15 facts you didn't know about classic songs
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SOURCES:
Interview with Graham Coxon of Blur (2020): • Inside The Song with G...
Malins, S. (1997) Radiohead: Coming Up For Air, archive.org/details/Radiohead...
Interview with Foo Fighters engineer Bradley Cook (2019): • Foo Fighters Everlong:...
Interview with Sherman Kelly about ‘Dancing In The Moonlight’ (2018): • King Harvest - Dancing...
Interview with Radiohead (2017): www.rollingstone.com/feature/...
Rolling Stones, Satisfaction: www.timeisonourside.com/SOSati...
Tony Visconti on how “Heroes” was recorded: • Breaking down David Bo...
Bowie interview (2002): • David Bowie - Parkinso...
Beatles Anthology (1995): ia802501.us.archive.org/2/ite...
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0:00 Hitchhiker's Guide to Radiohead
0:55 Blur's two-man drum beat
1:40 the other songs in "All You Need Is Love"
3:03 Buddy Holly's knee drumming
3:27 Mandy Vs. Brandy
4:07 "It's in the trees! It's coming!"
4:32 Satisfaction was the first fuzz song
5:25 Foo Fighter vocal recorded over the phone
6:50 that sound at the start of The Bends
7:35 Hook Theory
8:19 the Sounds of Silence
10:01 Bowie's triple microphone vocal
11:37 Bowie almost wrote Sinatra's "My Way"
13:45 Charlie Chaplin wrote "Smile" by Nat King Cole
14:29 "Pretty Woman" on tour with The Beatles
14:58 the dark origin of "Dancing In The Moonlight"
17:38 Twitch & Patreon
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I love how Radiohead is in every video
And the beatles
agreed but they are so musically gifted it’s hard not to
Not as much as the legendary Beatles
and Bowie too ❤
It’s not a David Bennett video if it doesn’t have Radiohead and The Beatles in it
That last story is intense. These are all really interesting. Thanks for compiling this video.
"The leader raped her" but "she was ok". I know what he meant but it sounds somewhat peculiar. (Don't wanna use the word "funny".)
Ya ,holy heck
Yeah the way he says it, she was ok but i had a headache... yeahhh i don't know if that's true
I've always kinda hated the song Dancing In the Moonlight (much prefer the Thin Lizzy tune of the same name), but the story has made me see it in a new light. What a strong person he must be for creating something positive out of such a horrible event. His girlfriend too, of course.
You may prefer the original by Boffalongo, on which Sherman Kelly sings lead. No cheesy-sounding keyboards like the KH version. ua-cam.com/video/r6dFjDQx_BQ/v-deo.html
That Dancing In The Moonlight one is pretty mental
I thought the sad event was going to be that he left his wallet so they had to sleep outside, but the setting inspired the song, what came next would have permanently broke many other people...
As a fan of Kate Bush and old horror movies, a few years ago I experienced the weird effect of recognising the sample used in 'Hounds of Love' while watching 'Night of the Demon' on UA-cam!
Kate Bush beat Rob Zombie to it lol....
John Lennon's voice is what we hear (She Loves You) in All You Need is Love. Paul may have been singing with him, but his microphone fell towards John.
I definitely thought it was John.
Isn’t this even confirmed by the official video?
@@claytonshank6871 No, they'd already recorded that vocal but you can see Paul lip syncing it badly. The track is mostly mimed for TV, except I think John's lead vocal, Paul's bass and George's guitar. They spent ages on the backing track prior to the broadcast.
Oh man, I've heard Everlong a million times in my life, but I never noticed the backing vocals!!
Yikes, that last story was a shocker! In this country I guess the song is most well known as the Toploader version used as theme music for Jamie Oliver's breakthrough TV series.
There was bass distortion in a hit song in 1961. It was in the hit country song, Marty Robbins’ “Don’t Worry.” Admittedly, it happened by accident, but they left it in.
Yes, Keith used the pedal that was made based on that broken console distortion.
The bass in Don't Worry sounds cool, thanks for mentioning it.
Originally, Marty Robbins didn’t want the distortion on the track, but someone at the studio talked him into keeping it in…and the rest is history.
Also, the kinks the year before
@@SchmavidSchmobb distortion ≠ a fuzz pedal, people seem to be confused by the two. Almost all examples of distortion pre satisfaction were accidental, Keith used an actual pedal designed for distortion which in turn popularized the fuzz pedal in the vocabulary of mainstream rock.
Another interesting one is that back in 1968 Paul McCartney wrote Helter Skelter after reading an interview with Pete Townshend who described The Who’s song “I Can See For Miles” as “the loudest, heaviest song The Who ever recorded” and Paul wanted to write something similar, which also became one of the first heavy metal songs
I think the most amazing thing is that Smile was composed by Charlie Chaplin.
