For You Blue ft Ringo Starr
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For You Blue sounds like a more or less improvised blues session; the Fab did this every mow and then, as we hear in the Let it Be sessions, but these rarely led to a quality recording. And it was a close shave for For You Blue: Phil Spector needed to apply quite some trickery to construct a full song out of the various takes. Still, "For You Blue" was listed with "The Long and Winding Road" as a double-sided hit when the single reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1970. The production on Let It Be is rather sparse, perhaps Phil thought his 'wall of sound' on Long and Winding Road was enough for both sides of the single ? That was fortunate for us, but the song could bear a little spicing up. So we combined it with a long forgotten Ringo Starr solo track; gives it a new drive and surprising swing feeling.
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