There's an issue that may seem trivial now, but Sgt Peppers was the first album in which the lyrics were printed on the cover. I'm brazilian and in 1967 my father brought home the album. I was nine years old then and we used to sit to listen the songs, singing together and my father translated the lyrics. Therefore I can say the Beatles were my first English teachers.
@@JamesLachowsky Dylan, Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Leon Redbone, Clapton & Whitlock (the LAYLA album), Willie Nelson, Kris K - heck, Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Durante, George Burns... tons of limited range singers, and from probably the invention of singing. I'm always amazed that so many 'bad/limited' singers can be just about perfect with the right song. (Frankly, all of them are role models for me and MY vocals. ha ha)
3 days after this was released several of the Beatles went to see Jimi Hendrix in concert and he started his show with a cover version of Sgt. Peppers.
It would have been even perfect-er if Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane had made the album. George Martin later regretted not putting them on Sgt. Pepper. They were released together as a single instead. The Beatles' creativity was off the charts during this time period.
Yes, pretty close to the truth. I did not care for the Beatles when the first appeared on the musci scene. I was a teenager in my native Denmark, my friends and I were into jazz, and Copenhagen had a great jazz club. When Sgt. Pepper's came out I was an au pair in Westport Ct, and were already into rock and roll, and jazz as well. However, that album changed my mind about the Beatles, love their album Abby Road and The White Album, and now some of their early stuff as well.
There’s at least two decades of our popular music (and then the even more amazing Jazz and Jazz Fusion music) where the sounds and musical journeys were so absorbing, we were pretty much pinned to our floors on the shag rug, lost in our headphones for the entire album, every time. This absorption, and the dream-state imagination it encouraged, surely changed us for the better while it lasted. It’s time we brought it back. 🔥🌪️⚡️
This album was released in June of 1967 and absolutely changed the musical world. The recording techniques and psychedelic songs were a revelation to every musician. Nothing had ever sounded like this album before.
good choice listening to these two songs together... Ringo has a very underrated singing voice.... sad it's over, except the next song is Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds!
Interesting fact, the answer to "what do you see when you turn out the light?" was the hardest line to write in the whole song. The group spent a long time trying to come up with an answer before settling on "I can't tell you but I know it's mine."
I know I keep saying this but I’m so excited to watch you react to the journey through the catalogue of the greatest band that ever played. Keep it up honey 🌺✌️
Mama, I’ve heard you say that before. The Beatles were the most MUSICALLY DIVERSIFIED group ever. They now teach their music in colleges for music majors here in NYC. Much love darling!
I was 12 when my sister’s boyfriend introduced me to the White Album. He helped me understand, interpret the meaning of the lyrics…so helpful for a 12 yr old. Then, gave me his album. I literally listened to it for a year straight. That was my Beetles discovery. Never stopped.
Agree you should try listening to whole albums. I think you'll find it a sweet journey. By the way, that was our guy Ringo, singing lead on With A Little Help From My Friends.
There was a rumour back then that Paul McCartney died in a car crash back in 1966 and was replaced by William Shears or Billy Shears. A winner of a lookalike competition. The Beatles made fun of it by introducing the One and only Billy Shears on this song. There was a lot of conspiracy back then about Paul is Dead. You can google it to get the full story
“If somebody don’t agree with that, meet me in the alley.” That CRACKED me up! This was great, JAYY. Thank you. I understand the comments urging you to do more, or entire albums at once. OTOH, you are a young lady, less than half my age, who surely grew up knowing nothing of The Beatles. I commend and thank you for taking it as far as you have, so far, and really love that you love it.
All the rock music was pretty much recorded in stereo, so there are two different channels, left and right, coming through the speakers. One mic will pick up one or several sounds that will come through on channel A, and the other mic will pick up the input of sounds from channel B. So instruments and voices have always been separated into two sides. Other than early on, when music was recorded in one track, and monophonic. Then there was no separation. George Martin, the Beatle's sound engineer, was a pioneer in music recording with the Beatles. He experimented with new techniques and sounds. So the separation is more obvious.