He also wrote and delivered a classic speech, a sample of which appears in Iron Sky by Paulo Nutini, 'machine minds with machine hearts .' from The Great Dictator
@@zfid I didn't know that! I will try and find it. Thank you.
Chaplin also wrote Petula Clark's 1967 hit, "This Is My Song" but she absolutely hated Chaplin's original lyrics. She'd done some foreign-language versions (in French, Italian and German) and only recorded the English version because there was some time left over in the recording session. Clark thought the song would only be album filler and was surprised when her record label not only released it as a single but also pulled copies of her then-current album to add the song to the album. It would become her first #1 hit in the UK since 1961.
Wow! I didn't know THAT either!
I always presumed her hits were Tony Hatch compositions!
Charlie Chaplin was a cellist who had his cello converted to play left-handed. I believe he wrote most, if not all, of the music played under his films.
When "Safisfaction" first came out I didn't know what that instrument was, I thought it was maybe a saxophone but it wasn't really a sax, but it didn't sound like any guitar I'd ever heard. It looks like Keith Richards thought it sounded like a sax also if he was using it as a stand-in for a horn section. Soon fuzz guitar was everywhere, for instance on Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction".
Interesting!
Fuzz and distortion were actually developed in an effort to mimic horns. How far we've come.
Another fun fact: George Harrison also used fuzz guitar to demo the horn part for Got To Get You Into My Life, but in that case they actually did replace it. You can hear it on the new Revolver box set.
Here are a few facts about How to Disappear Completly by Radiohead:
- The song's title is taken from a book entitled "How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found" by Doug Richmond.
- The song was inspired by a nightmare Thom Yorke had about floating down the Liffey in Dublin, Ireland while being pursued by a tidal wave.
- The iconic line "I'm not here / This isn't happening" was actually advice given to Thom Yorke by Michael Stipe of R.E.M. on how to deal with the stress of touring.
I was walking down the street with my wife just the other day and heard the Buddy Holly song coming out of a shop, at which point I mentioned the fact that the drummer is playing on his knees (I think I read about it years ago in a Buddy Holly biography). I'm not sure my musical trivia made any impression on my wife (usually doesn't), but I did enjoy a little moment of triumph this morning when I got to show her the clip from this video - thanks!
About a million years ago I put Dancing in the Moonlight on my "Happy Place" playlist which was list comprised of whimsical, bouncy, poppy songs I have now listened to hundreds of time since when I needed to get myself to a "Happy Place". Wow...mind blown!
I really enjoyed this video, David. That guitar part on "Satisfaction" retains the clicking sound when Richards stepped on the fuzzbox's pedal. He also comes in early once and late once with the riff.
Ok
One unusual thing I've noticed about "Dancing in the Moonlight" is that it uses the same rhyme for every line in all the verses and the chorus: "ite". Over the course of the song lines end with 'night', 'sight', 'right', 'delight', 'bite', 'light', etc. but never any other rhyme. I can't think of another song that does this.
'Girls' by Beastie Boys
When _Brandy_ was current I thought it was about an alcoholic, pushed into his state by depression, trying to shake off his addiction but failing: "Oh, Brandy, well, you kissed me and stopped me from shaking".
Thank you, Dave. You are my favourite music teacher
Interesting video as always. Thanks. The last bit, on Dancing in the Moonlight, was unexpected.
Song #2 wasn't directed so specifically at Nirvana as it was much of the banal post-grunge and alternative that popped up in the US in Nirvana's wake.
Fun fact : Radiohead's Debut album "Pablo Honey" was named after a phone prank title of the same name by New Yorks Jerky boys who put out albums of numerous prank phone calls back in the day .
Bowie had crazy vocals on Heroes (and I say this as a vocalist) vocals that surpassed Sinatra in My Way imo…
One of my favourite vocal performances by him was Word on a Wing. At the end its so gorgeous to me
Bowie is a rather clunky vocalist, Sinatra has been surpassed many times but I don’t think Bowie is a good example
@@badgasaurus4211 on heroes
@@badgasaurus4211 Id say that has more to do with Bowie being the type of guy to say and do whatever he wanted and felt comfortable with; Sweet Thing is enough proof to me that if he wanted to that he could've become the consistent superior to Sinatra (with time and effort). That being said, Bowie never put particular effort into perfecting or maintaining his voice so altogether he's a worse vocalist. However my comment was only about Bowie's performance in Heroes which I believe was beyond most Sinatra interpretations.
