FIRST Listen & Analysis to Yellow Submarine, Hey Jude, Lady Madonna & Revolution - BRASS!!
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- Timestamps below :)
0:00 - Intro
1:11 - Only a Northern Song
3:29 - All together now
5:56 - Hey Bulldog
8:54 - It's all too much
12:11 - Hey Jude
16:48 - Revolution
19:03 - Lady Madonna
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I had the privilege of watching McCartney perform live and I can assure you when they play Hey Jude, it's just something that can't be described with words.
Yes completely agreed 🙂
Me too! 1989 in Tampa. that, and foll on the hill were the highlights.
I was bawling.
It makes your hair stand on end. Absolutely electric.
Saw him 7 times over the course of 20 years, and it's a highlight every single time.
I saw Paul McCartney in 1989, in peak form. he did hey Jude just as the sun was going down. 70,000 people singing the chorus at the end was magical.
1970s was peak Paul...when he played Wings Over America
I saw him then to and it truly was magical. I've had some amazing concert experiences and that one is still at the top of the list.
Montreal Dec.9th, 1989 for me. Great time.
Paul's isolated bass on Hey Bulldog is really worth a listen. It propels the tempo whilst also carrying the melody.
It's an amazing bassline, most songs usually have a recurring bass that repeats on each verse, but this song doesn't. I think McCartney just played whatever he felt at the time rather than plan out a bassline, and it works so beautifully.
@@fuzzlewit9 Shows you want a great musician Paul is and how the bass can control the band.
Strangely his style changed after 1966. I wonder why......🤔
@@DaveMcIroy no.. it didnt. Listen yo Nowhere man.. You wont see me, moving bass just the same. Want other examples? Just ask.
@@DaveMcIroy earlier? All My Loving.. moving all over the scale. How did the style change according to you?
If there was a poll of what is the most underrated Beatle song of all time, It's All Too Much would be one of the top contenders. One of the greatest psychedelic freak-outs of the 60's
Oh yeah. Right now, that is my fave Beatles tune. It's always changing; before that, it was 'Bulldog'.
By far the most underrated song by the Beatles is a song called "Melody Never Knows". It's so underrated nobody has ever even heard it. Can you see my point? If nobody has ever heard a song, by definition that song is inherently underrated. Therefore, a poll regarding the most underrated song "of all" just doesn't make sense.
Agree 100%. Beatles fan for decades yet I did not get into IATM until about 5 years ago.
@@ivanjulian2532 If people consider something "underrated", that usually means they believe it to be generally "not rated or valued highly enough", which is a subjective view. "Underrated" doesn't mean "unknown". Therefore, a poll asking people what they believe is the most underrated Beatles song would make some sense.
@@ivanjulian2532 Ivan your terrible ! It must means people can change their opinion of a particular song .
I appreciate you dressing up for the event.
"Hey Bulldog" is such a rocker. I play it when I'm on the highway and just feel like going fast.
Hey Jude absolutely blew the world's mind when it came out. Yellow Submarine's got some way underrated gems: Hey Bulldog and It's All Too Much. Lady Madonna features some of Paul's best piano work. This whole period is firmly in the Beatles' prime roundhouse.
I've seen Paul play it live and he plays the piano perfectly, just like the record. Amazing performer. Seen Paul live five times and it never gets old. Wish I could see him live every week.
Hey Bulldog is a lot of people's pick for most underrated Beatles song (despite what some others on this board say!) THe dog at the end is Paul. He is an excellent voice mimic.
They both did the dog thing.
@@bobwoolerOriGinal Are you sure? I'm going to have to search for that video!
I always thought John was the dog’s owner and that he just goes absolutely bezerk when Paul talks back to him
@@barrytrotterisweird That's what I thought too.
@@loosilu Rapid editing in that part of the video, but it at least 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 as two barkers.
Hey Jude has a special place in my heart as my Mum, who passed away in 1998, and I went to see Paul McCartney in London in 1993 and we were both singing the na na na's together and it is a beautiful memory of my Mum.
Lovely story.
That really is a beautiful memory. Thank you for sharing it!
Lucky enough to go to London 1993 as well Andy and great that Linda was a part of Paul's band.
Don't forget about George Harrison's 'The Inner Light' single from '68 as well as his other under-popularized 'Sour Milk Sea' and 'Not Guilty' songs from the same year. These three songs alone show that Harrison's song compositions, by this point of the game, were truly beginning to find their niche in the Beatle's album catalog more and more. He was truly beginning to define his style as a true musician, in his own right, by '68 and he would thus receive more notoriety for his contributions from this point forward.
Hey Bulldog is the hidden gem if the Beatles has a hidden gem.
It’s a grower. I’ve ranked it higher and higher over the decades.
So true. I remember many years ago on a Toronto rock station one DJ played it over and over again about 10 times in a row on his morning show.
It sounds better every time I listen to it.
I remember buying all the albums in 1972, someone knew someone at EMI Sydney Australia. First time I heard this tune it stood out like the proverbial, yet never played on radio.
People only now are realizing what they missed out on.
This version of "Revolution" is one of my all-time favorite Beatles tracks. There's just something so energetic about it as compared to Revolution 1 that makes it feel more "revolutionary". The opening guitar and the distortion is just amazing.
Me too! I wish the demo(ish) version wasn't part of the White Album so people wouldn't get exposed to it first.
Agreed! Another stand out for me is John’s Cold Turkey. So raw!
always wished this was the version on the white album...this version is so far superior. it has one of the greatest intros in rock history...stone cold classic rock and roll song..the music matches the lyrics in this version...vicious song..in the best possible way...I also love the video of them doing it on tv...the camera pans back and forth on John and Paul etc...just effing classic beatles
@@michaelfrazia4569 Totally agree! And also that John's Cold Turkey is another top track in the same vein. Lennon going for the gusto.
I like all the Revolutions and ther different styles and such but luv the rockin' version its just raw and rocks to kick @$$ lolz 😆 😜 😹😂👍🏽
Paul's scat at the end of Hey Jude is the high point of 60s rock. Also, the chords at the end - a lesser mortal would have played it out on F, E flat, B flat, but he replaces the E flat with Cm with the bass playing the E flat, and it's a gorgeous sound that totally lifts the song.
