John Lennon - Home Demo Recordings [1963-1969]

[@SantiagoHerrera1998]

*NOTES AND OTHER RECORDINGS: "I'm In Love" & "Bad To Me": due to copyright, I couldn't post the complete recordings. You can listen to them on the bootleg "The Beatles - Complete Home Recordings 1963 (Silent Sea - SS 078)", or on the official compilation album "The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963". "She Said She Said [Take 2]": due to copyright, I couldn't post the complete take, only the false starts. You can listen to the full recording on the bootleg "The Beatles - Entomology...Plus! (Golden Eggs - Egg 63)". "Strawberry Fields Forever [Electric Demo Takes 2 to 5]": due to copyright, Take 6 is missing, but you can listen to the full recording on the bootleg "The Beatles - It's Not Too Bad: The Evolution of Strawberry Fields Forever [Deluxe Edition]", or on the official album "Anthology 2". "Strawberry Fields Forever [Electric Demo Take 7]: due to copyright, only the second half of the take was included. You can listen the full take on the bootleg "The Beatles - It's Not Too Bad: The Evolution of Strawberry Fields Forever [Deluxe Edition]", or on the official album "Anthology 2". Other recordings of John's home demos that I left out include: Yellow Submarine (Songwriting Work Tape), John and Ringo recordings (Pedro The Fisherman, Chi-Chi's Café, Down In Cuba, etc.), Esher Demos. CHANGES: -I applied minimum EQ and volume normalization to some tracks -"You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)": Tape speed correction to match the version broadcasted on Lost Lennon Tapes Episode 009 88-13 -"Julia [Vocal Overdub Take #1 & 2]": According to the book "That Magic Feeling" the 2nd take is the one where John switchers Verses 3 and 4, so I swapped the tracks 4 and 5 of "(2009) John Lennon - The Lost Home Tapes 1965-1969 (Misterclaudel - MCCD123-124)" -"Oh My Love": Tape speed correction -"Everyone Had A Good Year": The first seconds are from "The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes Vol.3" -"I Want You": The first seconds are from "The Lost Lennon Tapes - Episode 157: Mal Evans Remembers", and I tried to reduce the background music noise -"Cold Turkey [Demo Take #1]": The first seconds are from "John Lennon - The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes - Volume 9 & 10 (Walrus - WALRUS 019-20)" AUDIO SOURCES: Track 01: Anthoni Machado KZbin channel Track 02-03: The Beatles - Complete Home Recordings 1963 (Silent Sea - SS 078) Track 04-08: The Beatles - Alf Together Now (Spank Records - SP-148) Track 09-13: The Beatles - Revolver: Recording Sessions Chronology Vol. 1 (dap - DAPB072CD1-2) Track 14: The Beatles - As It Happened Baby! (DarthDisc - RAR0001) Track 15: The Beatles - Entomology...Plus! (Golden Eggs - Egg 63) Track 16-34: The Beatles - It's Not Too Bad: The Evolution of Strawberry Fields Forever [Deluxe Edition] Track 35-37: John Lennon - The Lost Home Tapes 1965-1969 (Misterclaudel - MCCD123-124) Track 38-40: The Beatles - Revolution (Vigotone - VT-117) Track 41-42: The Beatles - The Lost Pepperland Reel And Other Rarities (Vigotone - VIGO-132) Track 43-49: John Lennon - The Lost Home Tapes 1965-1969 (Misterclaudel - MCCD123-124) Track 50-56: The Beatles - A Doll's House Vol 2 [DISC 6] (Valkyrie Records - VAL-030) Track 57-59: John Lennon - The Lost Home Tapes 1965-1969 (Misterclaudel - MCCD123-124) Track 60-62: The Beatles - Complete Home Recordings 1967-68 (Silent Sea - SS 080) Track 63-67: John Lennon - The Lost Home Tapes 1965-1969 (Misterclaudel - MCCD123-124) Track 68: 1989-08-21 Westwood One - The Lost Lennon Tapes - Elliot Mintz - Episode 083 - 89-35 - Dakota Kitchen Encounter Track 69-70: The Beatles - The 1968 Demos (Howdy Records - 555-04) Track 71: The Beatles - Complete Home Recordings 1968-69 (Silent Sea - SS 082) Track 72: John Lennon - Christmas Present [DISC 1] (White Fly Records - WF 001-3) Track 73: John Lennon - The Lost Lennon Tapes Volume Twenty (Bag Records - BAG 5092)

