File:The Beatles - Fading Image 4 - Beatles Covers

Fading Image 4 - Beatles Covers: Volume 4 contains a series of attempts to cover songs from previous Beatles albums, including other artist covers and songs never officially recorded and released. There was a brief idea that maybe they could release a back to basics recording collection of their previous songs, however their memory of the amount of substantive recordings fulfilling that fell short, leaving us with just these tantalizing scraps.

The Fading Image series is a collection of Beatles recordings from the January 1969 Get Back sessions for the film "Let It Be", in which the Beatles were recorded and filmed every day for almost a full month. Red Hector, a life long Beatles fan, decided to listen to all 97 hours from various existing collections and compile a deeper level of intersting material beyond what was already put on the Let It Be and Anthology albums. Audio and mastering software was also used to selectively edit, compress, normalize volume, reduce noise and background speaking voices, and even add a few ambient or reverb effects. (Not quite to the Phil Spector level) The result is a very clear sound that makes these outakes, covers, alternative versions, improvistions, and other hidden gems much more listenable.

Hopefully Apple will someday release the Let It Be Film, with many of these as DVD/Bluray extras, since most are sourced from film + audio. Beatles fans deserve more than the smattering of recordings from this period beyond Anthology and Let It Be Naked. For now this is Red Hector's personally biased and altered "Fly On The Wall" collection that spans 6 volumes.

01 I Lost My Little Girl 02 Thinking Of Linking 3.69 03 Love Me Do 1969 04 You Really Got A Hold On Me 26.61 05 Money 6.58 06 A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues 7.81 07 Sure To Fall 6.60 08 You Can't Do That 3.73 09 Rock And Roll Music 10 Every Little Thing 3.127 11 Dizzy Miss Lizzie 6.57 12 Act Naturally 25.11 13 Woman 14 Norwegian Wood 9.49 15 Window, Window 16 Run For Your Life 17 She Said She Said 8.23 18 Strawberry Fields Forever 1969 19 When I'm Sixty-Four 1969 20 Back In The USSR 3.126 21 Dear Prudence 10.83 22 Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da 1969 23 I'm So Tired 1969 24 Revolution 7.128 25 Martha My Dear 25.82-14.03 26 Sexy Sadie 29.35 27 Lady Madonna 31.34 28 The Inner Light 28.16 29 Across The Universe 7.99