@@spoonunit03 Absolutely, my son was in a Beatles tribute band for 10 years as their drummer. They did the songs exactly like you heard them on the Beatles records. So he was playing the same drum parts that Ringo did. He said it wasn't easy, but he managed to master it so well, after a lot of practice. Ringo is an EXCELLENT unique drummer. In case you don't know, Ringo is naturally left handed, but he plays a right handed kit, so his approach is a little different.
This is a beautiful song. Pure joy. Its also pretty complex rhythmically, lots of time signature switches. Theres a part that switches to 3/4 for 3 bars, then a bar of 2/4. Technically that whole part could be considered 11/4 or 11/8. Its also one of 3 Beatles songs to use a synthesizer. George didn't get many songs because of Lennon/McCartney. They were the hit makers, they've been writing tons of songs together since they were teenagers, and George didn't even try until their second album, so it took him until later in their career to grow as a writer. Even then, Lennon and McCartney didn't realise how good he was until towards the end of the band.
The Beatles covered nearly every genre of music under the sun. The white album is the one that probably highlights that the most. It goes from one end of the spectrum to the other - song after song. Oh - and George wrote While my Guitar Gently Weeps.
The Beatles first single was released in Nov 1962 and their first album was recorded in Feb 1963. Their last album completed recording in Nov 1969. During that time they recorded 188 original songs and 25 covers. George wrote 25 of the originals. He was a little behind Paul and John when it came to song writing (their first US hit was written by Paul when he was 15). George's first song, Don't Bother Me, was on their second album. George said it was his first attempt and was just trying to figure out how to write a song. "Something" on the Abbey Road album was his first song to hit number 1 on the charts. A few things made the Beatles stand out. First their "long hair" for that time. But more importantly they wrote most of their songs, all four had lead vocal tracks on every album plus tracks in duets, and they brought rock and roll back. They were never just one sound though. It would be pretty easy to argue they created genres of rock/pop. But through the 50's and well into the 60's Rock and Roll was a pretty broad term. But if Gabe wants to understand why their early stuff was so popular you should watch the video "Most Popular Song Each Month in the 60's" (link below). All you really need to watch is Jan 1960 to Dec 1964 (about 12 minutes). The Beatles first US single was released Dec 26, 1963 so they really hit in US in 1964. You'll see what was most popular in the US (including Elvis) compared to what The Beatles brought in 1964. I'd be curious if Gage believes Elvis derserves his "King of Rock and Roll" title hearing his most popular songs from the early 60's. I was a kid then, but I think The Beatles brought Rock and Roll back to life when they hit North America. Then they proceeded to just change music and everybody else playing catch up. Here's that link... ua-cam.com/video/hDWPNgRNdHI/v-deo.html
They finished recording "Abbey Road" in August of 1969. John quit the group on September 20th, 1969. "Abbey Road" was released on September 26th, 1969. Their first U.S hit song was "I Want To Hold Your Hand" - which went to #1 on February 1st, 1964 and stayed there for 7 weeks. It was co-written John and Paul. You were probably talking about "Love Me Do" which was their first hit single in the UK (peaked at #17 in December of 1962) which was mainly written by Paul.
@@aBeatleFan4ever The last song recorded was "I Me Mine" for the Let it Be album after Abbey Road was released. No, John wasn't present. Their first hit single was indeed Love Me Do and it launched their career. That is when they started recording. By the time the US caught on The Beatles had already recorded and released two albums in the UK and had multiple hits. Beatlemania was in full swing in the UK before the US ever heard of them. Just because the US didn't have a single released until Dec 26, 1963 doesn't mean their recording, and hits didn't start in Nov 1962. There's more to the world than just the US.
@@philiphoy1373 - Dude... you wrote that "their last album completed recording in November 1969". That is flat out wrong. So I listed the actual dates and time line for you. They finished recording "Abbey Road" on August 20th, 1969. The album was released on September 26th, 1969. I bought it and was playing it - in late September of 1969. You also wrote that "their first US hit was written by Paul when he was 15". That is also incorrect. So I explained to you... that their first U.S. hit was "I Want To Hold Your Hand" which was equally co-written by both John & Paul in 1963 (not by Paul when he was 15). Then I went on to explain to you - that you may have been talking about their first hit in the U.K. ("Love Me Do") which was written mainly by Paul. I also pointed out that their first U.K. hit ("Love Me Do") peaked at #17 in the fall of 1962. So you should have been fully aware that I obviously know all about how they were huge stars in the U.K in pretty much all of 1963... a full year before they became huge stars in the U.S. Try and catch up... And, yes... I am well aware that Paul, George and Ringo came back to EMI on January 3rd, 1970 to make a proper recording of "I Me Mine". This was because it had been decided that scenes of The Beatles working on "I Me Mine" would be included in the "Let It Be" film - and they did not have a full recording of the song that was considered good enough to include on the album (which would eventually be released along with the film later in 1970). So they asked Paul, George & Ringo to come in and make a recording of that song which could be used on the album. John wasn't there - because he had quit the band in September of 1969.
@@aBeatleFan4ever One thing you have right is I got it backwards. It was their very first hit (in the UK) that was written by Paul at 15. Abbey Road was their last ablum recorded. Let It Be was their last album released. But, and it's a big but, I Me Mine was recorded after Abbey Road, and included on Let It Be. The real point of my initial post was how many original songs they recorded in such a short time. Starting in 1962 and ending in 1969. Their output, and it's quality, was astounding. I bought their albums as they came out and watched them on Ed Sullivan.
