An album recorded in one day | The Beatles in the Studio Series
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- When the beatles finished recording please please me on 26 November 1962 at abbey road, George Martin told them over the loudspeaker: "Gentlemen I think you've got your first number 1". Love me do which had also been recorded a few weeks earlier reached number 17 during 1962, and during December of that year the beatles catapulted to gigantic levels of national fame, and it was not until February of the following year, 1963, that please please me as a single reached number one in the new musical express charts, but reaching number 2 in the Record Retailer charts, which years later would evolve into the official UK chart, creating that controversial situation between whether please please me had reached number 1 or number 2.
With this situation George martin knew that the next logical step was to record a full length album to get it up the charts as quickly as possible, the first idea was to record a completely live album, the label's budget was not exactly the highest so they had done it before with artists like peter cook, but the cavern being subway with its concrete walls and natural echo chamber was not suitable for such an adventure, so George martin locked himself and the beatles in the studio to recreate the set list that the band played live, recording a complete album in such a short space of time did not seem an unreasonable request in 1963, the songs were recorded live on a two track BTR machine, leaving little chances for overdubs or elaborate edits, consider also that please please me and its B-side "Ask Me Why" were already recorded, as was the beatles' first single "love me do" backed by P. S. I Love you.
So the mission was to record 10 more songs to complement the 14 that were usual in those years for a british album, the idea was to record a direct interpretation of what was their live performances and broadcasts, their manager brian epstein left them a day of rest prior to the recording, so they would be focused and rested to make the recording. With the appointment at the EMI studios at 10 am on february 11, 1963.
Narrated by: Sean Horn
That winter of 1962-63 was horrendous ! As a 12 year old schoolboy living in Scotland my feet froze in the school playground. The fact that all I had to wear was a pair of plastic sandals on my feet compounded my misery. However the upside was the advent of the Beatles and their dynamite singles that year.
Back in my day…
wow Sir, now that's a story! It must have been crazy to live during the Beatles era, such diferent times!
magic days ...
Beatles music is helpfull in many Situationens,,in mylife,,
And in my life I love them all . Lg from Germany, Ellen ✌❤
And thinking of Ringo. Covid 2.time
Thank you for commenting on how life was from your point of view. I like listening to tales like yours to get a feel of the times.
I never tire revisiting the Beatles’ history and these very early songs. I still get chills.
Hi Doris, Amen to your comment. That hit me like a brick at the age of nine...changed my world. Now at 68, it still has the magic and yeah, chills. Peace and love
"There's A Place" was way ahead of its time. That opening Major7 note (D#) played against the E major chord was unusual for Pop/Rock. That song is hauntingly beautiful.
I've never tried to play it, but i really love that song.
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@@lorafrea3089learn to type
Same with “Ask Me Why.”
We are so lucky to have had The Beatles.
Ringo was like : “ YOU KNOW ME FELLAS “. “I’M JUST HAPPY TO BE HERE “ !!!!
Yep
@@stevescontriano860 alright keep that shtick going if you want, but there’s a reason that the Beatles took off right when Ringo joined. His tempo gave the band a completely different sound.
It was an SNL joke. Did you ever watch Saturday night live. John Paul George Ringo and Albert Goldman ??? I love Ringo. Pete best sucked. He missed too many gigs from hanging out with that stripper in Hamburg. Plus he missed gigs at the Cavern club so Ringo sat in instead. Point being. You snooze you lose. Plus he got compensated about $4 million for anthology
You should watch old reruns of Saturday night live FOOO
The reason an album could be recorded so quickly is because the band was so good they could pull it off.
Attributed to playing endless hours for months at a time in Hamburg,Germany 😊
Twist And Shout.. John’s voice, though damaged, gave him the perfect voice for this song. Even live he sings like that. Brilliant!!
damaged? wat u mean
AMAZING! I'm 68 years old, a long time Beatles fan, and I've never seen most of these photos. Thank you so very much!
Love their energy on this record. Lennon sings his arse off.
