quoting Art Garfunkel: ''Here, There and Everywhere of all The Beatles’ records, this one truly intoxicated me,” Garfunkel beamed. It’s beautiful in every way a song can be. What was going through Paul McCartney’s life the week he wrote this? You have to be in some kind of magical mood to come up with something this enchanting.'' He also stated: "If music can be defined as that which perfumes the atmosphere, then Here, There And Everywhere does it like no other single I’ve ever heard. It’s supreme.”
I like to think that McCartney watches these. It would be rewarding as an artist to have someone explore their work so enthusiastically, knowledgeably and respectfully.
I had to put my headphones on to hear the finger snaps! That was a tour de force both from you - one of your best and certainly most positive reactions - and Paul. Amazing how much richness The Beatles can cram into 2 minutes 25 seconds.
You might be having a hard time knowing if it's Paul singing a particular song is he is a true chameleon. He can sing a gentle ballad, a screaming rocker and everything in between.
Your knowledge of music is incredibly deep, and your lyrical analysis is thought-provoking. I don't always agree with your lyrical analysis, but your musical analysis is very educational. It has been over 5 decades since my music appreciation class. I would have loved to have had a class from you when I was young and obsessed with music.
What is so amazing about Paul's writing is that a whole verse often exists of one long melody line without repeating itself. Often songs have a melody line, another line and then the third line repeats the first melody line again. Paul can write really nice long melody lines that expand over the whole verse or chorus... Yesterday is also a great example, just like For no one, Michelle and many more
Also if you are looking for John's voice vs Paul's, John's is very much always John. Paul has many different vocal timbres and he can select the right one for the song. He can do bluesy, screaming, crooning, old-time, and more.
Yes. McCartney’s voice is pure flowing spring water. Lennon’s is a stream that flows against jagged boulders and rocks. Yet they are different stretches of the same stream hence why they sound so harmonious together.
It's a compulsion - I have to point out that the three verses begin 'Here', 'There', and 'Everywhere'. And the 'Everywhere' is really the last word of the bridge/middle eight, but it fits into the space where the first word of the third verse goes, which is partly why the phrase lengths are uneven around that point.
And matching this to other Paul vocals - like the most excellent range of OH DARLING or the wonderfully jaunty MARTHA MY DEAR - still belongs to the same vocalist who crooned PS I LOVE YOU. From his latest work to those earliest ones, it's still Paul. Songs like JUNK, too.
❤ One more of my favourites on Revolver ❤️🎸🎸🎤🎤🎼🎶🎵🎶 I love how you describe McCartney's voice 👌 a wonderful characterization 😊 Interesting observation about melodies: a statement ... a flow ... a pause ... flow again. Such a great observation of a Paul McCartney fingerprint 👌😀 You really spotted something there ... I never noticed that. Your observations bring always a new light to me, thank you very much! What a wonderful reaction this was again for me 👍🏻😊👏👏👏
Great song and reaction! I loved your enthusiasm and enjoyment of it. Good job on guessing the title, it wasn't as easy as most of theirs are. John had a rare complement in the background info for one of Paul's songs, instead of his usual: "That's Paul" and leaving it at that. Good description and contrast of John and Paul's voices. Great observation noticing the Paul fingerprint in the lyrical pattern of making a quick statement followed by more drawn out lines, such as in songs like "Yesterday," "Eleanor Rigby," and "Michelle." Good illustrations of the musical ideas and harmonic progression on the piano and harp, along with your other descriptive observations on both the music and lyrics. I'm really glad you enjoyed this so much.
The key changes and transitions don't adequately describe the pure magic of this song-how he takes this song in so many new directions, which don't seem musically possible.
With regard to your question about other Beatles songs that use the ascending chord progression of G, A Minor 7, B minor 7, and C, the first one that comes to my mind, is a section in the song "Sexy Sadie" from The White Album. I'm sure there are others as well, but this one sprang to mind immediately.
The Beatles were about to go back on tour and had almost no time left in the studio. Paul came up with this at the last moment; the mastering and delivery of the album was promised on a no-compromise date. They rushed into the studio to get it recorded and because of the schedule George Martin had no time to add any backing arrangement - this is the Beatles, period. Four men, the perfect ensemble with a perfect song. And then they flew off to tour. At their best - magical.
Perhaps the most famous example coming up of the Paul musical signature you’ve spotted is Hey Jude, but there are many more. Fool on the Hill, Lady Madonna, Hello Goodbye, Oh Darling
The effect of Paul’s preview listening to Pet Sounds, it has been said, influenced Here There and Everywhere, particularly, l believe he has stated, the intro.
Those shifts e.g. suddenly to B minor, also bring out an impressionist side in McCartney: They remind me of how Debussy structured chord shifts as well, e.g. Clair de Lune, Girl with the flaxen hair, etc.