@@badgasaurus4211 you kidding? Bowie is an incredible vocalist. Check out Wild is the Wind
there are always so many little facts out there, Douglas Adams it a favourite author, I was very excited when I saw the track title for the first time. actually most of that section is hitch hikers referencing even the "What's That?" which arthur asks when he hears his house being bulldozed . I remember that Airbag was unfortunate enough to be released close to the Death of Lady Diana and many people thought it was written about that do to the unfortunate coincedences in the lyrics.
An interesting fact is the Song "Total Eclipse of the Heart" which was written as a vampire love song was alleged by Meatloaf originally written for him but was given to Bonnie Tyler instead.
I've never listened to Radiohead, but as soon as I heard the words "Paranoid Android," I was like, "I know what that's a reference to!" I love the Hitchhiker's Guide series.
The My Way fact is extraordinary. I like Bowie's lyrics but Anka's are so legendary, it's difficult to hear it differently.
I never associated Life on Mars with My Way at all (who could have done, it's so well-disguised), but when the chord sequences are pointed out here, it becomes clear!
Claude François, the gentleman who sang the original, Comme d'habitude, died whilst changing a lightbulb in his bathroom, poor soul was electrocuted.
Fascinating stuff David -- thanks for passing it on ❤
Session great Vinnie Bell invented the electric sitar, famously used by Steely Dan on Do It Again. Vinnie plays his famous watery guitar on the Twin Peaks theme. One of the many great New York session guitarists back in the day, including Al Gorgoni, most of them of Italian heritage including Vinnie, who also played in Sinatra's live band.
The original Sound of Silence is so much better than the electric version
I agree, but at the same time I can understand why the electric version was a hit and the original wasn't. (I love the whole Wednesday Morning 3AM album, too.)
Seems like everyone says this, but I feel so strongly the opposite
The sounds...of salesmen
There is a beautiful irony, though, that Simon and Garfunkel... those careful, artful, masterful musicians... pretty much only became famous because somebody thought Sounds of Silence was not exciting enough for radio; and proceeded to throw together a half-assed overdub that even goes out-of-time at points in the song (that has ALWAYS bothered me. Lol).
I like the original a little more. But I think the instrumental is very cool and has some ethereal quality to it. After all they hired top tier musicians for doing this
Great fact bombs on "Paranoid Android" there. I knew about the title and the 'first against the wall' references but the actual album title is a new one on me!
I do wonder if the reason why, on Android, you say "OK Google" is also based on "OK Computer" / Hitchhiker's.
Weird that in the Billboard print you see "The Sounds of Silence" at No. 1 when the new hit version was actually called "The Sound of Silence". I guess it is still mixed up a lot nowadays.
Song 2 was also originally a slow folk song. Damon Albarn has said and demonstrated in an interview with Zane Lowe
There's a similar faster version of it in this live acoustic version they did ua-cam.com/video/QtZ09eBRRYI/v-deo.html
The bit about Song 2's opening drums reminds me a bit about a fact I commented when you first asked for submissions. The Peter Gabriel track "Big Time" has a bass part played by two people at once - bassist Tony Levin held the notes on the strings, and one of the drummers from the album's sessions, Jerry Marotta, struck the strings with his drumsticks to sound the notes. This resulted in a distinctive, percussive bass tone. (Levin has stated that the technique was inspired by legendary jazz drummer Gene Krupa.) In order to replicate this sound on his own for concerts and for other recordings, Levin developed what he calls "funk fingers" by taking the ends of drumsticks and attaching them to his fingers, which he's used on occasion on various other recordings throughout his career.
These are always timed perfectly for my bus ride home!
I knew a few of these including most of the songs within All You Need is Love, the Buddy Holly "drums" and about The Stones first use of fuzz box on a hit, Roy Orbison writing Pretty Woman on the tour bus.
always love to see a new david bennett upload 👍
I always thought it was John singing She Loves You at the end of All You Need Is Love
It's actually more complicated than it being just one or the other. ua-cam.com/video/yTzejEpFp9E/v-deo.html
There's a you can't unhear this video about it!
5:30 Bad Brains did this in 1987, 9 years before Foo Fighters. The song "Sacred Love" had its vocals recorded over the phone while singer HR was in jail for selling pot
Don't fully understand why, but I can only ever think of Sainsbury's when Dancing in the Moonlight crosses my mind.
I know they used it for a while in the 90s/early 00s, but it's weird that I have such a powerful association even now. Maybe just because I was very young at the time?
I love that everything is news to me in videos by David. No other channel can tell me things I didn’t know!
Looking forward to the next stream.