Hey, why didn't we get to hear Lady Madonna b side- The Inner Light?
Paul's scat singing was the first time a beatles song caught my ear as a little kid in the early 80s .I was born in 74 so in the mid to late 80s I remember hearing wings and liking them....silly love songs was played hourly so it is the first song as an infant I can actually remember hearing...in the early 80s I remember asking my father who the guy was singing and screaming on the radio...he said it was the beatles and Paul was singing...the song was hey Jude and it was Paul's scat singing that caught my ear...it is still my favorite vocal moment of all time . I love alot of artists/bands and different types of rock, but to this day I agree it is certainly an incredible vocal...Paul's voice at that point was as good as anyone in rock
@@michaelfrazia4569 scat???😱
@@misterr3083 most people are intelligent enough to know what I mean ...someone had mentioned that word to describe it in an earlier comment so I followed suit since that showed me that most fans understand what I was referring to...feel free to use any term to describe full throat screaming...there is scat singing in there if you listen close but I meant his wailing over the refrain . ...if you read the comment I was responding to, the word used was scat. but I knew what he meant. its my favorite rock vocal ever so call it whatever .
@@michaelfrazia4569 Bob Dylan writes and speaks about being in awe of McCartney's ability to write and play any style and to holler with the out and out Little Richard types and to croon with the ballad crooners (he uses different words and I can't be bothered to look up the references)
@@cuebj I know the interview you are mentioning. I had seen it one time and was surprised at the praise he gave to a contemporary...especially one who gets panned for saccharin lyrics at times ...I always felt with Paul his melodies did the talking...he wrote some great lyrics when motivated, but overall the melodies and pure talent of paul is where it's at if your a paul fan....being raised in a family where songs were a big part of family gatherings helped paul develop the ability to incorporate music hall etc....I love the video where he goes back to a pub to visit his family while he is in wings and they all sing the old standards while drinking and smoking...gave a great insight to how he was raised
I always loved the hey bulldog “you can talk to me” build up, something about the timing and harmony works very well going into the riff
Its called a line cliché in music theory terms
One of my favorites also. Its right up there with "Old Brown Shoe" on my list
It's always been a bit unreal how they were able to resolve that ascending progression so satisfyingly.
Poor disrespected " Hey Bulldog". First rejected as a single, then rejected as a b-side, then cut from the movie and finally landed as filler on The Beatles weakest album.
@@pardyhardly and is (at least to me) the best song from the album
I’ve long believed It’s All Too Much is a hidden gem! Only in The Beatles’ discography would it be considered a throwaway, it would be any other band’s masterpiece that they’d spend months tweaking to sound like that, and the Beatles just knocked it out in a couple of afternoons. A true testament to their immense talent! There’s a full cut of the song on UA-cam that hasn’t been officially released by their label yet and it’s absolutely amazing! George Martin’s son Giles needs to get to remastering it in its full 8 minute glory ASAP lol
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Hey Jude live was one of the greatest experiences of my life.
"Hey Bulldog" it's probably the best rock 'n' roll song ever. Magnificent
Remember that some of these songs were originally intended for the Sgt. Pepper album. Also remember that this album is a motion picture soundtrack. You REALLY need to see the film, and see how the music fits with it. It's one of the greatest animated feature films ever made, and also one of the greatest musical films as well as rock films.
Kudos for acknowledging George Martin's work in arranging and playing on some of the songs. He was integral to the sound and arrangement of parts of many of their songs. He will forever be known as the 5th Beatle.
There were two 5th "Beatles": Brian Epstein, and George Martin.
Always loved Hey Bulldog - it perfectly showcases that awesome rasping mid-range of Lennon's voice, and it's a lot of fun too...
It sounds like a 1990s song to me!
I wanted to bring attention to the electric piano on "Revolution," played by Nicky Hopkins. Hopkins was a studio musician who played with a number of bands including The Who and the Kinks, but may be most famous for his work with The Rolling Stones. He recorded with them from 1967-1981 and played on many of their most well-known songs. Sadly, he died in 1994.
He was also a full member of the San Francisco psychedelic rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service.
Do you want to know how good The Beatles were? This is a bit of a throw away album, not even close to being considered one of their best, but if any other band, any of them in the 60's released this kind of album it would have been their signature work.
If any other band created any work of the level created by The Beatles in any one of their songs, it would have been their biggest hit. When "Friday on My Mind" was released by The Easybeats the musical arrangement was so rich, the words were so much deeper, and the concept conveyed was at so much a higher level than their previous stuff - like with Sorry! - that some people even thought that The Easybeats had got hold of a Lennon/McCartney song and recorded it like Marmalade did with Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da. That just goes to show the talent of Vanda/Young! For their song writing ability to be compared with Lennon/McCartney, that was, indeed, an accolade.
@@darrylmcgarry5780 Vanda and Young may not have been Lennon/McCartney, but they would probably have been in the final for who comes next.
All they achieved after coming to Aust as post war migrants nad meeting in a camp was remarkable. The Easybeat's were a fabulous band with a great catalogue, then their work to resurrect Stevie Wright's life and career with 'Evie' parts 1,2,3.
And of course besides being the creative force behind hundreds of pop hits from diverse folk, as well as their own quirky hits as 'Flash and the Pan', they were the driving force behind AC/'DC.
Not a bad life's work.
@@wizofoz0605 I preferred The Masters Apprentices ! 🤠
I used to sing all together now to my son when he was a toddler. He had so much fun running ina circle as the song sped up. One of my happiest memories. My son reacting to music with joy.
That’s so sweet
Hey Jude will remain one of my favorite songs forever.
I love that George quotes from the Merseys big hit “Sorrow” in “It’s all too much”- "With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue"....David Bowie had a hit with a cover of “Sorrow” in 1973.
