"Hey Bulldog" is a song by The Beatles which first appeared on the Yellow Submarine soundtrack album in 1968. Written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon/McCartney), the song was recorded during the filming of the "Lady Madonna" promotional video, and is one of the few Beatles songs to revolve around a piano riff. During the recording, Paul McCartney started to bark without warning. The next lines, initially written as "Hey Bullfrog", were changed mid-song to "Hey Bulldog". This became the song's title. Geoff Emerick, the Beatles' engineer, would subsequently claim this was the last song the band recorded that featured a team dynamic with enthusiasm from every member. When the group reconvened in the studio in May 1968 for the The Beatles sessions, their group cohesion had already been undermined by the business, artistic, and personal differences that would culminate in their eventual breakup. During these sessions, a film crew photographed the four Beatles recording the song. It was one of the few times they allowed themselves to be extensively filmed recording in the Abbey Road studios, for a promotional film to be released during their scheduled four-month retreat to India (which was later edited together as a promotional film for the single Lady Madonna). The song was used in an animated segment of the Yellow Submarine film which initially appeared only in European theatrical prints. It was restored and seen for the first time in 30 years for the film's 1999 re-release. To promote the reissue, Apple went back to the original footage shot for the "Lady Madonna" promo film and restructured it for use as a promotional clip for "Hey Bulldog" (as it is possible to identify what they were playing, and therefore possible to synchronize the music with the original footage). The guitar riff from "Hey Bulldog" was included in the 2006 album Love in its version of "Lady Madonna".Some of Lennon & McCartney laughing was featured in the Blue Jay Way transitional piece. McCartney spoke fondly of "Hey Bulldog" in 1994: "I remember as being one of John's songs and I helped him finish it off in the studio, but it's mainly his vibe. There's a little rap at the end between John and I, we went into a crazy little thing at the end. We always tried to make every song different because we figured, 'Why write something like the last one? We've done that'. We were on a ladder so there was never any sense of stepping down a rung, or even staying on the same rung, it was better to move one rung ahead". The two recordings of "Hey Bulldog" that are featured on the original soundtrack and the remastered Yellow Submarine Songtrack differ in many ways. In the original mix, the backing track is on the left channel, the bass in the centre, and vocals and lead guitar on the right channel. There is a sharp edit in the lead guitar track at 01:04, and again when this edit piece ends at 01:32. There is audible laughing and chatter during the solo. The backing track also has its volume turned down slightly to make the coda chatter seem louder. The fade out in this take is only 7 seconds long. On the Yellow Submarine Songtrack, the studio engineers remixed each record using the original multitrack tapes. This results in a much cleaner sound (easily noticeable when comparing the piano intro with the drum stick beats on both versions). The stereo placement has more of a modern feel, with the backing track to the left, vocals in the centre, and bass and lead guitar to the right (although the lead vocal moves slightly to the right when the backing vocals appear to the left in each chorus). This track's guitars on both the Yellow Submarine Songtrack and Love albums have far more bottom-end than in the original. The laughing and chatter during the guitar solo is quieter compared to the music, and the talking at the end of the track is slightly quieter too, but easily audible. The fade out is somewhat longer, taking 10 seconds to fade out. This also makes a final "Hey bulldog!" call audible. There is an early version of the song with just John at the piano. The 48 seconds demo is entitled "She can talk to me" and appeared in bootlegs like "Artifacts" (Vol. 1, Disc 4) or "The Lost Lennon Tapes" (Vol 18). Auteur: 2222beatles Tags: beatles harrison lennon mccartney oldies ringo Ajoutée: vendredi 09 mai 2031 01:42:09

"Let It Be" is a song by The Beatles, released in March 1970 as a single, and as the title track of their album Let It Be. Although credited to Lennon/McCartney it is generally accepted to be a Paul McCartney composition. The single reached #1 in the U.S., Australia, Italy, Norway and Switzerland and #2 in the UK. It was the final single released by The Beatles while the band was still active. Auteur: 2222beatles Tags: beatles harrison lennon mccartney oldies ringo Ajoutée: vendredi 04 août 2028 21:25:14

