@@FenderTele-ec7iu as an album, yes. as a Beatles album, Revolver is the peak. Pepper is a bit too mccartney heavy (which is great in itself), Revolver is more balanced, it's the Beatles working together at their very tightest.
You don't have to like Revolver more than Pepper, or Rubber Soul, or Abbey Road or any of their albums but make no mistake about it- Revolver was THE game-changer. Not only for them but for every band.
@@lucetteketley9114 American music started with country western, which led to the blues, and so forth -- so a shared history. Let's not underestimate how the Beatles -- who always gave credit where it was due -- still changed the music world with their very own songs and their many super-creative styles. :) It's said that all artists are influenced by somebody else and we can see how true that is.
@@Chris-kj7de john Lennon was mind blown by a song called Rock Island Line by Lonnie Donnegan. That tune is instrumental in the Beatles becoming what they did
This is the song that inspired the members of Chicago to start a band - a bunch of them were brass players and before this heard this they hadn't thought you could have this much brass instrumentation in rock n' roll...Chicago is also worth your time!
I saw Chicago perform " Got to Get You Into My Life" as an encore. It blew me away and I didn't know it was this song that inspired such a fantastic band. I saw the Beatles once and Chicago 12 times.
I’m a 69 year old woman who lived through a lot of rock concerts and and exceptional music. The Beatles evolved faster than we could keep up ☮️♥️🤘🏽🔥😎👵🏼
"The Beatles" didn't do "genre" -- DAMN the use of that word by pseudo-intellectuals. They made MUSIC. Others try to prgeonhole it into narrow "genre". It was rare at the time that any "self-respecting" rock and roll band would do ballads. "The Beatles" simply made MUSIC.
As a musician, i totally love that you listen deep enough into tracks to hear the full melodic bass playing done by Paul. He would often record the final bass last, so he could hear where it wouldn't clash, or be nullified by another instrument, and still completely caressed and served the song with beautifully melodic bass.
Paul wrote this after attending a Motown concert with, Stevie Wonder. The Revolver album was the album this gem comes from. Another great reaction Harri.👍
@@danielolson5378 This song was written for Cliff Bennet and the Rebel Rousers, a long time before any Beatles version was available and was a big hit in the UK
@@peterhall2810 Now when you're mentioning it i once had a collection album with different songs from the '60s including this song but with Cliff Bennet & The Rebel Rousers which i had completely forgot! Thanx for the reminding!
Paul still plays that exact same bass in his live shows today, can you imagine how much that bass guitar used from his Beatles days till now is worth now$?$?
@@gregoryjenkins8645 The Beatles wanted to record at Stax Records studio, but they studio asked for an exorbitant amount of money in order to record there. The band deeply admired the thick bass sound from Stax.
I'd rank Paul's bass playing up there with the best in Rock. He had such a melodic feel. Not just thub thub thub thub, and not note salad, but tasteful, melodic playing.
A critic wrote, " REVOLVER found the Beatles at the peak of their powers competing with one another because nobody else could touch them. " The album itself contained many different styles of music and was hugely influential. And they hadn't finished yet!
In their early days the Beatles covered R & B singers of the United States and gave those singers credit for using their songs. Later, they began to write their own material and good material. In the 80s and 90s radios stations began to specialized in one music format per station. Oldies and so forth, therefore many radio listeners listen to what they prefer i.e. R & B, Rock. There are a few stations that play a variety of R & B, Rock and Roll, and Pop where you will hear the Beatles' music. I.E. WKRB 90.0 Richburg, SC which has five transmitters that cover Northeast and parts of upstate South Carolina and reaches into southern mid North Carolina.
Okay Harri, our rolls are reversed, I have listened to the Beatles version my whole life and now I get to go check out Earth, wind& fire's version. I'm excited. Have a great day my friend. So glad to have met you and others though your channel and learn from each other, and that's really what its all about right. PEACE HIPPIE JOE
@@DavidB-2268 Good piece of info , I'm sure I watched the movie 30yrs ago or so but not ringing a bell . Only thing that keeps popping up in my head is Tommy, The Who movie. I have chemo brain, from my damn cancer treatment. I'm definitely not as sharp as I was. Thanks brother. PEACE
It is funny when you hear the cover version of a song first ! lol. It’s happened to me a lot and I would say about half the time I do eventually embrace the original.