It would be interesting if she did a harp cover of this. The bit that she did play really did remind of those two, or bits of Arabesque, how those notes float so beautifully.
That is a fundamental ear-check - worth a head-shake and getting the answer to the question, "What did he say?!! Did I hear that right?" Paul's selection of words has never been better... never been topped.
Do You want to Know a Secret, had an introductory part when it's sung "You'll never know how much I really love you..." I think there is an official musical term for that and this one's "To lead a better life..."
Yeah, McCartney talked about it several times in interviews. It’s called “the verse”, rather counterintuitively. They used to admire this in old fashioned tunes, that use them
In his Lyrics book, Paul is particularly pleased with the line Changing my world with a wave of her hand. He also intimates this is his finest song. Great book
Your remarks are totally spot-on. If you would like to hear John's rendition of 'To Know Her is to Love Her' in 1963 (BBC) you'll see another of his nasal performances. It's a wonderful cover. It's interesting that you compare Paul's voice to raw wood, especially considering you haven't listened to his raw rock n' roll numbers such as I'm Down, Long Tall Sally, Ksnsas City or Hippie Hippie Shake to name just a few.
Of Beatles songs known to be written outdoors under the sun I prefer "Here Comes the Sun". This one is just a bit too soft and twee for my tastes. But there's no denying it's a superbly crafted song. And it's fun to watch Amy discover connections between songs.. the Beatles DNA.
"LOVE OF THE LOVED" SUNG BY CILLA BLACK DURING THE EARLY DAYS OF THE BEATLES IS ANOTHER PAUL'S SONG THAT HAS THE SAME IDEA IN THE CHORD PROGRESSION ON THE VERSE:G Bm Bb
Lennon used D sharp minor to D in the intro of "IF I Fell". Paul used B minor to B flat in this one. Afterwards the chord progressions between If I Fell and Here, There, and Everywhere are not that disimilar. Totally different tunes, but there are some similarities.
Presuming Amy will do every song on the album (except maybe Dr. Robert and I Want to Tell You) I would love for her to, at some point, begin to take stock of all that she has heard. Never before, and rarely since, has a band put so many types of music, sounds, styles on one album. It is breathtaking the more you consider it. And of course we all know what awaits at the very end. BUT-- I bet she knows the next one!!!!!!!!
@VirginRock . Thank you for this channel, you've really taught me how to truly listen, however I would really appreciate it if you could play the song through in longer sections , it makes it very hard to follow if I can't find the part you are commenting on. Thanks once again
That melancholy, yearning element you noticed may have been because of an underlying tension in Paul's relationship with Jane. She was a serious actress with her own independent career that required her to be away quite often for extended periods of time, working in repertory in other cities. To fill the void while 'his love was away', Paul had a virtual harem of young women who provided him with secondary and tertiary levels of companionship. That carefree bachelor life, though irresistible when he was feeling lonely, must have been at odds with a growing desire for family and stability ('To lead a better life, I need my love to be here...'') The tensions suggested in this song come to bitter fruition in another of Paul's songs, For No-one, which describes the sickening emptiness when a long term relationship comes to an end and the person you love and desire no longer loves and desires you. Jane had come home early one day and found her beloved in bed with one of the secondary (or was it tertiary?) mistresses, and finally called it quits. Happily, they both went on to have long and happy - and as far as I know, monogamous - marriages with new partners.
Another top ten song for me, Paul's 2 for 2 on this album, and he's not finished yet. 1966 was a very good year for him. The intro is really neat, and what's really great is he uses Bb later in the bridges, so it's not just a gimmick, it's part of the song. The verses are almost an inverted version of "Air on a G String" for a bit, which kind of gives it a positive, hopeful vibe. I love what you said about song opening up. That's what I hear when it transitions from the bridges back to the verses, it does that Bb Gm Cm D7 a couple times and then opens up to G. I like what you said about the genre too. For me, it's a standard, like "If I Fell" or "Yesterday". It would be a great song in a musical about longing for someone. And the lyrics are very cleverly written, something I imagine Lennon really appreciated about it.
Oh, I’ve been listening to the Beatles since I was about 5-years old, almost daily, and it took me years to know the difference between the two. They were best buddies and harmonized and sang together all the time. After they went solo then John especially started singing and recording his voice differently I think…John was the one who needed that divorce to really blossom I think…❤
I remember reading that John and Paul wrote the introduction together. Paul wanted something like the beach boys’ Pet Sounds album. There are John-sounding triplets in there. So maybe the resemblance to Do you want to know a secret is correct?