[@richardgreenwood6474]

Thank you for compiling all these recordings and for your modest enhancements. John sounds so sweet and innocent in this raw portrait

[@steverutland9267]

Thank you so much 💓

[@SagaLarton]

You dont hear much from John Lennon these days. No new records or tours. Did he retire?

[@jax8527]

​@@SagaLarton are you alright?

[@SagaLarton]

@@jax8527 Yes fine thanks U?

[@LeftoverPat]

It's truly mad how long the songwriting process was for Strawberry Fields - it really was his magnum opus

[@Neil-Aspinall]

Incorrectly attributed to Lennon and McCartney when it should have been attributed to Lennon & Martin as with I am the Walrus too.

[@robertlivingstone3364]

​@@Neil-AspinallPaul had a lot to do with those songs, he wrote the intro to Strawberry Fields

[@TheJimbo1791]

@@Neil-Aspinall nonsense. Martin wanted songs to be Lennon-McCartney as well. It is their trademark.

[@harold3165]

​@@Neil-AspinallWhat a ridiculous comment! You should delete this! 😒

[@herreraghr]

You hear the "you-hoo-ooh" from Imagine on If I Fell! Mind-blowing!

[@charlie-obrien]

My two favorite Lennon songs. What a miraculous thing it is to have these recordings.

[@JacobVidal]

wow you're right

[@Hellyeahray21]

4:53

[@jsnbkr66]

Sounds like Tiny Tim.

[@tudvalstone]

@@guffmuff90 That's just your imagination.

[@ericwalter4771]

It almost sounds like Lennon is quietly crying while singing If I Fell, well thanks Lennon know I am too.

[@georgejamestaylor7572]

Pissed, I think?

[@Mary-mw7ve]

@@georgejamestaylor7572agree he sounds pissed lol

[@Lacostanico]

I was thinking the same thing....specially at the end of the first demo, he sounds clearly emotional...

[@Lacostanico]

@@Mary-mw7ve ¿¿¿are you deaf or just dumb¿¿¿

[@kyfifer]

There’s just something about John. His voice. His songs. I can’t believe this exists on KZbin! He’s just fooling around and writing my favorite songs of all time. Such a treat for a fan and songwriter. Thank you for sharing.

[@SantiagoHerrera1998]

I absolutely get what you said. It's such a surrealist feeling to know that we as fans have the chance to listen these private recordings and how a masterpiece like Strawberry Fields was developed. Truly a privilege.

[@Lyndanet]

We’re taught to sing from the diaphragm but Lennon sang from the heart and from a mind that knew the imagery of wonderful dreams .

[@futurereflections4097]

Watching She Said, She Said being born is pretty amazing. I imagine he must have really felt that one when it clicked.

[@tjcint]

Love your comment.

[@Xxxxxrrr6464]

It’s really something :)

[@ACDZ123]

Even johns piano playing has its own unique signature..

[@93Jubilee]

so true.

[@tjcint]

I was going to say 'so true' but someone already has. May I second their comment.

[@christianlacheze3323]

Difficult to hold back the tears when hearing him working his way through If I Fell

[@leokimvideo]

the development of Strawberry Fields is mind blowing, bit by bit the masterpiece is made

[@ImprovEyes-fc9fo]

He has a few. “Just like starting over” took a lot of work too it seems.

[@SirCommoner]

I love how She Said She Said just started off as a regular 60's folk ditty before evolving severely into what it became

[@FuzzyDancingBear]

Thank you for uploading this audio.

[@Tony-yp7ok]

The opening chords and melody of If I Fell are a bit of genius from an unschooled musician… it’s a very unusual progression and really shows what a natural talent he was.