Paul said this song is literally about weed. On a professional note, he plays melodically because he’s a guitar player at heart. Most good bass players play good guitar
Thank you for your reaction, Harri! Paul was a musical genius, who could play so many instruments, and all well! His bass lines were like no one else's ever, just one of the reasons the band was so ground-breaking! Cheers,
When bands were being boxed into Rock, Pop, Folk, R&B, Psychedelic, Country, etc., The Beatles created/sampled everything, made it their own and watched their songs go to #1 over and over.
That's why it always helps to look under a song title for the name/s in parentheses. And if you research the covers on "The Beatles" first and second LPs (as example,) you'll discover they were originally by Black R&B performers, mostly girl groups. What the US was calling "rock and roll" (white performers of Black music) the Europeans were calling "rhythm & blues".
The Beatles toured with Cliff Bennett in 1966 andthey also shared the same manager (Brian Epstein). That is why Bennett was the first to release this song. He may have asked the Beatles if he could sing it, or they may have written it with hm in mind.
The Earth Wind & Fire version was done for a film version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band starring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton. It's not a particularly good movie at all, but has some awesome Beatles covers...and some rather painful ones. 😛
EWF, Billy Preston, and Aerosmith were the only good covers in that movie. The rest was a fabulously tacky cheesefest that's quite enjoyable... if you're really stoned. Luckily, I was exactly that when I saw it the first week it was out! :D
The horn section was deliberately recorded with distortion to sound kind of like a distorted guitar. When the musicians heard how they sounded on tape they were upset.
Great reaction videos ... I am a huge Beatles fan .... and I love Earth Wind & Fires' version of this tune. I have seen Earth Wind and Fire in concert a number of times... and they are spectacular ......
The beatles wrote songs for other people to record, including this one. Other songs that come to mind are: I want to be your man (rolling stones) and do you want to know a secret (billie j kramer ad the dakotas). A lot of other musicians were also doing this including david bowie for mott the hoople. Gene pitney wrote a lot of songs for other people and didn't record a single one. Paul also wrote a song for mary hopkin (those were the days) after seeing her on a UK talent show.
All of Revolver is great! I like John's "I'm Only Sleeping" & "And Your Bird Can Sing" at least on the British version. "Good Day Sunshine" was covered a lot too.
So, the Earth wind and Fire take on this song was original and good. This Beatles original is truly excellent, but wait, there was a 1966 number one single version of the song by Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers - and that is the pinnacle! On that version the horns section and the vocals are giving it 200%. You might want to take a listen to that version as well (but make sure you get the mono version, not the stereo remix). Recently Paul McCartney has fessed up that he wrote this song after first experiencing LSD (I think it was LSD?) and in his words his immediate reaction was "I got to get this into my life!" which is where the song title came from.
I used to drink with a guy called Ian Hamer (RIP), who played trumpet on this. He told me that the brass hook came from his improvisations at the session.
This song was released as a single for a compilation album, in North America in 1976, ten years after the Beatles broke up in 1976. It reached #7 on the U.S. hot 100 and was a number one hit in Canada. 🇨🇦
6:30 minutes of the video: Great singers are a dime a dozen. Writing a catchy tune is what matters. And the number of catchy tunes The Beatles wrote is off the charts.
Paul was the first Bassmiester!!! He showed the bass didn't just have to help keep time and fill gaps. A melody man through and through!! I think because he's a lefty and a piano player first, he was able to understand melody that the bass keys could ALSO provide to the song. 🤟🏻😎👍🏻
In 1966 the Beatles were actually planning on recording their Revolver album at the STAX Studio in Memphis but had to abandon the plan when word got out and locals started descending on the place. I can only imagine how different that album would have sounded if the plan had succeeded.