Joe Cocker makes a guest appearance for the song Come Together and Bono from U2 has an epic appearance for the song I am the Walrus. It's a cohesive and well put together story using 34 songs by the Beatles. It is well sung by the actors and better with each rewatch
That movie has some great bits of musical direction and arrangement in it, and some very creative visual interpretations of the songs (I was particularly impressed by how well “I want you/she’s so heavy” worked in context, with “I want you” being the voice of an Uncle Sam recruitment poster, and the “she” being the Statue of Liberty) But it’s spoiled by the heavy use of autotune on the vocals. It’s used on just about everybody, but is especially noticeable on the actor who played Jude, who sounds a robot.
"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” ― Bruce Lee
This is in my top 5 beatle songs, and even though it's obvious it bears mentioning that not only is the changeability with that wave of her hand expressed in a kind of effortlessness of her impact on his life, it could be a literal wave where he expected her steadying presence on some trip or adventure but she stayed behind, and waved him goodbye, and even temporarily it puts him all out of kilter in his life.
You can play much longer clips. There are so many parts that fly under the radar. This tune has a great key change going into Bb . The background triad harmonies are exquisite. Paul does only one harmony under the melody “ Watching her eyes “ if I recall is the line correctly. The other thing to consider this is a no production song. Guitar,bass, drums and finger snaps - clicks .Paul sings in a very soft voice but no falsetto.
You need to do a project with björk, vespertine and her live performance at the royal opera house. Compare the studio version of each music and her live performance act. It even has harp and it's an important piece. The DVD even has some interviews where they speak of the harp and the harp world.
George Martin, Beatles producer, took Beatles songs and asked various artists to perform them to his orchestral interpretation. He called it "In My Life". He asked Celine Dion to perform Here, There, and Everywhere. You should really listen to this version. It's on UA-cam and it is called "In My Life" by George Martin. I would be interested hearing your comments.
I don't hear a flute at the end of this song. Are you sure you're not referring to the descending electric guitar line? I think the guitarist used a pedal for that short motif.
Static melody with shifting harmony IS a Paul McCartney fingerprint, Amy. Watch for it later in With A Little Help From My Friends, Your Mother Should Know, and others.
Static melody? If anything, that’s a signature of JOHN’s writing (eg Help, Dear Prudence etc). Typically, McCartney’s Melodies travel around a bit more, and certainly cover a wider range of notes.
Amy seemed to go through what I, and probably a lot of other people go through when we get acquainted with this song. From, "Oh, what a nice, sweet song" to "Wow, what a song!"
Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr - The Medley From the 1984 film, "Give my Regards to Broad Street," this 'Medley' consists of "Yesterday," 'Here, There, and Everywhere," and "Wanderlust." Watch as Ringo searches for brushes, needed for the first part of the medley, only to find them in time to switch to sticks. For those who have not seen this movie, Paul's melancholy is due to an assistant, missing with the only copy of master tapes of music that were about to go to album production, and a record company about to be taken over. Thank you.
The guessing game is cute, very enjoyable, but renouncing to the title, to the track list. is not necessary. The track list is important. Being an album, the songs have a relationship between them. You mentioned that going back to Eleonor Rigby would maybe not be that easy, having the song a painful emotion associated to it (or something like that). But if later you go back to the album, you will find Eleonor Rigby between Love You To, Here There and Everywhere, etc., as part of a whole. Similar to a classical work composed of movements. Besides, the titles become a life of their own, become part of everyday language. As Vald (is it Vald?) said you once: "from me to you". "Here, there and everywhere." "Let it be," "here comes the sun", etc. turn into idioms. One kind of transportation has to be yellow in your mind. Thanks for the beautiful reaction.
From my experience as a songwriter, I’m sure the intro was composed well after the verse and bridge were. It’s one of those jazz intros they liked from Gershwin or Hoagie Carmichael era music (then called the “verse” of the verse-refrain structure they used). They used it for If I Fell and a few others.
I can also imagine that Paul had maybe just learned about chord scales from Jane Asher’s mom and used that knowledge as the basis for the verse chords.
Interesting, i've never noticed a flute here, and i don't really hear it now either, but there is use of a guitar swell pedal near the end. I'm wondering if that's what you hear?
Isn't it interesting that The Beatles couldn't read music. It was just intuitive. Later on someone asked Paul, why don't you learn to write and read music, his reply was that it might ruin the magic of composing for him.
There is a video of the many voices of McCartney because it varies from this to something like Helter Skelter. So it's understandable if you are not familiar with their music, that you might not be sure of who is actually singing.
In 1984, Paul McCartney remade a number of his Beatles, Wings and solo songs for his "Give My Regards to Broad Street" film. The movie was panned, but the lead single "No More Lonely Nights" and the soundtrack album were successful. I have it on vinyl and enjoyed it, especially the updated version of "Here There and Everywhere", which segued with 1982's "Wanderlust". Congratulations on your channel - I think you might enjoy hearing the newer version(s) - well worth a listen.
