Video: 'Jimi Hendrix - 'Hey Joe' - Backing track'

(Sunday, October 23, 1966) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience (with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell) conducted the band’s first studio recording session today, getting down the basic track for “Hey Joe” at De Lane Lea Studios in London (Hendrix’s lead vocal and backing vocals by the Breakaways, a group of female session singers, would be recorded Nov. 18, 1966).

Video: 'The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe (Official Audio)'

The recording would be released in the UK as a single on Dec. 16, 1966, and appear on the band’s debut album, Are You Experienced.