Yesterday I watched a video of Geoff Emerick ,sound engineer ,talking about how the effects were done on this album. George Martin was the experienced producer but the band and the two sound engineers were just lads in their twenties . Geoff was still learning his trade but was able to help the Beatles in fresh sounds and innovations . The most interesting thing for me was that Paul McCartney knew instinctively that more was wanted but he was not able to voice what he meant and there was a lot of trial and error. By experimenting with the sound equipment ,effects were achieved on equipment that was primitive compared to what came later. Most recording sessions were from late afternoon until 12 hours later; it would usually finish because Ringo would just get up ,put his coat on and go.
Hey Jayy, just wanted you to know how much I appreciate you delving into the music that literally changed our world. The Beatles were pioneers of popular music and challenged a multitude of other artists to create fantastic songs of their own. The lads from Liverpool were trendsetters and inspired and influenced writers of all genres. Each album stands on its own merits, which speaks to their remarkable creativity. Thank you, for helping to keep the Beatles relevant, it means a lot to so many. God Bless.
The whole Sgt Pepper album does that where all the songs kind of bleed into the other. In fact, this album was the first to do that. Making it the first "concept " album really. Many prog rock bands made concept albums. The Beatles were just so influential. It cannot be overstated enough.
Great reaction JAYY. The terminology you are looking for is "panning'. Through 1967, the Beatles prioritized their concentration on the mono mixes of their recordings (due to stereo not being available on A M radio or most U K phonographs) So the panning effects you hear were not considered in the mono mix. Though stereo mixes of their mid 60's albums were done, they were not given the same care the mono mixes were. By 1968, stereo mixes became their priority mixes. Since the late 60's, stereo mixes came to the fore due to the growth of F M radio, which broadcast in stereo. Mono became extinct by 1969. But back in the day, the Beatles preferred the mono mixes over their stereo mixes. Cheers, RNB
Thank you JAYY for choosing me to text you on Telegram. Sadly, I am not on social media. Knowing you would pick me is an honor and more than I ever could expect. You have made my day.😘😘😘😘😘😘 Thank you so much, Rick
When I was growing up listening to my parents’ Beatles records, I would lay in the middle of the living room floor, pull the speakers around on either side of my head, and let the music take me away. I know very well about different voices in each ear.
The earlier Beatles albums had wide audio separation due to limitations of the recording equipment. Stereo was in its infancy back in the early 60’s and Abbey Road (EMI Studios) was still primarily making pop records in monophonic, the standard of the day. Making a stereo album with the old tapes resulted in the voices being on one side and the music on the other. Later on Abbey Road finally got 8 track recorders to replace their 2 and 4 track recorders. As a result the later Beatles recordings have a better overall mix to them. Recently developed technology has helped with the Beatles remixed albums to have a better balance, but some fans still prefer the older mixes.
They did that alot back then... Song's like "Martha my dear" had the vocals and a few backups on one side and the Bulk of the instruments on the other. This was one of the First Albums to promote the "Paul is dead" Theories... From the Band standing in front of the Grave to the inside where Pail is sitting cross legged ("A Hindu Burial Ritual"). there was 100 "clues" when I heard about this in 1973, but the number has doubled since then. It's Musical Genius, Art, and a built in "Find the Clues (in the Album art AND Songs)" all mixed together!
Sgt. Pepper’s is the album said to have changed the music revolution. And the concept of the songs is just part of it. This was the first time the Beatles had the technology in the recording studio to be able to record such an album. Before then they couldn’t have horns and a string section nor sound effects on the same song along with the band’s guitar, bass and drums. Prior to that it had to be either or but not both. So the Beatles were the first group to really take advantage and experiment the new mixing technology . But then other singers and music groups started doing the same. And then because of this new technology. You started seeing longer albums and longer songs.