I am truly enjoying your journey through The Beatles. It is the songbook of my life. People today really have no concept of the impact they had at the time. Nobody since has come close.😀
haha... I had never heard the Earth, Wind and Fire version, and I love them! Just listened... predictably it was great. Just discovered your channel... awesome!
Love EW&F and their version of this song. That said, Revolver is among my very favorite Beatles albums. You can almost smell Sgt. Pepper brewing on this album!
Got to Get You into My Life is Paul's love song to weed. Its written in a Harlem Cab Calloway style, which might be why it appealed to Earth Wind & Fire - a great cover!
@@docbearmb The Beatles version of I wanna be your man was never a hit for The Beatles as it was never a stand alone single, and it was not written for The Stones but covered by them.
It's hard to do a Beatles cover that surpasses the original, but EWF did with this one. Mind you I love the original. But the Beatles were deliberately aiming to capture the soul sound and feel. So in EWF's hands the song becomes what it was meant to be.
For whatever reason, this song had a resurgence in the seventies, at least here in Canada. And because it was right around the same time that Band on the Run was playing, I thought that this was Wings for a few years until I got deeper into the Beatles catalogue.
I think its resurgence in Canada was for the same reason as in the US. In the summer of 1976, Paul McCartney was making his first tour of North America since The Beatles had stopped touring in 1966. This spurred the first major wave of Beatles nostalgia since the group had split up six years earlier and Capitol Records took advantage of this by issuing a Beatles compilation LP called ‘Rock n Roll Music’ in June. ‘Got To Get You Into My Life’ was issued on 31 May 1976 as the single to promote the album. It reached the top of the Canadian charts and #7 on the US charts, which was impressive for a song that was by that time already 10 years old. In both the US and Canada, ‘Rock n Roll Music’ reached the #2 position on the LP charts, being kept out of the #1 spot by ‘Wings At The Speed of Sound’, the album Paul McCartney & Wings were touring in support of. So, with Paul in the Top Ten on both the singles and the album charts with both bands and Wings on the road in North America, it’s not at all surprising you thought it was a Wings record.
@@DavidB-2268 No problem! I was 11 in 1976 and completely Beatles-besotted. I’d discovered them a year or so earlier and with the nostalgia wave raging in ‘76 was driving my parents nuts begging for Beatles records, magazines, books... anything. We lived in the ‘burbs outside Chicago, and I thought it was terribly unfair they wouldn’t let an 11 year old go to the Wings concert in the city that summer! 😂
From the 1966 album Revolver, Got To Get You In To My Life was released as a single in 1976 to launch a new Beatles album called Rock N Roll Music, a compilation of songs from previously released material. The song became a top 10 hit and a couple of years later was covered by Earth, Wind & Fire who also hit the top 10 and #1 soul.
Lots of people will swear that Joe Cocker sang the only and definitive “With a Little Help From My Friends” but the original was by the Beatles on the album Sergeant Pepper. The original was only vaguely similar to the Joe Cocker version.
Marvin Gaye made my favorite cover of the Beatles "Yesterday". I love both bands and both versions. The Beatles are genius and you gotta thank Paul for this one
Actually, it was released as a single 10 years later, in 1976, to promote the "Rock an Roll" compilation album, and was a top 10 hit (#7 in Billboard, #3 in Cashbox).
Paul wrote this song to express his love for weed, introduced to him and the other Beatles by Bob Dylan in 1964, two years before this song was recorded & released
The Beatles wanted to record at least some of the Revolver album at Stax Records in Memphis. The idea fell through, but you can see what they had in mind with this song.
I feel the same way.Rubber Soul and Revolver are my two favorite albums.I always say those are the two albums you can play in a garage band before the LSD kicked in and they went full psychedelia on us.That's why with the White album,John said we are going back to good ol' rock and roll.
Boys to Men also covered Yesterday and Can't buy me love. Jimi Hendrix covered Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band live only a few days after the album was released. Paul McCartney was in the audience. It blew him away.
