This is GREAT! I never would have thought of connecting this song to images of ancient Mayans or Aztecs. Plus they made it fun, with a hot Mayan girl grooving to the Beatles, dancing in front of the giant Ringo head temple. The message being that The Beatles are received well in all cultures, especially by young women.
Wow. Never seen this cartoon before, Only Yellow Submarine, which still holds up to this day. I miss the old school animation. Pixar and Disney are amazing, but computer animation still lacks the home cookin' that used to be the main stay from years past. The artist perfectly captures all the little details of the Beatles here, accenting their features much in the same way as a political cartoon. Very cool. Thanks for posting...
Beatle fact: While tripping on acid, John envisioned the recording of Tomorrow Never Knows with a choir of monks. Inspiration of this song...The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
I'm glad this show was made when they were starting to experiment more musically. The later ones lend themselves particularily well to some visual fun.
That was entertaining. You've got a way with words there. Sadly, I didn't know about the Beatles until high school. Despite growing up with records, my dad's a 72 year old Irishman with a fondness for Dixeland he never shared with me until later, and my mom, also Irish, preferred bands like the Animals and the Drifters. Psychedelic rock was after both their times. Thank god for discovering things with age.
It's brilliant. It's obviously about LSD but they made is as comical and child friendly as possible. It's like a parody in a way, a kid could easily interpret the song to be like this because it's not like they are literally saying "drop acid".
el mañana nunca se sabe, un gran comentario de ringo, guitarra al reves uhhhhhhhh lo maximo lennon , grandes sonidos psicodelicos, REVOLVER (1966) gran disco. vivan LOS BEATLES, extraño sus caricaturas.
This song is so trippy and weird. I LOVE THIS SONG! That's what I love about music of the past, it's a lot better than the music in the past 2-3 years.
Can you believe how clueless the producers and animators were when they put this together in 1966?? Hey, but thanks man. We kiddies of the '60s absorbed the message, pretty well. :)
@jamesskb I LOVE Emerick's book! I just finished it and I've learned a lot. Now I can understand the sequence of their recordings comparing what he wrote to the info in Mark Lewisohn's "Beatles' Sessions"
Ah, back on "I Am the Walrus", I had mentioned to someone else who had just recently asked about their "falling in" scene, that "Tomorrow Never Knows" was my first-ever Beatles cartoon post on UA-cam, and in "testing the waters", I posted only the "song portion" of the episode (I thought you might've seen that reply). "Falling into the tube" occurs during the lead-up story portion. You can see that in the "Related Video" called "Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows" posted by "tecpaocelotl"!
@Nestorillo78951 It''s from the Al Brodax produced Beatles cartoon show. Music release and licensing problems have kept it from a legit DVD release, but there are bootlegs circulating around. As the Romans said, "Caveat Emptor" ("Let the buyer beware"),
I remember seeing this as an 8 year old, and it did freak me out. While King Features did a great job with animating the Beatles, I wonder what would have happened if Total Television (which did Underdog) had done the Beatles cartoons. Would we have seen a dancing Sweet Polly Purebred in "Tomorrow Never Knows?"
wow never seen this one before thanks mate for sharing. I wonder if the cartoonists actualy knew what this song was about , while lennon strummed the C chord rather earnestly.
I remember watching The Beatles cartoons when I was about 4 or 5. My Mom would turn it to the right station, and when the music started I'd turn the TV volume up as loud as it would go and then jump up and down on the bed, or the couch. I told my Mom that was gonna marry Paul McCartney someday. I guess I'll never get that proposal.
The book " Doors of percetion", is another interesting look at psychedelia. In fact in was in this book where the term was invented and Jim Morrison got the name for his Band
Lennon's tribute to his eye-opening and mind-altering introduction to LSD...freaky stuff for Saturday morning cartoons and a million miles from "I Want to Hold Your Hand." As a Beatles fanatic even as a youngster, I was glued to the set whenever this show was on. Check out the very obvious male appendage on the bull at 2:47...how did that make it past the censors?????????
They did Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, I'm Only Sleeping, Good Day Sunshine, And Your Bird Can Sing, Got to Get You into My Life, and this one, plus later songs Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields (and even later songs than THAT have had a strange way of turning up 'round here!).
