Tidying Up and the "Huge Melody"

A bit of tidying up for the "Abbey Road" sessions was continuing during the month of July 1969. For "Come Together", overdubs including the electric piano, maracas and John Lennon's main vocal on July 22 1969 with Paul adding a harmony in the verses three days later. The lead guitar during the ending was overdubbed on July 30 1969. The stereo mix was completed August 07 1969.
Also in late July, work continued on the side two long medley. It had been decided to use an instrumental written mainly by Paul including a drum solo from Ringo which at this point was entitled "Ending" later to be credited by "The End" on the LP. The basic track including guitars, piano , bass and drums were completed in 7 takes on July 23 1969. Two days later "Polythene Pam/ She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" were recorded in 39 takes with George on electric, John on acoustic, bass and drums as well. The bass and drums would be re-done as well.  Overdubs continued on both July 28 and 30 1969 including more keyboards, guitars, vocals, maracas, tambourine, etc.
Other work included Paul adding his bass to "You Never Give Me Your Money" on July 07 1969; the backing vocals and percussion were added on July 15 and more backing vocals on July 30 1969.
So the main task of the July 30 1969 session was to put together a "test" tape of the huge melody which at this point lasted about 15 and a half minutes. It was decided probably by Paul the "Her Majesty" be removed from it's place between "Mean Mister Mustard" and "Polythene Pam".  The engineer removed the song but tagged it at the end of the medley. Mal Evans took away the tape to Apple whereby it was cut as an acetate for working purposes and the tape was brought back to EMI Studios. Upon hearing "Her Majesty" at the very end of the acetate with the 20 seconds silence, it was decided to keep it that way and the commercial LP actually has the end chord of "Mean Mister Mustard" with the last chord of "Her Majesty" cut just before the last chord as well as the 20 seconds of silence. The original mix of the "Huge Melody" at this point had an organ chord at the end of "Sun King" which would be filled with sound tapes and "The End" is in it's original shorter form.
The July 30 1969 version of the "Huge Melody" can be found on the bootleg CD "Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 05" as well as the CD "No. 3 Abbey Road N.W." (although the difference is the placement of "Her Majesty" for both).