If possible,, could you analysis one of Earth Wind & Fire’s legendary tracks? Choose from anyone of these classic tunes: That’s the way of the world, fantasy, shining star, September, reasons, serpentine fire, lovers holiday, I’ll write a song for you. In case you did not know. Earth wind & fire is one of the biggest legendary iconic bands of the 70s. They even had a major hit,, covering one The Beatles tune “Got to get you into my life”.
Please consider listening to „Chasing sheep is best left to shepherds” by Michael Nyman. This isn’t precisely a rock piece, yet has rock-style energy to it.. Cheers!
The stereo version of this track has the finger snaps at the end but the mono version doesn't. I'm more familiar with the mono version so I'd never noticed it before. Has anyone got the original vinyl to check this out?
Dear Virgin Revolver may be was the beginning that The Beatles started to wrote lyrics in a different way not following a line, She said She said, or Tomorrow Never Knows is imposible to analyze wiz a kind of Logic,
10:28 “The same chord, but major and flat” is a really bizarre and confusing way to describe Bb major, relative to B minor. The two chords have precisely the same relationship to each other as B major does with C minor (the two chords that would replace them, respectively, if the song were transposed up a semi-tone to the key of Ab) and I’m sure Amy would never describe B major and C minor as being, in any conceivable respect, versions of “the same chord” This strikes me as an example of the many odd symptoms of a particular kind of classical training, one that tends to drill the NAMES of notes into the heads of young musicians long before they really understand how they function musically in relation to each other. The result is that the names of notes take on an outsized importance, so much so that the musician continues to think of, for example B and Bb, as being somehow the SAME note with different hats on, or at least two different iterations of the same category or kind of note, rather than two entirely different notes, no more closely related than any other two adjacent notes in the chromatic scale (at least in 12TET), that just happen to share a name because of a quirk of the way the nomenclature associated with western music theory developed historically. It tends to be the same kind of mentality that cares deeply whether a note is referred to as A# or Bb, and will correct you if you use the “wrong” one, despite the fact that in equal temperament they are simply alternative (and ultimately arbitrary) names for the same note, and that in the vast majority of contexts it makes not a jot of difference which one you use.
In my opinion it's the standout of Revolver, so I hope it's not skipped either. It seems to me the last two songs in Rubber Soul were skipped so I'm somewhat apprehensive.
quoting Art Garfunkel: ''Here, There and Everywhere of all The Beatles’ records, this one truly intoxicated me,” Garfunkel beamed. It’s beautiful in every way a song can be. What was going through Paul McCartney’s life the week he wrote this? You have to be in some kind of magical mood to come up with something this enchanting.'' He also stated: "If music can be defined as that which perfumes the atmosphere, then Here, There And Everywhere does it like no other single I’ve ever heard. It’s supreme.”
One of Paul's truly great songs, even John was highly complimentary of it.
This is my all-time second favourite Beatles song. A masterpiece. I've had the honour of singing it at some weddings.
I've been waiting on this one. I'm not disappointed. I think this is probably you're best analysis. Thanks very much
I like to think that McCartney watches these. It would be rewarding as an artist to have someone explore their work so enthusiastically, knowledgeably and respectfully.
I had to put my headphones on to hear the finger snaps! That was a tour de force both from you - one of your best and certainly most positive reactions - and Paul. Amazing how much richness The Beatles can cram into 2 minutes 25 seconds.
Excellent analysis, but more than that, here was a process of discovery. Thanks for bringing us along Amy.
You might be having a hard time knowing if it's Paul singing a particular song is he is a true chameleon. He can sing a gentle ballad, a screaming rocker and everything in between.
And he can imitate pretty good others singers, Little Richard, Elvis, Virgin should listen Helter Skelter, Oh Darling, and many others.
Your knowledge of music is incredibly deep, and your lyrical analysis is thought-provoking. I don't always agree with your lyrical analysis, but your musical analysis is very educational. It has been over 5 decades since my music appreciation class. I would have loved to have had a class from you when I was young and obsessed with music.
What is so amazing about Paul's writing is that a whole verse often exists of one long melody line without repeating itself. Often songs have a melody line, another line and then the third line repeats the first melody line again. Paul can write really nice long melody lines that expand over the whole verse or chorus... Yesterday is also a great example, just like For no one, Michelle and many more
Also if you are looking for John's voice vs Paul's, John's is very much always John. Paul has many different vocal timbres and he can select the right one for the song. He can do bluesy, screaming, crooning, old-time, and more.
He can also sing much higher.
Yes. McCartney’s voice is pure flowing spring water. Lennon’s is a stream that flows against jagged boulders and rocks. Yet they are different stretches of the same stream hence why they sound so harmonious together.
Beautifully written - I think you've captured it!
