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I like the song but not what spector has done to it. The best takes is i think the one used in naked because it has no bass errors and a nice organ solo. But I don't think that strings are wrong at all, but what spector did was too much it sounds like good night, I don't even hear the piano anymore in some parts. I think the perfect version of the long and winding road (and i think if let it be hadn't had the no overdub stuff martin would have produced it like this) would be the 31st January take (naked) orchestrated in the way golden slumbers is. Anyway it would be nice if there were a version of the let it be album produced by george martin (like the let it be single version)

In the spector version the beginning is very nice (the the long and winding road line) but then there is this loud dum-dum and it's so different to the soft style of the beginning I think that sounds teerible but in the other parts of the song the orchestra is not so bad (only when there's another dum-dum). Anyway I habe a question: Are george's guitar and billy's electric piano or organ (i read sometimes that he played electric piano, sometimes that he played organ) cut out or are they there but not easily audible? I read somewhere that spector jsut used paul's piano and vocals and lennon's bass and then oberdubbed the orchestra (+new drums by ringo) but I also read (I think on beatlesbible) that he just turned the volume of guitar and electric piano/organ quiet. So what is true? If billy were also on this song he would be on four songs on 1 (get back, something, let it be and the long and winding road), quite good.

Edit: I think I hear george's guitar line, clearly audible in the anthology 3 version, very quietly after the "that leads to your door" part in the beginning (and on similar points) and at 2:05 i hear some chords possibly played on george's guitar which are clearly audible on both the spector and the anthology version. I haven't heard bill so far, though.