"Revolver" is a truly great album. The Beatles were like 1,000 hit wonders.
in a recording career, spanning just 7 years
@@FenderTele-ec7iu as an album, yes. as a Beatles album, Revolver is the peak. Pepper is a bit too mccartney heavy (which is great in itself), Revolver is more balanced, it's the Beatles working together at their very tightest.
You don't have to like Revolver more than Pepper, or Rubber Soul, or Abbey Road or any of their albums but make no mistake about it- Revolver was THE game-changer. Not only for them but for every band.
@@mikek5958 Yes
@@FenderTele-ec7iu Of course they did that goes without saying but that album in particular changed rock music forever.
Isn’t it great how many people across all races, creeds, backgrounds, etc. loved and were inspired by the Beatles? The Beatles forever...
And how many races inspired the Beatles. :)
@@lucetteketley9114 American music started with country western, which led to the blues, and so forth -- so a shared history. Let's not underestimate how the Beatles -- who always gave credit where it was due -- still changed the music world with their very own songs and their many super-creative styles. :) It's said that all artists are influenced by somebody else and we can see how true that is.
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Not just the Beatles. Music permeates through us all. The Beatles were an exceptional conduit but music is in is all
@@Chris-kj7de john Lennon was mind blown by a song called Rock Island Line by Lonnie Donnegan. That tune is instrumental in the Beatles becoming what they did
This is the song that inspired the members of Chicago to start a band - a bunch of them were brass players and before this heard this they hadn't thought you could have this much brass instrumentation in rock n' roll...Chicago is also worth your time!
No wonder.Heard some early Chicago..Didnt recognise them😀
I Will add that Blood, Sweat and Tears did a cover of this Song!
How do you like the idea that your favorite Beatle, Paul, wrote and sang lead on the original of one of your favorite songs?? Kinda trippy, right??
@@charlesxavier.. that's the version Harri Best knows best !
I saw Chicago perform " Got to Get You Into My Life" as an encore. It blew me away and I didn't know it was this song that inspired such a fantastic band. I saw the Beatles once and Chicago 12 times.
I’m a 69 year old woman who lived through a lot of rock concerts and and exceptional music. The Beatles evolved faster than we could keep up ☮️♥️🤘🏽🔥😎👵🏼
One thing I NEVER take for granted is the diversified musical genres of the Beatles 🙏🏼
"The Beatles" didn't do "genre" -- DAMN the use of that word by pseudo-intellectuals. They made MUSIC. Others try to prgeonhole it into narrow "genre".
It was rare at the time that any "self-respecting" rock and roll band would do ballads. "The Beatles" simply made MUSIC.
There will never be anyone like The Beatles ever again. The songwriting success they had is simply inimitable.
Great fun sharing your first time hearing truly awesome music buddy
As a musician, i totally love that you listen deep enough into tracks to hear the full melodic bass playing done by Paul. He would often record the final bass last, so he could hear where it wouldn't clash, or be nullified by another instrument, and still completely caressed and served the song with beautifully melodic bass.
Paul wrote this after attending a Motown concert with, Stevie Wonder. The Revolver album was the album this gem comes from. Another great reaction Harri.👍
Remember reading that Paul said in an interview the song was about Mary Jane and not the Spiderman girlfriend with the same name ;)
I remember Paul or John, saying it’s about taking LSD? Listen to the words,it makes good sense
@@joemasse4568 Paul said it was about weed. Or "pot" as he called it when he said it
@@danielolson5378 This song was written for Cliff Bennet and the Rebel Rousers, a long time before any Beatles version was available and was a big hit in the UK
@@peterhall2810 Now when you're mentioning it i once had a collection album with different songs from the '60s including this song but with Cliff Bennet & The Rebel Rousers which i had completely forgot! Thanx for the reminding!
Good observation on Paul's bass playing. It was the Beatles' secret sauce.
Paul still plays that exact same bass in his live shows today, can you imagine how much that bass guitar used from his Beatles days till now is worth now$?$?
Well Said!
