BEATLES WOULDN’T LET IT BE

The N.Y. Daily News reported today the existence of a recording that indicates the Fab Four tried to reunite in an L.A. recording studio six years after their famed April 1970 split.

Dealer Gary Zimet, of momentsintime.com, claims to have evidence of a tape box that indicates the band, and its longtime producer George Martin, gathered on Nov. 2, 1976, at Davlen Sounds, a studio in L.A.

The typed label indicates Warner/Elektra/Atlantic as the "client" and lists four new songs, "Happy Feeling," "Back Home," "Rockin’ Once Again" and "People of the 3rd World" and one cover, "Little Girl."

Unfortunately, the tape inside the box was apparently erased, and none of the alleged songs are audible.

"Paul McCartney has done everything within his power to keep this out of print," Zimet told the Daily News. "Since it would be hideously embarrassing to him that the Beatles tried to get back together and failed. They ended up fighting and walked out of the studios."

The owner of the tape box and song listingss is Arizona resident Keith Chrismon, who acquired the item six weeks ago from a former employee of Apple Records, the Beatle-owned label, who refused to make the find public out of fear of McCartney.

Chrismon supplied a May 1997 email, apparently from Davlen founder Len Kovner, to a Beatles researcher in Scotland: "Someone you know must have seen the 3M tape box with the Davlen Sound Studios logo and song list. It is rather difficult to talk about, as this is one of the most obscure events in the Beatles' history. As I was the engineer, along with other noted L.A. engineers, I still work with the remaining lads. If you would like to phone me... I can shed some additional light and stories about these historical and failed events."