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15-Track White Album: His Master’s Choice!

6:00 AM GMT 28/07/2008

IN TELL ME WHY, author Tim Riley noted George Martin's reluctance to release the White Album as a double album but he wondered which songs would have been left off. He speculated that the choices would have been “Wild Honey Pie certainly, Rocky Raccoon perhaps; Long, Long, Long is the weakest George track, but While My Guitar Gently Weeps' Piggies, and Savoy Truffle are essentials. There is no sequence that would satisfy the strictures of the 40-minute record without discarding not a few but many great tracks.”

In The Beatles As Musicians, Walter Everett speculated that George Martin would have preferred the following single-disc LP... Note general Paul-centrism (Honey Pie!) and no Dear Prudence...

1. Back in the USSR

2. ...Bungalow Bill

3. I Will

4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

5. Blackbird

6. Not Guilty [from contemporaneous sessions]

7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

8. Happiness Is A Warm Gun

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9. Birthday

10. Sexy Sadie

11. Julia

12. Martha My Dear

13. Long, Long, Long

14. Honey Pie

15. Good Night

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Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 28/07/2008


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  • This would have been AWFUL!!!!!!

    no inclusion of:

    - Cry Baby Cry
    - Yer Blues
    - Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
    - Helter Skelter
    - Savoy Truffle
    - I'm So Tired

    Too many McCartneys (the wrong ones), and not enough Lennons.
    Fewer Lennon tunes = crappier album.

    Posted by JoJo at 3:54 AM GMT 06/08/2008 Report Abuse

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  • I'd drop "Long, Long, Long" and "Honey Pie" from that list and stick in "Revolution" and "Helter Skelter".

    Posted by Bob at 7:54 AM GMT 10/08/2008 Report Abuse

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  • I just noticed something.

    "Walter Everett SPECULATED that George Martin would have preferred...?"

    Why didn't he just ASK George Martin which tracks he would've preferred? It's not like he's dead...

    Posted by Bob at 7:57 AM GMT 10/08/2008 Report Abuse

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