Paul’s take on James Jameson Motown funky bass sound. The Fabs almost recorded this and Taxman at Motown.
@@gregoryjenkins8645
The Beatles wanted to record at Stax Records studio, but they studio asked for an exorbitant amount of money in order to record there. The band deeply admired the thick bass sound from Stax.
I'd rank Paul's bass playing up there with the best in Rock. He had such a melodic feel. Not just thub thub thub thub, and not note salad, but tasteful, melodic playing.
You've said it! "Name the genre; they've done it..." That's what made them the world's greatest recording artists... versatility!
So many good songs on this album. One of my favorites is And Your Bird Can Sing.
The opening guitar segment (george?) is a thing of beauty.
Love that album,love the Beatles.
@@TheCornishCockney Paul and George.
one of my fav as well
Paul turned the bass into an equal/lead instrument while creating a killer rhythm track for a song.
nonsense. he is a third-rate bass player at best.
I agree with you❤
A critic wrote, " REVOLVER found the Beatles at the peak of their powers competing with one another because nobody else could touch them. " The album itself contained many different styles of music and was hugely influential. And they hadn't finished yet!
Please stay in your “Beatles mode”. Paul’s vocals are flawless as usual.
But it's Lennon's voice that has character.
Paul’s vocals send me to another world. A man of a thousand voices!
I love The Beatles, all of them, but McCartney to me is just a musical GENIUS
Paul McCartney is definitely a musical genius. He can play every instrument better than anyone else. He did many of the Wings hits all by himself.
Revolver, every song on this album is worth listening to.
This was McCartney's nod to Motown and has always been one of my favourites 🙂
Well, to be fair, and I have been a Beatles fan since 1964, the Earth Wind & Fire cover of this song is truly wonderful.
Hey Bulldog is another great bass song 😎👍🏼
In their early days the Beatles covered R & B singers of the United States and gave those singers credit for using their songs. Later, they began to write their own material and good material. In the 80s and 90s radios stations began to specialized in one music format per station. Oldies and so forth, therefore many radio listeners listen to what they prefer i.e. R & B, Rock. There are a few stations that play a variety of R & B, Rock and Roll, and Pop where you will hear the Beatles' music. I.E. WKRB 90.0 Richburg, SC which has five transmitters that cover Northeast and parts of upstate South Carolina and reaches into southern mid North Carolina.
Totally agree about the ending. The song should have been a couple of minutes longer with that great wind down.
What a great song and a great bass player.
The Earth Wind and Fire version was recorded for the movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1978 and even performed in the movie.
Okay Harri, our rolls are reversed, I have listened to the Beatles version my whole life and now I get to go check out Earth, wind& fire's version. I'm excited. Have a great day my friend. So glad to have met you and others though your channel and learn from each other, and that's really what its all about right. PEACE HIPPIE JOE
EW&F did their version for the Sgt. Pepper movie.
@@DavidB-2268 Good piece of info , I'm sure I watched the movie 30yrs ago or so but not ringing a bell . Only thing that keeps popping up in my head is Tommy, The Who movie. I have chemo brain, from my damn cancer treatment. I'm definitely not as sharp as I was. Thanks brother. PEACE
Much love and peace Joe
It is funny when you hear the cover version of a song first ! lol. It’s happened to me a lot and I would say about half the time I do eventually embrace the original.
Paul said this song is literally about weed.
On a professional note, he plays melodically because he’s a guitar player at heart. Most good bass players play good guitar
Thank you for your reaction, Harri! Paul was a musical genius, who could play so many instruments, and all well! His bass lines were like no one else's ever, just one of the reasons the band was so ground-breaking! Cheers,
The Beatles never cease to amaze me with huge catalog of music they have just awesome 👌 great choice of song man love Earth Wind & Fire too ❤
Paul really stepped up his bass game on Revolver. Also his song-writing game
whatever
All Beatles songs and their solo songs are gems 💎 to me
When bands were being boxed into Rock, Pop, Folk, R&B, Psychedelic, Country, etc., The Beatles created/sampled everything, made it their own and watched their songs go to #1 over and over.
