Dig It

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dig It
The Beatles
publication May 8, 1970
length 49 s
Genre (s) skirt
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney / Harrison / Starkey
album let it be

Dig It ( english get it ) is a song by British band The Beatles , the 1970 to their last album Let It Be was released. The song comes from an improvisation that the band recorded in late January 1969.

background

Dig It is one of two songs in which all four Beatles are named together as authors ( Lennon / McCartney / Harrison / Starkey ), the other is Flying from 1967. Dig It was created while recording the album Let It Be , which should be called Get Back at the time of recording . To ad infinitum repeated simple chord progression John Lennon improvised text. In the published version of the song he lines up the terms “(like a) Rollin 'Stone ”, “(like the) FBI ”, “(and the) CIA ”, “(and the) BBC ”, “ BB King ”, “ (and) Doris Day ”and“ Matt Busby ”together, followed by“ Dig it! ”.

admission

The song, which is only 49 seconds long, is just an excerpt from an extensive jam session . The Beatles recorded an initial seven-minute version on January 24, 1969 in their own studio in the basement of the Apple office on London's Savile Row . Another version, 12 minutes 25 seconds long, was made on January 26, 1969. A short excerpt from this version (from 8:52 min to 9:41 min) was published. On January 28 and 29, 1969, other versions were created that were no longer considered.

In March 1969, the music producer Glyn Johns was commissioned to put together an album from the recordings from January 1969. He made this a five-minute version of Dig It , which remained unpublished. In January 1970 Johns was commissioned with the production again; this resulted in a version with a length of 4:24 min. This also remained unpublished.

Ultimately, Phil Spector was commissioned to put the album together. On March 27, 1970, this dialogue excerpts compiled the recording sessions and made a only 49-second version of Dig It , by simply switching the song and then faded out . At the end he cut a sentence spoken by Lennon (“That was 'Can You Dig It' by Georgie Wood, and now we'd like to do 'Hark The Angels Come'”) from the first recording of Dig It on 24 January 1969.

publication

On May 8, 1970, Dig It was released on the album Let It Be . A slightly longer version of the song can be seen in the film of the same name , which premiered five days later. When the album Let It Be under the name Let It Be… Naked was re-released on November 17, 2003, Dig It was no longer included. Instead, a 30-second excerpt from the first recording from January 24, 1969 was to be found on the bonus CD Fly on the Wall for Let It Be… Naked .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steve Turner: A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song . New York, HarperCollins, 2005, ISBN 0-06-084409-4 . P. 178.
  2. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions . London, Hamlyn, 2004, ISBN 0-681-03189-1 . Pp. 166-168.
  3. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions . London, Hamlyn, 2004, ISBN 0-681-03189-1 . P. 171 f .; P. 196.
  4. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions . London, Hamlyn, 2004, ISBN 0-681-03189-1 . P. 198.