TUDOR MINSTRELS - Love In The Open Air - UK 1966 1st Pressing - Paul McCartney
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TUDOR MINSTRELS - Love In The Open Air / The Family way ; Decca F.12536 ; 1966 1st Pressing - Written by Paul McCartney
Decca Records (U.K.) purchased the musical rights to the film, and although George Martin had been led to believe that only a soundtrack album would be issued, a single by “The Tudor Minstrels” (the soundtrack’s session musicians, so named after the Boulting brothers’ production company, Tudor Films) was scheduled for release on December 15th to tie in with the film’s premiere. This would seem to have been of little consequence, except that Martin had plans to issue his own single on the E.M.I.- affiliated United Artists label.
In order to level the playing field, Decca’s release was put back for a week, while Martin prepared his recording. And so on December 6th, before a Beatles’ session for another McCartney original, “When I’m Sixty-Four” (which Martin had also scored), George made tape copies of a handful of cues from the just-finished film soundtrack to assist in preparing the arrangements for his own orchestra. In between Beatles’ sessions for “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “When I’m Sixty-Four,” Martin found time to prepare his score, and in a three-hour session at E.M.I. on the moming of December 15th, recorded, mixed and mastered both sides of the single. Both discs (each coupling “Love In The Open Air” with “Theme From The Family War) were released on December 23rd
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