This track is fckn awesome. It is responsible for creating the Chemical Brothers some 20 years later, and that whole genre. So powerful, influencial and just incredible
A good point, but Leary's book was actually "The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead"; he did not write THE "Tibetan Book of the Dead".
TotalDramaIsland7 had asked a few days before you, and I had mentioned in THAT reply that my Tomorrow Never Knows post was only the song portion -- no falling-in scene visible.
Those are correct, of course; there is also "The Inner Light", "The Ballad of John & Yoko" and "Revolution 9". And "Love You To" is never stated exactly (it does have "I'll make love-to-you..."); as well, "For You Blue" is likewise not exactly stated. And "Flying", being non-verbal (there are some vocals)...
lol! Yes, if only Mom had known that her little kids were gathered around the huge 21" B&W television, listening to lyrics inspired by a book written by (among others) LSD guru Timothy Leary! But, tho' she was born a long, long time ago, your mother DIDN'T know! (Chances are MY mother hadn't heard of LSD until she watched the legendary "Blue Boy" episode of Dragnet in early 1967!)
Honest to god, Achcapella, I was thinking as I was watching this: Damn, can you imagine the mid 60's housewives in their little aprons and Marlo Thomas hairdos trying to comprehend this?
This song is not an acid trip ...It has nothing to do with drugs ..It is about meditation .The sitar was played by George Harrison . He was the one responsible for their famous trip to India
The Beatles invented Drum'n'Bass back in 1966with this revolutionary track. This cartoon also envisions the Summer of Pills and Thrills back in 1988. Compare The Beatles music catalogue from 1963to 1969, with Oasis's from 1993 to 1999. No one can touch The Beatles
Is it just me or do they show that shot of John to the side [@ both 00:26 & 00:50] in every single cartoon? This could be an anti drug commercial, right here. "Who needs drugs when there's these freaky deeky Beatles cartoons!" [although midway through it I found myself saying, "Gee, I wish I had some pot..." And *that* ladies and gents, is what would truly make the boys proud!]
This is GREAT!
I never would have thought of connecting this song to images of ancient Mayans or Aztecs.
Plus they made it fun, with a hot Mayan girl grooving to the Beatles, dancing in front of the giant Ringo head temple.
The message being that The Beatles are received well in all cultures, especially by young women.
1 of my favorite songs of all time
i might sound weird 4 saying this but...this clip was actually inspiring. perfect song 4 that episode.
Wow. Never seen this cartoon before, Only Yellow Submarine, which still holds up to this day. I miss the old school animation. Pixar and Disney are amazing, but computer animation still lacks the home cookin' that used to be the main stay from years past. The artist perfectly captures all the little details of the Beatles here, accenting their features much in the same way as a political cartoon. Very cool. Thanks for posting...
Beatle fact: While tripping on acid, John envisioned the recording of Tomorrow Never Knows with a choir of monks. Inspiration of this song...The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
I'm glad this show was made when they were starting to experiment more musically. The later ones lend themselves particularily well to some visual fun.
one of Ringo's best beats.
Rather trippy stuff for a Saturday morning cartoon show!
One of their best songs!
Fantastic! One of my favorite Beatles songs, revolutionary, sublime.
Use to watch these when I was a wee one, killer! I Love the Bee-at-les... Amazing song & great Toon! Cheers!
A great song , thanks share the great video , I enjoy it very much
Great stuff! Love the dancing girl....
these are wonderful cartons,
the music of the beatles,
is still the best there was.
thank you for `s video - lg gitte
A great material for a music video for this brilliant song!
This is awesome!I could listen to this for as long as i lived if i wanted to.
Wow! How cool was that to see this played on one of the Beatles animated cartoon show! Very psychedelic for its time!
in being of aztec age , I love the song and video has a tribal flow to it a very timeless song , thanks for sharing it .
one of my favourite songs!
I used to watch the cartoons too.. so much fun!
great one jbirdy. I didn't know they were doing these cartoons into the Revolver era. 5 ***** and faved!
This song is so cool! Gotta love The Beatles!!!!
Yeah i also discovered them in highschool, nothing better than discovering the beatles awesomeness, btw tomorrow never knows is my favorite song.
That was entertaining. You've got a way with words there.
