"Come And Get It" - Take One

On July 24 1969 at EMI Studio 2 in London and during the Beatles "Abbey Road" sessions, Paul McCartney had decided to create a demo recording of his new composition "Come and Get It". This song was to be given to the Apple Records Group "Badfinger" to record for the upcoming movie soundtrack to "The Magic Christian" starring Peter Sellers and featuring Ringo Starr as well.
Paul had a spare hour before George and Ringo arrived and recorded the demo with John Lennon in attendance although only Paul participated. Instead of just an acoustic demo, Paul recorded piano and vocal on one track, a vocal overdub and maracas on the second track, bass guitar on the third and drums on the fouth completed the song in one take !! It was mixed in stereo by engineer Phil MacDonald who was also working on the "Abbey Road" project. An acetate was made and given to Badfinger.
This incredible would have made for a great single from the sessions - imagine if The Beatles themselves had all played on it....oh well !
In the early 80s the song was remixed by Geoff Emerick in fake stereo (who knows why he did this when EMI still had the multitrack and the original stereo mix). The song was to be used on the aborted "Sessions" LP but it appeared this way from a secondhand mono tape on the bootleg LP "File Under Beatles". In the middle 80s the song appeared on some of the bootleg "Sessions" LPs with Geoff Emerick's fake stereo mix. Amazingly, when the demo was officially released on the Apple 3-LP/2-CD "Anthology" series, they used the same fake stereo mix once again and considering the superior mix was available to Apple, they screwed it up again.
Lastly, if you want to hear the song in true stereo and original mix, pick up a CD copy of "Another Sessions...plus" and/or "Mythology Vol.3".