One thing that's great about the "Sgt. Pepper" song. It starts with Paul on the verses and on the chorus It's John, Paul, and George, with John being the prominent voice. The transition, from one song jumping right to the next, is called a Segue (pronounced "segway"). Oh yeah, and it's Ringo the drummer singing lead vocals on "A Little Help From My Friends". With John and Paul singing backup vocals. The whole record is a masterpiece though.
With A Little Help From My Friends by The Beatles is a pop song. Joe Cocker's version is a soul/gospel anthem. Best cover version ever, even admitted by The Beatles.
My uncle bought me this album when it came out in 1967. I was 2 years old. I played my Disney records, Burl Ives, “Puff The Magic Dragon”, “Blue-Tailed Fly”, and ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’. I’ve known every word since I was little, even though I didn’t understand a lot of them. A four year old American kid doesn’t understand phrases like “lastly through a hogshead of real fire”, “tonight Mr. Kite is topping the bill”, “they’re guaranteed to raise a smile”, “plasticine porters with looking-glass ties”, etc, but I could recite them to you. This album is special to me. Also, their first records were recorded in mono, stereo was brand new then, they were learning how to use it, so that’s why you’d hear that great separation in the instruments. What amazes me is that all the Beatles records up to and including ‘Sgt. Peppers’ were recorded on 4 track equipment. That means only 4 tracks! If you recorded drums and bass together, for instance, you couldn’t separate them. You couldn’t take the 7th drum track and the 15th bass track, raise the bass in the mix, etc. Once it was on one of the 4, that’s it. They used all kinds of tape loops, random noises, etc on this album and ‘Revolver’, and it all had to be recorded onto one of the four permanent tracks, or start over.
Funny thing about the sound on the Beatles' albums, they are going back and remixing all the albums to make them sound more 'modern'. They are mixing the main vocals into the middle so that there isn't all of the separation that there is on this. You listened to the 2009 mix, which was the same as was released in 1967. The 2017 mix is different. I always liked this original mix. It makes it sound like it's live. But the new mixes aren't supposed to replace the old mixes. Good thing!
"It was 20 years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play" is the first lyric of this first song from the album. With a fortuitous and brilliant stroke of marketing, the compact disc version was released in 1987 exactly 20 years to the day after the vinyl LP. The Beatles released all their albums on CD, and I thought that if they were taking this new technology seriously, it might be worth spending money on. I probably had only recently heard of CDs, and they seemed both futuristic and like a gimmick to get us to buy the same albums again.
The point about Pepper is that it's a coherent whole. I love that you love it, and I want to watch you listen to the whole thing. It's so nice for those of us that have listened to this magic music for years to see someone experience it afresh. This really is some of the greatest music ever recorded.
I often wonder what a Beatles concert set list would have looked like had they reformed in the late 70s or so? I think they would have started with Sgt Peppers and ended with Tomorrow never Knows..
The Beatles got a little help from they’re friends . Friends like Billy Preston on keyboards & George Martin Allen Parson as sound engineers . Parson also worked on Pink Floyd’s - Dark Side of the Moon at the same studio . There’s an excellent video made as a cartoon by the Allen Parsons Project- “ Don’t Answer Me “ . These men were very talented & had figured out medhods of recording decacades ago that even today sound great
Your reaction to these two songs, hearing them for the first time, was EXACTLY the same reaction I, and all of my generation (teenagers in the 1960s), had upon hearing the songs for the first time. Just WOW!