"This Boy" is a song by The Beatles composed by John Lennon,and was first released in November 1963 as the B-side of the UK Parlophone single "I Want to Hold Your Hand".The Beatles performed it live on 16 February 1964 for their second Ed Sullivan Show appearance in the USA.It also appears as the third track on side one of US release,Meet the Beatles. Its composition was an attempt by John Lennon at writing a song in the style of Motown star Smokey Robinson, specifically his song "I've Been Good To You",which has similar circular doo-wop chord changes,melody and arrangement,and Paul McCartney cites The Teddy Bears 1959 hit To Know Him Is To Love Him as also being influential.Lennon,McCartney,and George Harrison join together to sing an intricate three-part close harmony in the verses and refrain (originally the middle eight was conceived as a guitar solo,but altered during the recording process)and a similar song writing technique is exercised in later Beatles songs,such as "Yes It Is" and "Because" (which, interestingly,are among the few Beatles songs which also feature three-part harmonies). An instrumental version of "This Boy", orchestrated by George Martin,is used as the incidental music during Ringo Starr's towpath scene in the film A Hard Day's Night.The piece,under the title,"Ringo's Theme (This Boy)" was released as a single - but failed to chart in the UK - on 7 August 1964 with And I Love Her on the B Side, although it did reach #53 in the American Top 100 later that year.It was also included on Martins Parlophone album Off The Beatle Track and the EP Music From A Hard Days Night by the George Martin Orchestra,released 19 February 1965. It was also included on the American A Hard Day's Night soundtrack album. Auteur: 2222beatles Tags: beatles harrison lennon mccartney oldies ringo Ajoutée: samedi 19 septembre 2037 13:58:30

"Please Mr. Postman" was the debut single by The Marvelettes for the Tamla Motown label,notable as the first Motown song to reach #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart.The single achieved this position in late 1961.It hit #1 on the R&B chart as well."Please Mister Postman" became a number one hit again in early 1975,when The Carpenters cover of the song also reached the top position of the Billboard Hot 100. The Beatles included "Please Mister Postman" as part of their live act in 1962,performing it regularly at the Cavern Club.By the time it was recorded for their second album,With the Beatles,it had been dropped from their set,and required some work in the studio to bring it up to an acceptable standard.Ian MacDonald criticised their version for having a "wall of sound" and for a "general airlessness". Auteur: 2222beatles Tags: beatles harrison lennon mccartney oldies ringo Ajoutée: mardi 01 août 2034 16:15:21

"Till There Was You" is a song written by Meredith Willson for his 1957 musical play The Music Man,and which also appeared in the 1962 movie version.The song is sung by librarian Marian Paroo (Barbara Cook on Broadway,Shirley Jones in the film) to Professor Harold Hill (portrayed by Robert Preston) toward the end of Act Two. The first recording of this song to be released came even before the original cast album version of January,1958. Promotional copies of the 45 rpm single,Capitol P3847,were released on November 26,1957,even before the Broadway production had premiered on December 19.Produced by Nelson Riddle, it featured his orchestra and 17-year-old vocalist Sue Raney. In 1959,Anita Bryant recorded a single which reached #30 on the Billboard Hot 100,a 1962 instrumental version by Valjean was also popular. The Beatles version was included on their albums With the Beatles (UK Release,1963)and Meet the Beatles(US Release,1964).The song was the only Broadway tune the Beatles ever recorded. "Till There Was You" was a minor hit in the UK for Peggy Lee in March 1961. Paul McCartney was introduced to her music by his older cousin,Bett Robbins,who would occasionally baby-sit the two McCartney brothers. McCartney said:"I had no idea until much later that it was from The Music Man"."Till There Was You" was part of the Beatles repertoire in 1962 and performed at the Star Club in Hamburg.It became illustrative of the Beatles versatility,proving they could appeal to all sections of an audience, moving easily from ballads to rock and roll,as in their live 1963 Royal Command Performance when they followed this song with "Twist and Shout". The Beatles had previously performed "Till There Was You" as part of their failed audition for Decca Records in London on January 1,1962,and it was the second of six the group sang during their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9th,1964. Live versions of the song were released on Live at the BBC (1994) and Anthology 1 (1995).The latter version was recorded when the Beatles played at the Royal Command Performance in November 1963. Paul McCartney announced that they were performing the number "In honour of our favourite American group, Sophie Tucker".Tucker had actually performed the song in a stage version of "The Music Man." Auteur: 2222beatles Tags: beatles harrison lennon mccartney oldies ringo Ajoutée: jeudi 20 juillet 2034 20:03:29

