Anomalies List

  A Day in the Life
1:43 - Switch click as orchestra comes in (Right)

1:44-2:16, 3:50-4:19 - Mal Evans is heard counting the bars from 1 to 24; only about the first dozen are audible, starting at about three to 12

2:18 - An alarm clock sounds to mark the end of the first 24 bars

2:17 - Right ear - intake of breath

2:18-2:20 - Someone says "One" to mark the downbeat. Quieter, but audible on the CD is the trailing  "two three four" (right)

2:42-2:48 - Just before and after the words "had a smoke", Lennon starts talking and  carrying on, most audibly a loud "hoooo" under the word "smoke" (Right)

2:58 - (Left channel) sounds like a cough

4:50-4:52 - A chair squeaking (three creaks total). It's not paper rustling and someone saying "Shhh" after all. If you listen closely it is in fact just one (or maybe two) chairs squeaking.

 

All I Got To Do

Squeaky pedal on bass drum throughout song, esp intro.

 

All Right

During the chorus, the voices singing are not quite together. See Greatest Hits 1966-1970.

 

All You Need Is Love

0:10 - Nasal intake of breath. Between the lines of the song he can be heard chewing gum!  Listen before the line "nothing you can make that can't be made"

0:23 - Plink of a guitar/plectrum (Left)

0:25 - (Right channel) someone speaks".  It sounds like "then check it".

1:19,1:23 - Two edits in the guitar tracks, right ear

2:08 - Plinking notes, guitar or banjo sound. Don't seem to fit with song?

3:15-3:18 - Paul makes a few errors in the bass part. His speed varies all over the place through this.

As to the Paul V John debate, it is without doubt Paul that sings the "Woh Yea" toward the end, much too mellow to be John. The same voice sings "She Loves You Yeah Yeah Yeah, She'd Love To, Yeah Yeah".

 

And I Love Her

1:08-1:17 - Loses double tracking

1:47 - Talking during end of guitar solo

2:10 - Someone "Dum Dum Dum's" the guitar line.

2:24 - Creak, someone leaning back in a wooden chair?

 

And Your Bird Can Sing

0:02 - John/Paul takes deep breath under the cover of the intro. (Right ear)

 

Anna (Go To Him)

Bass pedal squeaks through this song.

Any Time at All

1:32 - Talking in solo

1:48 - Edit in cymbals track

 

Baby It's You

Bass pedal squeaks yet again!

Baby's in Black

1:30 - Bad edit, best heard in right channel, in the words "Babys in black". The strummed guitar appears out of nowhere here, further 'enhancing' the edit

1:44 - Double tracking error :

              John (1) says "And though he'll never come back..."

             John (2) says "But though she'll never come back..."

2:04 - Right ear, at the very end, there is a rattling of paper.

Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite

1:44 - Someone either punched out or faded out the beginning of the line "Having been some days ..." leaving "...ving been"

Birthday

0:40-0:44 - Whispering between vocalists.

2:04-2:06 - Previous take's "dance" shows through, resulting in Paul ending up singing "Daaaannceee/aaaance"

2:32 - Laughter after the drumming stops.

Blackbird

Right at the very start on the White Album, someone says "play" in a high pitched voice.

Chains

0:59-1:14 - Rhythm guitar breaks up badly - more obvious on stereo than mono

1:20 - John - "S'at enough?"

 

Come Together

1:27 - Someone shouts "All right" in the background before the line "He bad production" (Right ear)

2:01 - Someone shouts "All" before John's "right" (Right Ear)

2:30 - Talking. Especially audible "Look Out!" before the line "He roller-coaster"

Day Tripper

1:50, 1:55, 2:32 - There are two extremely noticeable dropouts near the end of the song. This is not on any earlier mixes of the same take, so it is quite likely that it happened during the mastering stage.  Other mixes show a sound at 1:50 that was likely the reason for the dropout, and John's misplaced "yeah" at 2:32, but one has to wonder if the cure wasn't worse than the illness.  This is particularly true in the 2:32 case, since one can STILL hear the "yeah." The drop outs at 1:50,1:55 punch the 1st and 6th notes of the riff clean out.