That's why it always helps to look under a song title for the name/s in parentheses.
And if you research the covers on "The Beatles" first and second LPs (as example,) you'll discover they were originally by Black R&B performers, mostly girl groups. What the US was calling "rock and roll" (white performers of Black music) the Europeans were calling "rhythm & blues".
Paul's own version of 'Sweet Leaf' long before Ozzy had his and before Country Joe and the Fish did their own.
The Earth Wind and Fire version was in the Sgt Pepper movie.
The Beatles toured with Cliff Bennett in 1966 andthey also shared the same manager (Brian Epstein). That is why Bennett was the first to release this song. He may have asked the Beatles if he could sing it, or they may have written it with hm in mind.
Great review. Love your analysis, honest, and respect for both the songs and artists. And love this song, one of my all time Beatles faves!
EW&F are a fantastic group...Really Super.
Good enough to cover The Beatles, for sure.
Always loved this song, I loved all of the Beattles songs.
I heard an interview with Paul on the Beatles XM channel where he says this song is about pot.
You'll find the Beatles "mode" is impossible to change. Once in Beatles mode, ALWAYS in Beatles mode..🤟🏻😎👍🏻
Love your view on the song and also love Earth , wind and fire, phillip Bailey beautiful singer.
Another great song that you will like off of Revolver is For No One.
Oh yes...
Small time favorite. Breaks me up every time I hear it.
The Earth Wind & Fire version was done for a film version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band starring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton. It's not a particularly good movie at all, but has some awesome Beatles covers...and some rather painful ones. 😛
More of the latter than the former, in my opinion. But it was this movie that got me into the Beatles so I can't complain too much.
EWF, Billy Preston, and Aerosmith were the only good covers in that movie. The rest was a fabulously tacky cheesefest that's quite enjoyable... if you're really stoned. Luckily, I was exactly that when I saw it the first week it was out! :D
@@Serai3 well, okay...it's kind of a guilty pleasure for me. 😳
@@emmapeelfan Oh, for me, too. Good memories associated with it. :)
The E,W,&F cover is from a Beatles tribute album done in the mid 70's.
The horn section was deliberately recorded with distortion to sound kind of like a distorted guitar. When the musicians heard how they sounded on tape they were upset.
At one point the best known version of this for a lot of people was probably Cliff Bennett and The Rebel Rousers.
Great reaction videos ... I am a huge Beatles fan .... and I love Earth Wind & Fires' version of this tune. I have seen Earth Wind and Fire in concert a number of times... and they are spectacular ......
The beatles wrote songs for other people to record, including this one. Other songs that come to mind are: I want to be your man (rolling stones) and do you want to know a secret (billie j kramer ad the dakotas). A lot of other musicians were also doing this including david bowie for mott the hoople. Gene pitney wrote a lot of songs for other people and didn't record a single one. Paul also wrote a song for mary hopkin (those were the days) after seeing her on a UK talent show.
All of Revolver is great! I like John's "I'm Only Sleeping" & "And Your Bird Can Sing" at least on the British version. "Good Day Sunshine" was covered a lot too.
Listen to "We Can Work it Out". It's a priceless gem.
The Stevie Wonder cover of "We Can Work It Out" is fantastic.
Just watched the Earth Wind & Fire live version of this song after watching your video. It was great! Earth Wind & Fire is great band. Thanks!
So, the Earth wind and Fire take on this song was original and good. This Beatles original is truly excellent, but wait, there was a 1966 number one single version of the song by Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers - and that is the pinnacle! On that version the horns section and the vocals are giving it 200%. You might want to take a listen to that version as well (but make sure you get the mono version, not the stereo remix).
Recently Paul McCartney has fessed up that he wrote this song after first experiencing LSD (I think it was LSD?) and in his words his immediate reaction was "I got to get this into my life!" which is where the song title came from.
I used to drink with a guy called Ian Hamer (RIP), who played trumpet on this. He told me that the brass hook came from his improvisations at the session.
I love this song
Paul is famous for his walking bass lines.
