The song has yet to be released officially. However, an acetate copy of the song has surfaced in McCartney’s personal archive in the early years of the 21st century. In terms of the tape itself, Unterberger writes that EMI engineer Alan Brown recalled that the tape is no longer in EMI’s vaults. Music critic Richie Unterberger describes “Etcetera” as “the second most sought-after outtake” from the White Album. The tape was taken away and I’ve never heard of it since.” I only heard it twice: when recorded it and when we played it back to him. On the other hand, engineer Alan Brown called it “a very beautiful song.” Brown described the song as a “ballad and has the word ‘etcetera’ several times in the lyric. He has stated that “it’s a bad song” and that he’s “glad it died in a tape bin”. McCartney himself has not spoken well of “Etcetera”. The recording is said to have lyrics, a bridge, and an introduction that is reminiscent of “ Here, There and Everywhere“. After the take was recorded, the tape was taken away by George Martin’s assistant, Chris Thomas. McCartney recorded one take of the song while waiting for session musicians to arrive. The song was recorded as a demo during the same session that produced other “White Album” songs “ Mother Nature’s Son” and “ Wild Honey Pie“.
The music was then adapted, and given to the Black Dyke Mills Band, whose brass band instrumental version “Thingumybob” became the A-side of one of the first four simultaneously-released singles on the Beatles’ new record label Apple. Paul McCartney recalls in his authorised biography, Many Years from Now, that he had written the song, intending to give it to Marianne Faithfull to record, but she passed on recording it, as did the Beatles. “Etcetera” is an unreleased song recorded as a demo by Paul McCartney on 20 August 1968, during a session for The Beatles (also known as “the White Album”). Paul McCartney – From Club Sandwich interview, 1994 I think she was looking for an “Eleanor Rigby” and instead I offered her an “Etcetera”. I offered it to Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger, who were looking for a song for Marianne to record, but it wasn’t what she wanted.
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