I was 17 in 2001 and dropped acid after my parents went to sleep, put on a VHS of Yellow Submarine and set the volume to the lowest setting on my TV...it was still waaaay too loud. I proceeded to watch the movie with my cat...the scene where George is introduced in that gorgeous upwards pan possibly lasted 49 years and I somehow absorbed 2000 years of Indian culture through the snippet of sitar music unfolding all around me...at this point, watching the movie became too much and I went into the next room, somehow hearing this movie blasting (again, volume set at 1) and experienced the rest of it in my mind...a delirious alternate version, just as vivid and incredible as what was on the TV...what else can I say?
Hey there! I thought I heard you exclaim in a video last year that you would, never in a million years, do a Yellow Submarine breakdown! Taunting us, I guess! 😉 This was the first album I ever bought. Actually I never bought it with my own money as I was too young to do so. So the story goes... My brother and I would hang out with a couple of cousins from down the street. Two girls, about our same age, six, seven or eight. I'm guessing here as it was half a century ago! So anyway we would play house. The girls had this whole set up in the basement. You know, the one with the easy bake oven that used a lightbulb to "cook" the cake? Yeah, good fun. We had tea parties, played Candy Land and hung out with Barbie and Ken. I was the husband and the older sister the wife and my younger brother and cousin where the kids. Good stuff in the early seventies! We would spin records too. The older cousin had some sort of record player resembling a Crosby suitcase and one of our favorites was Yellow Submarine. Specifically that song and All Together Now because we loved how the tempo cranked up and we would sing along and get wildly spun up on tea and easy bake cakes and fall about the room. Good times. I had to obtain my own copy. I was already a Beatle fanatic and had The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles Hits. That Alvin was quite the trouble maker! Ah, memories! 😁
"It's All Too Much" is easily the best and most underappreciated Beatles/George song in their back catalogue. There's an indescribably transcendent quality about it that brings me close to tears... Steve Hillage and the Flaming Lips have respectively done excellent covers of this masterwork... 🎶 "The more I learn, the less I know, And what I do is all too much..." 🎶
Journey - pre-Steve Perry, when they were a lite-prog band - did a cover of it on their second album. And I think that version was really successful, too. (Well, I think early Journey was much better in general, but that's another discussion...)
"magical mystery tour" is easier to take on blu-ray where the idea of a color film shown to the world in black and white is fixed. i enjoy your yellow eye shadow and devotion to george!
Always loved the uplift above the clouds with this soaring song at the triumphant end of the movie, the brilliant Australian band The Church have an excellent version of George's anthem
At the very least it should have been the flip side of Lady Madonna. Apologies to The Inner Light but I think they just wanted to give George an opportunity to make a few extra bucks.
The final scene of Yellow Submarine is, along with Side Two of Small Faces Ogden's Nut Gone Flake, a perfect image of hippie idealism. When John calls after the vanquished Blue Meanies "Hello blue people! Won't you join us?" it gives me hope for humanity. Because somewhere, in some dimension or plane of existence, it really is like that. It's all in the mind, y'know.
Here's a sixties story for ya: one of my animation colleagues, a legendary guy, ran away from home as a HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT and caught on with the LA unit of "Yellow Submarine"- his first job in animation. Unknown to anyone else, as a runaway, he was also living in a broom closet at the studio. One Friday night after he had slipped out to buy his canned dinner at a convenience store, he snuck back in and was locked into the closet for the whole weekend by the janitor, who didn't know he was there.
My favorite fun fact about this movie: the guy who was doing George’s voice was arrested for army desertion before he was done, so the guy who did Ringo’s voice finished up for him.
I was a teen in the mid 80s, and a huge Beatles fan. Hey Bulldog was a very obscure track then. When we'd gather instruments and amps set to eleven to jam some heavy metal, I'd pull that riff out of my pocket and the others would say "Whoa! That's a sick riff! Whose song is that!" And to their shock, I'd delightfully exclaim "The Beatles!" 😄
Another really great video! One thing that's often overlooked is in "It's All Too Much". The lyrics "with your long blonde hair, and your eyes of blue" are taken from The Mersey's underrated 1966 song "Sorrow", that David Bowie later covered on the PinUps album.
As a Liverpool-born guy I'm so thankful that the most famous band in the world come from my city Liverpool (The team I support) once had a chant in the tune of Yellow Submarine during the 70s & 80s. Can't wait for more content this year!