Another McCartney masterpiece! Paul can play anything. He did the amazing solo in Taxman when George couldn't come up with one he liked.
That's because you're FANTASTIC Harri!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A great song and one that the Beatles could have written for Earth Wind and Fire. It so suits their style...
This song was released as a single for a compilation album, in North America in 1976, ten years after the Beatles broke up in 1976. It reached #7 on the U.S. hot 100 and was a number one hit in Canada. 🇨🇦
6:30 minutes of the video: Great singers are a dime a dozen. Writing a catchy tune is what matters. And the number of catchy tunes The Beatles wrote is off the charts.
Earth Wind and Fire do a fantastic version!!!🎵🎼🎶👌👍✌️😎
This was re-released as a single in 1976 and hit #7 on Billboard chart, and #1 in Canada!
Paul was the first Bassmiester!!! He showed the bass didn't just have to help keep time and fill gaps. A melody man through and through!! I think because he's a lefty and a piano player first, he was able to understand melody that the bass keys could ALSO provide to the song. 🤟🏻😎👍🏻
In 1966 the Beatles were actually planning on recording their Revolver album at the STAX Studio in Memphis but had to abandon the plan when word got out and locals started descending on the place. I can only imagine how different that album would have sounded if the plan had succeeded.
I am truly enjoying your journey through The Beatles. It is the songbook of my life. People today really have no concept of the impact they had at the time. Nobody since has come close.😀
haha... I had never heard the Earth, Wind and Fire version, and I love them! Just listened... predictably it was great. Just discovered your channel... awesome!
Since this song is from the Revolver album you gotta check out the last song on the album Tomorrow Never Knows!! Very creative and ahead of its time!
Oh! Darling by the Beatles with Paul McCartney on lead vocals. He is amazing on it
Amazing brass in this, and very psychedelic.
The Earth Wind and Fire version was on/from the Sargent Pepper movie. It was the best cover on that album as they brought real creativity to the song
Love EW&F and their version of this song. That said, Revolver is among my very favorite Beatles albums. You can almost smell Sgt. Pepper brewing on this album!
Love your positive energy, Harri.
Thanx Ronald
Got to Get You into My Life is Paul's love song to weed. Its written in a Harlem Cab Calloway style, which might be why it appealed to Earth Wind & Fire - a great cover!
“With A Little Help From My Friends” is another Beatles song with a different, brilliant interpretation, by Joe Cocker.
They were very generous lads.FYI. They wrote a chart topper for the Rolling Stones "I wanna be Your Man"
The Stone’s version was never as big a hit as the Beatles’.
@@docbearmb It was at No.12 for the Rolling Stones in the UK-Charts.
@@docbearmb The Beatles version of I wanna be your man was never a hit for The Beatles as it was never a stand alone single, and it was not written for The Stones but covered by them.
@@markhayes6211 Perhaps “hit” was an overstatement on my part. But the Beatles version got a lot more airplay than the Stones’ back then.
It's hard to do a Beatles cover that surpasses the original, but EWF did with this one. Mind you I love the original. But the Beatles were deliberately aiming to capture the soul sound and feel. So in EWF's hands the song becomes what it was meant to be.
Hard to pick between this and the EWF version. Both fantastic.
Man EWF did such a good cover of this song
If you love maccas bass,then check out little played,Hey Bulldog.
Get the version where they record the song.
You'll love the groove.
Nope It’s the Beatles Tune! 😎👏👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The Beatles don't have bad songs, yes it happens )))
For whatever reason, this song had a resurgence in the seventies, at least here in Canada. And because it was right around the same time that Band on the Run was playing, I thought that this was Wings for a few years until I got deeper into the Beatles catalogue.
