Re: [Harp-L] re: From me to you

[Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 20, 2011, at 9:25 AM, The Iceman wrote:

> Doesn't sound like Tate's sound on this recording to me......

I second that..smo-joe

> A lot of times tracks are left on the cutting room floor and don't make it to the final pressing.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: kenneth.d <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thu, Oct 20, 2011 4:43 am
> Subject: [Harp-L] re: From me to you
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> 
> Ken  D wrote: 
>> I once asked Doug Tate if he'd played on any well-known records.
> 
>> He told me a story he must've told a million times.  In 1962 he was called 
>> for a session with a new group he had never heard of.  The song was From Me 
>> To You and the band was of course The Beatles.
> 
> In Ian Macdonalds book about all Beatles sessions, Lennon is given as the 
> harmonica player on "From me to you". But that may be wrong -- I think he worked 
> with written records -- and it adds a little something to think that it could be 
> Douglas Tate.
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> /Martin
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