Good to know. I thought it was the other way around, as I only knew the Bowie version.
yup .every song on that bowie album with sorrow was a cover...that line is such a great lyric especially the way bowie delivers it
@@michaelfrazia4569 Yeah, 'Pin Ups' - That was a covers album between Aladdin Sane and Diamond Dogs, back in the days when record companies expected 2 albums a year! Incidentally, I've always considered 'Yellow Submarine' as the same kind of thing, fulfilling an obligation to put something out while they worked on something else. In the UK at least, Yellow Submarine was a soundtrack album of songs up to 3 years old, plus George Martin orchestral arrangements, and Magical Mystery Tour was just an EP. Whereas in America they added a bunch of singles from the previous year to make MMT an album, but it's not really. Sgt Pepper was followed up with the White Album as far as LP's go.
The Beatles as we know/ knew them would not have existed without George Martin He was a treasure. Hey Jude was written for John's son Julian who was going through his parents divorce. How awesome is that? It also shattered the standard for radio songs having to be 2-3 minutes long.
The trumpet in "Only A Northern Song" was played by Paul. I think his quote was "There were a lot of sad faces as I played that trumpet".
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I’ve seen McCartney 3 times.
The last was in 2019…. While my Grandad was in hospital fighting (a losing battle with) cancer.
When Paul started playing “Hey Jude” I immediately started to bawl my eyes out like I had never done before.
There were 60,000 other ppl there but it was like he was telling me everything is gonna be alright.
Fun fact: About 10 years ago, my assistant manager was a Millennial, and she never heard Lady Madonna before. I played it for her in the car when the crew and I were going to a job (I played other Beatles songs too) She REALLY liked it! I think she began to appreciate what she was missing by not hearing any "old stuff"
At a friend's bicycle shop one afternoon we spun Creedence Clearewater Revival's _Bayou Country_ and this girl walks in and says "Like who is this band?! Are they new?!"
@@RideAcrossTheRiver HAHAHA!
The line "With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue" in "It's All Too Much" was taken from the song "Sorrow", which was a hit in 1966 and would become a hit for David Bowie in 1973.
George was “fond” of borrowing lines from other songs!
Hey Jude.... I like how Ringo had to go to the bathroom on the take they put on the album. So, Paul was playing and singing along. Then, Ringo came back from the bathroom, sneaked into the studio, sat down at the drumkit and came in right at the perfect moment! 👌😁
Caroline, completely and utterly forgot to listen to "THE INNER LIGHT" the `B` on the original `Lady Madonna` Vinyl single. Hope she might review it later, as I, personally think its a lovely song. PLEASE DON'T ABANDON "THE INNER LIGHT" CAROLINE!!
I had the vinyl single and loved THE INNER LIGHT by George.
Definitely a beautiful song!!
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Yeah, was a bit surprised she missed that one, but figure she'll hopefully review it along The Ballad of John and Yoko, and Old Brown Shoe.
@Call Me Caroline Yes, you've left off the B-side of Lady Madonna - George's "The Inner Light" . Paul McCartney was quoted at the time as calling it a beautiful melody. Another song that has been missed is an early one "Bad Boy" which was released on an album in America but only on a greatest hits album in the UK. It can be found on Past Masters 1 now.
The backing vocals on Hey Jude. Like angels from heaven.☺️
1. I think you should listen to Let It Be album before Abbey Road, because they recorded Let It Be earlier
2. When you listen to Abbey Road listen to songs 9-16 as one song
Listen to Let it be naked and not the one that Phil Spector crapped all over
I agree
@@mike60510 I don't agree. The Phil Specter version was the one one we all got used to for almost 30 years before Let It Be Naked was released. But for me, it's personal because 1970 was the year I really got into the Beatles. I was born in 1962. There is something about that version of The Long And Winding Road that is so sad because we all knew from that song that the Beatles were over. And for me, who just became aware of The Beatles it was a real bummer. So....I spent the entire 70's as a Beatle fan anticipating the day they would get back together. And you need to remember that being a Beatle fan in the 70's wasn't really cool amongst most of my peers. They felt The Beatles were antiquated and out dated. Especially their 1962 to 1965 era. My friends and I would constantly be discussing music and most of my friends felt Ringo Starr was a crappy drummer and they would ridicule his tiny drum set. This was in an era when drummers would be using double bass drums and an infinite amount of toms and toys. Think Rush or Led Zepplin. But I can understand how you feel about Phil Specter. The guy was a loon, as time proved, but back in the day, he was the "great" producer and The Beatles loved his recordings, especially Lennon and Harrison....not so much McCartney :)
@@mike60510 if it weren’t for the crappy guitar solo for let it be on the naked version I would 100 percent agree
I think there's an argument for LIB being the last one. As well as being the last released, it contains 1 track (I Me Mine) started before Abbey Rd but actually entirely recorded afterwards. Although it does appear in the Get Back doco, the recording that appears on LIB was begun a year later, on 3 Jan 1970.
Do you know the story behind Hey Jude, about how Paul wrote it for Julian Lennon because he was going through a hard time when his parents were splitting up. The "her" in the song was Yoko Ono, and the song was just about accepting her as a stepmother. When Paul first started the song, it actually began "Hey Jules" but for whatever reason, it got changed to Jude. Also, the line "The movement you need is on your shoulder" was a placeholder lyric Paul wrote and wasn't meant to be in the song, but John insisted on keeping the line the way it was.
Hey Jude was # 1 worldwide when I was born late Sept. of '68. I love that song & saw McCartney perform it live in Hershey, PA (Chocolate City, USA) a few years ago. Tears aplenty from yours truly.....
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You mentioned the differences in feeling that can be brought about by arrangements. If you want another Beatles example, the acoustic version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps is beautiful in an entirely different way.
And especially when George Martin added the string quartet to it on the Chronology albums. Either of those versions is great though, with or without strings. without Clapton's solo, of which at the time no one knew he was playing on it, and without all the other instruments, just guitar and voice, extra verse, it is a totally different mood. It forces people to listen to the words more carefully and not the guitar solo. Which do you want George Harrison? People to going nuts over "ooo, it's Clapton playing," or your message?