Always nice to see your Beatles reactions and great to see a younger one like yourself who gets their music. No band ever evolved in just seven short years. Yes, Joe Cocker did a great cover of "With A Little From My Friends" at Woodstock but he turned it into a bluesy soul song. I've seen a lot of young ones react to Joe Cocker's but never bother to listen to the original by The Beatles and I'll take theirs over Cocker's everyday of the week. The only boo boo you made was that you should have let it roll right into "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" which is a song that you really need to check out. There are a couple of great videos from their 1965 double A-Side single "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out". Both songs shot right to #1 on the US and UK charts and both great songs. Also, a couple of early Beatles songs "Thus Boy" from 1963 and "If I Fell" from 1964. Listen to the vocal harmonies on both of these, they're incredible. Peace & Love
The Beatles had the idea of creating a fictitious band and named it Seargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. I think they did it to temporarily distance themselves from their usual writing routine and stardom as The Beatles.
This was a concept album, meant to be listened to from beginning to end. After Brian Epstein died, The Beatles were rudderless. Paul had the idea to create an album as a fictional band so that they would break away from being The Beatles in the studio and just create something new.
I love that young people like you love The Beatles’ music which is 60 years old! And you are right - they’ve never made a bad record. Good music never dies. Thanks for another great reaction. X
I could listen to The Beatles all day. And I have listened to them for about 54 years and counting. I never get sick of them. By the way you know that Paul sang Sgt. Peppers and Ringo sang the lead on A Little Help From My Friends, right?
new subscriber, love your reaction. i literally grew up on the beatles, i heard them in my mom's tummy way back in the 1960s, and they still sound fresh to me! i love all kinds of music, and i think they were 'instrumental' in that - forgive the pun!
There's an issue that may seem trivial now, but Sgt Peppers was the first album in which the lyrics were printed on the cover. I'm brazilian and in 1967 my father brought home the album. I was nine years old then and we used to sit to listen the songs, singing together and my father translated the lyrics. Therefore I can say the Beatles were my first English teachers.
That's a lovely memory. Thanks for sharing.
It was a pleasure....
@@glauroo.junior83 that's fantastic!!! that's called motivation, lol
It was, indeed. I still sing the songs whenever I listen to them and I play them on guitar (not so well, unfortunately). 😄
@@glauroo.junior83 what other albums did you learn English from, besides the Beatles?
Ringo sings vocals on Little Help from my Friends
Even Ringo had a good voice 👌
Musicians & particularly drummers are now saying that the drum beats Ringo invented for each song were extremely inventive .
When his voice was matched to the right songs - he was most excellent. GOOD NIGHT which closes the White Album... that's always been beautiful.
@@Cbcw76 I agree. A good song for this channel 👌
His range was limited. He said he had to work hard and do exercises to be able to hit that last note.
@@JamesLachowsky Dylan, Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Leon Redbone, Clapton & Whitlock (the LAYLA album), Willie Nelson, Kris K - heck, Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Durante, George Burns... tons of limited range singers, and from probably the invention of singing. I'm always amazed that so many 'bad/limited' singers can be just about perfect with the right song. (Frankly, all of them are role models for me and MY vocals. ha ha)
This is the album that changed everything. Should be heard all the way through.
Absofrickinlutly
I have just watched another video that compares Taylor Swift with The Beatles. No comparison
@@alexbonanno-kd9gt I agree with you. No comparison.
They had good sound ingeneers. 📀📀📀📀📀📀🎸🎸🎸
The Beatles..The BEST! and this is your Ringo!!!
That's Ringo Starr, the drummer singing "With a Little Help from my Friends."
This was written for & sung by The Drummer Ringo Star !! Later sung by Joe Cocker
3 days after this was released several of the Beatles went to see Jimi Hendrix in concert and he started his show with a cover version of Sgt. Peppers.
Sgt Pepper in my opinion, is the perfect album. It truly is a masterpiece
It would have been even perfect-er if Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane had made the album. George Martin later regretted not putting them on Sgt. Pepper. They were released together as a single instead. The Beatles' creativity was off the charts during this time period.
Yes, pretty close to the truth. I did not care for the Beatles when the first appeared on the musci scene. I was a teenager in my native Denmark, my friends and I were into jazz, and Copenhagen had a great jazz club. When Sgt. Pepper's came out I was an au pair in Westport Ct, and were already into rock and roll, and jazz as well. However, that album changed my mind about the Beatles, love their album Abby Road and The White Album, and now some of their early stuff as well.