Great video thanks! I also like that Blur's 'Tender' features the sound of a plank of wood whacked against the floor in the studio toilet apparently
One of the most interesting videos I've seen as of late. Awesome job David!
John sings She Loves You, not Paul.
Paul starts it, then John joins 😉😉😊😊
@David Bennett Piano I hear and see John singing it in the headphones and when watching the live performance. Paul loses his mic on the second "She loves you yeah yeah yeah" where both Paul and John's mic are pointed at John singing it.
I never knew this was such a debate among people, but after looking for confirmation, it seems there are many different thoughts on who sang it.
I hear and see John, hands down, but agree to disagree 😉😊
The end of All You Need is Love referencing other Beatles songs is like what Fall Out Boy did with What a Catch, Donnie (or should I say, what FOB did is like what the Beatles did)
Love these facts videos! Thank you for doing another one.
8:30 I tested with headphones- Each vocal is on a separate ear. Clever job, duo.
Great to see Warren! Btw fun fact about the Hounds of Love album.. recorded with no cymbals throughout
As a fan of HHGTTG it was impossible not to link 'paranoid android' to the book; I'd be surprised if anyone who read the book did not make that connection.
About the song quotes in 'All you need is love': what I always found hilarious about the Rutles version, 'Love, life' (which, as is the case with all Rutles songs, is almost as good as the thing it parodies) is that they, too, throw in a line from another Rutles song at the end, their version of 'She loves you', which is called 'Hold my hand (yeah, yeah)'. But where the real version makes it work so that you may not even notice it's even there, in the Rutles version the 'Hold my hand' thing is blurted out completely out of key and off the beat. It's pretty funny.
Love this channel! Thank you!!!
Interesting! Hope to see a sequel to this, or why not make it a series? There's one song I expected to see here though - the details about the "drum solo" in Englishman in New York by Sting. I haven't double checked the info I have, but I've heard that rather unconventional "instruments" were used there. Check it out. 🙂
Fun and enlightening! 4:53 Charlie deep dive: lads in bog standard leather "motorcycle" boots with worn soles. Charlie's soles sport a wavy grip. Even the bottom of the man's feet were Saville Row.
Great video! The stories behind Sound of Silence and Life On Mars are fascinating.
Who really sings _She Loves You_ - during _All You Need Is Love_ outro? People have debated it for years. Elsewhere is a video with a definitive answer. Basically, one time is John and one time is Paul (but I forget which order). They planned to sing it together. During the live take, a weird accident happened where the microphone was randomly kicked over to one guy and then to the other, getting them both, but not together.
About recording over the phone, David McWilliams did that decades earlier on the chorus of "Days of Peraly Spencer"
I love your channel! I do believe it was Ringo that sang She Loves You at the end of All You Need Is Love.
should've mentioned the Boffalongo's original version of Dancing in the Moonlight which is the version Sherman Kelly actually wrote, which sounds pretty different than King Harvest's version.
what a nice surprise, cheers David 👍
It wouldn't be David without Radiohead and the Beatles lol
John is singing She Loves You.
Yup!
Song 2 drum reminds me of George Harrison's I've Got My Mind Set On You
Never noticed the "in the mood" bit in the beatles song! I i heard both songs all the time
Great Information David
That final "She Loves you yeah yeah yeah" in All you Need is Love sounds like John to me, are you sure it was Paul?
All these years I thought John was singing “yes, it is” (itself a Beatles song). Shows what I know.
Came down here to say the same thing.
I think it's a source of debate among Beatles fans about who actually sang this part. There's a great video by You Can't Unhear This about this topic, definitely worth a watch. For the record I definitely hear John singing it too :)
I’d always heard “Get together” myself.
Fascinating again. Thank you.
I know Cole did it first but I always think of "Smile" as a Durante song. I love those ballad albums Durante made in the 60's
I love this video format
_Everyday_ knee drumming: The Beatles ADORED Buddy Holly and imitated his songs whenever it made sense. One example is they did knee-drumming bits on _I'm Looking Through You_.
The video for Pretty woman was filmed in Batley market in west Yorkshire. He had performed there and actually met his wife there!
Dolly Parton wrote "Jolene" on the same day that she wrote "I Will Always Love You".
1:40 You can play it by one person, there's a technique in which you play the snare and the hihat with only one hand, check it out!
It can allllmost be played….i was thinking that too until i saw that you need to hit both the hat and the snare at the same time…you can basically do it but you’ll be missing 2 hi hat hits….it would be unnoticeable though…and theoretically you could do it with your foot on the hat pedal…open and close the hat on that beat…wouldn’t be exact though
6:50 No, I never wondered but thanks for sharing.