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Thank you for commenting. Interesting name you have. Are you an old friend of Miles Davis ?
Both are in total control of *how* their voice sounds in each recording.
"Let's go to the piano for this" shows this is SERIOUS stuff. ; )
It's a compulsion - I have to point out that the three verses begin 'Here', 'There', and 'Everywhere'. And the 'Everywhere' is really the last word of the bridge/middle eight, but it fits into the space where the first word of the third verse goes, which is partly why the phrase lengths are uneven around that point.
My favorite Beatles song ❤
And matching this to other Paul vocals - like the most excellent range of OH DARLING or the wonderfully jaunty MARTHA MY DEAR - still belongs to the same vocalist who crooned PS I LOVE YOU. From his latest work to those earliest ones, it's still Paul. Songs like JUNK, too.
❤ One more of my favourites on Revolver ❤️🎸🎸🎤🎤🎼🎶🎵🎶
I love how you describe McCartney's voice 👌 a wonderful characterization 😊
Interesting observation about melodies: a statement ... a flow ... a pause ... flow again. Such a great observation of a Paul McCartney fingerprint 👌😀 You really spotted something there ... I never noticed that. Your observations bring always a new light to me, thank you very much! What a wonderful reaction this was again for me 👍🏻😊👏👏👏
John Lennon’s favorite McCartney song …
@@stevencherny I know 👍🏻😉❤️
This was one of her best reactions musical
Great song and reaction! I loved your enthusiasm and enjoyment of it. Good job on guessing the title, it wasn't as easy as most of theirs are. John had a rare complement in the background info for one of Paul's songs, instead of his usual: "That's Paul" and leaving it at that. Good description and contrast of John and Paul's voices. Great observation noticing the Paul fingerprint in the lyrical pattern of making a quick statement followed by more drawn out lines, such as in songs like "Yesterday," "Eleanor Rigby," and "Michelle." Good illustrations of the musical ideas and harmonic progression on the piano and harp, along with your other descriptive observations on both the music and lyrics. I'm really glad you enjoyed this so much.
I've never noticed that before. Worth watching the video just for this!
Watching you discover that Paul McCartney fingerprint was awesome!! It was a revelation to me as well. So cool!!!
Peace
The key changes and transitions don't adequately describe the pure magic of this song-how he takes this song in so many new directions, which don't seem musically possible.
With regard to your question about other Beatles songs that use the ascending chord progression of G, A Minor 7, B minor 7, and C, the first one that comes to my mind, is a section in the song "Sexy Sadie" from The White Album. I'm sure there are others as well, but this one sprang to mind immediately.
If I Fell
By the way, the background vocals are sublime and something only the Beatles could do. The modulation to B flat for the middle is also sublime
Thanks again; I now know *why* I like this so much.
The Beatles were about to go back on tour and had almost no time left in the studio. Paul came up with this at the last moment; the mastering and delivery of the album was promised on a no-compromise date. They rushed into the studio to get it recorded and because of the schedule George Martin had no time to add any backing arrangement - this is the Beatles, period. Four men, the perfect ensemble with a perfect song. And then they flew off to tour. At their best - magical.
Perhaps the most famous example coming up of the Paul musical signature you’ve spotted is Hey Jude, but there are many more. Fool on the Hill, Lady Madonna, Hello Goodbye, Oh Darling
Everything you've shown as a pattern in this song sounds like God only knows it's amazing!!!
The effect of Paul’s preview listening to Pet Sounds, it has been said, influenced Here There and Everywhere, particularly, l believe he has stated, the intro.
@@markcorcoran482 ...and Pet Sounds was influenced by Rubber Soul.
@@clicheguevara5282 In that Rubber Soul was, in Brian's words, "A whole album of good stuff." No filler.
Those shifts e.g. suddenly to B minor, also bring out an impressionist side in McCartney:
They remind me of how Debussy structured chord shifts as well, e.g. Clair de Lune, Girl with the flaxen hair, etc.
Debussy is a genius.
@@julian65886 "Is" Bravo
It would be interesting if she did a harp cover of this. The bit that she did play really did remind of those two, or bits of Arabesque, how those notes float so beautifully.
@@EddieReischl The Arabesque. True.
I agree, a harp cover would be nice!
there is a fantastic modulation at 'changing my life with a wave of her hand'. I hope Amy will discuss it
That is a fundamental ear-check - worth a head-shake and getting the answer to the question, "What did he say?!! Did I hear that right?" Paul's selection of words has never been better... never been topped.
Paul being more tenor can slide into he hight notes with ease. Paul has many voices.
So many interesting insights - well done Amy!
My wedding song...and I'm sure I'm not the only one
We went with In My Life.