The Beatles were a true and unequalled phenomenon. There is a vast amount of music beginning in the '50s and extending into the early '80s of pop/R&B/Blues/Jazz/Soul/Progressive rock and more that you are completely missing out on. This music represents my generation and was some of the very best music ever produced.
When this record showed up (I got it via the USPS) I dropped the needle and this was the first song I heard. George finally got his due on this their last album and I think it's their best.
Other great George songs : 'It's All To Much', 'Taxman', 'I, Me, Mine', 'Think For Yourself' and he wrote 'All Things Must Pass' before the Beatles split.
George was only like 13 or 14 when he joined the Silver Beetles. Paul and John were several years older and already writing songs. They were already monster hit makers by the time George started writing his own songs. So, at first they just started including one song an album for George. Later, he would get more, but by the time George really hit his stride I think that the three of them were so prolific they were in the habit of only allowing only George’s best songs on even though both Paul and John had some silly ones done. Big source of frustration for George and for today’s taste his contributions are definitely some of the best Beatles songs out there. Three of the greatest song writers of all time in the same band. That’s partly why the songs are so different, with different moods and personalities. Individually great, together amazing. Add in George Martin, sometimes transcendent. When they all contributed to the track, along with Ringo’s perfect drums it was magic personified.
It's hard, if you didn't live through it, to realize just what an impact the Beatles had on popular music. Pop music in the fifties was amostly-bland wasteland. They may have had only eight years, but a seismic shock ran through those years. The Beatles were the epicenter and everything changed.
What is mind-blowing about The Beatles is that George Harrison was their 'third' songwriter. In any other band he would be the star, but such was the quality of the song-writing and creativity of all three of them, George was lucky to get one or two songs on an album. This why is why he was able to release 'All Things Must Pass' so quickly when the Beatles split up, because he had such a catalogue of work waiting.
George went over to Eric Clapton’s house. The relief of not having to go see all those dopey accountants at apple was wonderful, as he walked around the garden with one of Eric’s acoustic guitars and wrote ‘Here Comes The Sun.’” George completed the song while holidaying in Sardinia.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon essentially formed the Beatles, and were pretty much gatekeeping the "sound" of their group throughout. They were unfairly quite dismissive of George Harrison's songwriting in the earlier days, and generally only let Harrison have one of his compositions on each album. By the time Abbey Road came about, Lennon admitted that George's two songs were probably the best on that album. Later on, George Harrison put out his album 'All Things Must Pass', which was essentially a compilation of all the songs he'd written during the Beatles period that were rejected by Lennon and McCartney. Well worth a listen.
The Beatles were a whirlwind experience for a young person in the day. We knew there was just something different and special about them the first time we heard them. We couldn't describe it, but we knew it. The evolution of their music was swift and also impossible to put into words. I think you have to experience that evolution in order to understand their brilliance, which this first-time-hearer definitely isn't doing. It's like trying to explain to TV watchers what is so amazing about the Wire - you just have to put in the time to experience it all in order to get it. (One day in the early 2000's I noticed that all my Beatles CDs were missing. I found them in my millennial daughter's room; she had been listening, enjoying, and learning. She's a huge Beatles fan.
This is one of my favorite Beatles songs. I've been a fan since I first heard them at the end of 1963 and they exploded on the scene when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan show in February of 1964. It was a marvelous time for music.
Nelson & Spike Wilbury.. my favourite Beatle ❤ A few other classic George tracks ..What is Life, My Sweet Lord, Got my Mind set on You, All Those Years Ago, Give me Love(give me peace on earth), Something, ........... please also check out George in the Travelling Wilburys with his brilliant legendary mates - Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne....& Jim Keltner as Buster Sidebury on percussion.
You should play him "I Will" and then "Yer Blues" both from the 1968 White Album... if he wants to see how they can go from soft, beautiful love songs - to "I want to die" blues.
The album cover pic is a funereal precession of the Beatles walking across the cross walk as they we all were aware that this would be their last real album together
Harrison also wrote While my guitar gently weeps with guitar solo by Eric Clapton , Harrison was finally coming into his own by then .By the way when you get round to playing him Abbey Road, particularly when you get to the Medley on the second side, just play the original version and not the recent remastered version as it's a different order of songs , must played without stopping, its a medley. Too many first reactors play the recent remastered one, it spoils the flow.
You cant be unhappy with this song, thank you, its -4 out side and in my kitche heaters packed up.but i will be happy in my Baltic kitchen making a coffee and a tea,from North(ish) England.
I was 10 when the album was released and not in to music at the time. My uncles in Ireland were always mocking modern music, taunting "she loves me yeah! yeah! yeah!" on grandmother visit days as if it was my fault. We visited my cousins in Limerick within the next year, and the oldest had a cassette player with the original Abbey Road cassette release and I started playing it and liked it. I never seriously got in to The Beatles (shoot me) but I think Abbey Road is very easy to like. I worked as a driver for families near the studio in London on and off for the last 35 years. Aged 15 when I started working I was big in to Elton John and David Bowie albums, but who wasn't i guess. I just learned on a search that John Lennon wasn't on the track at all, recovering from a car accident at the time; and as mentioned in comments George wrote and sang this, which I never knew.
It wasn't just the same band that wrote both "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" AND "Here Comes The Sun", but it was the very same Beatle(singular), George Harrison, who wrote both songs.
December 1964, George (The Beatles) had the first song played on the radio. Do you want to know a secret. Trini Lopes told Jonny Carson on national tv that The Beatles are coming soon ...
