How the Capitol mistakes were found

From The Philadelphia Inquirer, 4/9/06

Inqlings | WMGK jock snags CD gaffes
By Michael Klein
Inquirer Columnist
Do you want to know a secret?

The big Beatles boxed set that hits stores on Tuesday contains errors in two
of the four CDs - and it was WMGK afternoon disc jockey Andre Gardner who
caught them and tipped Capitol Records.

Even Gardner concedes that you have to be a hard-core Beatles fan - the word
geek comes to mind - to realize that something was amiss with The Beatles
Capitol Albums Vol. 2. The incorrect masters were used to create the Rubber
Soul and Beatles VI discs.

Gardner, planning to feature the set on his 9-11 a.m. Breakfast With the
Beatles show today, says he cracked open the set and played what was
supposed to be the mono version of "Norwegian Wood" on Rubber Soul. But his
trained ears did not catch the distinctive cough between the lines "... and
she told me to sit anywhere" and "... so I looked around and I noticed there
wasn't a chair" - which told him that the version was in fact the U.S.
stereo mix "folded down" to mono.

Gardner also put on "I'm Looking Through You," and noticed Paul McCartney
coming in early on acoustic guitar. That "false start" was heard on the
song's U.S. stereo mix and not on the mono mix. This told him that the
stereo tapes were used mistakenly in the Rubber Soul pressing, as well as on
Beatles VI.

Gardner called L.A.-based Beatles expert Chris Carter, who got him to the
label and put him on with Beatles expert Bruce Spizer, who wrote the set's
liner notes.

Rather than let it be, Capitol decided to re-press the CDs with the correct
tapes.