The _Please Please Me_ lp was number one in the UK for *six solid months* before it was finally replaced by their second album, _With The Beatles._
Yes indeed. Please Please Me was number one for 30 weeks, then With The Beatles took over for a further 21 weeks. The Rolling Stones debut denied the Beatles a full year on top.
Looking at the list of UK number one albums, it's astonishing to see that between them the Beatles and the Stones held down the top spot from 11th May 1963 until 4th February 1965. Bob Dylan ended that run on the 11th Feb.
@@ShanghaiRooster Considering the "Please Please Me" album was N01 for 30 weeks, sales remain rather low!
@@davidrowe7967 True, but this was the days before 'the album' became truly a thing in its own right, in the pop music field at least. Youngsters who bought singles in the early 60s might not have been able to afford to shell out on an album. British fans had slices of albums served up as e.p.'s if the parent record was out of reach - in the case of Please Please Me no fewer than twelve of the album's fourteen songs were issued across four seperate e.p. releases (ten if you discount the two previously released singles which came out again on The Beatles' Hits). :-)
Edit: In the early days of the pop album they would consist of a couple of previously issued singles plus a bunch of R&B covers, so except for diehard fans weren't perhaps seen as essential purchases. Please Please Me conforms to that model, but the sheer energy it has (doubtless partly due to the ravaged vocal cords of the boys - John in particular) lifts it above most of its contemporaries.
What's even more ridiculous is that in 1968, "Hey Jude" was at the time the longest single to stay the longest at number 1, it's 4 years after their explosion to fame.
Most bands after their first year of getting a hit would almost immediately become irrelevant, yet The Beatles remained widely regarded until their break up and even to this day.
The Beatles' first album was recorded in one day. Their second album took even longer!
"Please Please Me" is my favorite Beatles album. Every song on it is pure gold to my ears anyway. Solid and unpretentious, it showcases four excellent young musicians who had honed their craft doing virtually non-stop live performances.
This is your "favorite" Beatles album? It had maybe four good songs on it, and the rest are primitive-sounding throwaways. I suggest you listen to some other Beatles albums before claiming that this rush-job is your favorite.
I loved the grainy b&w studio photos as much as the chronicle of the recording!
I guess most people can´t imagine what it means to record a whole album in real good quality in just one day. It´s insane! But without the experiences and stamina they got during their Hamburg engagements this would have been impossible. At that time they were the most professional band in the whole scene and they kept this title for at least the next six years. No other band came close.
It happens all the time these days now that live recording is so good.
@@Frisbieinstein Hahahaha ....... you don´t know what you are talking about.
@@anonymusum ha ha ha
The timeline of the writing, rehearsing , recording , pressing and design and printing of album covers were a mathematical impossibility . In order for those albums to be produced in the time that they claimed they were the music would have to have prerecorded and album covers already made. The Beatles only had time to do voiceovers . Learn the songs and go out on the road . I know it's hard to accept . It was for me too ,but the numbers don't lie. Here is the proof . Mike Williams is an accomplished musician in his own right . He knows about how records are produced . See for yourself ://ua-cam.com/video/ccEhmQ0M4FY/v-deo.html
@@mikecolangelo4895
What are you talking about? This is not about album covers or multitrack recording, it´s about a live recording of a whole album in a studio in one day!
George Martin told about this album:
At that point of time they were forced to produce an album as they just released pretty successful singles. But they couldn´t offer enough own material to him. So he decided to choose songs from their live repertoire. And that´s what you hear on ths album. So those songs were well rehearsed but still - this was an extraordinary proof of their quality as a band.
I´m a prof. musician, I studied music at a state conservatory, played in numerous bands live and on recording sessions and I guess I can evaluate what they did there on one day.
Absolutely mind boggling how good the Beatles were on that one day LP recording. So much brilliance and synchronicity and Divine providence occurred for that LP in a day results to occur. They were simply the Best Group in the World at that time and proved it in a day and released it to the world and Beatlemania went worldwide. I remember going to a spin the bottle at a friends place and the only records there were the Beatles and The Rolling Stones. The Beatles was the most professional band in the world when they were together.