@@thomastimlin1724 : Oh man, isn't that one of the MOST gorgeous songs you've ever heard? WMGGW is a masterpiece off the 'White Album', yes, that unreleased demo version with the extra verse can just bring tears to my eyes.... and I've been a Beatles fan/nut for just about all my 60 years on this planet!! 😁
Yes indeed, Caroline, being in the audience for "Hey Jude" is a life experience much to be desired. When this .... little public health situation.... is over, Macca is likely to resume touring. But as he turns 80 this year, who knows for how long? If you can get yourself to a live concert while such is still available, you must! You really must, simple as that. 💕🙏🌎🎶☮🕉
All the world's a birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. WHAT. A. LINE!
Melody master McCartney! I’ve admired George Martin ever since I learned of his contributions to their ideas!
It's All Too Much has always been kind of a hidden gem for me. No real airplay or talked about that much, but when you find it on the album, it's an immediate standout.
The Yellow Submarine songs were mostly "contractual obligations" that they owed to United Artists for a soundtrack to a movie (except one song that was a legitimate outtake). "Only A Northern Song" was the last song published by Northern Songs Ltd, at one time the Beatles publishing company. George Harrison supplied this song that he was pretty certain wouldn't generate much publishing dollars for Northern. All Together Now was a Macca throwaway and Hey Bulldog was a "made on the spot" song. It's All Too Much is a Sgt Peppers outtake and could have easily made that album.
Lot of errors in this. All Lennon/McCartney songs past 1963 or thereabouts were published under Northern Songs, all the way through 1970. Harrison was an employee of Northern Songs, not a partner like Lennon and McCartney were. His contract ran out in 1968 so he formed Harrisongs and published under them from then on out. Only A Northern Song was his way of being snarky and dismissive of his position in Northern Songs at the time. Since it was recorded in the Sgt Pepper's sessions, it was still published under Northern Songs, even though he had Harrisongs by this time.
Also All Too Much, if I recall correctly, was recorded after Sgt Pepper's was released, but I think some time before they started work on MMT.
@@Seafroggys I appreciate the corrections; I think I may have jumbled up my Beatles history a bit - but I did know that OANS was a dig at his publishing company.
@@Seafroggys I love Only A Northern Song. Long after I first heard it (and loved it) I learned the story behind it. That it was meant to end Harrison's obligation to Northern Songs. It's as if Harrison said: "You want one last song from me? Well, here's one for you that is complete bollocks." The thing is, this seems like a very fun and complex free form jazz/rock piece! I really do love this song.
The Beatles delayed the release of Yellow Submarine so that it wouldn't conflict with The Beatles (the White Album) and to give George Martin more time to complete the orchestral work, which is why it ended up coming out in early 1969, almost a year after the newest song was recorded! It was considered a disappointment commercially, only reaching #2 and #3 in the U.S. and UK charts respectively. Sucks to be them. ;-)
@@yes_head that can't be right because the music was on the film mid 68 ! Did he add extra after the movie ?
I'm so glad you took a moment to mention Sir George Martin. In my opinion, his contributions to many Beatles songs were genius. I've often wondered how the Beatles path would have gone without him. I seriously doubt that any other producer of the day would have been so instrumental to their growth and success. He truly was the 5th Beatle.
Precisely
He was absolutely the 5th Beatle. The back half of their career (especially their psychedelic period) wouldn’t be what it was without him.
I hope you're not going to skip "The Inner Light", which was the B-side of the "Lady Madonna" single. Harrison's first showing on a single, and it's lovely.
I always thought it was one of George's weaker South Asian-inspired tracks. It's not bad, but it doesn't stand out as much to me. I think I just more or less disagree with its philosophy espousing a sort of "clairvoyant" access to total knowledge. IMO you have to stop navel-gazing and leave your house now and then to learn about life and the world. Although to some degree he was prescient in a way: in the modern age of Wikpedia and instant Google results, you don't have to leave your house to acquire a heap of knowledge.
The lyrics of the inner light come from a chapter(poem) 47 in the Taoist Tao Te Ching. Taoist philosophy of life attitude. Ways of looking at the world. George just put it to music....
The Inner Light has a beautiful melody
For me, "It's all too much" is one of those hidden gems. Love that song.
Great insight -- and then explanation -- of the "James Bondey" element in "Bulldog." Hey, the James Bond films were one of the great sensations of the Sixties and certainly part of what we would today call "Cool Britain," maybe even as much as the Beatles themselves.
I saw Paul McCartney live on his 1989-90 world tour. When he sang Hey Jude the crowd was singing along as loud as they could and most everyone I saw had tears in their eyes. (There is a pretty good chance I did too.) It was joyous and jubilant. I was on a high from that song more than any other that night.
The magic of that song isn’t just its sheer beauty and singability, but the togetherness it brings and instilling the joy of being alive. It means the world when you’re in need of both, and imo nobody delivered to the world better than Paul McCartney.
Your listen of Hey Jude is the moment I'd been waiting for.
Omg you're so right about hey Jude live. Lots of versions of macca doing it on UA-cam. His performance in red square is one of my faves, you see all these Russians who grew up behind the iron curtain and who loved the beatles finally being able to hear the music live. There are so many teary eyed people in the crowd
I didn’t know this was on UA-cam, I must find it!
Completely selfish advocacy for “The Inner Light.” When I was 9, the “Lady Madonna“ / “The Inner Light” single was the first Beatles record I actually paid for with my own allowance. As it followed “Within You Without You” by a year, it got me fascinated about how far George was going to go in that direction. Has a special place in my personal Beatles head canon.
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another one that realize
as a beatlemaniac it was a kind of sacrilege ok no but i miss so bad that tune here
Was expecting that song af!
Hope she realise
The Beatles famously never used a click track or metronome. When the three of them got back together in the 90's to finish a song by the late John Lennon, (Free As A Bird) the producer remapped it onto a computer, (as we do these days) with a perfect bpm that Ringo had to play along too. Ringo famously said. "I don't need a click track, I AM the click track!" He didn't like it. Indeed I personally believe that the steady meter of modern music since most music is made on computers these days is not a great thing. Caroline, you're classically trained. Don't Bach & Mozart have tempo changes in their music? Isn't a steady 4/4 beat a modern invention? Specifically introduced by bands from the 60's, like The BEATles? (Even though they famously not only varied the meter but did strange time signatures too). Ironic, don't you think?