Devil In Her Heart

Punch-in, right channel, at George's first solo line (not audible on mono).

2:04 - False start in guitar figure

 

Don't Bother Me

0:03 - Someone (George H.?) comments about it being too fast

Don't Let Me Down

1:43 - Just after "it's a love that has no past", a faint "Believe it/me" is heard.

Don't Pass Me By

0:07 - Right channel, someone shouts something

1:45 - Most strangely, an alarm bell goes off in the middle of "unfair" (Left)

2:31-2:37 - Someone (likely Ringo) sings out the beats from one to eight, and then shouts "ooop". At the same time John says (Right channel) "Give it some more!" (Level ? More of the song ?)

2:39 - (Left channel) Someone shouts something

 

Drive My Car

1:20-1:22 - Paul? sings "You can drive my car" under the last notes of guitar solo. Listen carefully, the last 3 notes of the solo are on top of the words "Drive My Car"

Eleanor Rigby

0:14 - The double tracking is not brought down fast enough after the end of the second "Ahhh, look at all the lonely people" in the introduction.  It continues until the second syllable of "Eleanor."  The bad mixing of the double tracking continues throughout the rest of the song, every time there is a transition from single to double or vice versa.

1:29 - (Left channel) click

 

Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except for Me and My Monkey

1:02 - Various shouts (left channel)

For You Blue

0:00 - Introduced with John saying "Queen says 'No' to pot smoking FBI members".
 

From Me To You

Ringo's bass drum pedal squeaks. (left)

 

Get Back

Introduced, at least on Capitol mix, by John's "Sweet Loretta Fart she thought she was a cleaner","but she was a frying pan". There is also Paul singing "Rosetta...", John's "Great, picks for the fingers" and a  quiet 1-2-1234 count in, a "Get In!" and a "Level John!"

Outroduced (!) with a policeman (from the "on the roof" session) saying "I'm afraid its just too long", telling them to wind up the gig.
 

Getting Better

0:00-0:02 - Someone gives a count in for the vocals. Other talking.

0:28 - (Right) Edit in the word "Bett/ter"

0:34 - (Right) Someone shouts "Better" under Paul's vocals

0:43-0:44 - (Right channel) whistle

0:56 - Paul makes a verbal slip, "And you're doing the best that I can" 

1:04 - Sound (same as 1:26)

1:07 - Piano and cymbal/hi hat do a "double skip", as if a faulty edit. Doesn't sound intentional.

1:26 - Sound (right). Coming from the guitar, possibly a faulty amp/cable
 

Girl

0:59 - (Right channel) Someone (John?) coaches "tit tit tit."

1:30-1:50 - Harmony guitar line audible in right channel. Bleed-through? 

1:53 - Sound of guitar being put down/picked up?
 

Good Day Sunshine

0:07 - Cymbals come in suddenly, rather than a complete fade-in.

1:26 - Someone (John? Ringo?) repeats "she feels good."  This appears to trigger something closely approximating a chuckle from Paul in the next line. Listening closely on the CD, it sounds like  Ringo saying "She f**ing does". The last word is definitely not "good", very likely "does".

1:33 - Bad edit in piano track (right ear)

1:58 - Cut to four vocal tracks is abrupt.

 

Good Morning, Good Morning

0:06 - "Hah!" (left ear)

0:16 - Edit in vocals, made audible by a cut off deep breath.

Throughout the song, the right channel contains soft drum beats, ostensibly used to direct the brass instruments. There are also hand claps.

2:33 - Where the "Good Morning" vocals fade out, there is an audible click as  the vocals/brass stop. Just before this a voice, very quiet, says "Turn it off" (Right ear)

 

Got to Get You Into My Life

0:03 to 0:06 - Talking (Paul?) during intro. (Left)

1:44 - Strange guitar sound. (Centre)

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