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Beatles singing House Of the Rising Sun

posted 19 years ago by Tbeer
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For all you LET IT BE fans: Is anyone aware of what used to be called the best Beatles bootleg LP? It was called SWEET APPLE TRACKS it contained most of the songs from the LET IT BE sesions on double LP. These songs are varients of the versions later released on both LET IT BE and ABBY ROAD. For example we get the
original version of GET BACK which explains its title..ie Paul sings "Don't want
no Pakastanies taking other peoples jobs...get back get back get back to where you once belonged etc" I guess this was a topical concern in Britan circa 1969.
It also contains many many old standards such as John screaming a solo of House
of the Rising Sun plus countless other chesnuts and varient versions of older Beatles songs such as MONEY, LUCILLE ETC. I still own it but don't know how to record an LP onto computor for down load. I tried many years ago rerecording it onto casette but due to its bootleg nature it came out very poorly.

Anyone else aware of the LP or how to down load from turn table to computor or
cd player?

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[–] MCAN87 18 years ago

I have had both tracks for some time now. I also have one of the Sweet Apple Trax volumes. I think both songs are on it, if not only House of the Rising Sun.
I wouldn't believe someone saying they can't find them. No Pakistanis is especially easy to find and download.

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[–] TheRowdyMan 18 years ago

For example we get the
original version of GET BACK which explains its title..ie Paul sings "Don't want
no Pakastanies taking other peoples jobs...get back get back get back to where you once belonged etc" I guess this was a topical concern in Britan circa 1969.

Just on that I'd like to make one piont clear: The song started as a ANTI-racism song. This is an excerpt from Paul McCartney's Biography "Many Years From Now":

From: 'Many Years From Now' by Barry Miles

Paul had a rough idea for the words and music...Typically these were aprtly lifted form newspaper stories: in this case about the plight of Kenyan Asians, who were rushing to get to Britain before the passage of the Commonwealth Immigration Bill which would have denied them entry. Intended as a parody of rasist attitudes, the line "Don't dig no Pakistani taking all the people's jobs!" was dropped early on as being too easily misconstrued. The rest of the thrid verse went through various changes, ending up in the final demos as:

Meanwhile back at home too many Pakistanis
Living in a council flat
Candidate Macmillan tell me what your plan is
Won't you tell me where it's at.

Meanwhile the fascist National Front was beating up Pakistanis on the streets and the right-wing politician Enoch Powell was predicting race war and 'rivers of blood' so, to aviod any possibilty of inflaming the situation, the entre verse was dropped.

Enoch Powell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell

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[–] Shaolin_Apu 18 years ago

I think that the Beatles version of 'House Of The Rising Sun' goes beyond creepy. Some people may still find it rather interesting. Just my two cents.

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