LOL The song was written LITERALLY about the sun finally coming out coz winter was ending in London and George was so relieved. That’s The Beatles for you. George wrote WMGGW, too, BTW.
Here’s the songs Gabe needs to hear. -Tax Man (Harrison) -Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise -Hey Bulldog -Revolution (not 1 or 9) -Back In The U.S.S.R. -Happiness Is A Warm Gun -Get Back -I’ve Got A Feeling -Come Together -Oh Darling -Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End -I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
LOL The song was written LITERALLY about the sun finally coming out coz winter was ending in London and George was so relieved. That’s The Beatles for you.
George wrote both while my guitar gently weeps and here comes the sun among many others although the majority of Beatles szongs were written by John and Paul.
You need to check out Come Together and especially, I want you (she's so heavy), which i regard to be their mangnus opus. It was the also the last time they played together, at the same time.
Consider: Beatles top selling at 300 million units, but they only recorded from 1963 to 1969, a total of 7 years. The foundations of the group were set first with Paul and George playing guitar together, then Paul approached John and started playing guitar and writing songs, then Paul brough George back into the mix. The three were 16yr-old John, 15yr-old Paul, and 14yr-old George. George explains that he felt intimidated by the two older boys; he says the two wrote loads of songs, many of them terrible at first but learned to be better over time. George didn't start writing until years later, and he still had to get through that learning phase, making mistakes until he could improve his songwriting craft. By the time George started getting reasonably good, the Lennon/McCartney team were not only writing the best songs, but they took up all the album space, leaving him maybe one or two songs per album. As George improved, that should have been corrected, but it wasn't; this led to tensions in the group. By the time the band broke up, George was a good songwriter with a backlog of songs he had written over the years, which he was able to sprinkle into his newer songs on his solo albums. ________________________________________________________________________________ 1964 had "She Loves You", "Please Please Me" and "Twist And Shout". Pretty primitive stuff. But the Beatles came from blue-collar Liverpool; they didn't see much of recording studios until Brian Epstein took on management, cleaned them up, and got them a recording contract. 1965 was the year the Beatles released Rubber Soul. And everything changed. George Martin had given them the run of the studio, taught them techniques, and let them tell HIM what sounds they were looking for. He gave them a freedom seldom allowed any previous rock band. When you contrast "She Loves You" to "Norwegian Wood", it's a sea change. Or "In My Life". ________________________________________________________________________________ This song was written by George Harrison, released in 1969. It's generally considered to have sprung from his seeing the band was breaking up. Things had been getting more and more contentious in the last year or so. George's songs were also still being kept mostly off records. The end was near, and George could see it. This song expressed his relief that the fighting was nearly over, that the shackles of being a Beatle were about to break. Yes, he felt some sadness, but there was more exhilaration and a sense of peace approaching. Likely this is what you're picking up from the song. ________________________________________________________________________________ Analyzing the quality and meaning of Beatles songs is going to be difficult if you don't at least consider the songs in a timeline. They grew incredibly fast in the short time they worked together. Their first exposure to America on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 was just before George turned 20yrs-old. The band broke up when George was about 26. And they started really early, influenced by R&B, Motown, and 1950s rock and roll. They followed their influences from their early teens to their very-early twenties, then they led everyone else. They were great friends with the Rolling Stones, having come from the same background and city, and when the Beatles put out the landmark Sgt Pepper album, the Rolling Stones followed with "Their Satanic Majesties Request". The Beatles led the culture all through the 1960s. If you want to understand how they developed, how the culture developed, you have to at least pay attention to the dates. ________________________________________________________________________________ Recommendation: "It's All Too Much", from the 1969 Yellow Submarine soundtrack, another banger by George Harrison.
Not only the same group as "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", it's the same PARTICULAR composer, who only wrote a rather small percentage of their songs - George Harrison!
Play him I WANT YOU from Abbey Road. The Beatles were all about variety. Also, even with the Beatles, sometimes it takes awhile for people to warm up to a song with multiple listens.
How about "Honey Pie", a song written in yet another very different style? Or if you like to be taken back to your childhood, try "All together now" or "Yellow Submarine". 🙂
Boy, HCTS is from Abbe y Road, the last Beatles album. Unlike other artists that faded away towards obscurity, waning popularity and/or retirement, The Beatles did the best thing that all artists must do if they want to cement their legend in music history: they quit while on they were on the toppermost of the music food chain.
Just like the BEACH BOYS, the WRECKING CREW was the band who played all the MONKEEs songs. The Beatles were a real band that played all their instruments and sang The monkees and beach boys were mostly just singers or actors.
Plus, the Beatles WROTE most of their own songs. MICHAEL JACKSON bought his songs from songwriters. Michael was an entertainer, a dancer. But he was not a songwriter, Prince was.
While my guitar Gently weeps was written by George Harrison. The same man who wrote this song. The one thing about the Beatles is no 2 songs sound similar in style or formula. Every song is unique and most blur the lines of genres.
This is an understatement of the importance of the Beatles. First of all, subtract the Beatles from history and rock might not exist anymore. If it did, it wouldn't sound like it does today. Furthermore, they impacted everything in society, not just music. Their effect on western culture is incalculable. It would be nice if you did a little more from their first 3 albums.
Today's listeners are always asking what genre a group's music is in. The Beatles weren't limited to any particular genre...they just wrote the music that was inside them.
Has Gabe checked out Prince's version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps at the RnR Hall of Fame? Also, the Monkees were a direct rip-off of The Beatles as they were in 'A Hard Day's Night', so that mistake was understandable.