After 50+ years, i realize how brilliant the George Martin side of the soundtrack is, just fantastic. So effective in supporting the film scenes, such sophistication and skill. I listen to it on occasion and I'm always pleasantly surprised. Another huge bit of Fortune for the lads, stumbling on Martin. The Beatles were charmed.
I love the film, and I love your review! 😊 👍 I was still young/early teens when I finally got to hear and own the album (UK early '70s pressing) in the early 1970s. I loved the new songs for the LP, but when 'Hey Bulldog' and then 'It's All Too Much' exploded out of my record player, I was astounded by the sheer power (Bulldog), and the incredible guitar feedback chaos of "All Too Much"...Two songs that have stayed with me for all these years as something rarely heard, but absolute masterpieces! Especially "It's All Too Much"; that song is just wild, and goes all over the place with vocals and instruments, and all the while behind it is that incredible distorted guitar and flowing feedback... Majestic!! 😊 I've long, long, long loved George's later Beatles songwriting style; very powerful rock anthems.... "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is just one of those songs that can still take your breath away, and in that vein, "It's All Too Much" just RIPS the breath out of your lungs for you!! 😂 I even like "Only A Northern Song".... 😉
When my niece was around six years old, she watched "Yellow Submarine" and loved it! When we played "Nowhere Man", she used to imitate the way The Beatles were walking during that scene!
You added a lot to your review with your art-historian's expertise. That's such an important part of that Beatles project, and your insights help to add depth to the experience.
In my boyhood, I was delighted whenever *Yellow Submarine* was shown on television; being a draftsman-artist since the age of three, for me the anticipation factor was on a par with the annual telecast of *The Wizard of Oz.* While the "Hey Bulldog" sequence, when it was added, made for an absorbing first-time experience of discovery, repeat viewings made me consider it a detriment to the film version I grew up with. It just doesn't fit comfortably with the flow of the film, for me. It's too long, it slows the battle sequence, the animation is slipshod-seeming, and the song itself is uninspiring in the film's context. With the arrival of the Beatles' final live-action sequence, I always feel like a balloonist come back down to earth after an exhilarating flight. Seeing the flesh-and-blood fellows (all together then) is like stepping onto terra firma once more. Of course it's great to get back where one belongs - but, oh, the heights we attained... 😎
I love 'Its all too much " . I remember when my daughter was born 8 years ago i played that so loud in my car cause i was so happy and scared at the same time .
Great synopsis of the album: with your arts background, you paid close attention to the symbolism of the colours as well which other album-cover commentators tend to neglect - or even to notice at all; this is an important addition as a lot of Rockers begin as artists themselves and so when creating a work have very often taken this into account as well. Pink Floyd of course solved this problem by the use of that iconic prism! So much going on here I will have to return to ensure I took it all in! You do not stint to say the least!
Great, as usual. Another film/album combination that might be fun to do is "Quadrophenia". Probably my favorite Who album and a really good movie as well.
Hi Abby, 10:50 it’s John, and he’s saying “To your muff” - check out the Songtrack remix, it’s much more discernible there. It’s Liverpool slang for… I forgot what, but I’m sure someone below will know the right answer.
The throw away songs on this album have created the opposite effect for me. I love this album. It’s All Too Much and Hey Bulldog are some of the bands best tracks and the classic hits also included somehow make this a must have album. I’m not sure that was the intention. It’s like the bastard child that wins the lottery.
One memory of this I had was riding the school bus to my junior high in 1967 the kids broke out into a very loud rendition of Yellow Submarine… on a yellow school bus!