Ringo's alter ego... Billy Shears... Listen to his song 'I'm the Greatest' 😊
There’s at least two decades of our popular music (and then the even more amazing Jazz and Jazz Fusion music) where the sounds and musical journeys were so absorbing, we were pretty much pinned to our floors on the shag rug, lost in our headphones for the entire album, every time.
This absorption, and the dream-state imagination it encouraged, surely changed us for the better while it lasted.
It’s time we brought it back. 🔥🌪️⚡️
That is Ringo that starts singing "A little help from my friends". He doesn't sing very often.
This album was released in June of 1967 and absolutely changed the musical world. The recording techniques and psychedelic songs were a revelation to every musician. Nothing had ever sounded like this album before.
yes you explained it perfectly! to enjoy the beatles you need over the ears headphones,the sound is epic!
good choice listening to these two songs together... Ringo has a very underrated singing voice.... sad it's over, except the next song is Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds!
One of Ringo's best!
At the end of A Day in the Life you can hear the AC unit in the studio because the mics were keyed up so high to get the ring out.
The long note is played on 3 pianos & last 42 seconds, who else would have thought of such a dramatic ending ? Bach ? Beethoven ? Mozart ?
I think it's a stool, cause right after the squeak, someone goes 'shh.' They wouldn't shussh an ac unit.
Yeah, that's Ringo singing the second part!
Thanks for bring Beatles, we Hope you Will enjoy The show.
Paul's bass playing is amazing!
It's a pleasure to watch you reacting to Beatles,you are doing it the right way ,with headphones🎧 ❤❤
timeless
Song by Billy Shears, ( Ringo Starr) . All one song! The first part being the intro.
I'm sitting here eating a bowl of sugar free cereal and watching you be so pretty 😍 and enjoying the Beatles.
Peace ✌️
How good are they?? WOW!
This was when they were writing Songs for Ringo... The First song he wrote to make it on a Beatle Album was "Don't pass me by", on the White Album.
What Goes On, on Rubber Soul, credited to Lennon-McCartney-Starkey.
Thank you so much for allowing usa to hear the music before you xomment! thank thank you thank you!
Interesting fact, the answer to "what do you see when you turn out the light?" was the hardest line to write in the whole song. The group spent a long time trying to come up with an answer before settling on "I can't tell you but I know it's mine."
the excellence of the beatles!
I know I keep saying this but I’m so excited to watch you react to the journey through the catalogue of the greatest band that ever played. Keep it up honey 🌺✌️
Listen to the whole album start to finish for the complete experience, you won't regret it
Your guy Ringo is the one and only Billy Shears singing A Little Help From Friends.
You are correct! Good quality headphones are the best way to listen.❤️
Why didn't you kept on listening to the next song "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" . Then you could hop into the bus and listen the whole album...
From the album that changed everything.
I love that you love the Beatles!❤️❤️❤️❤️
I have to say that I'm loving your reactions to songs I've been listening to for 45 years.
They literally never miss
We used to listen to tge entire album Starr to finish.
i love that you're FEELING it! Soooo good.
Mama, I’ve heard you say that before. The Beatles were the most MUSICALLY DIVERSIFIED group ever. They now teach their music in colleges for music majors here in NYC. Much love darling!
I was 12 when my sister’s boyfriend introduced me to the White Album. He helped me understand, interpret the meaning of the lyrics…so helpful for a 12 yr old. Then, gave me his album. I literally listened to it for a year straight. That was my Beetles discovery. Never stopped.
Agree you should try listening to whole albums. I think you'll find it a sweet journey. By the way, that was our guy Ringo, singing lead on With A Little Help From My Friends.
