Editing Get Back (section)

==The Releases==
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===Single version===
On 11 April 1969, [[Apple Records]] released "Get Back" as a single in the UK, paired with "Don't Let Me Down" on the B-side. The single began its 17-week stay in the charts on 23 April at No. 1, a position it held for six weeks. It was the first Beatles single to enter the official UK singles chart at the top.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ukcharts.20m.com/number1.html#enter1 |title=Number One Hits: Facts & Feats: Straight In At Number One |access-date=13 December 2013}} (On the NME chart, eight earlier Beatles singles had entered at the top.)</ref> In the US, "Get Back" began its first of 12 weeks on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] chart the week ending 10 May. Two weeks after the song's chart debut, it hit No. 1, where it stayed for five weeks. "Get Back" became the band's 17th No. 1 song on ''Billboard'', matching [[Elvis Presley]]'s previous record of 17 number ones.

In both the UK and US, the single was released by Apple, although EMI retained the rights to the song as part of their contract. It was the only Beatles single to include an accompanying artist's name, crediting "Get Back/Don't Let Me Down" to "The Beatles with Billy Preston". Neither Apple nor [[Capitol Records]] created a picture sleeve for the single—it was modestly packaged in a black sleeve with a cursive-style font simply stating "The Beatles on Apple".<ref>{{cite book |last=Spizer |first=Bruce |author-link=Bruce Spizer |title=The Beatles on Apple Records |publisher=498 Productions |year=2003 |page=47}}</ref> Apple launched a print ad campaign for the song concurrent with its release showing a photo of the band with the slogan ''The Beatles as Nature Intended'', indicating that the sound of "Get Back" harked to the group's earlier days.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=The Beatles as nature intended |url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/60s/1969/Billboard%201969-04-26-OCR-Page-0013.pdf |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|location=New York City|date=26 April 1969|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref>

The single version of the song contains a chamber reverb effect throughout and a coda after a false ending, with the lyrics "Get back Loretta / Your mommy's waiting for you / Wearing her high-heel shoes / And her low-neck sweater / Get back home, Loretta." This does not appear on the album version; the single version's first LP appearance would come three years later on the ''[[1967–1970]]'' compilation. This version also appeared in the albums ''[[20 Greatest Hits (Beatles album)|20 Greatest Hits]]'', ''[[Past Masters]]'' and ''[[1 (Beatles album)|1]]''. It was also included in the original line-up of the proposed ''Get Back'' album, which was scheduled to be released in the fall of 1969.

In the UK and Europe, "Get Back/Don't Let Me Down" was the Beatles' last single to be released in [[Monaural|mono]], but in the US, the single was released in stereo. It was the Beatles' first single to be released in true stereo instead of mono as part of the "stereo only" movement gaining force in 1969. In both versions, the lead guitar played by Lennon is in the left channel, and the rhythm guitar played by Harrison is in the right channel. The single was also released in the experimental [[PocketDisc]] format by Americom in conjunction with Apple and Capitol in the late 1960s.

===''Let It Be'' version===
When Phil Spector came to remix "Get Back", he wanted to make it seem different from the version released as the single, though both versions were essentially the same take. The unreleased ''Get Back'' albums included elements of studio chatter to add to the live feel of the recordings. In this spirit, Spector included part of the studio chatter recorded immediately before a take recorded on 27 January, slightly crossfaded it onto the beginning of the master take (also recorded on January 27), and omitted the coda recorded on January 28, instead adding McCartney and Lennon's remarks after the close of the rooftop performance. This created the impression that the single and album versions are different takes. The single's reverb effect was also omitted from this remix.

===''Let It Be... Naked'' version===
In 2003, "Get Back" was re-released on the ''Let It Be... Naked'' album, remixed by independent producers with the sanction of surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, with John Lennon's and George Harrison's widows. The "Naked" version of "Get Back" is a remix of the take recorded on 27 January 1969 used for both the single and album versions, without the coda recorded the following day or the framing dialogue from the studio and rooftop concert added to the album version.<ref name="winn">{{cite book |last=Winn |first=John C. |title=That Magic Feeling: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Volume Two, 1966-1970 |publisher=Three Rivers Press |location=New York City|year=2009 |isbn=978-0-307-45239-9 |pages=256–257}}</ref> The single's reverb effect was also omitted from this remix, and the song fades immediately before the final "whoo". Apple also prepared a specially-created music video of the ''Let It Be&nbsp;... Naked'' release of the song to promote that album in 2003. This video is edited together using stock footage of the band, along with Billy Preston, George Martin and others.

===''Love'' version (2006)===
In 2006, a newly mixed version of "Get Back" produced by [[George Martin]] and his son [[Giles Martin|Giles]] was included on the album ''[[Love (The Beatles album)|Love]]''. This version incorporates elements of "[[A Hard Day's Night (song)|A Hard Day's Night]]" (the intro [[Chord (music)|chord]]), "[[A Day in the Life]]" (the improvised orchestral [[crescendo]]), "[[The End (The Beatles song)|The End]]" (Ringo Starr's drum solo, Paul McCartney's second guitar solo, and John Lennon's last guitar solo), and "[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)]]" (Take 1's drum count-off intro).{{sfn|''Miami Herald''|2006}} However, this piece has several edits, including an extended intro, and the second verse is removed completely.

===''The Beatles: Get Back'' versions===
Universal Music released take 8 from the recording sessions to promote the 50th-anniversary edition of ''[[Let It Be (album)|Let It Be]]'' and the [[The Beatles: Get Back|2021 ''Get Back'' documentary miniseries]]. This version has McCartney ad-libbing a different spoken word section over the bridge, beginning with "It's five o'clock ... your mother's got your tea on."<ref name="RS preview">{{Cite magazine |last=Kreps |first=Daniel |title=Hear the Beatles' Unreleased 'Get Back (Take 8)' From Upcoming 'Let It Be' Reissue |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-beatles-unreleased-get-back-take-6-let-it-be-reissue-1228721/ |access-date=2021-09-19 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref>  As the band performed the song three times during their impromptu rooftop concert on 30 January 1969, all three of those versions also appear in the final episode of the mini-series, as the concert is shown in its entirety. Take 3 of the rooftop concert was released on ''[[Anthology 3]]'' in 1996, while the first two were released in January 2022.