[@johnmc3862]

I’d say Unconventional rather than unschooled. He knew what sounded good in his head.

[@Tony-yp7ok]

@@johnmc3862 He was completely unschooled in respect of musical theory - he could play a few chords and that was about it. Same for McCartney too. The intro progression is not typical diatonic harmony, he’s changing keys in quite a sophisticated way without knowing the formal technicalities of how to achieve that. That’s what I meant by a natural talent, a genius in fact. But he certainly wasn’t an ‘educated’ musician.

[@comedyriff5231]

Yeah. I think "If I Fell" is the first song where Beatles (Lennon in this case) showed that they were more than a great rock´n roll band. It´s much more sophisticated harmonically and melodically. Then of course Rubber Soul came and proved it even further with songs like In My Life, Norwegian Wood, Girl, Nowhere Man, Michelle.

[@bobnodzo535]

That’s when his trained ears came into play ✌️❤️

[@lifeisdead01]

​@@comedyriff5231 I think that distinction goes to "Not A Second Time" or even "From Me to You" due to their unusual bridges

[@khoei26]

i can never get bored listening to John. i love him so much

[@timcolivet7343]

Me too. He's my absolute hero!!

[@tjcint]

I feel the same way.

[@sableonblonde1973]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@theshivers1967]

Good heavens! That demo for "If I Fell..." so vulnerably beautiful. And... I never thought I'd say this, but..... The Good Morning demo is maybe a better idea arrangement wise than the recording.

[@tylerthompson1842]

Pure genius

[@lobotomyscam1051]

The "Good Morning" take from Anthology is way better than the final cut.

[@zoltanvarga8540]

it hurts my ears. so bad.

[@kfiralfiavideo]

Yeah the good morning demo is just genius in how he changes the chords with such odd timing - not sure how he came up with that but wow it works so well. Much better than the released version.

[@adamroxx7]

This tape is priceless. Nothing in the world could be better than this. John is my favorite Beatle because of his voice/passion and his lyric style. A million thanks for sharing.

[@jmadratz]

Me Too, but because I like his songs more than Paul’s. I mean Paul’s songs are great also, and he used to be my favorite in my teens…but now that I’m almost 70, I prefer John’s songs because you don’t get tired of hearing them…whereas I do get tired of hearing some of Paul’s great songs like Yesterday and Here, There, and Everywhere…they’re great but I really can’t keep listening to them without getting tired of them.

[@jmadratz]

Can anyone really realize what music would have been in the 60s and beyond without John … I am so happy we had his contribution to music for 40 years of his life.

[@harvey1954]

It was the mixture of chords from different keys that made these songs so good. Helped to write the melodies too.

[@johnrowe4907]

Interesting to see all the equipment John had at home to record these demos, including several reel to reels. Fast forward 10 years to his Dekota home and he appeared to have used just a single cassette recorder for Free As A Bird, Now and Then and Double Fantasy demos etc.

[@MM180.9]

You can see why he was on top of the musical food chain , the words and melodies coming out of him alone by sheer volume must be ... Destined ❤

[@zigzigzig03]

“Oh My Love” with Yoko’s additions is so haunting and beautiful. This video is a real gem!

[@MicahBuzanMUSIC]

Love hearing these raw expressions from a musical titan.

[@tjcint]

A titan - a good word for John. He was.

[@user-qm7nw7vd5s]

What did we ever do, before KZbin? What a treasure trove!

[@haysfordays]

all this stuff was just sitting somewhere gong unheard. it's absolutely incredible the access we have now.

[@Dave_Albright]

tapes & bootlegs trading

[@haysfordays]

@@Dave_Albright yes, true. But that was such a comparatively small number of folks

[@joeturnermusic2726]

Growing up my dad talked about a box set of tapes he had with some of these demos, interviews and john talking on them

[@Ukulele_Ad]

We had to get bootlegs. Took a lot of trips & crate digging but felt rewarding when you stumbled across one 🕉️

[@mariahelenasilveiradonasci2961]

Julia é de cortar o coração e ao mesmo tempo uma preciosidade

[@lewistaylor1965]

The perceverence, tenacity, craft and commitment that goes into the preworking of these songs to get them complete is nearly always lost on the first time listener of a Beatle tune...and for the old and true Beatle fan this is like looking behind the wizards curtain...and yet seeing that there is still magic...even behind it

[@Manneke70]

I can’t believe your comment has only got one like so far! Beautifully put.