60-yrs later and the high harmonies, "Please pleease me , ohoh yeah, like I please you.." still send shivers.
If only there was "Get Back" type footage of this record being made.
I have a new appreciation for this album...They actually had much more complex studio work than I thought!
What great video of the greatest band of all time. I am going to redownload all of the early Beatles albums in lossless Apple music format. Still awaiting Super Deluxe Revolver in 2 weeks. Does everyone realize the Beatles went from this album to Revolver in just 4 years!!?? Talk about growth and improvement. I am 72 years old and just cannot get enough of these guy!
Dude, it was all within ten years pretty much. Please please Me to Revolver to Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album, Abbey Road and everything in between... This band was moving at such a lightning fast progression its astonishing. Ten years.
Btw if I had to choose just one album it'd be Revolver or Rubber Soul. Difficult choice.
@@BobbyGeneric145 what about Abbey Road
1 year later they released Sgt. Pepper's. "Love Me Do" to "A Day In The Life" in 5 years. Crazy growth as artists.
And probably the best 2 minutes in pop/rock music, Please Please Me. Their energy is palpable and I cant get by with just one listen.
The Beatles' talent is incalculable despite their immortality.
I really hope Paul will be seen as the Beatles as john himself said the Beatles were a band based on Pauls image, George said the same as well and the more we hear them in the studio you realise Paul was arranger and producer as well, the guy was on another level musically tgen any one that has ever lived as mozart and Beethoven didnt have words. But seriously Paul is a miracle and the hard life he had and never let him stop him is a inspiration!! You cannot be inspired by jagger, richards, lennon or dylan as they are bad human beings but McCartney had it all and still became a good father and husband!! What a man! And his solo career will one day be seen as the genius it is!
Working during their lunch break. You nailed it.
Those guys together were a once in history kinda deal
Wow nice in just one day an their first album was created so.magical, the best band ever
Beatles were the demi gods in their time & just how brilliant were they? Bravo
I had no idea that the “Please Please Me” album was recorded so quickly. After this segment you can see first hand what a great team the Beatles along with George Martin were evolving into. The bridge on “I Saw Her Standing There” stand out for me as it sounds very innovative and ahead of it’s time. Great video!!
50 year later. the BBC would reproduce the album using different artists to cover each track. Using the EMI engineers' records, at the very minute of the recording that was used on the original album, BBC Radio 2 cut to Abbey Road to broadcast the new take live. A separate programme, "Please Please Me at 50" (ua-cam.com/video/iWb07bBDNx8/v-deo.html) summarised it all. I wasn't particularly taken by any of the covers except for Beverley Knight's superb cover of Lennon's cover of "Twist and Shout".
@@davidcarter5038 I saw that and I wasn't overly impressed by the covers myself, but I did think it was a great idea to sort of relive the magic.
Songs more than likely pre recorded by the British version of the wrecking crew. Then the Beatles only had to do the vocals.
@@surfrunnerd8457 The Beatles had been in Hamburg (as had Ringo, albeit with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, on the same bill as John, Paul, George, Pete and Stu). They were performing this material live - 5 hours a day, seven days a week for over two hundred days. All they had to do was repeat these performances in the studio. The "wrecking crew" would not arrive for a few years and it would take the form of string quartets and full orchestras.
@SurfrunnerD.
Sure they hired session musicians.
All those hundreds of hours of them working their songs out in the studio that still are in the EMI archive at Abbey Road are all fake. All those BBC recordings and live performances were all mimed😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Astounding! Please Please Me was one of the first Beatles albums I bought, and it was perfection. Just incredible how they did it in a day, until you see how hard they worked. And they worked that hard all the time. They had the sauce!
300 live performances in clubs already at this point .
It was basically a live LP .. of course , EMI had the best Mics and condensers in the business.. excellent reverb as well ..
Great combo of photos and video that was in the same year and time as the sessions.
Other posters should learn from you, and not mix up years and photos from different decades.
