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"oh, dirty Maggie Mae..." complete version?
« on: October 22, 2007, 04:01:23 AM »

I think the way Phil Spector segwayed (incorrect spelling, but its midnight and I got to get to bed) "Maggie Mae" as a short intro into the next was an okay maneuver.  

However, I really like it, and wonder if the complete version exists?
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« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2007, 09:28:23 AM »

That seems to be the most complete version that they did. Remember they were only messing about at the time. There is another version on the Fly On The Wall disc that comes with Let It Be...Naked: Maggie Mae/Fancy Me Chances, which lasts about 50 seconds.
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Re: "oh, dirty Maggie Mae..." complete version?
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2007, 11:48:38 AM »

Spector didn't do any 'segwaying'.
On the original vinyl album, Maggie was on the end of side one and I've Got A feeling at the beginning of side two.
Also I think the faster version is much better, so all in all Spector made a mess of it for me.
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« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2007, 12:07:02 PM »

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Spector didn't do any 'segwaying'.
On the original vinyl album, Maggie was on the end of side one and I've Got A feeling at the beginning of side two.
Also I think the faster version is much better, so all in all Spector made a mess of it for me.

The faster version is of much poorer quality, so I don't think he had much choice.
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Re: "oh, dirty Maggie Mae..." complete version?
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2007, 05:15:48 PM »

He could have left it off!
There's lots of other fun stuff in those sesions to replace this drunk/dirgy version of a Liverpool classic.
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« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2007, 09:19:21 AM »

There's very little else in the way of music that could be used. There is a lot of mucking about, and jamming, and a lot of chat. A lot of the stuff on the Fly On The Wall disc could have been incorporated into the actual album, to give it a more 'soundtrack' feel.
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Re: "oh, dirty Maggie Mae..." complete version?
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2007, 10:07:15 PM »

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That seems to be the most complete version that they did. Remember they were only messing about at the time. There is another version on the Fly On The Wall disc that comes with Let It Be...Naked: Maggie Mae/Fancy Me Chances, which lasts about 50 seconds.


a complete version of Dig It with John incorporating the Let It Be song titles into it can be found on this Get Back session bootleg:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DPGO9LXN


I'm not sure if this is the same Dig It jam that the album version is derived from though
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Re: "oh, dirty Maggie Mae..." complete version?
« Reply #7 on: November 09, 2007, 10:46:48 PM »

The coolest thing about the Fly on the Wall disc was discovering that the "Sun King" riff was originally part of "Don't Let Me Down."
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« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2007, 06:23:05 PM »

if there is a completed version of Maggie Mae, I hope it never sees the light of day. John sounds like a drunken old sailor on that one...obviously a "throw-away"
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« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2007, 06:25:44 PM »

That IS the complete version.
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« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2007, 06:29:10 PM »

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That IS the complete version.

Good. Thank God  4 small miracles.

(actually, "Dig It" is even worse)

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« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2007, 06:57:15 PM »

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Good. Thank God  4 small miracles.

(actually, "Dig It" is even worse)


Now, there is a much longer version of that! :)
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« Reply #12 on: November 13, 2007, 07:08:58 PM »

why wasnt "Life With The Lions" a single rather than the LONG, TEDIOUS PIECE OF CRAP IT TURNED OUT TO BE   ;D

(no offence, John, you know I love you and yoko)lol
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Re: "oh, dirty Maggie Mae..." complete version?
« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2007, 01:39:56 AM »

a Fly on the Wall - guess we can't get that put in the bootlegs, huh?
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« Reply #14 on: November 14, 2007, 01:46:02 AM »

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a Fly on the Wall - guess we can't get that put in the bootlegs, huh?

The 'Fly On The Wall' disc comes with 'Let It Be...Naked'. So, nope. Afraid not.
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Re: "oh, dirty Maggie Mae..." complete version?
« Reply #15 on: November 14, 2007, 11:14:24 PM »

Maggie Mae was a few seconds waste that ruined a great album, same with Dig It.
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Re: "oh, dirty Maggie Mae..." complete version?
« Reply #16 on: November 15, 2007, 04:02:26 PM »

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Maggie Mae was a few seconds waste that ruined a great album, same with Dig It.

Wow.  I found those two little ditties a nice way of reflecting the relaxed and casual "in the studio" atmosphere the Beatles were trying to achieve.  

Of course, we ALL know that NOTHING was relaxed and casual about that album.  (I like how Lennon says something at the end of "Dig It" about "all the angels sing," and then we hear Let It Be (except there's no harmonies on this, which would have made Lennon's statement a bit more accurate, but I guess Paul's voice is angelic enough).
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Re: "oh, dirty Maggie Mae..." complete version?
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2007, 04:53:15 PM »

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Wow.  I found those two little ditties a nice way of reflecting the relaxed and casual "in the studio" atmosphere the Beatles were trying to achieve.  

That was my feeling at the time of the album's release. Nothing to get hung about.

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Re: "oh, dirty Maggie Mae..." complete version?
« Reply #18 on: November 16, 2007, 11:23:00 AM »

Maggie May This is a Liverpool seaman's song, The Beatles did a short version of it on The "Let It Be" album

Now gather round you sailor boys and listen to my plea and

When you've heard my tale you'll pity me

For I was a real damned fool in the port of Liverpool

The first time that I came home from the sea.......


We paid off at the home from the port of Sierra Leone and

Four pounds ten a month that was my pay

With a pocket full of tin I was very soon taken in by a

Girl with the name of Maggie May......CHORUS

CHORUS
     Oh Maggie Maggie May they have taken her away

     And she'll never walk down Lime street anymore

     For she robbed so many sailors and captains of the whalers

     That dirty robbin' no good Maggie May.


Oh well I do remember when I first met Maggie May

She was cruising up and down old Canning Place

She'd a figure so divine like a frigate of the line

So me being a sailor I gave chase..........CHORUS


Next morning when I awoke I was flat and stoney broke

No jacket trousers waistcoat I could find

When I asked her where they were she said - My very dear sir

They're down in Kelly's knocker number nine..........CHORUS


To the pawnshop I did go but no clothes there I did find and

The policeman came and took that girl away

The judge he guilty found her of robbing the homeward - bounder and

Paid her passage back to Botany Bay.....CHORUS TWICE
as per http://sailorsongs.com/lyrics.htm
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Re: "oh, dirty Maggie Mae..." complete version?
« Reply #19 on: November 16, 2007, 05:56:54 PM »

That is funny. "That was 'Can You Dig It' by Georgie Wood. Now we'd like to do 'Hark, the Angels Come.'" John wasn't crazy about Paul's ballads at this point!

Anyway, this will get some p*ss-taking, but if one of my UK Beatles Brethren could please explain to a thick American what the slang phrase "hung about" means exactly, that would be solid.
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