The group wanted what was to become their final album, Let It Be, to be raw with minimal overdubs. After producer Glyn Johns left the project, Phil Spector hired in numerous session musicians to provide orchestral overdubs, in contrast to the group's original back-to-basics ideas. There are occasions where details of session musicians' names and roles have been lost or were uncredited-this is the case for the recordings of " Good Night" and " Yellow Submarine" Phil Spector's orchestral overdubs for " The Long and Winding Road", " Across the Universe" and " I Me Mine" the string sections on " Something", " Here Comes the Sun", " Carry That Weight", " Golden Slumbers" and " The End" the orchestra on " Hey Jude" the saxophonists on " Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" the trumpeters and trombonists on " Mother Nature's Son" the brass and string players on " Let It Be" the cellist on " Blue Jay Way" and the Asian Music Circle musicians on " Love You To" (performing on sitar and tambura) and " Within You Without You" (performing on dilruba, swarmandal, tabla and tambura). ![]() In 1978, renowned session drummer Bernard Purdie claimed in an interview with Gig magazine that he had overdubbed drums for 21 Beatles recordings in the summer of 1963. ![]() ![]() He stated that Brian Epstein paid him a five-figure sum to overdub a drum track at Capitol Records' West 46th Street studios in New York City, and that the payment also bought his silence.
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