There was a rumour back then that Paul McCartney died in a car crash back in 1966 and was replaced by William Shears or Billy Shears. A winner of a lookalike competition. The Beatles made fun of it by introducing the One and only Billy Shears on this song. There was a lot of conspiracy back then about Paul is Dead. You can google it to get the full story
They went down in the world records, They would change with the times, even when they broke up, All of them made albums with their new bands.
“If somebody don’t agree with that, meet me in the alley.” That CRACKED me up! This was great, JAYY. Thank you. I understand the comments urging you to do more, or entire albums at once. OTOH, you are a young lady, less than half my age, who surely grew up knowing nothing of The Beatles. I commend and thank you for taking it as far as you have, so far, and really love that you love it.
All the rock music was pretty much recorded in stereo, so there are two different channels, left and right, coming through the speakers. One mic will pick up one or several sounds that will come through on channel A, and the other mic will pick up the input of sounds from channel B. So instruments and voices have always been separated into two sides. Other than early on, when music was recorded in one track, and monophonic. Then there was no separation. George Martin, the Beatle's sound engineer, was a pioneer in music recording with the Beatles. He experimented with new techniques and sounds. So the separation is more obvious.
I love how jam to the song.
Yesterday I watched a video of Geoff Emerick ,sound engineer ,talking about how the effects were done on this album.
George Martin was the experienced producer but the band and the two sound engineers were just lads in their twenties .
Geoff was still learning his trade but was able to help the Beatles in fresh sounds and innovations .
The most interesting thing for me was that Paul McCartney knew instinctively that more was wanted but he was not able to voice what he meant and there was a lot of trial and error.
By experimenting with the sound equipment ,effects were achieved on equipment that was primitive compared to what came later.
Most recording sessions were from late afternoon until 12 hours later; it would usually finish because Ringo would just get up ,put his coat on and go.
This album should be played and listened to in its entirety without stopping.
I love your love for the Music!
Hey Jayy, just wanted you to know how much I appreciate you delving into the music that literally changed our world. The Beatles were pioneers of popular music and challenged a multitude of other artists to create fantastic songs of their own. The lads from Liverpool were trendsetters and inspired and influenced writers of all genres. Each album stands on its own merits, which speaks to their remarkable creativity. Thank you, for helping to keep the Beatles relevant, it means a lot to so many. God Bless.
The whole Sgt Pepper album does that where all the songs kind of bleed into the other. In fact, this album was the first to do that. Making it the first "concept " album really. Many prog rock bands made concept albums. The Beatles were just so influential. It cannot be overstated enough.
Great reaction JAYY. The terminology you are looking for is "panning'. Through 1967, the Beatles prioritized their concentration on the mono mixes of their recordings (due to stereo not being available on A M radio or most U K phonographs) So the panning effects you hear were not considered in the mono mix. Though stereo mixes of their mid 60's albums were done, they were not given the same care the mono mixes were. By 1968, stereo mixes became their priority mixes. Since the late 60's, stereo mixes came to the fore due to the growth of F M radio, which broadcast in stereo. Mono became extinct by 1969. But back in the day, the Beatles preferred the mono mixes over their stereo mixes. Cheers, RNB
Thank you JAYY for choosing me to text you on Telegram. Sadly, I am not on social media. Knowing you would pick me is an honor and more than I ever could expect. You have made my day.😘😘😘😘😘😘 Thank you so much, Rick
This is when stereo was a sort of new thing, and engineers and producers were still experimenting with it.
Another great reaction. 👏
What a great reaction!
Its The Beatles, of course its perfect
GAME CHANGER!!
When I was growing up listening to my parents’ Beatles records, I would lay in the middle of the living room floor, pull the speakers around on either side of my head, and let the music take me away. I know very well about different voices in each ear.
The earlier Beatles albums had wide audio separation due to limitations of the recording equipment. Stereo was in its infancy back in the early 60’s and Abbey Road (EMI Studios) was still primarily making pop records in monophonic, the standard of the day. Making a stereo album with the old tapes resulted in the voices being on one side and the music on the other. Later on Abbey Road finally got 8 track recorders to replace their 2 and 4 track recorders. As a result the later Beatles recordings have a better overall mix to them. Recently developed technology has helped with the Beatles remixed albums to have a better balance, but some fans still prefer the older mixes.