The Beatles and the Monkeys are not even close. As a 58 yo it’s hard to believe they would even be mentioned in the same conversation. Prince was more than you realize as well. Princes best was not what you have heard. He was a very misunderstood musician. His blues guitar skills were unreal and not even heard by most.
The United Nations asked the Beatles in the early 70’s to get back together and have a concert to benefit Africa. They estimated the Beatles reunion would have brought in millions of $$$$.
Just randomly came across this, and I did subscribe, and I see where you've done Helter Skelter recently so I'll check that out but man you guys really ought to react to their latest and last release, now and then, the official music video. The whole back story is astounding and Peter Jackson that did Lord of the Rings also did the video work on that where they stand old never before seen footage of The Beatles from Hello Goodbye in the light 60s, and put it together with shots of them attempting this song in the 90s when they had to just give up on it because of Technology constraints trying to get John Lennon's voice out of this old cassette tape demo where he played piano and sang in his living room with a kung fu movie playing in the background with his little kid running around. This was about 3 years before he got assassinated in 1980. And so they finally were able to get his voice isolated and do a mix until you've got the two remaining beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo starr, kind of reminiscing and singing and giving tribute to John and George who are no longer with us. And it's likely the last thing we'll ever see from them and they double down on that at the end. I've seen so many reactors actually cry on camera while watching it for the first time. I've seen it over 40 times now including tons of reactions and by the way they don't seem to be blocking it, and it still makes my allergies act up every single time.
You should react to come together (beetles) Michael Jackson covered it on the History album so might ring a bell with Gabe. Oh and my favourite beetles song is ‘In my life’
@@patticrichton1135 I do apologise officer! I know it is I mean it says it in the title of the video. I had just woken up and wasn’t particularly thinking at 5:30am…..Another case solved by the spelling police 👮
The Beatles CHANGED music and kept changing it until they broke up. You would have to study the music that came before them to understand how important they were.
Congratulations, your persistence in flogging this dead horse has given him a glimmer of hope with now 2 out of about 200 Beatles songs that he likes. Have you got enough life left for this project? Have you seen the Monty Python Parrot sketch? You're a bit like the shopkeeper in it.
Tip on the Beatles. Typically whoever is singing the song wrote it. They were all songwriters, and the first popular band to do it that way intentionally because John wanted to show their versatility.
Well done Gabe, you sussed the Beatles .. diversity. Not really classifiable - rockers, love songs, humour ... they're all there. Great songs, well sung, innovative. Try "Penny Lane" next. Also Gabe, I sense a counter attack for you with Prince. Hit Nick with "Little Red Corvette", "Sign O' The Times", "If I Was Your Girlfriend", "Anotherloverholenyohead" etc. etc. 🤩
Not really a fan of the Beatles yet if you listen to most artists around the world they will say they inspired them the greatest group ever just not for me
Y’all taking more than a minute, MAX, before you play the goddamn song, is a travesty. Y’all have nothing important to say in relation to The Beatles. Play the shit and react.
“Not willingly heard Prince songs” Dude. Now it’s your time on the naughty step. That’s unacceptable. Your friend has to guide you to Prince on the channel. With both Beatles and Prince, this must be a weekly lesson for both of you.
R.I.P. George you brilliant man. No ego, no stupid behaviour, just the perfect Mr. Nice Guy.
George was brilliant but he wasn’t perfect.
Everyone has ego. Including you and me.
didn’t george literally cheat on his wife
Yea George was most definitely not "Mr. Nice Guy"
I don't think George would agree with that assessment of his character. He was an immensely flawed man.
I love Ringo's work on the drums in this song. So *many* different time changes, but he keeps right up, driving the group forward.
Yeah, there's a general perception that he wasn't a very good drummer. Just get any drummer to play Ringo's drums....and they struggle.... :)
@@spoonunit03 Absolutely, my son was in a Beatles tribute band for 10 years as their drummer. They did the songs exactly like you heard them on the Beatles records. So he was playing the same drum parts that Ringo did. He said it wasn't easy, but he managed to master it so well, after a lot of practice. Ringo is an EXCELLENT unique drummer. In case you don't know, Ringo is naturally left handed, but he plays a right handed kit, so his approach is a little different.
This is a beautiful song. Pure joy. Its also pretty complex rhythmically, lots of time signature switches. Theres a part that switches to 3/4 for 3 bars, then a bar of 2/4. Technically that whole part could be considered 11/4 or 11/8. Its also one of 3 Beatles songs to use a synthesizer.
George didn't get many songs because of Lennon/McCartney. They were the hit makers, they've been writing tons of songs together since they were teenagers, and George didn't even try until their second album, so it took him until later in their career to grow as a writer. Even then, Lennon and McCartney didn't realise how good he was until towards the end of the band.
I can't believe guys have never heard this iconic song.
@garrymorris1
Me neither !!
The Beatles covered nearly every genre of music under the sun. The white album is the one that probably highlights that the most. It goes from one end of the spectrum to the other - song after song. Oh - and George wrote While my Guitar Gently Weeps.
Which is one of the greatest songs of all time! WMGGW!
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The Beatles first single was released in Nov 1962 and their first album was recorded in Feb 1963. Their last album completed recording in Nov 1969. During that time they recorded 188 original songs and 25 covers. George wrote 25 of the originals. He was a little behind Paul and John when it came to song writing (their first US hit was written by Paul when he was 15). George's first song, Don't Bother Me, was on their second album. George said it was his first attempt and was just trying to figure out how to write a song. "Something" on the Abbey Road album was his first song to hit number 1 on the charts. A few things made the Beatles stand out. First their "long hair" for that time. But more importantly they wrote most of their songs, all four had lead vocal tracks on every album plus tracks in duets, and they brought rock and roll back. They were never just one sound though. It would be pretty easy to argue they created genres of rock/pop. But through the 50's and well into the 60's Rock and Roll was a pretty broad term.