Some used to sneer when they called Ringo "the best backbeat in the business." He really was.
That Jeff Lynne click track was horrid. I understand why he wanted it to set John's vocals up, but he should have taken a more creative approch. I would have looped a well timed fragment of the demo and had that serve as a count-in to them playing a live backing track at roughly the same tempo. Get a few takes of that, then cut up John's vocals and start them on the downbeats/ adjust as needed. In a perfect world they would have used John's demo voice as part of the background vocals and/or created bridges/ sections for new songs based off his studio jamming, but at least a better plan would have kept the Wilbury backbeat off those songs. Also, Jeff Lynne forcing his voice on to those records is criminal.
@@nikolasian2113 I think horrid is a bit strong, but I agree it's one of the weaker Beatle tracks, if you can even call it that. It's more like George Lucas' 1990's Star Wars films with their bad digital effects. People over 50 made bad art in the 90's. Ha! I also agree that your approach would have worked better.
Actually Ringo said “I am the FUCKING click track”
@@neoPeake I'm sure you're right! I already got kicked off of Twitter for cussin'. Can't take a chance here. Ha!
Caroline I'm sure we all would like to see your TOP 10 from RUBBER SOUL TO THE WHITE ALBUM too !?!
It’s All Too Much is such an underrated song. One of the best in my opinion…
Same
I think you do great breakdowns of these tracks, especially since many of them are your first listen; great content! A few quick comments. 1) You're comments about George Martin, were bang on - he was the 5th Beatle. He really helped not only scoring but the development of their harmonies; he was a King!. 2) Their Engineers literally changed music history. All of their albums, were recorded on Two and Four track machines, until Abbey Road. We have more tracks on an IPAD available. 3) All of this great volume of music was created in less than 8 years. They only recorded as a band between '62- mid '69, and then Lennon was gone. Keep up the great analysis Caroline! P.S. The Key's of E and A are common keys that guitar players use, due to the way the instrument is set up. =)
Hey Caroline! Hope you’re doing well. I know people were giving you a bad time for the other content you post. Hope you continue to do whatever makes you happy, and let’s just finish these Beatles albums with a bang!
Oh and by the way, you should check out “The Beatles Live at the BBC”
Volumes 1 and 2
No reaction video needed, but it’s got a handful of songs that never made it to albums that I think you might enjoy.
Ex. “Soldier of Love”
And some really good live performances of great album songs from like 63-65
Cheers!
Yes Soldier Of Love is great and she should check out Some Other Guy Live from The Cavern ! But for that matter don't leave out the Decca recordings , Anthologies , Love And other recordings elsewhere such as ' Goodbye' from the internet ! O'erwise she'll miss much ! 🤡🤠😎
SO glad your back! (1)"Only a Northern Song" was written to fulfill a contractual obligation to George's publisher, Northern Songs Ltd - he was apparently short one composition. (2) Hey Jude was written by Paul to comfort Julian Lennon when his Dad, John, divorced his mother for Yoko. This song is over 7 minutes long snd 'singles" were generally half that length. Their record company wanted a shorter version done but the band refused. The Beatles were told "NO ONE WILL PLAY YOUR 7 MINUTE RECORD!"...to which John responded " They will because it's Us." ...and he was right.
(3)In Lady Madonna, "See how they run" refers to both the children and her stockings! - just brilliant. THANK YOU!- And now comes the masterpiece ABBEY ROAD!
Something that you might find neat about Revolution - while the studio ver. of the song doesn't have the background "shooby-doo-wops" from Revolution 1, the live-promotional-video version does (you can find it on UA-cam).
My favorite version, for the record.
I haven’t checked the bible (Mark Lewisohn’s “The Beatles recording sessions”) but I always got the feeling that the “bom shu be do wops” were in both Revolutions but that they had been mixed down in the single.
It's safe to say that Yellow Submarine is every Beatlemaniac's least favorite album... because it isn't really an album. I wish you had reacted to Lady Madonna's B-side, The Inner Light, which is a George song that you might have liked the lyrics of
Yeah I've never really understood why Yellow Submarine is canon with only four new songs and no Beatles involvement on side 2 (that I know of).
@@alexanderharding2221 Why not? They released every movie soundtrack
@@ricardo_miguel13 yeah but just the fact that it's included in the canon of Beatles albums with so little original Beatles music. A Hard Day's Night and Help! were both full albums of new material. I think they probably should've released Yellow Submarine as an EP.
@@alexanderharding2221 I suppose if they'd released it as an EP likely the US would have combined it with recent singles to turn it into a full album release again I don't think much of MMT as an album, I think of it more as an EP with additional tracks, and I suppose the same is true here. I'd never put this album on, though, despite Hey Bulldog being a favourite. It's All Too Much is growing on me lately every time I hear it.
I guess I'm probably the odd one out as Yellow Submarine ist firmly among my favourites. I can see how many people dislike it because of George Martins film score taking up the entire B-side but I think the new songs - few as they are - make up for it. "Hey Bulldog" and "It's All Too Much" are masterpieces in my book.
Also, I personally love the B-side. Being born long after the 60s the film was likely my first ever contact with the Beatles. Both the Beatles tracks and the score as well as the psychedelic imagery opened up a new world to me. As little as the Beatles actually had to do with the film they are deeply connected in my brain. 😄
Ahh, "All Together Now"; the Beatles foray into campfire sing-a-longs.
Fun Fact: "Only a Northern Song" and "It's All Too Much" were songs that George Harrison had left over from the "Sgt. Pepper" recording sessions from the year before. Just didn't make that album while "Within You, Without You" did.
The movie "Yellow Submarine" (which both of those songs were from) is really trippy. A pretty cartoon with professional voice actors voicing the Beatles in it. If you're up for it, give it a try; if for nothing else, for the movie score George Martin composed for it. He also did some interesting scoring for their "Magical Mystery Tour" movie (anytime a sweeping Tchaikovsky-esque orchestral arrangement of "All My Loving" or a fairground organ/calliope version of "She Loves You" can be incorporated into a film, that just makes it more interesting).