Tom Wilson, who organized the electric version of "Sound of Silence", is the person laughing hysterically at the beginning of "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream." Dylan and the band blew the intro, and both Dylan and Wilson cracked up. Wilson died at 47 of Marfan Syndrome, a disease that causes bizarre physical symptoms including hyper extensive and hyper flexible joints in the hands-leading to speculation that Nicole Paganini also had it, since some of his works are virtually impossible to play with human sized hands, but there are reports during his lifetime of him performing them.
Motown's first hit - Barret Strong's "Money, That's What I Want" - uses a fuzz guitar tone and pre-dates the Stones' "Satisfaction" by about 6 years (recorded in 1959)
And "Satisfaction" isn't even the first *English* song to have fuzz in it. The Kinks's "You Really Got Me" was released in 1964, and became the first single by someone other than the Beatles to sell a million copies.
What an informative video, well done.
sounds like John singing 'loves you yeah yeah yeah' at the end of All You Need is Love to me...
the song Lucky, by Radiohead borrows harmonic shape from the Eagles Journey of the Sorcerer which was used as the theme for the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. the shape of the melody in the chorus is lifted from the Eagles' tune's chorus, but slowed way down. I think the tempo shift is what keeps people from noticing it. was hoping you'd mention that.
I think that Henry the eighth wrote Greensleeves for Jane Seymour, so I’m not sure how much of a folk melody it is but definitely a very popular piece of English Tudor music.
I’m pretty sure that’s actually just a myth; most historians nowadays seem to think the song was composed during Elizabeth I’s reign, so after the death of Henry VIII. Part of the evidence of this is that it is based on a type of Italian song that didn’t make its way to England until after Henry VIII died.
5:00 That's crazy. For a long time i thought this guitar line was played on a Saxophone or something similar.
GREAT! Thank YOU!👏🙌
Great video. More, please.
Great video pls do more of this
Wow you’ve exploded my mind!! thank you!!
14:40: Oh! So that's why Day Tripper and Pretty Woman have similar notes in their riffs!
Interesting video! As you might guess, I love the Hitchhiker's references! Hope you read the book someday (if you haven't already)...
Read the book recently and LOVED it! Going to read Restaurant at the end of the universe soon!
@@DavidBennettPiano Excellent! I realize these days people don't read novels as much as they used to, but that's one that's at least worth giving a shot, with all of the clever jokes and interesting plot details....
@@DavidBennettPiano The original BBC Radio 4 version is still on Audible, You’ll like the music score by Paddy Kingsland of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
One human can play both parts of the Blur kit part if you allow the snare backbeats to not have a drum rim. If you're being fancy you can hold two sticks at once (Burton or Stevens grip, doesn't matter), you can have all of it (easier if you play open handed with LH on hi-hat)
Estepario does it. ua-cam.com/video/C8hB5xinLGM/v-deo.html
great video man
keep it up love your vids
Aladdin Sane includes musical quotes of Rhapsody in Blue, Tequila and On Broadway.
Nice video ! You speaking French is so cute ! It’s pronounce « comme dabitude ». The D and the A come together. Also in French we almost never pronounce the H
4:40 I thought the first example of fuzz distortion was Marty Robbins: "Don't Worry."
Had no idea Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader was a cover.
The Edge by David McCallum (Ducky from NCIS), I’m sure you’ll instantly recognize it.
4:37 Perfect transition 🤌
Man… the stones are just so darn good
Although the title of the song was changed from "Brandy" to "Mandy" in 1974 when it was re- recorded by Barry Manilow. In orde to avoid confusion with Looking Glass's 1972 hit song "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)". The songs theme is actually inspired, not by a woman... But Scott English's life at the time! Especially him fighting to break away from his dependency on Alcohol. 'Kissed me and stopped me from shakin'', the (DTs). Ridin' on a country bus. No one even noticed us. (Concealing a bottle of Brandy). Notice- that verse was left out of ''Barry Manilow's'' version. ''Scott English'' also said, the (face in the window) was a reference to his father.
Can you do a video about The Hallelujah Chorus by Handel and why is so special? Some notes that are important scale degrees and why was sung in C sharp years ago? now in D Major?
Ok you talented people. Is that Bach piece 2:10 also in The Self Preservation Society from the Italian Job? (The good version of the film).
I believe the everlong voice in the background later in the song also (The band said online) was that same old studio engineer talking, absolute nonsense to them about a food order or something
1:14 not necessarily. If you play it open-handed, as I and several other drummers have, it is possible to play it by oneself.
What we need to know is what is the clapping sound at the beginning of Fools Gold by the stone roses