Sadly, I didn't know about the Beatles until high school. Despite growing up with records, my dad's a 72 year old Irishman with a fondness for Dixeland he never shared with me until later, and my mom, also Irish, preferred bands like the Animals and the Drifters. Psychedelic rock was after both their times.
Thank god for discovering things with age.
Turn off your mind, Relax and Float Down Stream! Love this song!
It's brilliant. It's obviously about LSD but they made is as comical and child friendly as possible. It's like a parody in a way, a kid could easily interpret the song to be like this because it's not like they are literally saying "drop acid".
took us ages......and our minds follooooooooooowed,,and a fecking mushhhhy.....luv ya all...do me ,,your selves and each other!
damn good cartoon short, captures spirit of track remarkably well; no fooling
el mañana nunca se sabe, un gran comentario de ringo, guitarra al reves uhhhhhhhh lo maximo lennon , grandes sonidos psicodelicos, REVOLVER (1966) gran disco. vivan LOS BEATLES, extraño sus caricaturas.
Ringo's awesome in cartoon form! I have a little doll-toy-thingy of this Ringo. :D
This song is so trippy and weird. I LOVE THIS SONG! That's what I love about music of the past, it's a lot better than the music in the past 2-3 years.
Beatiful!
Thanks for posting!
Can you believe how clueless the producers and animators were when they put this together in 1966?? Hey, but thanks man. We kiddies of the '60s absorbed the message, pretty well. :)
@jamesskb I LOVE Emerick's book! I just finished it and I've learned a lot. Now I can understand the sequence of their recordings comparing what he wrote to the info in Mark Lewisohn's "Beatles' Sessions"
awesome post thank you!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! My mind is relaxed and im listening to the colors of my dreams!
i could watch ringo do that lulzy bongo animation all day!
this was such a cool little cartoon.
Ooh, this is brilliant!
I like their headdresses, especially Ringo's. He looks so cute in pink :-P
AMAZING.
AMO ESTOS VIDEOS
AWESOME!!!!!
Ah, back on "I Am the Walrus", I had mentioned to someone else who had just recently asked about their "falling in" scene, that "Tomorrow Never Knows" was my first-ever Beatles cartoon post on UA-cam, and in "testing the waters", I posted only the "song portion" of the episode (I thought you might've seen that reply). "Falling into the tube" occurs during the lead-up story portion. You can see that in the "Related Video" called "Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows" posted by "tecpaocelotl"!
BEST BEATLES SONG. EVER.
@Nestorillo78951 It''s from the Al Brodax produced Beatles cartoon show. Music release and licensing problems have kept it from a legit DVD release, but there are bootlegs circulating around. As the Romans said, "Caveat Emptor" ("Let the buyer beware"),
I remember seeing this as an 8 year old, and it did freak me out.
While King Features did a great job with animating the Beatles, I wonder what would have happened if Total Television (which did Underdog) had done the Beatles cartoons. Would we have seen a dancing Sweet Polly Purebred in "Tomorrow Never Knows?"
this song is so relaxing
i love this song, i can lie in bed and not feel a thing in the world if i listen to this song
wow never seen this one before thanks mate for sharing.
I wonder if the cartoonists actualy knew what this song was about , while lennon strummed the C chord rather earnestly.
I remember watching The Beatles cartoons when I was about 4 or 5. My Mom would turn it to the right station, and when the music started I'd turn the TV volume up as loud as it would go and then jump up and down on the bed, or the couch. I told my Mom that was gonna marry Paul McCartney someday. I guess I'll never get that proposal.
Listening to the Beatles is a religious experience. Wish I could go back to the moment in time where i first listened to this album.
The book " Doors of percetion", is another interesting look at psychedelia.
In fact in was in this book where the term was invented and Jim Morrison got the name for his Band
Lennon's tribute to his eye-opening and mind-altering introduction to LSD...freaky stuff for Saturday morning cartoons and a million miles from "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
As a Beatles fanatic even as a youngster, I was glued to the set whenever this show was on. Check out the very obvious male appendage on the bull at 2:47...how did that make it past the censors?????????
So awesome, as time goes by
Sound, not the best!
They give good shots of John in this song.
Thats like one of the last things you see at an afterhours bar before you realize it's time go home.