Not so I'm afraid. It's All Too Much was recorded after Pepper had come out.
George Martin’s arrangement of All My Loving came from an entire album of orchestral Beatles arrangements he did in 1964 called ‘Off The Beatle Track’
@@keith1222 Really? I thought that was also from the "Sgt. Pepper" sessions.
I stand corrected.
For some reason, couldn't sleep all night, and now I wake and find out that about 100 minutes from now Caroline continues the journey! Keep on keeping on Caroline. Your presence makes UA-cam a better place to visit always! After you are done with the beatles, have you given any thought of listening to any of the former Beatles? McCartney is my favorite and I would go with him just so you know, as he continues with all the different musical styles that the Beatles always brought to the musical table. I love 'em! Let 'em in! (Macca joke), Ha-ha!
How did you wake if you did not sleep?
@@andybullemor-music5928 Maybe he just fell asleep in the morning? Or he's some sort of schrodinger sleeper who simaltaneously occupies dream space as well as our waking world.
@@DEVILdRuMMinG he couldn’t sleep “all night”, so obviously he fell asleep during the morning (done that meself) and then awoke…..?
@@AlBarzUK Or he couldn't get to (literal) sleep all night because he was tossing and turning, thinking about existential matters. Then seeing this video was a moment of enlightenment for him where he finally beheld the nature of reality and "woke up" from the (metaphorical) sleep in which he's been living his life up to this point.
@@DEVILdRuMMinG this is getting a bit much for me. I'm going to get a drink from my Klein bottle.
"Revolution 9, traumatizing..." Ha!
I'm really enjoying your Beatles adventure. Keep up the good work!
Great reaction!
Two tips for proceeding this journey:
1. As others already mentioned, you should listen to The Inner Light, the B-Side of Lady Madonna. A beautiful Harrison-Song!
2. There are two albums remaining, Abbey Road and Let It Be. While Abbey Road was released before Let It Be (and is therefore labeled as preceding Let It Be in official chronologies), the songs on Let It Be were actually recorded prior, during the famous Get-Back-sessions, (subject matter of Peter Jackson's great new documentary).
So, concerning the writing and recording of the Songs, you should listen to Let It Be before Abbey Road. Imo the development makes more sense this way and in the end, the journey is much more rewarding!
That way, "The End" is really the end. (or is it?)
"Now and Then" from 11/3/2023, on UA-cam
‘68 starting 9th grade. Song was number one for weeks.
“You were made to, go out and get her her her.”
There is a video of Hey Jude performed live in the midst of an audience that's amazing, you should react to that. Actually there are a lot of amazing videos of the Beatles performing live you should react to.
Have you seen the Peter Jackson documentary? It was that live special that finished with Hey Jude that was the inspiration for the recordings at Twickenham (did I spell that right) and the source material for Jackson's doc.
It's pretty much how she imagined it
Vocals are live, but not instruments are live. I thing piano, maybe drums and maybe bass. John Guitar in the video is an Epi Casino, and the songs uses an acoustic. Bass is played in the track by Paul, in the video George is playing a Fender VI, and I'm not sure is plugged during the song but you can hear it before it starts. My guess is not. Drums are also played on air sometimes if you look closely.
Not really live. I think they were singing with a backing track. Similar to what they did on All You Need Is Love. Unlike the roof concert in Get Back/Let It Be. That was the real deal.
They performed live, but they definitely had a backing track that included vocals. You can clearly hear Paul’s voice being double tracked.
RE: Only a Northern Song--George's dig at the industry. Northern Songs was the publishing company. Another great one Caroline-cheers!
It was also a protest song about how John and Paul dismissed his music.
Wonderful video yet again, Caroline, though you missed the B-side of Lady Madonna, George Harrison’s “The Inner Light.” All the songs you listened to today were recorded in 1967 or early 1968, before they went to India and before they recorded the White Album. You mentioned seeing how awesome it would be to see them play Hey Jude live. Well, there is an awesome video of this from The David Frost Show from 1968. The Beatles play amongst a huge crowd who supply the Na Na Nas at the end. There is also fantastic semi-live video of Revolution from the same broadcast. The band is singing live with a pre-recorded instrumental backing (though they mime playing, without the organ). The interesting thing about that version is that they keep the Do Wops from Revolution 1. Finally, there is an awesome video of Hey Bulldog that is one of the few films of the band in the studio prior to what now appears in the Get Back film. The film crew had arrived to make a video for Lady Madonna but John had introduced Hey Bulldog that day and that’s what The Beatles ended up playing. The footage was edited to look like the band was playing Lady Madonna but many years later it was discovered that it was really Hey Bulldog and the sound was restored. The best part is watching John and Paul at a single mic at the end of the song ad-libbing the howls and cackling. The dog sounds are all Paul while the crazy laughing is John. The “American” sounding voice (“Clap, boy, clap!”) is Paul. It’s a really fun video to watch and is available on UA-cam.
It's so gratifying to experience someone else's mutual joy in experiencing Beatles' music for the first time as we did. Now you'll listen to this brilliant stuff for the rest of your days, and it will never let you down.
Caroline please do Let It Be next. Abbey Road was released next but Let it Be was recorded before Abbey Road. Yes it is weird lol thank you for all the content you have made. I really enjoy you and the channel you have made. 🙂
I saw her confirm in the comments of another video that she is in fact going to listen to Let it Be first before Abbey Road.
let it be was recorded before abbey road, but the constant new mixing last by phil spector makes it the last beatles album
@@mathewbyoung oh that’s good to hear, it’s been all I can think about every time I watch these videos lol.
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@@westfale520 But I feel like the Beatles' dislike of that mix still puts it before Abbey Road.
It's all to much is the song that makes the album even though the Beatles were not so keen on making this album this track makes it worthwhile, in my opinion. Thanks for another great vid.
If you get a chance be sure to watch the live performance of Hey Jude, even in your own time. Love all your videos, I'm always learning something new. Keep up the great work!!!
Yes John that Hey Jude live video from the David Frost show just incredible with the crowd joining in.
