| Title: | You've Got To Hide Your Love Away |
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| Credits: | John Lennon - Paul McCartney | |
| Recorded: | EMI Studios, London, 18 February, 1965 | |
| Producer: | George Martin | |
| Engineer: | Norman Smith | |
| Locations: | Help! - track 3 Anthology 2 - disc 1, track 4 |
The fourth day of the Help! sessions was a typically productive one, the Beatles recording three new songs and mixing a number of other titles. The first of the three was John's all-acoustic You've Got To Hide Your Love Away, taken from conception to completion in less than two hours during the afternoon. The master (Take 9) was a distinguished by the flute overdub (musician Johnny Scott) - the first time the Beatles had brought in an outside musician to augment their sound - but the version presented here is Take 5, the only other complete recording. This is prefaced by some studio banter: John's "1,2,3, 1,2,3, hold on, hold on" count-in is all there was of Take 1 and some "shattering" talk proceeded Take 2.