[@carolglassford7054]

I could listen to this for hours & hours. I close my eyes & its like he's still with us. Still loving & missing you deeply John 😘😘😘

[@aorinz]

The anthology was great but this is fly on the wall great! What an amazing creative process I never thought I'd be so fortunate to hear. Thanks for putting this up!

[@Ghoopty]

I’m a songwriter who’s very influenced by The Beatles, and it’s very comforting to know that even John Lennon had to work & work on his songs to get them just right. These tapes are absolutely fascinating.

[@goldmund22]

You are the man. Thank you for taking the time to do all of this. Never realized he had so many home recordings before the 70s.

[@tommycoopersmagiccarpetwea817]

Yoko singing about the baby's heartbeat (Oh My Love) is rather 😢

[@cybertronian2005]

that What Goes On demo is so Dylan sounding

[@johnheart6890]

Once again, I find myself listening to the sketches that eventually became absolute masterpieces. How did they do it? It seems that it comes from inspiration, and then afterwards an incredible amount of patience and blood sweat and tears. Sitting in a room, by yourself, thinking about one of the other two lads, that just played you a masterpiece and saying to yourself, I have to make this song just as good as Paul’s or George’s, and hopefully even better. The pressure those guys must’ve felt is phenomenal, but the energy that was sent from their fans in the direction of their souls Must’ve been like Manna from heaven. There’s one other thing that I’d like to mention. Unlike most other songwriters of their generation, they were able to take songs that were usually written, using a six string acoustic guitar and transform them into songs meant for electric guitars, synthesizers, drums, and bass, with exceptional vocals with multiple voices and harmony. The thing is with the Beatles the end product sounds better than the initial creation. With the Beatles, the end product sounds more authentic. It’s so weird, because with a lot of musicians, the song sounds more authentic played with an acoustic guitar by itself, which was the way that the song was written: on a six string acoustic guitar

[@trusso11783]

Thanks. Love how he starts singing the melody of I Should agave Known Better at the end if If I Fell.

[@nikkijojijojinikki945]

This is truly amazing! The evolution of John’s songs! The early version of “She said, She said” could’ve been a whole other song that almost sounds like 90s grunge music. Thank you for sharing this.

[@griefwells]

love John forever and always

[@sallykohorst8803]

Well wonderful early music John and Paul did. Oh miss you John.

[@robbedontuesday]

Especially John...

[@michaelsternberg6180]

His process was letting the tape run and using it as a notebook. These guys were not able to play a song in 24 keys.. but were brilliant in their own way. And, John left room for input from Paul.. and george, Ringo.. and of course G Martin.. altogether a remarkable document from one of the greatest if all time. He was essentially a rock n roller.. with the feel of a folk musician .. the ordinariness of it all is striking, refreshing. These are diamonds waiting to be refined.

[@jds2056]

could you ellaborate on the 24 keys part u mean they only knew a few music keys? if so that's even crazier

[@scottandrewbrass1931]

​@@jds2056And completely wrong.

[@mdog2435]

This is a remarkably great piece of curated Lennon! Well done to the OP!🌌🌠

[@-Pol-]

As a learning guitarist these recordings are inspirational. Such a precious insight into the process of mastering the instrument and the art of performing It's too easy when we're sitting and practicing alone to become disillusioned that we can never sound like our heroes. However hearing these familiar songs in their 'undeveloped' state gives us an achievable waypoint on the journey towards mastery, just as the songs themselves developed from their rough conception to the fully produced studio recordings.

