From A Whisper To A Shout!
- Remastered Edition

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The Remasters Workshop tackles what some have called the worst bootleg ever, shortly after a vinyl rip became available. It is unclear which version of the original Fake Apple album was used, but they both reputably are pressed from the same master despite originating on either side of the Atlantic.

The Album is a collection of Outfakes and 'One Hand Clapping' tracks , the later being slightly incomplete and appearing elsewhere in better quality.

Do yo need this title, clearly not but it is interesting to hear what many have written about for years. A couple of month after this was made freely available the Japanese label Extract Factory pressed the title and sold it as Whisper And Shout with out real indication as to it's contents or source.

Thanks to halfjapanese for posting this recently, we can now listen once to this historic piece of crap bootleg as it might have sounded, and file it away. Three of the tracks are outfakes - literally people recording themselves singing and/or playing along with the commercial versions coming out of their speakers. One isn't The Beatles at all - it's apparently The Who at rehearsal in 1977, but it doesn't even sound like them. WTNMJ sounds pretty rough, even without the scratches. There are two tracks from Twickenham so that we could technically call this a Beatles bootleg. Side two is all Wings.

All the tracks ran a little under or a little over a semitone fast. The phase was so corrupted that it could not be corrected entirely. Even though most of Side 1 is mono recordings, collapsing the channels still produced phase cancellations, and using the brightest channel (left) made it sound too different from the rest of the album, so I left it in out-of-phase mono that sounds like stereo. It is recordings like this that caused Kurt Glemser to list mono bootlegs as "studio stereo" in Hot Wacks. They give the impression of being stereo, but are not. That said, there is other true stereo material here, all of which came out in much better quality during the CD era. Some of the titles on the original back cover are erroneous or not actually on the record; they have been corrected for the CD artwork.

'One Hand Clapping' - Production Master
E.M.I Abbey Road Studios
Autumn 1974

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