But if Gabe wants to understand why their early stuff was so popular you should watch the video "Most Popular Song Each Month in the 60's" (link below). All you really need to watch is Jan 1960 to Dec 1964 (about 12 minutes). The Beatles first US single was released Dec 26, 1963 so they really hit in US in 1964. You'll see what was most popular in the US (including Elvis) compared to what The Beatles brought in 1964. I'd be curious if Gage believes Elvis derserves his "King of Rock and Roll" title hearing his most popular songs from the early 60's. I was a kid then, but I think The Beatles brought Rock and Roll back to life when they hit North America. Then they proceeded to just change music and everybody else playing catch up. Here's that link...
ua-cam.com/video/hDWPNgRNdHI/v-deo.html
They finished recording "Abbey Road" in August of 1969. John quit the group on September 20th, 1969. "Abbey Road" was released on September 26th, 1969.
Their first U.S hit song was "I Want To Hold Your Hand" - which went to #1 on February 1st, 1964 and stayed there for 7 weeks. It was co-written John and Paul.
You were probably talking about "Love Me Do" which was their first hit single in the UK (peaked at #17 in December of 1962) which was mainly written by Paul.
@@aBeatleFan4ever The last song recorded was "I Me Mine" for the Let it Be album after Abbey Road was released. No, John wasn't present. Their first hit single was indeed Love Me Do and it launched their career. That is when they started recording. By the time the US caught on The Beatles had already recorded and released two albums in the UK and had multiple hits. Beatlemania was in full swing in the UK before the US ever heard of them. Just because the US didn't have a single released until Dec 26, 1963 doesn't mean their recording, and hits didn't start in Nov 1962. There's more to the world than just the US.
@@philiphoy1373 - Dude... you wrote that "their last album completed recording in November 1969". That is flat out wrong. So I listed the actual dates and time line for you. They finished recording "Abbey Road" on August 20th, 1969. The album was released on September 26th, 1969. I bought it and was playing it - in late September of 1969.
You also wrote that "their first US hit was written by Paul when he was 15". That is also incorrect. So I explained to you... that their first U.S. hit was "I Want To Hold Your Hand" which was equally co-written by both John & Paul in 1963 (not by Paul when he was 15). Then I went on to explain to you - that you may have been talking about their first hit in the U.K. ("Love Me Do") which was written mainly by Paul. I also pointed out that their first U.K. hit ("Love Me Do") peaked at #17 in the fall of 1962. So you should have been fully aware that I obviously know all about how they were huge stars in the U.K in pretty much all of 1963... a full year before they became huge stars in the U.S. Try and catch up...
And, yes... I am well aware that Paul, George and Ringo came back to EMI on January 3rd, 1970 to make a proper recording of "I Me Mine". This was because it had been decided that scenes of The Beatles working on "I Me Mine" would be included in the "Let It Be" film - and they did not have a full recording of the song that was considered good enough to include on the album (which would eventually be released along with the film later in 1970). So they asked Paul, George & Ringo to come in and make a recording of that song which could be used on the album. John wasn't there - because he had quit the band in September of 1969.
@@aBeatleFan4ever One thing you have right is I got it backwards. It was their very first hit (in the UK) that was written by Paul at 15. Abbey Road was their last ablum recorded. Let It Be was their last album released. But, and it's a big but, I Me Mine was recorded after Abbey Road, and included on Let It Be. The real point of my initial post was how many original songs they recorded in such a short time. Starting in 1962 and ending in 1969. Their output, and it's quality, was astounding. I bought their albums as they came out and watched them on Ed Sullivan.
@@philiphoy1373 * Everything I wrote - was right.
Two of the things you wrote were wrong - so I corrected them for you.
The Beatles were a true and unequalled phenomenon. There is a vast amount of music beginning in the '50s and extending into the early '80s of pop/R&B/Blues/Jazz/Soul/Progressive rock and more that you are completely missing out on. This music represents my generation and was some of the very best music ever produced.
When this record showed up (I got it via the USPS) I dropped the needle and this was the first song I heard. George finally got his due on this their last album and I think it's their best.
Other great George songs : 'It's All To Much', 'Taxman', 'I, Me, Mine', 'Think For Yourself' and he wrote 'All Things Must Pass' before the Beatles split.
Savoy truffle.
Don't forget the more popular. "SOMETHING"
If I Needed Someone.
Hey guys you forgot The Inner Light ! As Macca said it's beautiful. 🤡
And we can't overlook While My Guitar Gently Weeps ! And there's a few more too. 🌈😹
1963-1970 so many songs, touring non stop to 1966, four movies. So many musicians picked up an instrument, started a band because of the Beatles.
If you experienced a British winter which mainly cold wet and miserabl, you could appreciate how spring is welcome and a warm sun
Like ELO's Mr Blue Sky. Same joy.
George was only like 13 or 14 when he joined the Silver Beetles. Paul and John were several years older and already writing songs. They were already monster hit makers by the time George started writing his own songs. So, at first they just started including one song an album for George. Later, he would get more, but by the time George really hit his stride I think that the three of them were so prolific they were in the habit of only allowing only George’s best songs on even though both Paul and John had some silly ones done. Big source of frustration for George and for today’s taste his contributions are definitely some of the best Beatles songs out there. Three of the greatest song writers of all time in the same band. That’s partly why the songs are so different, with different moods and personalities. Individually great, together amazing. Add in George Martin, sometimes transcendent. When they all contributed to the track, along with Ringo’s perfect drums it was magic personified.
