I noticed that “Drive My Car” is among them, which is a McCartney tune! Looks like Lennon’s handwriting, although McCartney is the main contributor to the song.

Part of the preference may also be due to perceptions of the album as a whole. Capitol was obviously trying to market to the US folk fan base, and Americans came to view the album as such, but to me one of the magical things about (UK) Rubber Soul is how it seamlessly combines four different genres that were all big at the time: folk, R&B/Motown, LA harmony, and country/western (rockabilly). I feel like the Capitol version sells this album short in that way.

Or maybe was it simply that the lead guitar and piano parts were bounced onto the same track after initially having been recorded on different ones. It is worth keeping in mind that Rubber Soul was the first of the Beatles’ albums on which they made use of the bouncing technique, due to the increasing complexities in their musical arrangements resulting in the four track recording process (which they would continue to rely upon until around the time of The White Album) no longer being able to accommodate them on its own.

But I also have to bring up one more question. In the section of this article concerning the recording process of the song Joe writes…”The group then overdubbed piano, lead guitar, piano and cowbell parts…” Is this supposed to imply that there were two piano overdubs? I just couldn’t bring myself around to that impression listening to the isolated piano part.