THE MASTER REELS:
I have noted Doug Sulpy's DDSI identifacation numbers.
The mixes used on the acetate are in green text.

OLYMPIC STUDIOS
E69738 Z
Originally listed by Lewisohn as 10 March 1969
Listed by Barrett as 11 March 1969
Actually mixed in 90 minutes on 24 January 1969
23.78 Get Back (false start) (not listed by Barrett)
23.79 Get Back (noted by Barrett as 'G. MARTIN 10 Mar 1969')
23.80 I've Got A Feeling (fragment) (not listed by Barrett)
23.81 Help (fragment) (not listed by Barrett)
24.33 Teddy Boy
24.48 Two Of Us (fragment) (not listed by Barrett)
24.69 Two Of Us (with a false start not numbered by Sulpy)
22.70 Dig A Pony
22.71 I've Got A Feeling (not listed by Barrett)
(Noted by Barrett as 'GLYNN JOHNS G. MARTIN MIXES!'
A playback of this reel can be heard on Nagra reels 453-454A.
The acetate appears to include all the audio from this reel)

E69739 Z
Originally listed by Lewisohn as 10 March 1969
Listed by Barrett as 11 March 1969
Actually mixed in 90 minutes on 26 January 1969
26.91 The Long And Winding Road
(This take formed the basis of the released version)
26.74 Let It Be
22.60 Don't Let Me Down
(A playback of this portion of the reel can be heard on Nagra reel 502A)

22.58 Rocker
22.59 Save The Last Dance For Me
(In Recording Sessions, Lewisohn seems to indicate that these two performances are mixed here. He originally dated the mixes as 10 March 1969 and sequenced them in this position among the other mixes. There should be room for them on the reel however, no other evidence has surface to inticate they are on this reel. Barrett does not list them. No playbacks are heard on the Nagra reels)

Probably mixed 27 January 1969
25.46 For You Blue (with two false starts)
27.63 Get Back
(This is the take that formed the main portion of the single mix. It could also be assumed that this mix also includes the end fragment found on the obscure bootleg, O.P.D. and disc 8 of The Get Back Journals 1. For details see - here)
27.71 Get Back (Barrett only list "Get Back" once)
27.72 Get Back
(Apparently, Glyn felt these two mixes of "Get Back" were inferior and chose to exclude them from the acetate)
27.83 The Walk (listed by Barrett as "When You Walk")
(Lewisohn makes no note of this mixing session but a playback of this portion of the reel can be heard on Nagra reel 1113B at the beginning of the 28 January session. Surely the mix was done the previous evening)

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In late summer 1969 and throughout that autumn, tape copies of one of Glyn's acetates were aired by a
number of American radio stations, including WBCN in Boston. WBCN obtained a reel-to-reel tape of an
acetate and broadcast the tape on 22 September 1969. The broadcast was preserved on another high-quality reel by a listener. By the end of 1969, the recordings turned up on The Beatles' first bootleg release titled
Kum Back and has been a staple in The Beatles' bootleg canon ever since.



Hot on the heels of Kum Back, in early 1970, two other significant early releases were Get Back To Toronto (I.P.F. Records) and Get Back (Lemon Records). NOTE: it hasn't been determined if all the early releases are sourced from the same original tape of the broadcast. Due to the amount of releases which featured this
material in the early 1970s, it seems possible that other folks might have recorded the broadcast. It could even be possible that some of the early bootlegs might source from WBCN's tape or the original tape of the acetate.

All original vinyl releases of this material featured none of the DJ dialoge from the broadcast. In 1993 a digital copy of the listener's reel tape was used to master the first CD releases, Posters, Inscence and Strobe
Candles (Vigotone) and WBCN Get Back Reference Acetate (Yellow Dog). The Vigotone release features what is probably the entire broadcast (including commercials). Doug Sulpy: (1993 The 910) "The DJ monologues are charmingly dated and the experience of listening to them creates a sad sense of nostalgia, bringing the Get Back performances back into the era in which they originally surfaced." The Yellow Dog release (which features noise reduction) excises much of the extraneous dialog that isn't directly associated with the Get Back material.

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SIDE ONE (19:45)

Get Back This is the only place to hear this performance and mix of this song and the snippets of "I've Got A Feeling" and "Help" which follow it.

Teddy Boy This mix adds an additional 1:16 of performance between the breakdown at the beginning and the start of the song. which is not heard on compilations 2 and 3.

Two Of Us This mix includes a snippet of another performance [24.48] (probably a remnant of an earlier, discarded mix) and a false start not heard on compilations 2, 3 or 4.

Dig A Pony Strangely, although this is a different mix, it features the tape-start sound heard at the beginning which is heard on compilations 2 and 3 but not on compilation 4.

I've Got A Feeling This mix includes an additional :10 extended ending after John's comment "Not bad though" not heard on compilations 2, 3 or 4.