Paul was one year older than George.
Worth mentioning the Beatles did all their stuff, got all those record sales in 8 years.
Elvis took 20 years to get those sales. MJ took 30.
It's hard, if you didn't live through it, to realize just what an impact the Beatles had on popular music. Pop music in the fifties was amostly-bland wasteland. They may have had only eight years, but a seismic shock ran through those years. The Beatles were the epicenter and everything changed.
What is mind-blowing about The Beatles is that George Harrison was their 'third' songwriter. In any other band he would be the star, but such was the quality of the song-writing and creativity of all three of them, George was lucky to get one or two songs on an album. This why is why he was able to release 'All Things Must Pass' so quickly when the Beatles split up, because he had such a catalogue of work waiting.
George went over to Eric Clapton’s house. The relief of not having to go see all those dopey accountants at apple was wonderful, as he walked around the garden with one of Eric’s acoustic guitars and wrote ‘Here Comes The Sun.’” George completed the song while holidaying in Sardinia.
I believe George wrote this in Eric Clapton’s back garden. Of course Clapton was the primary guitarist on ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’.
Definitely check out Revolution (live video version) and I've Got a Feeling from the Rooftop concert - Great harder rock sound!
Paul McCartney and John Lennon essentially formed the Beatles, and were pretty much gatekeeping the "sound" of their group throughout. They were unfairly quite dismissive of George Harrison's songwriting in the earlier days, and generally only let Harrison have one of his compositions on each album. By the time Abbey Road came about, Lennon admitted that George's two songs were probably the best on that album.
Later on, George Harrison put out his album 'All Things Must Pass', which was essentially a compilation of all the songs he'd written during the Beatles period that were rejected by Lennon and McCartney. Well worth a listen.
If I could only listen to one song for the rest of my days, it would be this one, hands down.
The Beatles were a whirlwind experience for a young person in the day. We knew there was just something different and special about them the first time we heard them. We couldn't describe it, but we knew it. The evolution of their music was swift and also impossible to put into words. I think you have to experience that evolution in order to understand their brilliance, which this first-time-hearer definitely isn't doing. It's like trying to explain to TV watchers what is so amazing about the Wire - you just have to put in the time to experience it all in order to get it. (One day in the early 2000's I noticed that all my Beatles CDs were missing. I found them in my millennial daughter's room; she had been listening, enjoying, and learning. She's a huge Beatles fan.
This is one of my favorite Beatles songs. I've been a fan since I first heard them at the end of 1963 and they exploded on the scene when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan show in February of 1964. It was a marvelous time for music.
My Sweet George ❤🎸♥️🎸
George also wrote While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Nelson & Spike Wilbury.. my favourite Beatle ❤ A few other classic George tracks ..What is Life, My Sweet Lord, Got my Mind set on You, All Those Years Ago, Give me Love(give me peace on earth), Something, ........... please also check out George in the Travelling Wilburys with his brilliant legendary mates - Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne....& Jim Keltner as Buster Sidebury on percussion.
You should play him "I Will" and then "Yer Blues" both from the 1968 White Album... if he wants to see how they can go from soft, beautiful love songs - to "I want to die" blues.
George ❤️ 😢
You would love The Traveling Wilburys (super group with Harrison, Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison) song End of The Line written by George Harrison.
more beatles reactions: day in the life, here there&everywhere,let it be,strawberry fields,something
While my guitar gently weeps was also written by George Harrison
That's what makes a great band, evoke a certain emotion or memory. George Harrison wrote My Guitar Gently Weeps.
They need to let me pick The Beatles songs. I’ll play the bangers
I love the unknown songs that no one hears. Like the film 'As good as it get' Because I get it. 😮 ❤
The album cover pic is a funereal precession of the Beatles walking across the cross walk as they we all were aware that this would be their last real album together
Harrison also wrote While my guitar gently weeps with guitar solo by Eric Clapton , Harrison was finally coming into his own by then .By the way when you get round to playing him Abbey Road, particularly when you get to the Medley on the second side, just play the original version and not the recent remastered version as it's a different order of songs , must played without stopping, its a medley. Too many first reactors play the recent remastered one, it spoils the flow.
Get him to listen to Hey Bulldog , Lady Madonna, and Rain . He will deffo love the three of them, Oh and Back In The USSR also
George came up with song as he was working in his garden on a very sunny day.
He needs to hear “I Want You, She’s So Heavy” by The Beatles 😎
You cant be unhappy with this song, thank you, its -4 out side and in my kitche heaters packed up.but i will be happy in my Baltic kitchen making a coffee and a tea,from North(ish) England.
Don't know where you got this chart you were looking at... but I've read that The Beatles surpassed a billion record sales more than 20 years ago.
I was 10 when the album was released and not in to music at the time.
My uncles in Ireland were always mocking modern music, taunting "she loves me yeah! yeah! yeah!" on grandmother visit days as if it was my fault.
We visited my cousins in Limerick within the next year, and the oldest had a cassette player with the original Abbey Road cassette release and I started playing it and liked it.
I never seriously got in to The Beatles (shoot me) but I think Abbey Road is very easy to like. I worked as a driver for families near the studio in London on and off for the last 35 years.
Aged 15 when I started working I was big in to Elton John and David Bowie albums, but who wasn't i guess.