You nailed it, and probably created the best chronology of that epic day.
The photos of Dick James and the corporate " suits " of the day also illustrated who George Martin and The Fabs were working for.
They had been together 6 years when they recorded this.
They finally got noticed. We're noticing still to this day. Thanks for your work and posting.
I can also recall living through the winter of 1962/63 as a 6 year old in Maidstone Kent, SE England. Huddled around a coal heater in a council house - frost would create fern like patterns on the inside of bedroom windows - is an indelible memory. We emigrated to Australia in 1965! The Beatles music in particular were always an uplifting experience. Great video clip.
You can clearly hear John’s cold in this voice but it works and added to his raspy voice.
I clicked on this just out of curiosity. Not expecting much I was pleasantly intrigued, nice job based on this ,I subd
The "Please Please Me" single reached No 1 On the "New Musical Express" charts for two weeks. It reached No 1 on the "Melody Maker" charts for Two weeks. It reached No 1 on the "Disc" charts for two weeks and was No 1 on the B.B.C "Pick of the Pops" charts for Three weeks. Only on the `Record Retailer` charts (Also used by `Record Mirror`) did it only reach No 2. The Record Retailer chart WAS NEVER EVER an `official` chart in its existence from March 1960 to February 1969. It had been set up to be independent from the `official` industry for sections of the independent retailers and its members.
Only when the original compilers of "Guinness Hit Singles" book deliberately `re-wrote` history for their own purposes did this `Myth` of that chart being `official` get peddled about.
Thank you! Fantastic... please, make more record reviews like that!
The most influential artistic act of the 20th century by a mile...
Nice concise history - thought I'd already known all about it and was just curious, but found myself enjoying the fast pace and narrative description of the day's events to the end. Well done.
bbc put on a great presentation for the fiftieth anniversary. they invited various artists to emi studio two to perform the tunes on the album but in the order they were recorded by george martin, norman smith and the lads. respected contemporary artists all from ian broudie to graham coxon to stereophonics. wonderful retelling of a monumental moment in musical history.
Great information! I love the session details on each song. The presentation seems a little rushed, but I guess it was necessary to keep interest.
When a reporter asked the Beatles, "Did it take 1 day to record your first album?" George replied, "Yeah, and our second took even longer!"
Nice you mentioned Kenny Lynch who recently passed away.Of course he also on the cover of Band on the Run.
At 15.27, the narrator says The Beatles went to the canteen for “coffee and cookies”. This Americanism would almost certainly be more likely to be TEA AND BISCUITS! 😅. Anyway, on a positive note, this is an excellent video that nails home the concept of the Beatles’ hard work and determination. Superb!
this sounds so amazing, to record a whole album in one day, but in the day, most bands/groups basically recorded in one or two takes what they played on stage and that was it, studio time was expensive, it wasn't until the Beatles had established thgemselves that they took as long as like in the studio,
Don’t forget three tracks had already been recorded that were on the album.
Channel like this is why i don't miss television.
The decision-making within the entire process on this album and of course what was to follow showed that they were all perfectionists in the studio from not only all four Beatles but of course the man in charge, George Martin and give engineer Norman Smith some shout-out as well. Here the debut album.
Wow, at first I'm thinking well I already know all this. But you did your homework and you did a great job! I'm used to seeing people upload Beatle related material filled with numerous flaws. Yours was spot on. Well done!
@MAGNETO I was 13 when they hit America. What an absolute magical time to grow up! Still love the Beatles!!
....and Titanium man.
@@histubeness yes, indeed.
One of my favorite ❤Beatles albums for sure ICONIC doesn't do it justice
The two tracks on the album that are the standout tracks for me are the bookends, of course Twist and Shout, and I Saw Her Standing There. The first time I remember hearing it as a kid (I'm 45, my Mom has the Vee-Jay 1963 American pressing of the album) I felt like a million bucks. That count in started it all.