If you're sad that it's over, listen to the whole album.
I love this reaction so much.
@Jayy- The Seargent Peppers song was Paul McCartney and then A Little Help From My Friends was Ringo Singing.
They did that alot back then... Song's like "Martha my dear" had the vocals and a few backups on one side and the Bulk of the instruments on the other.
This was one of the First Albums to promote the "Paul is dead" Theories... From the Band standing in front of the Grave to the inside where Pail is sitting cross legged ("A Hindu Burial Ritual"). there was 100 "clues" when I heard about this in 1973, but the number has doubled since then.
It's Musical Genius, Art, and a built in "Find the Clues (in the Album art AND Songs)" all mixed together!
Sgt. Pepper’s is the album said to have changed the music revolution. And the concept of the songs is just part of it. This was the first time the Beatles had the technology in the recording studio to be able to record such an album. Before then they couldn’t have horns and a string section nor sound effects on the same song along with the band’s guitar, bass and drums. Prior to that it had to be either or but not both. So the Beatles were the first group to really take advantage and experiment the new mixing technology . But then other singers and music groups started doing the same. And then because of this new technology. You started seeing longer albums and longer songs.
Good song good reaction
❤️
One thing that's great about the "Sgt. Pepper" song. It starts with Paul on the verses and on the chorus It's John, Paul, and George, with John being the prominent voice.
The transition, from one song jumping right to the next, is called a Segue (pronounced "segway").
Oh yeah, and it's Ringo the drummer singing lead vocals on "A Little Help From My Friends". With John and Paul singing backup vocals. The whole record is a masterpiece though.
I love your reaction and yes you are so right, The Beatles just cannot stop astounding me.
I like your music quest..you look like your totally in...and you have been somewhere but the end of the song. CHEERS
With A Little Help From My Friends by The Beatles is a pop song. Joe Cocker's version is a soul/gospel anthem. Best cover version ever, even admitted by The Beatles.
Yes!
'Beatles - For no one'
Lyrics are soooooooo good. (About breaking up)
You're so right about headphones; I will never use those crappy little earbuds.
My uncle bought me this album when it came out in 1967. I was 2 years old. I played my Disney records, Burl Ives, “Puff The Magic Dragon”, “Blue-Tailed Fly”, and ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’. I’ve known every word since I was little, even though I didn’t understand a lot of them. A four year old American kid doesn’t understand phrases like “lastly through a hogshead of real fire”, “tonight Mr. Kite is topping the bill”, “they’re guaranteed to raise a smile”, “plasticine porters with looking-glass ties”, etc, but I could recite them to you. This album is special to me.
Also, their first records were recorded in mono, stereo was brand new then, they were learning how to use it, so that’s why you’d hear that great separation in the instruments. What amazes me is that all the Beatles records up to and including ‘Sgt. Peppers’ were recorded on 4 track equipment. That means only 4 tracks! If you recorded drums and bass together, for instance, you couldn’t separate them. You couldn’t take the 7th drum track and the 15th bass track, raise the bass in the mix, etc. Once it was on one of the 4, that’s it. They used all kinds of tape loops, random noises, etc on this album and ‘Revolver’, and it all had to be recorded onto one of the four permanent tracks, or start over.
Yep I was 12 and this was released
Can you imagine a 12-year-old getting his mind blown by this album
Funny thing about the sound on the Beatles' albums, they are going back and remixing all the albums to make them sound more 'modern'. They are mixing the main vocals into the middle so that there isn't all of the separation that there is on this. You listened to the 2009 mix, which was the same as was released in 1967. The 2017 mix is different. I always liked this original mix. It makes it sound like it's live. But the new mixes aren't supposed to replace the old mixes. Good thing!
