Ah, those were the days....
By the way, the Shea Stadium Concert was overdubbed later, wasn't it?
From here:
http://www.beatlemania.ca/toursworld/Shea.htm (more anecdotes and descriptions and nice pics too)
"On the documentary film The Beatles At Shea Stadium
(taken from The Complete Beatles Chronicles, by Mark Lewisohn).
Together with the helicopter ride and backstage sequences, the show was filmed by Sullivan Productions (Ed Sullivan's company) in association with NEMS Entreprises (Brian Epstein's), and released as a documentary film called The Beatles At Shea Stadium. Its world premiere occured on Tuesday 1 March 1966 (BBC1). Not all of the Beatles' Shea set is in the film - She's A Woman and Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby are both omitted - and what is included was subjected to audio sweetening back in London. Additionaly, throughout the film, the Beatles are heard via voice-overs, recorded by the US broadcaster Larry Kane.
Just as it would be naive to believe that the sound on live-concert rock music albums is ever truly live and undoctored, so the same is true for live-concert films. In the case of the Beatles' momentous 15 August 1965 Shea Stadium concert, the audio tapes specifically revealed not only musical flaws on the Beatles' part but also technical imperfections caused by the sheer size of the venue, the high-decibel screaming and the less than state-of-the-art mobile recording equipment around in 1965. To have screened unaltered such a high-profile film on peak-time television would have done the group a disservice.
So it was that, amid some secrecy,
the Beatles came to CTS Studios in central London on 5 January 1966, to "sweeten" the soundtrack, by whatever means necessary, of their in-production television film The Beatles At Shea Stadium.
The session began with
Paul only, overdubbing new bass tracks onto Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Can't Buy Me Love, Baby's In Black and I'm Down. Onto this latter song John also overdubbed a new organ track. More drastic repair work was then effected by the group as a whole, with entirely
new recordings completed for two songs: I Feel Fine (done at George Martin's specific request) and Help! The Beatles strove to re-create a live-concert sound with these recordings rather than their more typical EMI studio feel, and they also had to match carefully their singing and playing with the on-screen images, hence the use of CTS, the premier audio-to-film dubbing studio in London. (CTS is an abbreviation for Cine Tele Sound.)
To fix Act Naturally the Beatles did nothing: the film's post-production team merely replaced the Shea recording with the Beatles' disc version (recorded 17 June 1965), sync-ing it to the picture by means of audience cutaways and even, in places, cuts in the music. (Intentionally or otherwise, one moment - where Ringo's vocal is evident but his mouth is closed - was left in the film uncorrected.)
Documentation also suggests that
John wished to record a new version of Ticket To Ride, and that it was done during this CTS session, but close study of the film indicates that the original Shea version was used (although perhaps a little instrumental overdubbing was effected). Additionally,
George Martin desired a new recording of Twist And Shout, but there wasn't time to do this. Instead, the post-production team used the unreleased 30 August 1965 Hollywood Bowl concert recording to bolster the sound, causing - in one place - John's live vocal to be double - tracked. In fact, the Bowl recording was used extensively during the film's post-production processes for recordings of the screaming audience, especially on the two all-new London recordings.
No doctoring appears to have been done to either
She's A Woman or Everybody's Trying To Be Baby, suggesting that, by this time,
they had already been excluded from the film. They were, however, included in an early print which Epstein received from Sullivan Productions around 5 November 1965, which then ran to 54 minutes. By January, as it would be for the transmission, the film's duration had been cut to just under 48 minutes."
From here:
http://www.irproductions.com/sb/beatles/shea-candlestick.txt"Edited Shea Stadium Concert - 15 Aug 1965
1. Band Members Introduction (unknown) 02:07
Shea Stadium, 15 Aug 1965
The Beatles introduced by Ed Sullivan
2. Twist And Shout (Russell/Medley) 01:24
Los Angeles 30 Aug 1965
Recorded at the Hollywood Bowl and presented on TV as being recored at Shea Stadium.
3. I Feel Fine (Lennon/McCartney) 2:20
New Version 5 Jan 1966
The Beatles completely new version, recorded 5 January 1966 at CTS Studios, London. Crowd noise from 30 August 1965, Hollywood Bowl.
4. Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Williams) 3:14
Shea Stadium, 15 Aug 1965
Paul added bass to this live track, 5 January 1966 at CTS Studios, London.
5. Ticket To Ride (Lennon/McCartney) 2:31
Shea Stadium, 15 Aug 1965
Some overdubbing may have been done at 5 January 1966, CTS Studios, London.
6. Can't Buy Me Love (Lennon/McCartney) 2:38
Shea Stadium, 15 Aug 1965
Paul added bass to this live track, 5 January 1966 at CTS Studios, London.
7. Baby's In Black (Lennon/McCartney) 2:37
Shea Stadium, 15 Aug 1965
Paul added bass to this live track, 5 January 1966 at CTS Studios, London.
8. A Hard Day's Night (Lennon/McCartney) 3:13
Shea Stadium, 15 Aug 1965 with commentary from John/Paul/&Brian
9. Help! (Lennon/McCartney) 2:35
New Version 5 Jan 1966
Completely new version, recorded 5 January 1966 at CTS Studios, London.
Crowd noise from 30 August 1965, Hollywood Bowl.
10. I'm Down (Lennon/McCartney) 3:12
Shea Stadium, 15 Aug 1965
Paul added bass to this live track and John added organ. Done 5 January 1966 at CTS Studios, London.
Track ends with helicopter noise."
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