@@John_Locke_108 you can never go wrong with The Beatles 😉
@@riccardovian1317 .. unless you walk down the aisle to 'Run For Your Life'.😂
An absolutely incredible analysis. You're a genius.
"We made a journey in such a short span of time" this how I and many others feel about your videos.
Do You want to Know a Secret, had an introductory part when it's sung "You'll never know how much I really love you..." I think there is an official musical term for that and this one's "To lead a better life..."
Yeah, McCartney talked about it several times in interviews. It’s called “the verse”, rather counterintuitively. They used to admire this in old fashioned tunes, that use them
In his Lyrics book, Paul is particularly pleased with the line Changing my world with a wave of her hand. He also intimates this is his finest song. Great book
The very beginning always reminds me of live and let die, beautiful song.
Same here…
What a load of horse manure.
Your remarks are totally spot-on. If you would like to hear John's rendition of 'To Know Her is to Love Her' in 1963 (BBC) you'll see another of his nasal performances. It's a wonderful cover.
It's interesting that you compare Paul's voice to raw wood, especially considering you haven't listened to his raw rock n' roll numbers such as I'm Down, Long Tall Sally, Ksnsas City or Hippie Hippie Shake to name just a few.
Hi Amy, thank you for your very sharp observation about Paul McCartney's "fingerprints"!
Of Beatles songs known to be written outdoors under the sun I prefer "Here Comes the Sun". This one is just a bit too soft and twee for my tastes. But there's no denying it's a superbly crafted song. And it's fun to watch Amy discover connections between songs.. the Beatles DNA.
Thank you BOTH for this series. You should consider your favorite songs and make a video featuring your own harp arrangement for them. Thank you!
"LOVE OF THE LOVED" SUNG BY CILLA BLACK DURING THE EARLY DAYS OF THE BEATLES IS ANOTHER PAUL'S SONG THAT HAS THE SAME IDEA IN THE CHORD PROGRESSION ON THE VERSE:G Bm Bb
Lennon used D sharp minor to D in the intro of "IF I Fell". Paul used B minor to B flat in this one. Afterwards the chord progressions between If I Fell and Here, There, and Everywhere are not that disimilar. Totally different tunes, but there are some similarities.
Presuming Amy will do every song on the album (except maybe Dr. Robert and I Want to Tell You) I would love for her to, at some point, begin to take stock of all that she has heard. Never before, and rarely since, has a band put so many types of music, sounds, styles on one album. It is breathtaking the more you consider it. And of course we all know what awaits at the very end. BUT-- I bet she knows the next one!!!!!!!!
Finger snaps fit the barbershop quartet genre.
@VirginRock . Thank you for this channel, you've really taught me how to truly listen, however I would really appreciate it if you could play the song through in longer sections , it makes it very hard to follow if I can't find the part you are commenting on. Thanks once again
That melancholy, yearning element you noticed may have been because of an underlying tension in Paul's relationship with Jane. She was a serious actress with her own independent career that required her to be away quite often for extended periods of time, working in repertory in other cities. To fill the void while 'his love was away', Paul had a virtual harem of young women who provided him with secondary and tertiary levels of companionship. That carefree bachelor life, though irresistible when he was feeling lonely, must have been at odds with a growing desire for family and stability ('To lead a better life, I need my love to be here...'')
The tensions suggested in this song come to bitter fruition in another of Paul's songs, For No-one, which describes the sickening emptiness when a long term relationship comes to an end and the person you love and desire no longer loves and desires you. Jane had come home early one day and found her beloved in bed with one of the secondary (or was it tertiary?) mistresses, and finally called it quits.
Happily, they both went on to have long and happy - and as far as I know, monogamous - marriages with new partners.
***SPOILER ALERT!***
Another top ten song for me, Paul's 2 for 2 on this album, and he's not finished yet. 1966 was a very good year for him. The intro is really neat, and what's really great is he uses Bb later in the bridges, so it's not just a gimmick, it's part of the song.
The verses are almost an inverted version of "Air on a G String" for a bit, which kind of gives it a positive, hopeful vibe.
I love what you said about song opening up. That's what I hear when it transitions from the bridges back to the verses, it does that Bb Gm Cm D7 a couple times and then opens up to G.
I like what you said about the genre too. For me, it's a standard, like "If I Fell" or "Yesterday". It would be a great song in a musical about longing for someone. And the lyrics are very cleverly written, something I imagine Lennon really appreciated about it.
Oh, I’ve been listening to the Beatles since I was about 5-years old, almost daily, and it took me years to know the difference between the two. They were best buddies and harmonized and sang together all the time. After they went solo then John especially started singing and recording his voice differently I think…John was the one who needed that divorce to really blossom I think…❤
I remember reading that John and Paul wrote the introduction together. Paul wanted something like the beach boys’ Pet Sounds album. There are John-sounding triplets in there. So maybe the resemblance to Do you want to know a secret is correct?
