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"Dig It" is a song by The Beatles featured on their album Let It Be. The 51-second version on the album is an extract taken from a 12-minute jam (recorded at the Get Back/Let It Be Sessions in January 1969 at Apple Studio), which evolved from a loose "Twist and Shout" jam. A segment of the jam session, clocking in at 4:30, appears in the documentary film Let It Be. The participants in that session are John Lennon on vocals and George Harrison on guitar, Paul McCartney on piano, Ringo Starr on drums, and Billy Preston at the organ. Image File history File links Cover of The Beatles album Let It Be. ...
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The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. ...
Let It Be is the twelfth and final album by The Beatles, released on May 8, 1970 by the bands own Apple Records label. ...
May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (129th in leap years). ...
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...
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For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ...
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The EMI Group (LSE: EMI) is an English music company comprising the major record company, EMI Music which operates several labels, based in Brook Green in London, England, and EMI Music Publishing, based on Charing Cross Road, London. ...
A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ...
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ...
Sir James Paul McCartney MBE (born June 18, 1942) is a Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. ...
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Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940 in Liverpool),[1] known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer and actor, best known as the drummer of the Beatles. ...
In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ...
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Let It Be is the twelfth and final album by The Beatles, released on May 8, 1970 by the bands own Apple Records label. ...
I Me Mine is a Beatles song, written and sung by George Harrison. ...
Let It Be is a song written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon/McCartney), released by The Beatles as a single in March 1970 and later the same year as the title track of their album Let It Be. ...
The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. ...
Let It Be is the twelfth and final album by The Beatles, released on May 8, 1970 by the bands own Apple Records label. ...
Let It Be is the twelfth and final album by The Beatles, released on May 8, 1970 by the bands own Apple Records label. ...
See also: 1968 in music, other events of 1969, 1970 in music, 1960s in music and the list of years in music // Perhaps Pickles and ice cream and the most famous black male in the world from syracuse new york Travis Kilborn. ...
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Twist and Shout is a song originally by Phil Medley and Bert Russell. ...
Let It Be is a 1970 film about The Beatles rehearsing and recording songs for the album Let It Be in January 1969. ...
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ...
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Sir James Paul McCartney MBE (born June 18, 1942) is a Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. ...
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940 in Liverpool),[1] known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer and actor, best known as the drummer of the Beatles. ...
William Everett Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American soul musician from Houston, Texas, raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. ...
During the jam, Lennon sings the main lyric with interjections from Harrison, while McCartney sings a baritone backup vocal of "dig it up, dig it up, dig it up" and variations. Baritone (French: baryton; Deutsch: Bariton; Italian: baritono) is most commonly the type of male voice that lies between bass and tenor. ...
The 51-second excerpt on the Let It Be album fades in on Lennon's second "Like a rolling stone" and concludes with Lennon speaking in a falsetto: "That was 'Can You Dig It?' by Georgie Wood, and now we'd like to do 'Hark, The Angels Come'." The second sentence of that line is cut off in Let It Be's film recording of the jam session. ("Wee Georgie Wood" was a 4'9" music-hall performer and child star.) Falsetto (IPA: Italian , General American , RP ) is a singing technique that produces sounds that are pitched higher than the singers normal range. ...
Wee Georgie Wood (1895/1979) was a midget who worked all his professional life in the guise of a child, appearing in comic and sentimental sketches. ...
Music Hall is a form of British theatrical entertainment which reached its peak of popularity between 1850 and 1960. ...
There was only one other performance of the song, this time clocking in at about 6:50, when Lennon sings the "famous persons" part (mentioning "the FBI", "the CIA", "the BBC", "B.B. King", "Doris Day", and "Matt Busby") at the beginning; and during the rest of the song he shouts out the titles of all of the tracks on the Let It Be album. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ...
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA, colloquially known as The Company or simply, The Agency) is an intelligence agency of the United States Government. ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion...
Riley B. King, better known as B. B. King (born September 16, 1925), is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. ...
Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff, known as Doris Day (born April 3, 1924), is an American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate. ...
Statue of Sir Matt Busby Sir Alexander Matthew Busby, CBE (26 May 1909 – 20 January 1994) was a Scottish football player and manager, most noted for his management of Manchester United F.C. during the 1950s and 1960s. ...
This song and the 39-second "Maggie Mae" appear on the Let It Be album, but are not included on the Let It Be... Naked album. Maggie May is a traditional Liverpool folk song about a Labrador Retriever who robbed a sailor. ...
Let It Be is the twelfth and final album by The Beatles, released on May 8, 1970 by the bands own Apple Records label. ...
Let It Be… Naked, released on November 18, 2003, is a remastered and remixed version of the original session tapes from the 1970 Let It Be album by the Beatles. ...
"Dig It" is credited to Lennon-McCartney-Harrison-Starkey, and is one of only a few songs to be credited to all of the Beatles; the others are "Flying" from Magical Mystery Tour, "Suzy Parker" from the Let It Be film, and the Beatles' version of "Free as a Bird". Flying is an instrumental song by The Beatles which first appeared on the late-1967 Magical Mystery Tour release (two EP discs in the UK, an LP in the US). ...
Magical Mystery Tour is the name of the album and Double EP by the English rock band The Beatles, first released in late 1967. ...
Let It Be is a 1970 film about The Beatles rehearsing and recording songs for the album Let It Be in January 1969. ...
Free As A Bird is a song, single and video released by The Beatles in December 1995 as part of their reunion and promotion around the release of the video documentary Anthology and their Anthology 1 compilation album. ...
A live acoustic version appears on John Lennon's 31st Birthday Party bootleg. The bootleg which is included on the Complete Lost Lennon Tapes has guest appearences by Phil Spector and Ringo Starr. The song also incorporates Twist And Shout, Louie Louie and a stronger influence of Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone". Twist and Shout is a song originally by Phil Medley and Bert Russell. ...
Louie Louie is an American rock n roll song written by Richard Berry in 1955. ...
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941), is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. ...
Music sample: Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone ( file info) — 30 seconds (of 6:10) Problems listening to the file? See media help. ...
Musicians
- John Lennon — lead vocal
- Paul McCartney — piano, backing vocal
- George Harrison — guitar
- Ringo Starr — drums
- Billy Preston — organ
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