I just learned on a search that John Lennon wasn't on the track at all, recovering from a car accident at the time; and as mentioned in comments George wrote and sang this, which I never knew.
It wasn't just the same band that wrote both "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" AND "Here Comes The Sun", but it was the very same Beatle(singular), George Harrison, who wrote both songs.
George wrote and sang "WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS"
December 1964, George (The Beatles) had the first song played on the radio. Do you want to know a secret. Trini Lopes told Jonny Carson on national tv that The Beatles are coming soon ...
LOL The song was written LITERALLY about the sun finally coming out coz winter was ending in
London and George was so relieved. That’s The Beatles for you. George wrote WMGGW, too, BTW.
Here’s the songs Gabe needs to hear.
-Tax Man (Harrison)
-Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise
-Hey Bulldog
-Revolution (not 1 or 9)
-Back In The U.S.S.R.
-Happiness Is A Warm Gun
-Get Back
-I’ve Got A Feeling
-Come Together
-Oh Darling
-Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
-I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
LOL The song was written LITERALLY about the sun finally coming out coz winter was ending in
London and George was so relieved. That’s The Beatles for you.
George wrote both while my guitar gently weeps and here comes the sun among many others although the majority of Beatles szongs were written by John and Paul.
You need to check out Come Together and especially, I want you (she's so heavy), which i regard to be their mangnus opus. It was the also the last time they played together, at the same time.
George Harrison also wrote While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Consider: Beatles top selling at 300 million units, but they only recorded from 1963 to 1969, a total of 7 years.
The foundations of the group were set first with Paul and George playing guitar together, then Paul approached John and started playing guitar and writing songs, then Paul brough George back into the mix. The three were 16yr-old John, 15yr-old Paul, and 14yr-old George.
George explains that he felt intimidated by the two older boys; he says the two wrote loads of songs, many of them terrible at first but learned to be better over time. George didn't start writing until years later, and he still had to get through that learning phase, making mistakes until he could improve his songwriting craft.
By the time George started getting reasonably good, the Lennon/McCartney team were not only writing the best songs, but they took up all the album space, leaving him maybe one or two songs per album. As George improved, that should have been corrected, but it wasn't; this led to tensions in the group. By the time the band broke up, George was a good songwriter with a backlog of songs he had written over the years, which he was able to sprinkle into his newer songs on his solo albums.
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1964 had "She Loves You", "Please Please Me" and "Twist And Shout". Pretty primitive stuff. But the Beatles came from blue-collar Liverpool; they didn't see much of recording studios until Brian Epstein took on management, cleaned them up, and got them a recording contract.
1965 was the year the Beatles released Rubber Soul. And everything changed. George Martin had given them the run of the studio, taught them techniques, and let them tell HIM what sounds they were looking for. He gave them a freedom seldom allowed any previous rock band.
When you contrast "She Loves You" to "Norwegian Wood", it's a sea change. Or "In My Life".
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This song was written by George Harrison, released in 1969. It's generally considered to have sprung from his seeing the band was breaking up. Things had been getting more and more contentious in the last year or so. George's songs were also still being kept mostly off records. The end was near, and George could see it. This song expressed his relief that the fighting was nearly over, that the shackles of being a Beatle were about to break. Yes, he felt some sadness, but there was more exhilaration and a sense of peace approaching. Likely this is what you're picking up from the song.
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Analyzing the quality and meaning of Beatles songs is going to be difficult if you don't at least consider the songs in a timeline. They grew incredibly fast in the short time they worked together. Their first exposure to America on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 was just before George turned 20yrs-old. The band broke up when George was about 26. And they started really early, influenced by R&B, Motown, and 1950s rock and roll.
They followed their influences from their early teens to their very-early twenties, then they led everyone else. They were great friends with the Rolling Stones, having come from the same background and city, and when the Beatles put out the landmark Sgt Pepper album, the Rolling Stones followed with "Their Satanic Majesties Request".
The Beatles led the culture all through the 1960s. If you want to understand how they developed, how the culture developed, you have to at least pay attention to the dates.
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Recommendation: "It's All Too Much", from the 1969 Yellow Submarine soundtrack, another banger by George Harrison.
When you went to the UK, did you go to Abbey Rd?
No. I didn't even think about it.
Same album......Oh Darling
Almost Cut My Hair Today. CSNY. ❤
Not only the same group as "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", it's the same PARTICULAR composer, who only wrote a rather small percentage of their songs - George Harrison!
Play him I WANT YOU from Abbey Road. The Beatles were all about variety. Also, even with the Beatles, sometimes it takes awhile for people to warm up to a song with multiple listens.
George wrote….. while my guitar gently weeps, Taxman, think for yourself, here comes the sun, and the real highlight…. Something.
How about "Honey Pie", a song written in yet another very different style? Or if you like to be taken back to your childhood, try "All together now" or "Yellow Submarine". 🙂
hahahahahaha that prince impresstion on point but purple rain movie was ace.
I believe Chicago has the most number one hits i think around 101
Play him Tomorrow Never Knows
Boy, HCTS is from Abbe y Road, the last Beatles album. Unlike other artists that faded away towards obscurity, waning popularity and/or retirement, The Beatles did the best thing that all artists must do if they want to cement their legend in music history: they quit while on they were on the toppermost of the music food chain.
Hey MI fan (Nick) & CSK fanatic (Gabe)😅 pls React to another Beatles classic " Norweigan Wood"
Just like the BEACH BOYS, the WRECKING CREW was the band who played all the MONKEEs songs. The Beatles were a real band that played all their instruments and sang The monkees and beach boys were mostly just singers or actors.