[@cyrilm3496]

Absolutely fantastic

[@andreasenriquemurga6069]

Thank you so much for sharing this

[@lissielampika6151]

Wholeheartedly Thankful for Sharing. What a lovely surprise. Thank you so much for your efforts. Lots of love and light Dear John. We love you. Best wishes

[@Alligator6002]

The trippy attic room mellotron stuff is FAAARR out. What an amazing insight into John's acid brain 🧠

[@Slinkygal]

I'm so thrilled at just now finding this. Only a few minutes in, but loving it very much. Thanks for sharing🩵

[@abradfordajb]

This is a fascinating compilation of old personal recordings. To go from this stage to final studio album version that we all know and love is really cool. Thanks for posting !!!!

[@JimScaparotti]

This is awesome! I hope it encourages all you songwriters out there like it does me… every song starts somewhere and John’s process seems to allow for change and experimentation. Strawberry Fields - when he (or Paul? George?) adds those electric fill , it’s just magical to hear the song take shape-from John just banging on his acoustic to a semblance of the song we know and love.

[@mariahelenasilveiradonasci2961]

Estou muito emocionada e feliz ao mesmo instante por ter a oportunidade de ouvir essa voz inconfundível que é a John Lennon. Ele era suave qdo queria e sabia fazer isso com mastria. Obrigado por me proporcionar esse privilégio. Thank you so much!!

[@sixslinger9951]

How am I just now hearing this? wow

[@louise221b]

A treasure trove of a video !! Thank you so much!!

[@tjcint]

Seconded.

[@limonado2]

Protejan este video a toda costa

[@soecsam1r]

descargalo antes que lo bajen, siempre bajan estos tipos de videos 😔

[@gerardocburton]

Thank you flor these recordings.

[@Shishido-p5z]

Happy birthday, John! It felt like you were right next to me. John's singing voice is like a treasure. Thanks for sharing.

[@robbedontuesday]

AMAZING, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR UPLOADING THIS GEM.

[@Meme-mq2kk]

Qué hermoso, poder escuchar como armaba su sus canciones es maravilloso, muchísimas gracias. Estoy muy emocionada.

[@syncue5411]

This is amazing for Beatles fans who are also musicians. Thank you!

[@joshkehoe1]

Thanks for compiling all of these together!

[@janaparoubkova5895]

Fantastické 👏👏♥️♥️ Moc ráda jsem si poslechla Johnova dema, nejvíce se mi líbila Dont Let Me Down a Julia ❤ John je můj nejoblíbenější zpěvák, vždy mě jeho písničky pohladí po duši 🤩 Některé jsem slyšela poprvé,moc se mi všechny libily,moc děkuji za vložení tohoto hudebního klenotu ❤️👍

[@jchow5966]

I just love (abd niss) him. That voice and those songs are magnificent! 💟☮️💟☮️

[@タコ太朗-r2l]

Many of these are new to me. Thank you for sharing !!

[@andreasrausch5552]

Thank you so much for making us this present! What a talent he was. 🙏🏼

[@tjcint]

To the person who made this video .. thank you, thank you, thank you ...

[@kzeich]

Wow what a treat thank you so much

[@joyce99999]

Thanks so much for these home recordings….really nice, and such great pics of John, which I’ve never seen, and I’ve seen them all! Thanks, Santiago! ❤

[@jaxteller312]

man thank you❤this is amazing

[@joemc1960]

Genius at work.

[@tjcint]

Exactly.

[@syncue5411]

Thank you for posting this!❤

[@SESTENA]

Simply John Lennon... The greatest

[@SetFree2020]

Sing it, Johnny! Thank you!

[@giovannipedroso9967]

O processo de criação de John Lennon era bastante caótico! Ele não perseguia a música por uma ideia definida, ele propositadamente sempre deixava uma abertura pra novas possibilidades e se deixava guiar por elas até se fazer um só com a canção! Um gênio intuitivo!

[@narusskomyazyuke]

Unbelievable! It's amazing to see how he created immortal songs. He literally created these great hits out of NOTHING.

[@tjcint]

​@vivito You say 'Thats not true'. Wrong. It is true.

