From Revolver on, John Lennon, who disliked his voice, insisted it be processed or altered, primarily through compression (called ADT), most famously on Tomorrow Never Knows when he instructed George Martin to make him sound like the Dalai Lama singing from a mountaintop. As someone who appreciated Lennon's vocals on the early Beatles albums, I did not like the production treatment of his vocals on the later records, which stripped out the fullness and warmth in his voice. Cry Baby Cry is from the White Album in 1968, a song I liked on a double album of uneven quality. However, this is Take 1 before Lennon's voice was altered and additional instruments added to the track and the vocal is superior to the final version.
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