I think its resurgence in Canada was for the same reason as in the US. In the summer of 1976, Paul McCartney was making his first tour of North America since The Beatles had stopped touring in 1966. This spurred the first major wave of Beatles nostalgia since the group had split up six years earlier and Capitol Records took advantage of this by issuing a Beatles compilation LP called ‘Rock n Roll Music’ in June. ‘Got To Get You Into My Life’ was issued on 31 May 1976 as the single to promote the album. It reached the top of the Canadian charts and #7 on the US charts, which was impressive for a song that was by that time already 10 years old. In both the US and Canada, ‘Rock n Roll Music’ reached the #2 position on the LP charts, being kept out of the #1 spot by ‘Wings At The Speed of Sound’, the album Paul McCartney & Wings were touring in support of. So, with Paul in the Top Ten on both the singles and the album charts with both bands and Wings on the road in North America, it’s not at all surprising you thought it was a Wings record.
@@curtiswilliams578 thanks for the info. I was 8 in '76, and I can still remember the "wait, what?" when I realized the mistake.
@@DavidB-2268 No problem! I was 11 in 1976 and completely Beatles-besotted. I’d discovered them a year or so earlier and with the nostalgia wave raging in ‘76 was driving my parents nuts begging for Beatles records, magazines, books... anything. We lived in the ‘burbs outside Chicago, and I thought it was terribly unfair they wouldn’t let an 11 year old go to the Wings concert in the city that summer! 😂
It was released in support of the Rock and Roll album, a compilation released in 1976.
This is the best version of this song, full stop. Great orchestration, great performance, and hey, McCartney wrote the damn thing!
From the 1966 album Revolver, Got To Get You In To My Life was released as a single in 1976 to launch a new Beatles album called Rock N Roll Music, a compilation of songs from previously released material. The song became a top 10 hit and a couple of years later was covered by Earth, Wind & Fire who also hit the top 10 and #1 soul.
Earth, Wind and Fire makes everything better. The first 45 seconds of In The Stone is by far my favorite sound to hear.
Lots of people will swear that Joe Cocker sang the only and definitive “With a Little Help From My Friends” but the original was by the Beatles on the album Sergeant Pepper. The original was only vaguely similar to the Joe Cocker version.
My favorite Beatles song!
Marvin Gaye made my favorite cover of the Beatles "Yesterday". I love both bands and both versions. The Beatles are genius and you gotta thank Paul for this one
Have you ever heard this ? ua-cam.com/video/EsMjTTFRHdY/v-deo.html
The groove is there because the Beatles put it there.
Paul’s response to being introduce to a new “Friend”.
McCartney is in the top 3 bass players ever along with James Jamerson and Carol Kaye
Funny, Earth Wind and Fire are great, I didn't know they'd done a cover version. Will check it out.
An embarrassment of riches : it wasn't released as a single, was only featured on the album.
Actually, it was released as a single 10 years later, in 1976, to promote the "Rock an Roll" compilation album, and was a top 10 hit (#7 in Billboard, #3 in Cashbox).
@@Tuning_Spork Yes, 10 years later without the consent of the Beatles.
@@vania1917 Oh, please: George Martin prepared that LP, including some tweakings of the mixes.
Paul wrote this song to express his love for weed, introduced to him and the other Beatles by Bob Dylan in 1964, two years before this song was recorded & released
This was re-released in Spring of 1976 and was a massive hit at the time of the Bicentennial.
The Beatles wanted to record at least some of the Revolver album at Stax Records in Memphis. The idea fell through, but you can see what they had in mind with this song.
Revolver or Rubber Soul are probably the best Beatles albums. My personal fav is probably Revolver but it's close between the 2
rubber soul was better
@@christopherstarr8050 I think because I had a copy of Revolver and not Rubber Soul is why also "Yesterday" is probably my all time fav song
Tomorrow never knows.....nuff said
@@christopherstarr8050 I think that Revolver has the edge but to each their own. ☺️
I feel the same way.Rubber Soul and Revolver are my two favorite albums.I always say those are the two albums you can play in a garage band before the LSD kicked in and they went full psychedelia on us.That's why with the White album,John said we are going back to good ol' rock and roll.
Boys to Men also covered Yesterday and Can't buy me love. Jimi Hendrix covered Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band live only a few days after the album was released. Paul McCartney was in the audience. It blew him away.