As with Taxman, It's Only a Northern Song was a protest song George wrote against what was happening to him at the time.
All Together bookends the journey the Beatles take in the movie Yellow Submarine. At the end of the movie, the title gets repeated with title cards in multiple languages.
Hey Bulldog is my favorite Beatles song. It's also kind of my favorite microgenre, driving piano rock. The American release of the film deleted the scene that featured the song, but it was restored for the DVD release in 2000.
It's All Too Much is another cool rocker that closes out the movie, right before the live-action coda. Love the feedback and the clapping.
Hey Jude, written by Paul to comfort Julian after John divorced Cynthia for Yoko. Paul wasn't crazy about one of his lines, but John encouraged him to keep it.
Revolution, the single version, is the faster gritty, electric version, which John didn't like as much as the slower version on the White Album. But it's by far the more famous version of the song.
Lady Madonna was a song based on Fats Domino, so Fats Domino would later cover the song himself, as well as Elvis.
Looking forward to your reaction on this one. Especially one of my top favorite Beatles songs "Hey Bulldog". : )
Great surname for a Beatles fan!
You have now reached the point in your journey when it makes sense to watch the Get Back documentary. Not only is it correct chronologically, but watching the process going into these songs, and the relationship among the band members, is as important as the songs themselves. And as someone as interested in process as you are I think it will not only be fascinating in its own right but give you bigger ears as you listen to the results, having witnessed the journey it took to arrive at the finished product.
As for the songs in this video: All Together Now is a children’s song, written for the audience for the animated film. (Which reminds me: have you seen any of the Beatles movies yet? They are worth watching. If you can only see one make it the first one, A Hard Day’s Night.) Hey Bulldog and It’s All Too Much are underappreciated tracks in my opinion. Revolution is by general consensus far superior to Revolution 1. Lady Madonna is a great song, kind of a sequel to Eleanor Rigby in terms of its lyrics and a great example of piano rock. And Hey Jude, is, of course, one of their supreme achievements.
Brings me such joy to see you 'fall' into the music. Your face and expressions say it all.
You are so joyful to watch! I suggest if you ever get the chance to see Paul McCartney live you take it. He is aging as we all are but can still rock & puts the same energy into his shows as you hear on The Beatle's records. Fantastic musician that you would really appreciate.
Watching her reaction to "It's Only A Northern Song" had me thinking 'Just wait until she get's to "It's All Too Much". :)
My high school had a "radio station" that was actually just played over the intercom system. The first song they ever played was the single version of "Revolution," at top volume. I almost hit the ceiling when it came blaring out of the speakers, without warning! Obviously, I still remember it, after all these years. It was the first time I heard the song.
Where was that school - I want to teach there!
@@geoffholmes8173 Haha! That was a long time ago. Students probably don't get the same latitude to do stuff like that nowadays.
We had a one off through the PA "Day of Music". What was the first song? Golf Girl. Yep, Golf Girl. It may not be a surprise to know it was my Science teacher in charge of the decks!
Thank you for this video, Caroline!
Yes!!!
Hey Jude is absolutely amazing live. Paul McCartney always plays it and the amount of magic and feeling and charm he creates on stage is still breathtaking - and Hey Jude is sort of a emotional culmination of it all, sounds so incredibly epic and brings about the feeling of togetherness among the fans, everyone's joining in in that build-up, the whole stadion is singing, the emotions on people's faces. One needs to experience it. If Paul ever comes to Australia - try to see him. It's such a beautiful and powerful experience despite his heavily aged voice.
Hey, Jude is usually chosen as the best of all Beatles songs in surveys.
They decided to make a music video for Lady Madonna, and they decided it would be easiest just to film the band in the recording studio. So they needed to record something with the same basic instruments and tempo, which they could then edit the scenes together to match up with the music from the previous song. So they recorded Hey Bulldog, which John had been writing at the time, and they mostly just improvised the song around the bits he'd already written. So The Beatles recorded an entire new song just to shoot a video for a different song.
There is a longer version of "It's All Too Much" available on UA-cam which is incredible.
"it's All Too Much" was written and recorded in June 1967, literally days after the release of Sgt Pepper and Jimi Hendrix performing the title song live. It was Hendrix's public coming out party and effectively his debut to the world.
Yup
@@JStarStar00 I mean, Hendrix's debut album came out two weeks before Pepper, and Hendrix had already had three top-ten singles by that point. So I'm not sure it was "effectively his début to the world". After all, he was already a big enough deal that McCartney himself was in the audience that night.
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At any rate George was impressed enough by Hendrix to momentarily jump off his Indian-music diversion, pick up his electric guitar again, and attempt to write a Hendrix-influenced feedback-heavy guitar magnum opus.
unfortunately "It's All Too Much" was written two or three weeks too late to be subbed onto Sgt. Pepper instead of "Within You, Without You."
That song became my favorite from that album as soon as I heard it. I've always wondered what Lennon says at the beginning.
The b side of Lady Madonna is The Inner Light, which is a song I absolutely love 💕
They played this version of Revolution live on the David Frost show and Paul and George added the shooby du-wops to the performance. It's on UA-cam.
Thank you for all of your uploads. You are doing an awesome job and it is appreciated!
Yay!! Always excited for your new uploads!
Yay a new Caroline vid!! Your joy and and surprising reaction to the songs is so much fun!
The "shubidu-aah":s were added live in the promo film for the single version Revolution! They fit in perfectly.
Mao shubidu-aah
Yes, I think they did that because they didn't want to just have George and Paul just stand there on TV with nothing to do but play their guitars, lol. however, who's playing the electric piano perfectly, exactly like the record? Well, it WAS the recording with live vocals and instruments playing along with the recording only. Same for Hey Jude. So when we say "Live" in these performances, it is both. Took me several viewings over the years to discover that, lol. that was a standard practice for Tv back then.
It's Shooby doo-wah
@@jfziemba Please listen again, in the "live" recording we are talking about they say "Mao shubidu-aah"
@@thomastimlin1724 The giveaway on Hey Jude is that Lennon is playing an electric guitar when it is clearly an acoustic. The giveaway on Revolution is the mysterious organ that no one is playing. : )
All of the instruments on Hey Bulldog just work so well together. One of my favorites
I absolutely adore the lead guitar work in It's All Too Much
Brilliant video as always Caroline. Your definitely one of the best things on UA-cam.