"You Can't Do That" is a song recorded by The Beatles credited to Lennon/McCartney although it was wholly composed by John Lennon. "You Can't Do That" was recorded on Tuesday, 25 February 1964, in Abbey Road Studios in London, and initially released as the B-side of the Beatles' single "Can't Buy Me Love. Later it was also included on the UK album A Hard Day's Night and the US album The Beatles' Second Album. With filming due to begin on A Hard Day's Night, film director Dick Lester needed the Beatles to provide him with original material ahead of production, and "You Can't Do That" was selected as one of the songs the Beatles played as part of the Scala Theatre "live performance" scene in the film, but it was dropped for the final cut. At one stage it was considered for the A-side of their next single until McCartney produced "Can't Buy Me Love". Lennon not only composed, but also played the guitar solo.The recording took nine takes to complete. The song's jealousy theme was re-visited in other Lennon compositions, such as "Run for Your Life" and "Jealous Guy". Influenced by the relatively unknown Wilson Pickett, the song is essentially a twelve bar in its composition, with Lennon introducing a discordant flattened 3rd on the D7th chord, pointedly emphasising "...I told you before..." and then pushing the same note for the exasperated "Oh!" before resolving to the song's key of G. While in New York for The Ed Sullivan Show guitarist George Harrison was presented with a Rickenbacker 360 Deluxe electric 12-string guitar worth $900.Only the second one produced, it was heard for the first time on "You Can't Do That" (although actually used for the first time on "Can't Buy Me Love" but lost in the mix) and gave the song its distinctive chiming sound.It would be played extensively on the A Hard Day's Night LP, greatly influencing Roger McGuinn, who later went on to form The Byrds. Footage can be found on the documentary The Making of "A Hard Day's Night" and can be easily viewed on YouTube. Auteur: 2222beatles Tags: beatles harrison lennon mccartney oldies ringo Ajoutée: mardi 11 mars 2031 23:32:30

"I Should Have Known Better" is a song composed by John Lennon,credited to Lennon/McCartney,and originally released by The Beatles on the United Kingdom-version of A Hard Day's Night, their soundtrack for the film of the same name. In January 1964,during a three-week engagement at the Olympia Theatre in Paris,The Beatles first became aware of American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan and,when having acquired a copy of his album Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, began playing it continuously. American journalist Al Aronowitz personally introduced them to Dylan when The Beatles visited New York in February 1964,and Dylan subsequently became a big influence on the group, especially Lennon,who even started wearing a copycat Huckleberry Finn cap.The resulting consequence of this infatuation (as Ian McDonald later described it) was the song "I Should Have Known Better".Paul McCartney said Dylan's songs were "great lyrically",and Lennon credited Dylan with inspiring him to write more meaningful lyrics. Lennon's harmonica playing opens the track,the last occasion the Beatles were to feature this instrument on an intro ("I´m a Loser",recorded 14 August 1964,has a harmonica solo) and thus draws a line under a significant period of their early music.The song's middle sixteen section features George Harrison's brand new Rickenbacker string guitar. The song is performed in the train compartment scene of A Hard Day's Night.It was in fact filmed in a van, with crew members rocking the vehicle to fake the action of a train in motion. An orchestrated version of the song conducted by George Martin appears on the B-side of the US version of the album. The first recording session for the song was on 25 February 1964 at Abbey Road Studios when three takes were attempted,but only one was complete. Take 2 was aborted when Lennon broke into hysterics over his harmonica playing.The song was re-recorded the next day after making some changes to the arrangement. The mono and stereo versions have slightly different harmonica introductions.In the stereo version, the harmonica drops out briefly.Also, a noticeably clumsy and audible tape edit is heard during the second middle eight between "You're gonna say you love me,too" and "And when I ask you to be mine". Auteur: 2222beatles Tags: beatles harrison lennon mccartney oldies ringo Ajoutée: jeudi 23 janvier 1902 06:08:54

"All My Loving" is a song by The Beatles,written by Paul McCartney,but credited to Lennon/McCartney,from the 1963 album With the Beatles. It was the first of only a few occasions where McCartney wrote the lyrics before the music.McCartney envisioned it originally as a country & western song,and the music was written backstage on a piano during The Beatles Roy Orbison tour with George Harrison adding his Nashville style guitar solo on the recording. Similarly employing the letter song model used in "PS I Love You","All My Loving" promptly drew much critical acclaim,and attracted large amounts of radio air-play.It was the band's opening number on its famous US debut performance on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9,1964. According to Alan Weiss,a TV producer who happened to be there,"All My Loving" was playing on the sound system at Roosevelt Hospital emergency room when John Lennon was pronounced dead after being shot on December 8, 1980. The Beatles recorded the song on July 30,1963 in 11 takes with 3 overdubs. The master take was take 14 overdubbed on take 11.It was remixed on August 21 and October 29. The song was released as a single in the Nordic Countries,and in Finland it went # 1. Auteur: 2222beatles Tags: beatles harrison lennon mccartney oldies ringo Ajoutée: mercredi 19 avril 2034 20:43:34

