Title: Maggie May (folk song) - Wikipedia
Headings: Maggie May (folk song)
Maggie May (folk song)
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Content: It was also recorded in several albums of sea shanties, by Cyril Tawney, Bob Roberts and others. The Beatles' version
"Maggie Mae"
Song by the Beatles
from the album Let It Be
Released
8 May 1970
Recorded
24 January 1969
Studio
Apple, London
Genre
Skiffle
Length
0:40
Label
Apple, EMI
Songwriter (s)
trad. arr. Lennon – McCartney – Harrison – Starkey
Producer (s)
Phil Spector
A brief extract was performed by the Beatles in a joking manner during their Get Back sessions, in early 1969, at a point in the proceedings when they were warming up in the studio by playing old rock and roll and skiffle songs that they had known and played in their teenage years. They adopt heavy scouse accents for the performance. Though the performance was obviously tongue-in-cheek, a truncated version of it was included on the 1970 album drawn from those sessions, Let It Be, appearing as the last track on the LP's first side, immediately after the title song. The version they performed was spelled "Maggie Mae" on the track listing and all four Beatles were credited as arrangers of the traditional song, thus allowing them to collect the writers' share of the publishing income for this public domain song. At 39 seconds long, it is the second-shortest song released on an official Beatles album (the shortest being " Her Majesty ", at 23 seconds). It was also the first song recorded by the group, not originally written by any member, to appear on an album since " Act Naturally " was recorded in June, 1965 as the last recorded song for the group's album Help!. This song and " Dig It " appear on the Let It Be album, but are not included on the Let It Be... Naked album.