first-i'm glad they released it as an album. i love the orchestral music. i saw the movie in the theatre the week it was released. i liked it. that was the only time i saw it. i bought a lot of sheet music when i was a kid. this portfolio was one of them. i remember a lot of verses for 'it's all too much', more verses than the album or the movie. the 8 minute version perhaps? i remember an article that claimed when abbey road finally got an 8 track recorder, the beatles would do crazy things things like use chair cushions for drums. maybe something like that was behind the hand-claps. i always wondered. and talk about serendipity-could you even imagine 'only a northern song' on sgt pepper instead of 'within you, without you'? i can't. unfortunately, these tidbits were plucked from my memory, and we all know how dangerous that can be. thanks for all your work. one more thing. i hate to be THAT guy, but segue is pronounced SEHG-WAY, not SEHG-YOO. but you know that. thanks
Great review today! You were right, Yellow Submarine was the "flip side" of Magical Mystery Tour: Tour was a dreadful movie, but a wonderful album, Yellow Submarine was a wonderful film, but a dreadful album! Side one consisted of four new songs, which feel like castoffs, and side two consisted of George Martin's film score, which serves as bland musical wallpaper. That really hurts me to say, because George Martin's Live and Let Die score, I consider to be required listening! As disappointing as I find this album, I absolutely adored this delightful behind-the-scenes journey! I eagerly look forward to your future reactions and reviews! ❤
I remember playing this movie for my friend and we didn’t watch it all because she said she was getting a “migraine” and I was like “bro, I would get home from preschool and put this movie on every day”. I don’t know, maybe I was on drugs when I was little.
23:27 Oh, your teapot looks gorgeous - what a Wonderful present! 🤗 I have two hand-embroidered Alice wall decorations - each about 10" square, one depicting a composite scene from "Wonderland" and the other a composite scene from "Looking-Glass". I got them at the Canterbury Cathedral gift shop about four years ago, so presumably they're from a local parishioners craft society or something like that and raising funds for the upkeep of the Cathedral. They're very intricate and incredibly well made, and they're two of my most cherished possessions. Best Wishes PS. "I'm late, I'm late! For a very important date!" 😉
Great review Abby, not many people talk about this album, as it's a bit of a mess, and it really should have been released as an EP. The best of the four new songs, Hey Bulldog, is a real standout and was rightly added to the recent Blue album track listing. It's All Too Much has grown on me over the years, I just love that opening burst of guitar feedback, Jimi Hendrix would have been proud of that!
the response to the movie is so perceptive here and the recognition of the many influences goes beyond what i've seen myself. the eleanor Rigby sequence is sensational. the possibility of other vinyl monday forays into film and music doubles is another enticing development in a channel that just seems to twist and turn, keeping us unbalanced, and surprised at every new step. I watched the film at the weekend and though altogether now is an inconsequential thing i sang along. the cropping of it's all too much is savage. hey bulldog, yeah I need closure now from that riff for a little while ( that bass that bass). I loved the glow of this gorgeous episode. vinyl monday only has the limits that you Abby choose to impose upon it (well obviously, what a twit i am) so much work so much inventiveness. i just don't know what to expect next.
Thank you for showing the excerpt of the Beatles cartoon at 8:45 min's. I always thought I had remembered watching Beatles cartoon in 1968 waiting to catch the school bus, but you never hear about it in Beatles history shows! Whenever I brought it up in social conversations about 'The Beatles', people would say "What Cartooons?" , and I found myself doubting my own reality ... But you have proven that "yes it was real" and righted some of the wrongs! Thank you again!
Help! is my favorite Beatles movie. If anybody is familiar with the Britcom Are You Being Served?, Short-lived role of Mr. Goldberg was played by Alfie Bass. He was in Help! A Hard Day's Night had a future star in the audience of a concert scene. Phil Collins.
I was born in 1964, so 'Yellow Submarine' was really my introduction to the Beatles. I didn't become aware of the earlier cringe-inducing cartoons until the early 80s. Which made the movie look much better by non-association. I suspect the people responsible for shortening the US release considered it as being for children and thus their concern about the audience's endurance. If you'd like to take on another movie with an amazing soundtrack that expertly covers a bunch of genres, check out 'Phantom of the Paradise'. Brian de Palma directed and cast Paul Williams as the Phil Spector that few outside the business knew existed then. Williams also created the soundtrack and it is a wonder. The underlying theme, that signing a big label record deal is making a deal with the Devil, is just as real today. Joe Bob sez check it out.
Only The Beatles could make a song as good as Hey Bulldog and just stick it in a soundtrack record (also aplies to Only a Northern Song). Also, If you don't tear up a bit in the Nowhere Man scene you don't have a heart
I suspect the reason George Martin re-recorded the soundtrack was to make sure the performance and sound were the best they could be. He had the time to review what he composed and refine it. Not many composers have that opportunity especially for recordings of new orchestral music. I think the music he composed here is his best compositional work. He knew the Beatles were going to be historic so it had to be as perfect as perfect can be. I think the composition "Pepperland" is a gorgeous work, so elegantly composed and orchestrated. As the Beatles learned from him - Mr. Martin learned from them. Great review Ms. Devoe. You're a character.