Today I play guitar. I can tell you in no uncertain terms, I Saw Her Standing There is the reason why. I knew - I just knew - I had to learn how to play that. The great thing is it's so simple, it's really the perfect song for beginners to get a feel for playing the guitar. Hell I've probably played it 500 times in the last 25 years I've been playing guitar with bands and on my own and every single time I have a blast playing it and singing the harmonies - when you nail them, when John goes low and Paul goes high, that's like the best feeling ever playing live on stage with a band, even if you're just a local yocal bar band.
I wasn't even born when they did Please Please Me, but Paul got me hooked on and taught me bass with I Saw Her Standing There. The song was pure genius.
Smart and talented they seem to have been…second to none.
That was a Hard Days Night! Wow! Incredible!!! Excellent video!
Fantastic, thank you so much 👏👏👏
Lennon tore his larynx, but Twist and Shout had to be recorded because they were going on tour the next day. Unbelievable, starting a tour with a punishing schedule and an already damaged voice. It's remarkable that John's voice wasn't damaged permanently.
John did miss a few shows in the days after the recording session.Paul George and Ringo,the Threetles 30 years before they were The Threetles
He did he never sounds the same again especially on yellow Submarine,don't pass me by, help from my friends and octopus garden and when he was in the rolling stones he sang different as well like year blues , and sympathy for the devil that he played with Clapton and at Hyde park he sounds terrible and wearing that white dress thi g!
@@MrThedonhead I was thinking the same thing regarding "Please, Please Me" and the ten songs in one day, but all those songs you mentioned have Ringo singing lead. Are you telling me that because John Lennon tore his larynx he ended up sounding like Ringo? That makes no sense. Also John was never in the Rolling Stones, "Yer Blues" is a White Album Beatles song.. so I'm not sure I understand your statement. That's Mick Jagger in the white outfit at the Brian Jones tribute in 1969.
I love your channel and these videos!
Great video. A lot of information in a short amount of time. But it showed the innovative recording practices used to this day. It showed house seasoned The Beatles were having played so many hours a day in the German clubs. It showed how professional and type their music was by being able to make an album in one day. And finally, that they were able to get along and have the dedication they did to the music to the recording and to each other. To get four different people in a group, to work so hard and to agree on songs to put down in an album. It's a very difficult thing. I admire people that have longevity in the industry of music because I know how hard that they have to work to achieve their recognition and to constantly sell their music over and over again. This video showed that back in the sixties you had for young men that worked hard from the early teens to try to be successful and to create something that would last forever at this point in time. And to Sir George Martin he truly was a recording genius. He was a laid-back man who had a lot of patience but was very focused on whatever he wanted to finish. He was able to deal with different types of personalities, help them to get along, help them make decisions and finally present a finished product in a professional And timely fashion. This was a good video I enjoyed it very much. Thank you!
Of course, in the United States, instead of the album being called, “Please Please Me,” it was called “Introducing The Beatles.” I seem to recall that it came out in the USA at exactly the same time as the other “first” Beatles album, titled “Meet The Beatles“. Most teenagers in the United States got the “Meet The Beatles“ album instead of “Introducing The Beatles”. Introducing The Beatles wound up being a fairly rare album that most people never heard in the U.S. I had the album and loved it, but I knew something was strange about their voices, because they never sounded like that on any other album. Little did I know that they recorded the entire thing in one day and their voices were completely shot, especially John’s. 😬
You are correct Poco, I would add that "Introducing the Beatles" was distributed in the USA on Vee-Jay records while "Meet the Beatles" was distributed by Capital Records in the USA. Having two albums released in conjunction with The Beatles first USA appearances in Jan 1964 on The Ed Sullivan Show, singles were released from both albums into the summer of 1964. By pure luck (mid-1964) I found and still have "Introducing the Beatles." Knowing its value, I played the album only once.
This was so well done. So few of these videos are. Great work.
That#s what you can call a day...unbeliavable amount of work and a lot of concentration needed to do this...even if you know the songs well...the best band ever
great story...well done ! The Beatles one of a kind !