[@scotttaylor7220]

This is just so damn awesome. Wow.

[@thecypherworks]

If you want an absolute masterclass in songwriting then this is it, folks, doesn't get better.

[@herveclement7105]

Thank you for this post. Really fantastic ! Demo version are better than the final album take ❤

[@N0rmad]

Wow that early version of "Oh my love" almost sounds like a bossa nova chord progression.

[@viridian9673]

didnt know yoko could sing like that

[@pennylane1268]

¡Qué precioso! Muchas gracias.

[@vincognito]

The Primordial Ooze from which some of the world's most brilliant music emerges...

[@jchow5966]

This like heaven.

[@tjcint]

I agree.

[@charleshendrix232]

The most creative human that I’ve ever seen. Him and Dylan and Paul and Robbie Robertson are my Rushmore

[@astronautclub9261]

Very Rare...Amazing for all Beatle fans around the world to hear this....

[@rhycno8616]

Great video! I hope you do a similar thing with the rest of his demos! Great work!

[@smorgasbordtv4092]

If I fell was a good from the start

[@tomfletcher1735]

Wow never heard the first song!!! amazing

[@javierherrera1010]

Material maravilloso. Gracias.

[@JuanHerrera-jz7td]

Original songs. A very creative vision for songwriting thru guitar.

[@charlie-obrien]

The world changed when John left. And not for the better. Ask anyone who was there before and after. Thank god we still have the music, the clearest picture into the man's soul.

[@tjcint]

I absolutely love your comment.

[@justinhamilton8647]

RIP my favorite beatle i hope everything is not too bad wherever you are, may your energy travel through the cosmos forever

[@tjcint]

An absolutely beautiful comment ...

[@jakezonis17]

He’s in good hands

[@dannyespinosa3978]

Yes

[@jmadratz]

I must say, of all the Beatles songs, If I Fell is the most beautiful and lovely song John wrote. It defines the early Beatles melodic sound more than anything Paul ever wrote… Why Paul continues to take any credit for If I Fell is criminal. These home demos are proof proper that it’s John’s completely, including the opening intro narration.

[@petercs6598]

Gold mine !

[@cjaysoulgroove4065]

Wow this is special stuff

[@tylerthompson1842]

I wasn’t into the Beatles until my father bought me the Beatles anthology 3 with all their demos and outtakes. I was able to connect with the songs and them as people hearing the process. I still prefer some of those version to the final ones.

[@JoeRivermanSongwriter]

Thanks for this 🙏🏻

[@sergekirik7752]

God bless you, Brother!

[@steverutland9267]

Thank you so so much...❤

[@gpmaher]

Wow, this really insightful to his guitar playing

[@paolacaro7980]

1:50 Yoko's voice is so sweet and calm

[@HaHaHaa769]

IKR??!! She's also a classically trained pianist, I don't know why she screeched and only hit a keyboard like she couldn't play it when onstage with John..Maybe if she would've actually sung like this and actually played the piano, she wouldn't be hated..

[@tjcint]

​@@HaHaHaa769 Yoko Ono is literally a powerful, dark witch. The screeching was this coming to the surface. She is hated because many intuitively sense what she is.

[@Son-of-Thunder]

One can hear the Celtic Cadences and Modalities welling from the Irish lineage of Lennon (and also McCartney). Gaelic music is the very wellspring of the Western popular canon…from the ancient minstrels to the modern pop stars.

[@johnmc3862]

And Harrison was probably the most Irish of the all.

[@bobtaylor170]

Ralph Vaughan Williams disagreed. He thought Celtic music contributed little to British folk music. But thank you for the point you made. It's a blessed relief from the "no American songs apart from blacks" nonsense. There is research by musicologists which supports the idea that European songs, even British ballads transported to Appalachia, were more important in the development of jazz than African sensibilities. That doesn't take anything away from blacks. Anyone who contends that blacks were negligible in the development of jazz has sacrificed the right to be taken seriously. It just simply was not "African sensibilities" alone which made jazz possible.