The best explanation I’ve heard for what is said at the beginning of Its All Too Much is “To Jorma” in reference to the Jefferson Airplane member. All the Beatles were spending a lot of time in California exploring their hippie scene at the time, and musically the song sounds like their tribute to San Francisco style psychedelia.
If you want to see the White Album played live, in song order, perfectly, check out The Analogues on RUclips. These guys are unbelievable and use the same instruments that The Beatles used. Their attention to detail is amazing. They also play Sgt. Peppers album live and A day in the Life is done to perfection
Great review i live the film and the soundtrack is fun its not ky go to beatles album but its fun to spin every once in a while my favorite scene in the film is the part when george takes ringos car great video abby ❤❤❤ keep ot up and i enjoyed the beginning of the video that was hilarious
They should've put the four songs on Magical Mystery Tour when it was first released on CD. Though, in my perfect world, Revolution #9 would be replaced by Hey Bulldog and Beatles versions of Sour Milk Sea and Goodbye on "The Beatles" or white album or whatever you want to call it. So easy to make a great album greater. PS I also love It's All Too Much but it wouldn't be right on the post-psychedelic white album.
over the last few months I've been working hard on creating/extending certain Beatles albums in order to include all their extra tracks but still have them be cohesive sequenced albums! I've really put a lot of love into these and I hope it shows. Magical Mystery Tour follows the tracklist for the UK EP (cause it really flows bc the band sequenced it themselves) and then I've extended it after that with the rest of the 1967 songs, and I've been enjoying this album like a farther out but nearly as excellent Sgt Pepper. I feel ok desicrating it since the band weren't very involved in the US albums' creation. The Beatles Again is them doing a shorter white album with different songs imo. Get Back is the 1970 Glyn John's sequence but with *much better* Naked mixes - it really works better as an album. Collection Of Beatles Oldies is all their non-album tracks up to Revolver sequenced to sound close to an album. I recommend listening to all except Get Back in mono: Magical Mystery Tour: 1. Magical Mystery Tour 2. Your Mother Should Know 3. I Am The Walrus 4. Fool On The Hill 5. Flying 6. Blue Jay Way 7. All Together Now 8. Hello Goodbye 9. Strawberry Fields Forever 10. Penny Lane 11. Only A Northern Song 12. All You Need Is Love 13. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) 14. Baby You're A Rich Man 15. It's All Too Much The Beatles Again: 1. Revolution 1 2. The Inner Light 3. Lady Madonna 4. Not Guilty (Take 102 with studio chatter removed and faded to match the rough mix on bootlegs) 5. Hey Bulldog 6. Come And Get It (1969 Mix) 7. Across The Universe (WWF Version) 8. What's The New Mary Jane (3:10 1969 single mix only found on bootleg) 9. Old Brown Shoe 10. Hey Jude 11. The Ballad Of John And Yoko Get Back: 1. One After 909 (Naked Version) 2. Don't Let Me Down (Naked Version) 3. Dig A Pony (Naked Version) 4. I've Got A Feeling (Naked Version) 5. Get Back (Naked Version) 6. Let It Be (Naked Version) 7. For You Blue (Naked Version) 8. Two Of Us (Naked Version) 9. I Me Mine (Naked Version) 10. The Long And Winding Road (Naked Version) 11. Across The Universe (Naked Version) A Collection Of Beatles Oldies: 1. She Loves You 2. From Me To You 3. We Can Work It Out 4. She's A Woman 5. Day Tripper 6. This Boy 7. I Feel Fine 8. Rain 9. Paperback Writer 10. Bad Boy 11. Thank You Girl 12. I'll Get You 13. Yes It Is 14. Cry For A Shadow 15. Ain't She Sweet 16. I Want To Hold Your Hand 17. I'm Down *also included is this 'core catalogue' is the official UK Long Tall Sally EP.
"Too Much" is a great song, I love it. All the world's a birthday cake, so take a piece but not too much. This album to me is that song plus "Hey Bulldog", and that's pretty much it (though I do also enjoy "Only a Northern song".
I've always liked "Hey Bulldog" as well as "It's All Too Much" - so under-rated. Yes, those dancing figures are creepy, no escaping that! Appreciate your research habits- they work. Thanks Abby.
