Turn Me On, Dead Man

In Tell Me Why, Tim Riley noted George Martin's reluctance to release the White Album as a double album but he wondered which songs would have been left off. He speculated that the choices would have been "'Wild Honey Pie' certainly, 'Rocky Raccoon' perhaps; 'Long, Long, Long' is the weakest George track, but 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', 'Piggies', and 'Savoy Truffle' are essentials. There is no sequence that would satisfy the strictures of the forty-minute record without discarding not a few but many great tracks." [1]In The Beatles as Musicians, Walter Everett speculated that George Martin would have preferred the following single-disc LP: [2]

Side 1		Side 2
Back in the USSR		Birthday
Bungalow Bill		Sexy Sadie
I Will		Julia
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da		Martha My Dear
Blackbird		Long, Long, Long
Not Guilty		Honey Pie
While My Guitar Gently Weeps		Good Night
Happiness Is a Warm Gun

In the review of the 30th Anniversary CD release of the White Album for Mojo magazine, Charles Shaar Murray stated, "Most people agree with George Martin that would have made a killer single album—it's just that no-one agrees with anybody else about what should be on it." [3]Murray's edit of the White Album was:

Side 1		Side 2
Back in the USSR		Yer Blues
I Will		Mother Nature's Son
Happiness Is a Warm Gun		Long, Long, Long
While My Guitar Gently Weeps		Revolution 1
I'm So Tired		Cry Baby Cry
Blackbird		Revolution 9
Julia		Good Night

After providing his single-LP version of the White Album, Murray asked, "What's yours?" On the following page is a form where you can put together your version of an alternative single-disc White Album. Have fun filling it out. Be sure to submit your selections because I'm looking forward to seeing what other people think. By the way, my single-LP White Album is as follows:

Side 1		Side 2
Back in the USSR		Blackbird
Dear Prudence		Yer Blues
While My Guitar Gently Weeps		Glass Onion
Sexy Sadie		Cry Baby Cry
Revolution 1		Helter Skelter
I Will		Long, Long, Long
Julia		Happiness Is a Warm Gun