SIDE TWO (18:48)

The Long And Winding Road This mix features a second or two additional intro of Ringo getting set on the drums and a longer, piano tinkling, outro not heard on not heard on compilations 2, 3 or 4 or the Let It Be album.

Let It Be This begins with what is probably a remnant of an earlier, discarded mix. None of this performance or mix appear anywhere else.

Don't Let Me Down With the exception of John's comment about "give me the courage to come screaming in" being a bit more clear, this mix features nothing not heard on compilations 2, 3 or 4.

For You Blue This mix features a five second longer outro which includes guitar chop not heard on compilations 2, 3 or 4.

Get Back This performance would form the basis of both the single and Let It Be album versions. The performance, itself, appears on all versions. The spoken intro is heard on compilation 2 and the Let It Be album. The post-song dialog is extended on compilation 2. The single version, which also appears on compilations 3 and 4, omits the spoken intro and adds a coda (taken from another performance) to the end, eliminating the post-song bits.

The Walk This is the only place to hear this performance and mix of this song.

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Another surviving broadcast of the just song, "Let It Be" [22.74], from this acetate and described in the
broadcast as "from Get Back", was aired by CKLW Winsor/Detroit in early December 1969. I recorded and preserved four broadcasts of the song. A recording and story of those broadcasts can be found - here.

A recording also exists of most of "Two Of Us" as it was aired on WMMS Cleveland sometime in 1970.
Although, this is announced as "...from Kum Back". An excerpt can be heard - here.
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In 1991, on the CD release, Celluloid Rock (Yellow Dog), some of these tracks surfaced from what appeared to be a tape source. However, they are all mono (where as the WBCN acetate is stereo). In the early 2000s, these recordings appeared again on the CD Get Back: John Barrett's Reel. That release features some longer intros and outros. It's not clear if this is actually from a Barrett tape. Doug Sulpy seems to indicate that both releases are sourced from acetate. John Winn feels they are tape sourced. To me, they sound like actual mono tape dubs of reels E69738 and E69739. One of the versions of "Get Back" first surfaced in 1984 on Singing The Blues. See details below about how these recordings compare and differ from the WBCN acetate.

On both of these releases, the recordings are accompanied by Glyn's "oldies" compilation which is also mono.
There would seem to be some undetermined association between the two sets. See further details - here

Get Back: John Barrett's Reel offers a slight upgrade in sound quality

With the exception of one song, these recordings offer no sound that isn't heard on the acetate. For that
reason, they won't be featured here. Because they are sourced from tape, they are a bit cleaner than the
acetate but I'll take the stereo acetate over these.

Celluloid Rock x fades early heavy reverb heavy reverb heavy reverb heavy reverb fades early cuts intro and fades early x x x

Barrett's Reel x x x x x x x x x

E69738 Z 23.78 Get Back (false start) 23.79 Get Back 23.80 I've Got A Feeling (fragment) (a smaller fragment than WBCN) ------- 24.33 Teddy Boy 24.48 Two Of Us 24.69 Two Of Us 22.69 Dig A Pony (these four tracks are so layered with delay and reverb as to be almost unlistenable) E69739 Z 26.91 The Long And Winding Road download (This recording features a second or so extra intro not heard on the acetate and fades slightly, eliminating a bit of the piano tinkling heard at the end then features a few seconds of additional piano tinkling, which is probably remnants of previous, discarded mixes, that are not heard on the acetate or subsequent mix. This is probably the result of whoever copied this reel. It would also seem to indicate that, since these elements are not heard on the acetate, side two of the disc was cut in segments. Where as side one, because it features ALL the sound on its reel, was probably cut as one segment. ) 26.74 Let It Be 22.60 Don't Let Me Down 25.46 For You Blue 27.63 Get Back (fragment) (only the spoken intro about "Rosetta" and "picks with the fingers") 27.83 The Walk

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Please note that the label pictured above is not authentic and "Kum Back" is merely a name commonly dubbed to this set of recordings due to the original bootleg release of that title.

The tracks featured here are taken from Vigotone's Posters, Inscense, and Strobe Candles which includes the entire WBCN broadcast. However, as featured here at TheBeatleSource, the DJ dialogue has been edited out to represent the acetate as a unit.

NOTE: the first half second of "Get Back" on side 1 required some digital trickery to eliminate DJ dialogue. A half second of surface noise was taken from elsewhere on the disc and the first quarter second of the song was taken from Get Back: John Barrett's Reel. This was all edited in to make the performance complete.
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Typically placed at the end of side 1, you might note that I have chosen to place "The Long And Winding Road"
at the beginning of side two. John Winn also notes this as the placement. This placement makes more sence.

First, you can hear the end of side one after "I've Got A Feeling" and the beginning of side two just before "The Long And Winding Road". The running time is better balanced this way. Although the DJ's statement implies that "Let It Be" is the start of side 2, the station is playing a tape of the acetate and not the actual acetate, perhaps "The Long And Winding Road" is at the end of side A on their reel.