Jayy, I’m enjoying your journey of The Beatles, you’re right all The Beatles songs are great and different!! Great great album
"It was 20 years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play" is the first lyric of this first song from the album. With a fortuitous and brilliant stroke of marketing, the compact disc version was released in 1987 exactly 20 years to the day after the vinyl LP. The Beatles released all their albums on CD, and I thought that if they were taking this new technology seriously, it might be worth spending money on. I probably had only recently heard of CDs, and they seemed both futuristic and like a gimmick to get us to buy the same albums again.
The point about Pepper is that it's a coherent whole. I love that you love it, and I want to watch you listen to the whole thing. It's so nice for those of us that have listened to this magic music for years to see someone experience it afresh. This really is some of the greatest music ever recorded.
I often wonder what a Beatles concert set list would have looked like had they reformed in the late 70s or so? I think they would have started with Sgt Peppers and ended with Tomorrow never Knows..
Jayy, let the Sub’s guide you. Many, many songs have to be heard the right way. Great Reaction!
The Beatles got a little help from they’re friends . Friends like Billy Preston on keyboards & George Martin Allen Parson as sound engineers . Parson also worked on Pink Floyd’s - Dark Side of the Moon at the same studio . There’s an excellent video made as a cartoon by the Allen Parsons Project- “ Don’t Answer Me “ . These men were very talented & had figured out medhods of recording decacades ago that even today sound great
Allan Parsons is very underrated.
....... that's why the Beatles.. were so creative 🎸🎸
I love your insights!👍
Your reaction to these two songs, hearing them for the first time, was EXACTLY the same reaction I, and all of my generation (teenagers in the 1960s), had upon hearing the songs for the first time. Just WOW!
That’s your boo Ringo singing “With a Little Help From My Friends”
Beatles : Perfection
Always nice to see your Beatles reactions and great to see a younger one like yourself who gets their music. No band ever evolved in just seven short years. Yes, Joe Cocker did a great cover of "With A Little From My Friends" at Woodstock but he turned it into a bluesy soul song. I've seen a lot of young ones react to Joe Cocker's but never bother to listen to the original by The Beatles and I'll take theirs over Cocker's everyday of the week. The only boo boo you made was that you should have let it roll right into "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" which is a song that you really need to check out. There are a couple of great videos from their 1965 double A-Side single "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out".
Both songs shot right to #1 on the US and UK charts and both great songs. Also, a couple of early Beatles songs "Thus Boy" from 1963 and "If I Fell" from 1964. Listen to the vocal harmonies on both of these, they're incredible.
Peace & Love
The Beatles had the idea of creating a fictitious band and named it Seargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. I think they did it to temporarily distance themselves from their usual writing routine and stardom as The Beatles.
It's great seeing your journey & reactions to Beatles music. Keep it going Jayy 😊
You could go through the entire Sgt. Pepper album song by song and dig them all - try Good Morning and Within You Without You, and anything else :)
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This was a concept album, meant to be listened to from beginning to end. After Brian Epstein died, The Beatles were rudderless. Paul had the idea to create an album as a fictional band so that they would break away from being The Beatles in the studio and just create something new.
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Having a "Different Sound" all the time is called "talent" which most newer artists lack today..
I love that young people like you love The Beatles’ music which is 60 years old! And you are right - they’ve never made a bad record. Good music never dies.
Thanks for another great reaction. X
I could listen to The Beatles all day. And I have listened to them for about 54 years and counting. I never get sick of them. By the way you know that Paul sang Sgt. Peppers and Ringo sang the lead on A Little Help From My Friends, right?
new subscriber, love your reaction. i literally grew up on the beatles, i heard them in my mom's tummy way back in the 1960s, and they still sound fresh to me! i love all kinds of music, and i think they were 'instrumental' in that - forgive the pun!
...always considering they started 5 years earlyer with "Love me do"...Non one else!