BEATLES: You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)

Following on last week's post about the "ultimate" version of "Let It Be"... you'll note I did not include the b-side to the "Let It Be" single, "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" aka YKMN. It really doesn't fit with the album's aesthetic or chronology. Starting as a series of heavily produced backing tracks recorded after the release of Sgt. Pepper (in 1967), the rambling track seems to have been forgotten until after the "Get Back" sessions ended. In the spring of 1969, John and Paul dusted it off and added vocals. Late that year, John edited its six parts down to four and prepared to release it as the third Plastic Ono Band single. That never happened, and this (mono) edit showed up in March, 1970, as the Beatles' final UK b-side.

By 1996, it remained one of just a handful of tracks never released in true stereo: the others are Love Me Do, P.S. I Love You, She Loves You, and I'll Get You.  Unlike those songs, the stereo multitrack tapes do exist, and "You Know My Name" was given its first stereo mixdown for "Anthology 2." The mix restores the two missing sections, but unfortunately cuts parts of the other four sections (which were unedited on the original 1970 release). One can piece them both together easily -- but not in true stereo.  Below is a waveform of the entire, unedited version showing which sections are part of which mix.