"Day Tripper" is a riff-driven rock song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and released by The Beatles as a "double A-side" single with "We Can Work It Out". Both songs were recorded during the sessions for the Rubber Soul album. The song topped the UK Singles Chart and peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Under the pressure of needing a new single for the Christmas market, Lennon wrote most of the lyrics and the famous guitar break, while McCartney helped with the verses. "Day-tripper" was a typical play on words by John: "Day trippers are people who go on a day trip, right? Usually on a ferryboat or something. McCartney said in Melody Maker that "Day Tripper" and "Drive My Car" (recorded three days prior) were "funny songs, songs with jokes in." McCartney provides the lead vocal and Lennon the harmony, in contrast to the Beatles' usual practice of a song's principal composer singing lead. The song was recorded on 16 October 1965 at Abbey Road Studios. The Beatles recorded the basic rhythm track for "If I Needed Someone" after completing "Day Tripper". The released master contains one of the most noticeable mistakes of any Beatles song, a drop out at 1:58 (1:49 in the version on Past Masters, Volume Two) in which the rhythm guitar part momentarily disappears; This may have been done to cover tape damage or some other recording mishap. This was later fixed on the 2000 compilation 1. Auteur: 2222beatles Tags: beatles harrison lennon mccartney oldies ringo Ajoutée: mardi 15 avril 2031 16:54:02

"Love Me Do" is an early Lennon/McCartney song principally written by Paul McCartney in 1959 while playing truant from school. John Lennon wrote the middle eight. The song was The Beatles' first single, backed by "P.S. I Love You" and released on 5 October 1962. When the single was originally released in the UK, it peaked at number seventeen; in 1982 it was re-issued and reached number four. In the U.S. the single was a number one hit in 1964. "Love Me Do" begins with bluesy harmonica played by John Lennon, then features Lennon and McCartney on joint lead vocals. McCartney sings the solo vocal line on the song's title phrase (and also its middle eight). Lennon had previously sung the title sections, but this change in arrangement was made in the studio under the direction of producer George Martin when the harmonica part was introduced, as Lennon then needed to resume playing it on the same beat as the "do" of "love me do".This is illustrative of the live characteristics of this particular session, as when a similar situation occurred on another session with Please Please Me, the harmonica was superimposed afterwards using tape-to-tape overdubbing. "Love Me Do" was recorded by the Beatles on different occasions with three different drummers: * The Beatles first recorded it on 6 June 1962 with Pete Best on drums, as part of their EMI audition at Abbey Road Studios in London. * By 4 September, Best had been replaced with Ringo Starr (producer George Martin did not approve of Best's drumming),and on that day the Beatles with Starr recorded a version again at Abbey Road Studios. * One week later, on 11 September, the Beatles returned to the same studio to discover that Martin was dissatisfied with Starr's drumming, and they made a recording of "Love Me Do" with session drummer Andy White on drums while Starr played tambourine.As the tambourine was not included on the 4 September recording, this is the easiest way to distinguish between the Starr and White recordings. First issues of the single, however, did feature the Ringo Starr version, which was also included much later on the compilation albums Rarities and Past Masters, Volume One. The Andy White version of the track was included on the Beatles' debut UK album, Please Please Me, The Beatles' Hits EP, and all subsequent album releases on which "Love Me Do" was included. For the 1976 single re-issue and the 1982 "20th Anniversary" re-issue, the Andy White version was used. The CD single issued on 5 October 1992 contains both versions. The Pete Best version remained unreleased until 1995, when it was included on the Anthology 1 album. "Love Me Do", featuring Starr drumming, was also recorded eight times at the BBC and played on the BBC radio programmes Here We Go, Talent Spot, Saturday Club, Side By Side, Pop Go The Beatles and Easy Beat between October 1962 and October 1963. The version of "Love Me Do" recorded on 10 July 1963 at the BBC and broadcast on the 23 July 1963 Pop Go The Beatles programme can be heard on the Beatles album Live at the BBC. The Beatles also performed the song live on the 20 February 1963 Parade of the Pops BBC radio broadcast. In 1969, during the Get Back sessions, the Beatles played the song in a slower, more bluesy form than they had in earlier recordings. This version of "Love Me Do" is one of many recordings made during these sessions and subsequently appeared on some bootlegs. The song featured no harmonica by Lennon, and McCartney sang the majority of the song in the same vocal style he used for "Lady Madonna". No original master tapes of the 4 September version of "Love Me Do" are known to exist. Standard procedure at Abbey Road Studios at the time was to erase the original two-track session tape once it had been "mixed down" to the (usually monaural) master tape used to press records. This was the fate of the session tape for "Love Me Do" as well as several other early Beatles songs from 196263. However, at some point the mixdown master tape for this song was also lost, and apparently no backup copies had been made?thus, for many years the only existant recorded copies were the red label Parlophone 45 rpm vinyl records pressed in 1962. By the time the tapes had disappeared, the song's 11 September 1962 remake featuring Andy White had been released. EMI would not have been too concerned about the loss of the 4 September take, therefore, as it was now considered obsolete, and they may not have anticipated ever having any use for it again anyway. Around 1980, a reasonably clean, original 45 from EMI's archives was used as the "best available source" for the track's inclusion on the Capitol compilation LP Rarities. A few years later, a new master tape was struck, this time using another, better-sounding 45 supplied by a record collector, and this has served as the official EMI master tape for the original "Love Me Do" ever since. Auteur: 2222beatles Tags: beatles harrison lennon mccartney oldies ringo Ajoutée: lundi 06 octobre 2031 12:57:37