I've heard a lot of documentaries on the Beatles, my favorite group of all time but I appreciated everything you shared about their first recording sessions. Some of the info I had already heard before but the way you presented it was fresh and interesting and excellent. I look forward to checking out the other videos that you mentioned were coming. Well done! Greg Johnson
This is a fantastic video. So interesting how George Martin was such an integral part of the music making process, you don't see enough of that. And the photographs and film clips, many of which I've never seen before, were all superb. Never knew the "Do You Want To Know A Secret" Disney connection, mind blown. And of course the tasty audio and the overall slick production, well done!
"...Ladies and Gentleman: THE BEATLES" 4 ever & ever & ever
I had to record the vocals for half an album in one day and it almost killed my voice. And I had the luxuries of modern technology in the studio. It's breathtaking what a lot of artists (and soundengineers!) did in the 50s and 60s.
Brilliant! My favorite youtuber!!!
Powerful and beautiful and a wakeup call.
Paul showing from the start he was the musical director.
Neckties in the recording studio! Those were the days, my friends. 😎
This is a really informative video you put together. Very nice. Actually I think their first album was made in 20 minutes. Their second took even longer.
Enjoyed the account of the recording.. amazing sound and still sounds fresh today
INCREDIBLE! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️😎
The use of outtakes was effective... it really added to the impression about what it was like on that day and how the group progressed. You make a good point about considering the album in its context... the boys would've been thrilled just to be making AN ALBUM!! They considered THAT ALBUM to be them hitting the big time and had no idea about what would come in the next 7 years.
By the way, the album has a different feel if you play just the 10 songs they recorded on that day, maybe partly because of the greater emphasis on covers (6 out of 10).
This is the best episode of the bunch, despite the clickbait, false title. I've never seen this behind the scenes footage before. It's fascinating.
The early singles have the MOST energy beatlesness and so pop She Loves You, brilliant composition
WOW, WHAT A WONDERFUL STORY, GEORGE IS MY FAVORITE BEATLE. WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE. RIP GEORGE, THANK YOU FOR THOSE GREAT SONGS, THANK YOU BEATLES!
The greatest band of all time
I will pray for America. Please pray for me. God Bless you.
The Legendary Lee Canady knew The Beatles!
Wonderful job. This was an incomparable thrill to see how that historic day went. Thanks.
Excellent. Thank you.
Excellent video.....thanks.
"Their first album was recorded in twenty minutes; their second took even longer."
They were so young and hungry. That'll make you do impossible things.. This is a perfect example. I'm glad it isn't polished. The perfect rock record!
There's a Place is brilliant track. Even after all these years it still sounds great.
It's incredible that in 1963 the Beatles released the singles Please Please Me/Ask Me Why, From Me To You/Thank You Girl, She Loves You/I'll Get You, I Want To Hold Your Hand/This Boy and the 2 albums Please Please Me and With The Beatles. It just wouldn't happen now.
Another landmark album recorded in one 8 hour session: Trout Mask Replica (a 2 record set) by Captain Beefheart in 1969. Frank Zappa was the engineer.
Awesome!
A day that changed music, and changed lives.
Who thought to take all of those pictures in the studio when the group recorded that day? It doesn't seem like they were that famous enough to warrant the attention then.
Those voices _ man!!
Excellent video.
The Beatles, "Please please me" single, released on January 11th 1963, reached the Number 1 spot on all of the British recognised singles charts of the day, the BBC, Melody Maker, Disc & NME (New Musical Express). The only other British singles chart other than these was, "Record Retailer", who showed Please Please me at number 2 in their chart. The history books show the Beatles as making number 2 because when the national chart was going to be recorded by ONE chart, and Record Retailer became that chart in the 1970's, so the Beatles true record of 18 number 1 singles in the UK is reduced to 17.....
John’s raspy voice is my favorite thing in music
For me. ''There's A Place'' is absolutely outstanding, a wonderfully haunting but therapeutic song. I've never understood McCartney's aversion to it.
"There's A Place" and "Misery" are two songs that have that thick, rich distinctive Beatle sound!
