Title:	Only A Northern Song
Credits:	George Harrison
Recorded:	EMI Studios London 13, 14  February and 20 April 1967
Producer:	George Martin
Engineer:	Geoff Emerick
Location:	Yellow Submarine - track 2 Anthology 2 - track 7, disc 2

The oldest new song on the album, Only A Northern Song is George Harrison's wry comment about the sorry state of his music publishing affairs - when this song was made his copyrights were assigned to Northern Songs, a company originally set up to be half-owned by music publisher Dick James with the remainder divided between Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Brian Epstein's NEMS Enterprises. George owned 2.5 % of NEMS and NEMS owned 10 % of Northern, hence George only owned 0.25% of his early songs. When the company was publicly quoted this figure was further diminished. Only A Northern Song was originally George's first contribution for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the recording commencing between Fixing A Hole and Being For The Benefit Of Mister Kite!. But Within You Without You soon became a better choice and this first song was left on the shelf until the release of this January 1969 soundtrack album, itself issued seven months after the film it was supposed to accompany. The original remix, the mono edition, was made from two separate takes playing in synchronization, and it proved so difficult that a true stereo mix has never been attempted until the Anthology set was released.

The original remix combined Take 3 (with overdubs) and a "reduction" of this, Take 11 (with further overdubs), synchronously mixed into mono.  and it proved so difficult that a true stereo mix has never been attempted until the Anthology set was released. The mix presented on the Anthology 2 set is in stereo and slightly speeded up, is Take 3 - the basic track from 13 February, with bass and guitar added on 20 April - with unused vocals tracks (yielding a number of lyric variations from the master) overdubbed on to a separate "reduction", Take 12, flown in.