They did Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, I'm Only Sleeping, Good Day Sunshine, And Your Bird Can Sing, Got to Get You into My Life, and this one, plus later songs Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields (and even later songs than THAT have had a strange way of turning up 'round here!).
I've got no problem with that - let's get back to the cartoons! LOLOLOLOLOL!
this was added on my birthday
luve it!!!!
@brookebrake 40 years old, yet timelesssssss....
Thanks for the trip, Dad.
Perfect for when you wanna slip a little Orange Sunshine in your kids Froot Loops!
Yes, it was from here that the animators of the Saturday-morning cartoons went on to create "Yellow Submarine"!
aztec + beatles it is know...thank you share love...
WAY TOO GOOD!
This track is fckn awesome. It is responsible for creating the Chemical Brothers some 20 years later, and that whole genre.
So powerful, influencial and just incredible
Oh my god! 2012! the signs are everywhere!!
I come from the future. You were wrong.
Love is All and Love is Everyone
It is Knowing, it is Knowing...
The cartoon is perfect
Yeah, Revolver is my favorite album by far
Paul is derping like crazy in this video
hahaha, wow. Interesting...why didn't I grow up with this cartoon? :D
A good point, but Leary's book was actually "The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead"; he did not write THE "Tibetan Book of the Dead".
Wow!!!
If my mommy had known they had psychedelic Beatle songs in these latter cartoon, she woulda told little ahcapella to stick with the Chipmunks!
¡It sounds like it was written in yesterday! So modern.
I love the way paul swing's his body at 0:12
TotalDramaIsland7 had asked a few days before you, and I had mentioned in THAT reply that my Tomorrow Never Knows post was only the song portion -- no falling-in scene visible.
Bizarre that they would put such goofy animation up with such a trippy song, but somehow it works!
Tomorrow never comes - Beatallica
This song sounds to modern for the beatles, and thats how BADASS they were. The Beatles ROCK.
No, this IS the actual cartoon for this song, just the song portion of the episode.
the beatles rock!!
44 years now!
The natives received a vitamin - B shot afterwards
this is so f**ckin cool!!
thanx alan
Anyone else notice that in like every cartoon they have the side shot of johns head while he is singing?
I am tripping out...
Those are correct, of course; there is also "The Inner Light", "The Ballad of John & Yoko" and "Revolution 9". And "Love You To" is never stated exactly (it does have "I'll make love-to-you..."); as well, "For You Blue" is likewise not exactly stated. And "Flying", being non-verbal (there are some vocals)...
Haha, what an awesome statement. I dig. :D
In this cartoon the Beatles are in Mexico, maybe in some Mayan or Aztecan city, I must say they might be on peyote instead of LSD...
Watch and listen. Who else but Ringo can get a cymbal sound out of a bongo? lol
lol! Yes, if only Mom had known that her little kids were gathered around the huge 21" B&W television, listening to lyrics inspired by a book written by (among others) LSD guru Timothy Leary! But, tho' she was born a long, long time ago, your mother DIDN'T know! (Chances are MY mother hadn't heard of LSD until she watched the legendary "Blue Boy" episode of Dragnet in early 1967!)
Honest to god, Achcapella, I was thinking as I was watching this: Damn, can you imagine the mid 60's housewives in their little aprons and Marlo Thomas hairdos trying to comprehend this?
This song is not an acid trip ...It has nothing to do with drugs ..It is about meditation .The sitar was played by George Harrison . He was the one responsible for their famous trip to India
Yeah all you have to do is listen to the drum loop in 'Setting Sun' and 'Let Forever Be' - it's pretty much identical
Excelente :D
The Beatles invented Drum'n'Bass back in 1966with this revolutionary track.
This cartoon also envisions the Summer of Pills and Thrills back in 1988.
Compare The Beatles music catalogue from 1963to 1969, with Oasis's from 1993 to 1999.
No one can touch The Beatles
Is it just me or do they show that shot of John to the side [@ both 00:26 & 00:50] in every single cartoon?
This could be an anti drug commercial, right here. "Who needs drugs when there's these freaky deeky Beatles cartoons!" [although midway through it I found myself saying, "Gee, I wish I had some pot..." And *that* ladies and gents, is what would truly make the boys proud!]
@DarkSunGod They were taken from the Tibeten Book of the Dead.