Friday, March 1, 2019

"Man We Was Lonely" Session

The last song on side one of the Apple LP/CD "McCartney" is entitled "Man, We Was Lonely". This song was written by Paul and Linda the morning of February 25 1970 allegedly "in bed" and the lyrics to the song were completed during the lunch hour when the song was recorded at Studio 2 in EMI Abbey Road Studios all on the same day.
It was the last song to be recorded for the LP and started off with acoustic guitar and some guide vocal, the perfection of lyrics and then overdubs including a bass drum, bass guitar, and a "steel guitar" effect whereby Paul used a tuning peg on a Fender Telecaster. The vocals were dubbed onto all this. This is a duet by Paul and Linda with Linda supplying harmonies.
The song was written, recorded and mixed in stereo on the same day (Feb. 25/1970) and the overdubs were put onto take 12 of the song.  Shades of "Instant Karma" with all aspects of the song from writing to mixing in one day.

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