A couple of audio clips

[JoJo]

Two different topics really, but these are interesting.

First is about the song "getting Closer" from the "Back to the Egg" album, this is an alt version, and when you hear the opening verse, you will at first perhaps think it's Bill, but no. Wings was still intact at this point, and Denny Laine was certainly right up there on stage with Bill singing along with him at the concerts. Anyway, what strikes me is that parts of the vocals on this version are a Bill "soundalike" to a close degree, but not Bill. So we have perhaps a Bill imitator who may have been a Paul imitator, perhaps boltering the vocals of another Paul imitator. (or whatever)

Very different from the final version..

www.jojoplace.org/Shoebox/Getting_Closer_Alt.wma

And this is from the Nagra tape rolls, those reel to reels that went missing from Apple for some time, they were from the tape recorders set up during the Let It Be sessions to record every little sound uttered. At about 2:08, he says "take it away Billy". Ok, I'm well aware that Billy preston was sitting in at some point, but the only one who "takes it away" is Bill himself. If Billy Preston jumped in, (and it sounds like no one else did) it would be with the keyboard I would think, along the lines of "Get Back".

It's odd, but not quite there as a clue, there are other possible meanings of course, but it's a rarity, so enjoy. It encourages to me to listen to other Nagra rolls, but there are so many, hours and hours, I sympathise with Phil Spector, so much of what they did was not easy to listen to.

www.jojoplace.org/Shoebox/SingingTheBlues_1049B-1.wma

[revolver]

Denny does sound remarkably like Bill there.

My take on the "take it away Billy" is maybe Bill was rehearsing a song where he thought Billy Preston would do a keyboard solo at that point. At least that's probably how he would have explained it if pressed. He may have meant it as an inside joke as well.

[-Wings-]

Yeah, hard to say. Unfortunately it's not much of a clue because it's tainted with Billy Preston's presence there, but I think he could be referring to himself in the third-person (since when he "takes it" he assumes the role of a faux-brass player)

[DarkHorse]

Well if he were gonna say "Take it away Billy" you would expect to hear the piano or keyboard afterwards and I don't think you can. I hear a slide guitar but I don't hear a keyboard. It looks like a clue to me. That crazy Bill.