Plus, the Beatles WROTE most of their own songs. MICHAEL JACKSON bought his songs from songwriters. Michael was an entertainer, a dancer. But he was not a songwriter, Prince was.
While my guitar Gently weeps was written by George Harrison. The same man who wrote this song. The one thing about the Beatles is no 2 songs sound similar in style or formula. Every song is unique and most blur the lines of genres.
This is an understatement of the importance of the Beatles. First of all, subtract the Beatles from history and rock might not exist anymore. If it did, it wouldn't sound like it does today. Furthermore, they impacted everything in society, not just music. Their effect on western culture is incalculable.
It would be nice if you did a little more from their first 3 albums.
Today's listeners are always asking what genre a group's music is in. The Beatles weren't limited to any particular genre...they just wrote the music that was inside them.
Beatles did it all in 7 years.
George wrote Here Comes the Sun
20 #1 hits really is bananas. But Merle Haggard had 38, and Ronnie Milsap had 40. Number.....one.....hits.
Check out the version by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
In the BEATLES hey day the world pipulation was 3 billion as opposed to 9 billion for Rhianna.
I believe this song is about the second sun thats coming
Has Gabe checked out Prince's version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps at the RnR Hall of Fame? Also, the Monkees were a direct rip-off of The Beatles as they were in 'A Hard Day's Night', so that mistake was understandable.
To me, this is easily their best song, followed by George's While my Guitar...
“Come together” is on the same album! Please react to it
I love it, but you keep playing Gabe relatively lightweight songs? Not the ones I'd play if I was trying to convert someone.
The Beatles and the Monkeys are not even close. As a 58 yo it’s hard to believe they would even be mentioned in the same conversation. Prince was more than you realize as well. Princes best was not what you have heard. He was a very misunderstood musician. His blues guitar skills were unreal and not even heard by most.
Try another great George song; "Something".
Happiness is a warm gun,I want u,anna,let it be, I got a feeling,dear prudence..
The United Nations asked the Beatles in the early 70’s to get back together and have a concert to benefit Africa. They estimated the Beatles reunion would have brought in millions of $$$$.
Just randomly came across this, and I did subscribe, and I see where you've done Helter Skelter recently so I'll check that out but man you guys really ought to react to their latest and last release, now and then, the official music video. The whole back story is astounding and Peter Jackson that did Lord of the Rings also did the video work on that where they stand old never before seen footage of The Beatles from Hello Goodbye in the light 60s, and put it together with shots of them attempting this song in the 90s when they had to just give up on it because of Technology constraints trying to get John Lennon's voice out of this old cassette tape demo where he played piano and sang in his living room with a kung fu movie playing in the background with his little kid running around.
This was about 3 years before he got assassinated in 1980. And so they finally were able to get his voice isolated and do a mix until you've got the two remaining beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo starr, kind of reminiscing and singing and giving tribute to John and George who are no longer with us. And it's likely the last thing we'll ever see from them and they double down on that at the end.
I've seen so many reactors actually cry on camera while watching it for the first time. I've seen it over 40 times now including tons of reactions and by the way they don't seem to be blocking it, and it still makes my allergies act up every single time.
Amends 'Gets'
You should react to come together (beetles) Michael Jackson covered it on the History album so might ring a bell with Gabe. Oh and my favourite beetles song is ‘In my life’
@arbirchdrew It's BeAtles, "BEATLES" not spelled like the insect.
@@patticrichton1135 I do apologise officer! I know it is I mean it says it in the title of the video. I had just woken up and wasn’t particularly thinking at 5:30am…..Another case solved by the spelling police 👮
Try drivers seat back up singer outs on one hell of a show he is noel shine
Why does he shout and screech?
He needs to listen to A Day in the Life.
This is also George Harrison
The Beatles CHANGED music and kept changing it until they broke up. You would have to study the music that came before them to understand how important they were.
Congratulations, your persistence in flogging this dead horse has given him a glimmer of hope with now 2 out of about 200 Beatles songs that he likes.
Have you got enough life left for this project? Have you seen the Monty Python Parrot sketch? You're a bit like the shopkeeper in it.
The most streamed Beatles song by a long long way and it's not even written by John or Paul.
Tip on the Beatles. Typically whoever is singing the song wrote it. They were all songwriters, and the first popular band to do it that way intentionally because John wanted to show their versatility.
Well done Gabe, you sussed the Beatles .. diversity. Not really classifiable - rockers, love songs, humour ... they're all there. Great songs, well sung, innovative. Try "Penny Lane" next.
Also Gabe, I sense a counter attack for you with Prince. Hit Nick with "Little Red Corvette", "Sign O' The Times", "If I Was Your Girlfriend", "Anotherloverholenyohead" etc. etc. 🤩
Not really a fan of the Beatles yet if you listen to most artists around the world they will say they inspired them the greatest group ever just not for me
George was going through hard times, woman trouble, and Lennon McCartney were ignoring his songs, bummers.
Y’all taking more than a minute, MAX, before you play the goddamn song, is a travesty. Y’all have nothing important to say in relation to The Beatles. Play the shit and react.
“Not willingly heard Prince songs”
Dude. Now it’s your time on the naughty step. That’s unacceptable. Your friend has to guide you to Prince on the channel.
With both Beatles and Prince, this must be a weekly lesson for both of you.
React to “Oh, Darling” - yet another Beatles genre.
George also wrote While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
George also wrote While My Guitar Gently Weeps.