"Paperback Writer" is a 1966 pop rock song recorded and released by The Beatles. Credited to Lennon/McCartney, but written by Paul McCartney, the song was released as the A-side of their eleventh single. The single went to the number one spot in the United States, Britain, West Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Norway. Written in the form of a letter from an aspiring author to a publisher, "Paperback Writer" was the first UK Beatles single that was not a love song (though "Nowhere Man", which was a single in the U.S., was their first album song released with that distinction). On the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, "Paperback Writer"'s two-week stay at number one was interrupted by Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night". "Paperback Writer" was one of the last new songs by The Beatles to be featured in concert, being included on their 1966 tour. A Michael Lindsay-Hogg directed promotional film was shot 20 May 1966 at Chiswick House, London for BBC-TV's Top of the Pops and broadcast June 9, the day before the single's UK release.The video was broadcast in the U.S. on The Ed Sullivan Show in the late spring. Although the song was never included in any original Beatles album, it was included in several compilation albums: -A Collection of Beatles Oldies... but Goldies (1966) -Hey Jude/The Beatles Again (1970) -The Beatles 1962-1966 Red Album(1973) -Past Masters, Volume Tw0 (1988) -1 (2000) "Rain" is the first song to use backward tape, which Lennon said was the result of being stoned and accidentally spooling up the tape wrong way.Ringo is psyched on his drums on that one too. He said in an interview "I think I just played amazing...I think it's the best out of all the records I've ever made. Rain blows me away. It's out in left field. I know me and I know my playing... and then there's Rain."You can now find both these gems on a cd called "Past Masters Volume 2" along with other hits like "The Ballad of John and Yoko", "Revolution", "Get Back", "Day Tripper" and others Auteur: 2222beatles Tags: beatles harrison lennon mccartney oldies ringo Ajoutée: mercredi 25 octobre 2028 01:50:05

"Strawberry Fields Forever" is a song by the English rock band The Beatles. Recorded at the end of 1966, the song was written by John Lennon during the filming of How I Won The War, but is credited to Lennon/McCartney. It is named after a Salvation Army house in Liverpool where Lennon played as a child. "Strawberry Fields Forever" begins with a verse-bridge structure with Lennon's vocals and accompaniment by the rest of the group; midway through the song, Lennon is accompanied by an orchestral score. After the fourth verse, the song fades out and fades in again to dissonant melodies with Lennon saying, "cranberry sauce" (although this was misheard by many Paul is dead theorists as Lennon saying, "I buried Paul"). While "Strawberry Fields Forever" was originally recorded for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), it was instead released on 13 February 1967 in the UK, and 17 February 1967 in the United States as a double A-side single, backed with Paul McCartney's "Penny Lane". "Strawberry Fields Forever" reached number eight in the US, with numerous critics describing it as one of the group's best recordings.[1][2] It is one of the defining works of the psychedelic rock genre and has been covered by many other artists. The song was later included on the Magical Mystery Tour LP (1967). The Strawberry Fields memorial in New York City's Central Park (near the site of Lennon's murder at The Dakota apartment building) was named after the song. Auteur: 2222beatles Tags: beatles harrison lennon mccartney oldies ringo Ajoutée: dimanche 16 février 2031 22:41:55