[@glassonion2315]

@@bobtaylor170 Hello, could you tell me the names of the authors or the research? I would be glad to read about it! Cheers, a fellow musicologist

[@bobtaylor170]

@@glassonion2315 I could only wish I were a musicologist. There is a KZbinr, Andy Edwards, who has several recent videos about this. But there is a masterpiece of a book which I would recommend to anyone: "Lost Chords," by Richard Sudhalter. That book is a paragon of brilliance. It's 1,000 pages long. It's a triumph of painstaking research, beautiful writing, and a musicologist's knowledge. He acknowledges at the beginning of the book that anyone who thinks that blacks had a negligible part in jazz's creation and development is a nitwit. His book is about the rest of the story, however. Early 20th century New Orleans, despite segregation laws, may have been the most integrated city in America. Whites, blacks, mixed race, Creoles ( both Jelly Roll Morton and Sidney Bechet maintained that they had entirely French ancestry ), American Indians, various combinations thereof: that's what New Orleans was. And Sudhalter's book is about the non black musicians and composers who made it possible. So, the book has a lot about the unrecorded Emmet Hardy, The Boswell Sisters, Hoagy Carmichael, Bix Beiderbecke and Frank Trumbauer, "The Austin High Gang," Pee Wee Russell, Jack Teagarden, Red Norvo, Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti, Bunny Berigan. He devotes only ten pages to Benny Goodman, about eighty to Artie Shaw, and with good reason. It's a great book, but unfortunately, it wasn't published until 1999 ( by Oxford Press ), so it didn't quite get just under the wire of political correctness. This surely accounts for its comparative obscurity, but as far as I know, it remains in print. I read my first copy so compulsively that I broke its spine, and bought a second one. Oddly, I don't remember that Sudhalter writes about the mid 19th century New Orleans composer, Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Gottschalk, who was Jewish, is fascinating, because from time to time you hear stuff in his work which augurs jazz. Over and over, Sudhalter stresses that jazz was open to "cats of every color," just as long as they could play. The book has a great account of the throwdown between Fletcher Henderson's guys and Jean Goldkette's ( among whom was Beiderbecke ). Rex Stewart, one of Henderson's, said they all were pretty smug about their performance, then, "all these tight assed little white boys came out and blew us away." It has absolutely fascinating stuff all throughout it. Example: you think, well, when jazz went north, it went straight to Chicago, everyone knows that. Nope. Indiana was the first non New Orleans jazz hotbed, especially The Dunes, as northwest Indiana folks call the southern beach of Lake Michigan which is between South Bend and the Illinois border. It was a prime resort area in the early twenties, and it's where Beiderbecke and Russell, among other notables, played throughout the summers of the early 1920s. It's probably where Carmichael and Beiderbecke met. And The Austin High Gang and associates ( Bud Freeman, Dick McPartland, Dave Tough, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, the tragic Frank Teschemacher [ sp? ] and others who were still high school kids ) came over from Chicago to hear Beiderbecke and the others as much as they could. The book is filled with that level of fascinating information. On Andy Edwards' channel, there is a video, Jazz is Not Black Music, which gets more into the European aspect of it. And it links to another video which is much longer. I've given you a lot of stuff to look into, and hope you will.

[@charleshendrix232]

Amazing

[@MoonDoggie999]

Loving this! Thank u!!!

[@Dekoherence-ii8pw]

Some of those guitar parts from so-called "He Said He Said" sound like Dr Robert. Interesting to hear how bits of one song ended up as bits of another.

[@ГерманКукушкин]

Спасибо за доставленное удовольствие друзья и память

[@nigel4776]

Thanks Santiago

[@lvpn0140]

According to Plastic Ono Band's Lennon 50th Anniversary box set, the 'Look at Me' demos are from the summer of 1970.

[@SantiagoHerrera1998]

I have the CD edition of the Plastic Ono Band's Lennon 50th Anniversary and couldn't find the date of the Look At Me Demo on the booklet, I only found the dates for the Look At Me Ultimate Mix and Out-Take (Take 2). Do you know on what page are the dates for the demos?