Title:	Good Morning Good Morning
Credits:	John Lennon - Paul McCartney
Recorded:	EMI Studios, London, 8, 16 February and 13 March  1967
Producer:	George Martin
Engineer:	Geoff Emerick
Locations:	Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - track 11 Anthology 2 - track 6, disc 2

A John Lennon song initially inspired by a television commercial for cornflakes which then drifts into an everyday story about everyday, complete with a reference to the British TV comedy show Meet The Wife. The song includes a brass overdub by six musicians from Sounds Inc, rock music's very own 'Big Band', managed by Brian Epstein, and it ends with a succession of carefully compiled animal sound effects from the EMI collection, added to the song, to Lennon's specification, in an order whereby each successive animal is capable of frightening or devouring its predecessor.

John Lennon recorded a demo of this song in February 1967. This demo has been bootlegged. The Beatles began recording 'Good Morning Good Morning' on February 8 for release on the LP "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." Eight takes of the basic rhythm track were recorded - four of them complete. Overdubs of vocals and bass guitar were added February 16 and two reduction mixes were made (take 8 into takes 9 and 10), the second (take 10) being "best." A mono mix was prepared this day, numbered 1.

Brass overdubs were added to take 10 on March 13. John added his lead vocals, and he and Paul McCartney added backing vocals on March 28. Paul also played the lead guitar solo for this song. A reduction mix was made this day, take 10 into take 11. The animal sound effects were also assembled this day and added to the tape on March 29. On April 6 mono mixes were prepared (numbered 1 and 2), as were the stereo mixes (1 - 5, with 5 being "best"). More mono mixes were made on April 19 (10 - 14) before 'Good Morning Good Morning' fit into the "Sgt. Pepper Reprise." The stereo and mono mixes of the ending of this song are noticeably different.

The basic take 8 from the February 8, 1967 recording session, with John's vocal from February 16, was released in both the US and the UK on March 19, 1996 on "The Beatles Anthology Volume 2."