Fantastic deep cuts
Perhaps Macca realised John had taken a hell of a leap forward in producing that song, and was suffering from an attack of the ol' green-eyed monster.
Song is definitely 30 years ahead of its time
Fasinating !
Thank you, Preludin!
great channel man!
Amazing.
Their second album took EVEN LONGER!
To me this is practically equivalent to Michael J. Fox having to film both Season 3 of Family Ties and the first Back to the Future movie in 1985 because he already had the TV show obligation when he got the script. That's a true story, by the way. It's in his autobiography "Lucky Man", he filmed Family Ties by day and the movie by night, if I remember correctly. On some level the story of "Please, Please Me" is still pretty insane to me and I don't mean it as a criticism. I wasn't born back in 1963, but it's just nuts to me how far they pushed themselves to make the first album. I would not at all be surprised if the Beatles collapsed from exhaustion afterwards. Great songs of course and a historically important album, but I mean.. yikes! John wrecked his voice recording the last song "Twist and Shout", and it was already kind of shot anyway from so much recording and the cold he had, I guess. Apparently he said it wasn't the same after and then there was a show on 2/12/63 at the Astoria Ballroom and he STILL went on stage, despite the marathon recording session.
Probably not a smart idea to do ten songs all in one session, but that's just me. Though as I understand it (from a website called Beatles Bible that has a timeline of their entire career) it was apparently three sessions in one day (originally it was two, apparently) but I mean... that STILL doesn't sound like a smart idea. He also had to sing this song god only knows how many times in Beatles concerts. Like.. why record a song that brutal on the throat? Other than the fact they must've been Isley Brothers fans, I guess. I know they were fans of other Black Artists too such as Little Richard.
I don't even know who suggested it because according to their sound engineer Norman Smith, it was "someone" so maybe not anyone in the band, I don't know. I love the Beatles, but this is just mind boggling to me because it could've nearly ruined them if John didn't get his voice back, and I'm assuming he obviously did at some point since they were able to make more albums and he had his solo career. I know recording an album can be grueling and sometimes you have to make sacrifices for your art. I guess this is a perfect example but to me this is still one of those things that makes you go.. 'um... Is this a good idea?' in terms of common sense.
I believe the album made it to number one in the end anyway (which is great, of course) but it certainly sounded like an intense session. John is seriously lucky that he didn't need throat surgery in the end, because as far as I know that probably didn't exist in 1963, anyway. Again, not intended to be a criticism, but it certainly is insane in terms of what a singer can handle vocally. It sounded to me like John had already reached his limit before "Twist and Shout" was suggested because his voice was almost gone from what I've read. I still have no idea how they pulled this off.
Come on ,come on...lg Ellen from Germany.
Super making..✌❤
"the later we go, the better they do it" = Of Course!! once they began creeping into the hours that they had been onstage for the previous 3 years of their lives, their muscle memory, minds and all aligned to the "this is what I am supposed to be doing right now" time of the day. Take a man who writes and sings his own songs pretty well but, he doesn't perform. He works a regular 8-hour job; let's say 9 to 5. You don't put him in the studio at 8 pm. His body is thinking about preparing for bed. Put him in that studio at nine w/coffee and let him sip a cup warm up his singing voice and guitar fingers. By 10am turn on the machine. You'll have a record by 6pm but you'll need to tell his mind and body he's getting paid double time for the extra hour. It's like 2 Percosets and a cup-of-cappuccino.
The Rutles’ first album was recorded in one day…their second one took even longer,,,
The middle eighth of Anna (Go To Him) is one of my favorite vocals from John.
I can see how Martin would have confused 'Twist and Shout' with 'La Bamba.' McCartney probably hummed the guitar line while he brought it up around Martin, who was more versed in classical music but was likely aware of both popular American tunes which had both come out in the same time period during the late 1950s. They both have a similar guitar melody which I like to think of as a "very typical 60s riff." Another great example would be 'Thru Me Cool' by One I'd Trouser (who have since then known as The Trews).
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