When "Revolution" was first released to radio stations, some listeners panicked because they thought the opening guitar riff was the Emergency Broadcast System air raid siren signaling a nuclear war.
That only lasted a couple days before people realized, "oh yeah, it's the Beatles."
This is great!! :D
I just realized that Caroline looks like she could be one of Paul's kids. :) These reactions/ breakdowns are SO good.
Agreed.
Sir George Henry Martin CBE (3 January 1926 - 8 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician. He was referred to as the "Fifth Beatle" in reference to his extensive involvement in each of the Beatles' original albums. Alma mater: Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Thank you again for sharing your musical insights - liked.
After you've reviewed the Let It Be album, you're spot on time to sit and watch the 9+ hour 3 part Get Back series produced by Peter Jackson that will be out on BluRay in a couple weeks. It was just released over Thanksgiving streaming on the Disney app, and will now be for sale in full on a 3 disc DVD or BluRay set in February. It chronicles the actual recording of that album, as filmed originally by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in January 1969. Lindsay-Hogg and his crew filmed the Beatles in their natural progression of writing, working out, sculpting, and recording the very songs resulting in about 60 hours of film and 150 hours of audio. These were initially cut to the 90 minute dull movie released in 1970 as Let It Be, and for the last 50 years stood as the end of the Beatles. Then, a couple years ago the remaining footage was dug up and given to Jackson to sift through and do something with it, and boy did he!!!
He's put together a far more interesting and enjoyable documentary from that footage of how the Beatles wrote and recorded the Let It Be album, culminating in their last live performance on the roof of their Apple Recording Studio on Jan. 30, 1969. A must watch for ALL Beatle fans if you have not seen it yet!
I love this channel and Caroline....greetings from the land of the rising sun!
great as always Caroline. Many thanks!
Nicely done again. Continue to look forward to each album of theirs you do.
All Together Now is a children's song used for the Yellow Submarine movie, which you should watch and review also. Hey Bulldog was originally cut from the movie, decades later restored/included. Hey Jude: You should really see the Tv show [David Frost] clip of the live version with the audience participation. It shows the impact of Hey Jude at the time. #1 for 9 weeks in fall of 1968 in the USA. Revolution, the single, was the flip side of Hey Jude and got almost equal air play. This is the FIRST versions of Revolution everyone heard. the boys did 't not sing shoo bee doo wop on this one, but did in the live TV performance version. This e "live " version were obviously live vocals with the backing track even though they played their instruments. Lady Madonna was earlier in 1968, right around Spring. the video originally used for Lady Madonna was used for Hey Bulldog video, with fats cuts in the studio.
Hey Bulldog was definitely, un apologetically influenced by the James Bond theme. By 1967 the James Bond Franchise with Sean Connery was in full swing and THE thing, especially in England where Ian Flemming is from and the books were around long before the movies. Even John Lennon and Paul McCartney wanted an Aston Martin with machine guns hidden in the headlights, saving the world from bad guys in a tuxedo with a Walter PPK and getting hot chicks while throwing down vodka martinis, shaken not stirred!
Hey Jude...... what can be said, other than one of the greatest pop songs of all time. He wrote that to comfort John's son Julian (who was about 5-6 years old at the time) when John and Cynthia (Julian's Mom) were getting a divorce after John hooked up with Yoko. His original title was simply "Hey Jules" but he felt that was a bit of a mouthful to sing, so he shortened it to "Hey Jude". You can be having the crappiest day, and put that song on, and feel like a million bucks after. It's just brimming with positivity and love. I've seen Paul McCartney live in concert 3 times, and every time he plays it he owns the arena/stadium..... the entire band can stop playing and the audience will carry the song's outtro for 5 minutes with him just standing at the piano watching. It's absolutely amazing.
Side note on Hey Jude: if you listen closely, you'll hear Paul drop an F-bomb that slipped through the final cut and to this day is considered one of the only times the F word slipped into a pop song recording. On the second to last line of the last verse (then you can start), if you listen closely in your headphones, you'll hear Paul yell "oh fucking hell" sort of behind the mix as he reportedly played the wrong chord or note on the piano. That bad note was edited out but through the entire editing/mastering process to the final cut that was shipped for sale and radio play, what he said stayed in the song lol!
John re-arranged Revolution because it was suggested as the single off of the White Album by producer George Martin but being the slow, laid back feel wasn't upbeat enough for a single. So not only did John speed up the tempo both he and George Harrison had the studio engineers get maximum overdrive out of their guitars for maximum fuzz. He wanted the song to sound angry, this was a protest song after all. This was before the days of big huge Marshall and Ampeg stacked guitar amplifiers you might think of when you think of hard rock or heavy metal, with massive amounts of loud overdriven distortion from huge 4 and 8 speaker cabinets. The Beatles were still using 2 speaker cabinets because there simply weren't anything louder, no one thought the day would come when guitar guys needed 3-4-500 watts of power and 3 sets of full speaker stacks. So they had to turn the dials on the recording equipment in the studio way up. The bosses at EMI didn't like that because they were afraid it would overdrive and break their expensive recording desk.
You left out the F-bomb in "Good Day Sunshine".
@@BaccarWozat I'm not aware of that one..... which exact point in the song is it supposed to be in? I just listened to it and couldn't pick it up anywhere. At least in Hey Jude it's very noticeable once you know what you're looking for.
There's an old story - perhaps an urban myth - that on the very first track on their very first album Paul drops an F-bomb,,, One, two, three, f*k
Don't think hey bulldog has anything to do with James bond. Not lennons scene.
@@Lennonlover06 My point was the beat and grove of it. Listen to the theme to Dr. No, the basis for all James Bond movies since it came out in 1962. And then listen to Hey Bulldog, back-to-back.
Your videos brighten my day. Thank you!
A new analysis is most Welcome! Thank you as always, your videos alway brighten my day