Revolver versus Pet Sounds. Brian Wilson inspired The Beatles. Both bands gained from this creative rivalry.
Thank you Amy. I'm a fan of the harp now. I picked up a recording by Susanna Mildonian.
I consider it the song that every woman wants to hear, and every guy wants to sing to his gal.
The movie musical Across The Universe is worth checking out for any Beatles fans.
Joe Cocker makes a guest appearance for the song Come Together and Bono from U2 has an epic appearance for the song I am the Walrus.
It's a cohesive and well put together story using 34 songs by the Beatles. It is well sung by the actors and better with each rewatch
That movie has some great bits of musical direction and arrangement in it, and some very creative visual interpretations of the songs (I was particularly impressed by how well “I want you/she’s so heavy” worked in context, with “I want you” being the voice of an Uncle Sam recruitment poster, and the “she” being the Statue of Liberty)
But it’s spoiled by the heavy use of autotune on the vocals. It’s used on just about everybody, but is especially noticeable on the actor who played Jude, who sounds a robot.
"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
― Bruce Lee
It’s like blindfolded person feeling a tusk and describing an elephant.
This is in my top 5 beatle songs, and even though it's obvious it bears mentioning that not only is the changeability with that wave of her hand expressed in a kind of effortlessness of her impact on his life, it could be a literal wave where he expected her steadying presence on some trip or adventure but she stayed behind, and waved him goodbye, and even temporarily it puts him all out of kilter in his life.
Wait until you see the contrast of for no one….
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Vlad, "Do You Want to Know a Secret" is Harrison singing, but penned by Lennon.
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I heard Paul say this was one of his favorite songs he crafted.
The Long And Winding Road - Paul
It’s such a shame we can’t have the song itself.
You can play much longer clips. There are so many parts that fly under the radar. This tune has a great key change going into Bb . The background triad harmonies are exquisite. Paul does only one harmony under the melody “ Watching her eyes “ if I recall is the line correctly. The other thing to consider this is a no production song. Guitar,bass, drums and finger snaps - clicks .Paul sings in a very soft voice but no falsetto.
You need to do a project with björk, vespertine and her live performance at the royal opera house. Compare the studio version of each music and her live performance act. It even has harp and it's an important piece. The DVD even has some interviews where they speak of the harp and the harp world.
George Martin, Beatles producer, took Beatles songs and asked various artists to perform them to his orchestral interpretation. He called it "In My Life". He asked Celine Dion to perform Here, There, and Everywhere. You should really listen to this version. It's on UA-cam and it is called "In My Life" by George Martin. I would be interested hearing your comments.
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I don't hear a flute at the end of this song. Are you sure you're not referring to the descending electric guitar line? I think the guitarist used a pedal for that short motif.
Static melody with shifting harmony IS a Paul McCartney fingerprint, Amy.
Watch for it later in With A Little Help From My Friends, Your Mother Should Know, and others.
Static melody? If anything, that’s a signature of JOHN’s writing (eg Help, Dear Prudence etc). Typically, McCartney’s Melodies travel around a bit more, and certainly cover a wider range of notes.
Amy seemed to go through what I, and probably a lot of other people go through when we get acquainted with this song. From, "Oh, what a nice, sweet song" to "Wow, what a song!"
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Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr - The Medley
From the 1984 film, "Give my Regards to Broad Street," this 'Medley' consists of "Yesterday," 'Here, There, and Everywhere," and "Wanderlust."
Watch as Ringo searches for brushes, needed for the first part of the medley, only to find them in time to switch to sticks.
For those who have not seen this movie, Paul's melancholy is due to an assistant, missing with the only copy of master tapes of music that were about to go to album production, and a record company about to be taken over.
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The guessing game is cute, very enjoyable, but renouncing to the title, to the track list. is not necessary.
The track list is important. Being an album, the songs have a relationship between them.
You mentioned that going back to Eleonor Rigby would maybe not be that easy, having the song a painful emotion associated to it (or something like that). But if later you go back to the album, you will find Eleonor Rigby between Love You To, Here There and Everywhere, etc., as part of a whole. Similar to a classical work composed of movements.
Besides, the titles become a life of their own, become part of everyday language. As Vald (is it Vald?) said you once: "from me to you".
"Here, there and everywhere." "Let it be," "here comes the sun", etc. turn into idioms. One kind of transportation has to be yellow in your mind.
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Next song is as different as the previous 5…this album is when the Beatles sound became anything they could think of.
From my experience as a songwriter, I’m sure the intro was composed well after the verse and bridge were. It’s one of those jazz intros they liked from Gershwin or Hoagie Carmichael era music (then called the “verse” of the verse-refrain structure they used). They used it for If I Fell and a few others.
