 / 11 June 1968. 
Abbey Road Studio 2.
8  Studio Talk   2:12 11 June 1968. 
9  Blackbird  Lennon / McCartney 2:45 Take 1-32 / 11 June 1968. John joins on guitar.
Abbey Road Studio 2.
10  Blackbird  Lennon / McCartney 1:52 Take 1-32 / 11 June 1968. 
Abbey Road Studio 2. Studio chat.
11  Mother Nature's Son  Lennon / McCartney 1:56 Outtake / 11 June 1968. 
Abbey Road Studio 2. Studio chat.
12  Blackbird  Lennon / McCartney 1:41 Take 1-32 / 11 June 1968. 
Abbey Road Studio 2. 
13  Blackbird  Lennon / McCartney 6:38 Take 1-32 / 11 June 1968. 
Abbey Road Studio 2. Numerous takes.
14  Blackbird  Lennon / McCartney 1:58 Take 1-32 / 11 June 1968. 
Abbey Road Studio 2.
15  Blackbird  Lennon / McCartney 3:59 Take 1-32 / 11 June 1968. Numerous takes & 
a reverb attempt. Abbey Road Studio 2.
16  Blackbird  Lennon / McCartney 1:54 Take 1-32 / 11 June 1968, Abbey Road Studio 2.
+ Paul takes a break (John & Yoko arrive).
17  Studio Talk   1:10 Drinking tea and organ played by John. 
18  Blackbird  Lennon / McCartney 3:04 Take 1-32 / 11 June 1968. 
Abbey Road Studio 2. Several takes.
19  Blackbird  Lennon / McCartney 0:58 Take 1-32 / 11 June 1968. 
Abbey Road Studio 2. 

" Tuesday June 11th, 1968: two simultaneous sessions at Abbey Road: a telling first. While John was in studio three (7.00-10.15 pm), experimenting with tape loops for 'Revolution 9', Paul was in studio two (3.30 pm-12.15 am), starting, completing in 32 acoustic guitar/vocal takes, and mixing into mono his new ballad 'Blackbird'.
    Also at EMI Studios this day Paul was filmed with Apple's new discovery Mary Hopkin, listening to a playback of one of her first recordings. Directed by Tony Bramwell and shot on 16mm, it was done not for public broadcasting but for inclusion in a short colour film being assembled by Bramwell to promote Apple Records. The film also included footage of the Beatles having a business meeting with Dick James in the Apple office at 95 Wigmore Street, of Alexis Mardas (head of Apple Electronics), and of Paul performing 'Blackbird' live with his acoustic guitar here at EMI Studios and, at one brief point, dropping into 'Helter Skelter' (see also 18 July and 9 September). No shoot date is documented for either of these three last items, although Bramwell remembers that the 'Blackbird' sequence was filmed about two days after it was recorded (circa 13 June). "
   
by Mark Lewisohn (c), excerpt from "The Complete Beatles Chronicle".