Dig It
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"Dig It" is a song by the Beatles on the album Let It Be. The 50-second extract on the album was taken from a 12-minute-long jam from the Get Back/Let It Be Sessions in 1969, which evolved from a loose "Twist and Shout" jam. A segment of the jam session, clocking in at 4:30, appears in the documentary Let It Be. The participants in that session are John Lennon on vocals and George Harrison on guitar, Paul McCartney on piano, Ringo Starr on drums, and Billy Preston at the organ.
During the jam Lennon sings the main line, with interjections from Harrison, while McCartney sings a baritone backup vocal of "dig it up, dig it up, dig it up..." and variations.
The 50-second excerpt on the album fades in on Lennon's second "Like a rolling stone," and concludes with Lennon speaking in a falsetto: "That was 'Can You Dig It' by Georgie Wood. And now we'd like to do 'Hark, The Angels Come'." ("Wee" Georgie Wood was a 4'9" music-hall performer and child star.) The second sentence of that line is cut off in Let It Be
There was only one other performance of the song, this time only clocking in at about 6:50, where John Lennon sings the "Famous Persons" part at the beginning and for the rest of the song he shouts out all of the titles of the tracks on the album Let It Be.
The song is credited to Lennon-McCartney-Harrison-Starr.
External links
- [Wee Georgie Wood] explanation
- [Lyrics] to the full jam session
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