Claptonesque", played on a Telecaster with the sound coloured through a Leslie speaker and given automatic double tracking (ADT) treatment and "sent wild to both channels". Harrison then added a Hammond organ part, replacing Lennon's rhythm guitar contribution from the previous session. Although Chris Thomas supervised the 18 April overdubbing session, George Martin was credited as the song's sole producer. Release In a 1980 interview, Lennon said that he was responsible for the choice of "Old Brown Shoe" as the B-side of "The Ballad of John and Yoko". The single was released in the United Kingdom (as Apple R 5786) on 30 May 1969 and in the United States (as Apple 2531) on 4 June. It marked the second time that a Harrison composition had been included on a Beatles single in the UK or the US, following "The Inner Light" in March 1968, although his song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" had also been the B-side of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", a single culled from the White Album and issued in most countries other than the UK and the US. In the UK, the song increased the public's recognition of Harrison as a songwriter, after "Badge", which he co-wrote with Eric Clapton, had been a hit single for Cream that spring and established him as a composer outside the Beatles. In the US, Apple Records issued the record in a picture sleeve featuring shots of the four Beatles and Ono in the garden of McCartney's London home. On the reverse side of the sleeve, the photo included a dark brown shoe placed in a bush in front of the five figures. In the opinion of author Bruce Spizer, this shot, taken by Linda McCartney, shows Harrison, McCartney and Starr in better humour than in the shot used on the front of the sleeve, where the three bandmates appear uncomfortable with having to pose behind Ono and Lennon. While the A-side's chart performance in the US was hindered by a radio ban, due to the song's allegedly blasphemous lyrics, "Old Brown Shoe" failed to place on any of the three charts there. It was listed with "The Ballad of John and Yoko", as a double A-side, when the single topped Australia's Go-Set National Top 40. The song's first appearance on an album was in February 1970 when it was included on the North American release Hey Jude. It subsequently appeared on the