I can also imagine that Paul had maybe just learned about chord scales from Jane Asher’s mom and used that knowledge as the basis for the verse chords.
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Interesting, i've never noticed a flute here, and i don't really hear it now either, but there is use of a guitar swell pedal near the end. I'm wondering if that's what you hear?
My personal favourite Paul song. Verse in G, chorus in G minor, quite simple, really...
Paul wrote no more lonely nights , this follows the same pattern
I always hearted this song was inspired by the beachboys music maybe God only knows!!
Yes, Paul said he was influenced by the intro of "California Girls"...the prelude that is disconnected from the song proper.
Isn't it interesting that The Beatles couldn't read music. It was just intuitive. Later on someone asked Paul, why don't you learn to write and read music, his reply was that it might ruin the magic of composing for him.
The Beach Boys influenced the vocal harmonies, according to Paul.
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There is a video of the many voices of McCartney because it varies from this to something like Helter Skelter. So it's understandable if you are not familiar with their music, that you might not be sure of who is actually singing.
In 1984, Paul McCartney remade a number of his Beatles, Wings and solo songs for his "Give My Regards to Broad Street" film. The movie was panned, but the lead single "No More Lonely Nights" and the soundtrack album were successful. I have it on vinyl and enjoyed it, especially the updated version of "Here There and Everywhere", which segued with 1982's "Wanderlust".
Congratulations on your channel - I think you might enjoy hearing the newer version(s) - well worth a listen.
At the time I really liked GMRTB and had no idea it got panned. Shame as I think it has pretty much been erased from view now.
And keeping on the water theme, Wanderlust is about a boat
If possible,, could you analysis one of Earth Wind & Fire’s legendary tracks? Choose from anyone of these classic tunes: That’s the way of the world, fantasy, shining star, September, reasons, serpentine fire, lovers holiday, I’ll write a song for you. In case you did not know. Earth wind & fire is one of the biggest legendary iconic bands of the 70s. They even had a major hit,, covering one The Beatles tune “Got to get you into my life”.
Flute?!? Is this referring to George's volume pedaled electric guitar at the end?
Please consider listening to „Chasing sheep is best left to shepherds” by Michael Nyman. This isn’t precisely a rock piece, yet has rock-style energy to it..
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She spent 45 minutes on a 2.5 minute song. Time well spent.
The stereo version of this track has the finger snaps at the end but the mono version doesn't. I'm more familiar with the mono version so I'd never noticed it before.
Has anyone got the original vinyl to check this out?
Amy, please analize John's "Girl" and "In My Life" from RUBBER SOUL album.
She did already
Paul at his twee best.
Paul's homage to The Beach Boys
Along with Back in the USSR
I think this song is based o gther poem "Upon Julia's Clothes" by Robert Herrick.
Dear Virgin Revolver may be was the beginning that The Beatles started to wrote lyrics in a different way not following a line, She said She said, or Tomorrow Never Knows is imposible to analyze wiz a kind of Logic,
McCartney's voice sounds like a clarinet.
That's not a flute at the end, it's guitar volume swells. (George?)
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10:28 “The same chord, but major and flat” is a really bizarre and confusing way to describe Bb major, relative to B minor. The two chords have precisely the same relationship to each other as B major does with C minor (the two chords that would replace them, respectively, if the song were transposed up a semi-tone to the key of Ab) and I’m sure Amy would never describe B major and C minor as being, in any conceivable respect, versions of “the same chord”
This strikes me as an example of the many odd symptoms of a particular kind of classical training, one that tends to drill the NAMES of notes into the heads of young musicians long before they really understand how they function musically in relation to each other. The result is that the names of notes take on an outsized importance, so much so that the musician continues to think of, for example B and Bb, as being somehow the SAME note with different hats on, or at least two different iterations of the same category or kind of note, rather than two entirely different notes, no more closely related than any other two adjacent notes in the chromatic scale (at least in 12TET), that just happen to share a name because of a quirk of the way the nomenclature associated with western music theory developed historically.
It tends to be the same kind of mentality that cares deeply whether a note is referred to as A# or Bb, and will correct you if you use the “wrong” one, despite the fact that in equal temperament they are simply alternative (and ultimately arbitrary) names for the same note, and that in the vast majority of contexts it makes not a jot of difference which one you use.
She must have good headphones..I never heard finger snaps or a Flute
Please don't bypass Tomorrow Never Knows. It's one of the most original, unique and important pieces of music ever written.
In my opinion it's the standout of Revolver, so I hope it's not skipped either. It seems to me the last two songs in Rubber Soul were skipped so I'm somewhat apprehensive.
You corrected your numbering recently but you're starting to drift off again. This is number 61 in the series. "Love You To" was number 60.
You should do Eternal Flame by The Bangles