Even if people prefer Pete Best as a drummer, I don't think the Beatles movies, including the animated one you just reviewed, would be the same if Best was the drummer. Great review of the music and movie!
Actually I enjoyed the Beatles cartoons back in the 70’s. It exposed me to a lot of Beatles music you didn’t hear on the radio. For example “Devil in her heart” hearing 1950’s do wop ! Or a vocal free “and your bird can sing” over the opening titles. So it was still worthwhile from that perspective. Incidentally I always thought of “ only a northern song” as George having a go at Dick James and the publishing company. Also a bit of a sly dig at John and Paul and George Martin in the lyrics. “ if you think the band is going wrong. Your correct we just wrote it like that “😂. Perhaps George felt around the time of recording Sgt Pepper that all three men were allowing their egos to get out of hand.
Love the channel, love the rundowns! I’m so glad you covered this album. I’ve preached “it’s all too much” for the longest time. Trippiest “60sest” thing they ever put out and just plain fun. Check out the Steve Hillage cover. He takes it out into some wild new galaxies
Wonderful review, Abby. I have always loved the Yellow Submarine film, but nothing prepared me for when I got the Blu-ray disc and watched it in 5.1 surround sound. It completely immerses you. Unbelievable way to experience this film, I highly recommend it!
Well thanks for clearing up the art work, I always thought it was done by Peter max , I recently watched the movie casablanca and the bar scene of dueling national anthems , the French national anthem is the beginning of all you need is love , I will never stop learning, and you help with your extensive research, the list of singers on all you need is love is an eye opener, Patti boyd , mick and Keith among other celebrities, now I wanted to re visit the yellow submarine film , Amazon prime has it but it's not available in the US, but July 13 its available to prime members for free , I've never seen it , so its on my list , I did watch the Woodstock and the last waltz films both excellent especially the last waltz , thanks for all you do Abby, new york
Love your explanation on the art style and the inspirations. I seen this movie numerous times but always wondered how the cartoonists got their ideas from.
Thanks, Abzzz. I've heard the story you mentioned about the band not expecting the Yellow Sub film to be worth their while, so they didn't want to be a part of it. I've also heard that they didn't participate simply because they were not asked (I think Paul said it in the '90's). FYI: I bought the wondrous diecast Corgi Yellow Sub toy (reissue) about 25 years ago & still loving it.
Now I know more details about this beautiful meandering train wreck than I did last night.....thanks bunches...The Blue Meanie Brigade from Pepperland..
Great video. I like all their films, but my least favourite was the old version of Let It Be, it was a bit glum, glad Peter Jackson made it again with all the fun parts. Keep the videos coming.
Great stuff! As an 8 year old I loved Ringo singing yellow submarine! I didn't like the film that much but hey I liked Magical mystery tour which is insane! Oh T Rex Next week Abi wonderful choices!
" the Beatles used 4 drummer and Ringo wasn't one of them " Bernard Purdy fact Pete Best played more hours as drummer for the Cheatles than Ringo ever did this is a fact
Sorry for being pedantic, but segue is pronounced seg- way. Don't be embarrassed; I was older than you when I realized misled wasn't pronounced "missle- d" Love your show. I'm amazed at the depth and detail of your research, as well as your presentation
regardless of anything else, that was the best written, most naturally delivered and quite enjoyable review i think i ever witnessed. you're description of the film was just par-excellence in every respect. the film is a true delight. but i must disagree with your assessment of the "magical mystery tour" film. its saving grace are its musical sequences. even the "death cab for cutie" bonzo dog doo-dah band segment is a gem. to me "its only a northern song" reminds me of "i want to tell you" from revolver. the beat seems to be moving kinda backwards and melody purposely off key. "all together now" is very much a party song in the vein of the beach boys "barbara ann." "hey bulldog" and "its all too much" are beloved songs by any true beatle aficionado. oddly, i like the shorter, album version of "its all too much" to the longer version. i think it flows better. thanks for the video and great job.
