John Lennon
The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes
Volumes 17 & 18
(Walrus 028/029)
Volume 17
01. Serve Yourself (another take of Lennon’s Dylan parody)
02. She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round The Mountain (traditional American folk song)
03. She Run Them ‘Round In Circles/Beautiful Boy (medley of 2 Lennon originals)
04. Memories/Watching The Wheels (medley of 2 Lennon originals)
05. Stranger’s Room (early version of “I’m Losing You”)
06. Woman (acoustic demo-false start)
07. Woman (complete acoustic demo-take #9)
08. I’m Stepping Out (demo-take #1)
09. I’m Stepping Out (demo-take #3)
10. (Just like) Starting Over (demo)
11. Dream Lover/Stay (John jamming on 2 favorite oldies)
12. Clean Up Time (vocal overdubs)
13. Beautiful Boy (vocal overdubs)
14. Watching The Wheels (vocal overdubs)
15. Borrowed Time (rough mix)
16. I’m Stepping Out (unreleased take #8)
17. Woman (rough mix)
18. Lennon’s Lost Diary tape (September 5th, 1979)
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Volume 18
01. It’s Not Too Bad (embryonic versions of Strawberry Fields-Spain 1966)
02. She Can Talk To Me (early piano demo of Hey Bulldog)
03. Cry Baby Cry (early piano and electric guitar demo fragments)
04. Two Virgins outtake (may 1968)
05. Plastic Ono Band Jam (John’s send up of 50’s rockabilly)
06. Look At Me (alternate vocals)
07. I’m The Greatest (December 1970 piano demo)
08. How?/Child Of Nature/Oh Yoko! ( medley-piano demo)
09. Oh Yoko! (piano demo)
10. Sally And Billy (song from 1970 redone in 1976)
11. Come Together (August 1972-One to One rehearsals)
12. Happy Girl (Yoko’s call and response song)
13. I’ll Make You Happy (John’s call and response song)
14. How Do You Sleep (July 1971 rehearsal)
15. It’s So Hard (run through from King Curtis sax overdub sessions)
16. I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier, I Don’t Wanna Die (run through from King Curtis sax overdub sessions)
17. Intuition (take #4 of a series of piano demos)
18. I Know (take #2 of a series of guitar demos)
19. I Know (alternate mix of finished song)
20. Aisumasen (I’m Sorry) (near final mix)
21. Steel And Glass (dark piano version with extra lyrics)
22. Walls And Bridges Rundown (Canadian radio station promo spot)
23. Mirror Mirror On The Wall (fall 1977-take #2 of the piano demos)
24. Memories (1976 house-husband years home demo-guitar over earlier piano track)
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Silvers > EAC > TLH > Hunger City
Some of these discs did not line up with the covers
Splitting tracks and combining tracks where required has remedied that.
Audacity, CD Wav and Traders Little Helper were used for the repairs
Some of the covers also required small tweeks to repair typos.
Not altogether a Direct transfer but an improved version of the Silvers with these errors corrected.