Although he wasn't involved in the animation the visual style of this movie belongs to Alan Aldridge (see his cover design for The Who's "A Quick One"), Lennon liked his work enough to appoint him "His Royal Master of Images to their Majesties The Beatles", designing "The Beatles' Illustrated Lyrics" in 1969 and "The Butterly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast" in 1973. British animation legend Richard Williams was the chief animator on "Yellow Submarine". And "It's All Too Much" is the best Beatles song not recorded at Abbey Road ( I think it was done at Olympic)
Great review Abby! I liked the way you compared "Hey Bulldog" to a sort of more mature "I Am the Walrus", and "Only a Northern Song" as an extension of "Blue Jay Way". 👍
The 2012 Blu-ray and DVD restored version looks and sounds even better than the 1999 remaster. I got the Blu-ray last year and was blown away by the quality. But to be fair, any home video release looks far better than what I caught on TV when I was a kid. It was in 1988 on a cold December Sunday afternoon as Ch 5 ran a really beat up, scratch filled print. Little did I know it would be the last time it'd air on commercial television in NYC. I wound up renting the 1987 MGM/UA VHS release six years later over and over again. (This used the US version of the film, not only missing Hey Bulldog but also has a few other minor changes and unique bits not in the standard UK version.) Even tried to order one through the video store, only to find out the tape was out of print due to a rights issue. I wound up finding a used copy in 1998, which I still have. Then the news broke that the rights impasse was solved and it'd be restored and re-released the following year.
Hey Bulldog was on the Capitol release Rock and Roll 1977. First time I had ever heard it then, I was 16. The Beatles became my obsession. Love this channel!!
In most polls YS always winds up at the top of least favorite Beatles albums. I can see their point. You have Georges It's All Too Much (❤) and Johns Hey Bulldog on here, but people want two sides of Beatles music. But side two helped me to develop a taste for classical music. A glass of wine and a gummy bear will pull you through.
Greetings. Fun Fact- It's All Too Much George Sings " With Your Long blond hair and your eyes of Blue" is a line from The Merseys " Sorrow"( yes The McCoys covered it!) Back then it wasn't called stealing or sampling. Was called Complimenting. Peace and Love.
Lots to say - great video, first of all. I love Yellow Submarine the movie, which my grandfather took me to see in about 1970. The soundtrack was the first record I ever bought with my own money a couple of years later, and I was super disappointed by the B-side - but I didn't know enough to recognize what those songs actually were. Lastly I agree that "Northern Song" is the weakest of the new tracks, but I do like its lyrical similarities to George's "This Song" from 33 1/3 in 1976.
I’ve come to LOVE the film score! Especially the three Sea pieces. They are so cool. That is orchestral Psych if ever such a thing excited! As for “Too Much” do check out the Steve Hillage cover version. From the L album, produced by Todd Rundgreen.
Thanks Abigail that was Awesome I never thought of The Yellow Submarine that much because I saw it a few times on the TV in the 70's but In my part of the world we were still with black and white TV with my Mum telling me that she Saw them live singing on stage with me trying to tell her you can't they are a cartoon
what’s your favorite beatles movie? comment below!
Everybody's gonna be talking about Get Back for the millionth time isn't It? (great doc btw)
hard days night
Hard days night, easily
A Hard Days Night !
Yellow submarine! Such a soft spot in my heart
I was 17 in 2001 and dropped acid after my parents went to sleep, put on a VHS of Yellow Submarine and set the volume to the lowest setting on my TV...it was still waaaay too loud. I proceeded to watch the movie with my cat...the scene where George is introduced in that gorgeous upwards pan possibly lasted 49 years and I somehow absorbed 2000 years of Indian culture through the snippet of sitar music unfolding all around me...at this point, watching the movie became too much and I went into the next room, somehow hearing this movie blasting (again, volume set at 1) and experienced the rest of it in my mind...a delirious alternate version, just as vivid and incredible as what was on the TV...what else can I say?
What color were the Meanies in your world?
@@michaelcooley4553 I don't know what color they were but they sounded blue.
Well, good thing you didn't drop any acid on the videotape. That stuff can burn
Hey there! I thought I heard you exclaim in a video last year that you would, never in a million years, do a Yellow Submarine breakdown! Taunting us, I guess! 😉
This was the first album I ever bought. Actually I never bought it with my own money as I was too young to do so. So the story goes...
My brother and I would hang out with a couple of cousins from down the street. Two girls, about our same age, six, seven or eight. I'm guessing here as it was half a century ago! So anyway we would play house. The girls had this whole set up in the basement. You know, the one with the easy bake oven that used a lightbulb to "cook" the cake? Yeah, good fun. We had tea parties, played Candy Land and hung out with Barbie and Ken. I was the husband and the older sister the wife and my younger brother and cousin where the kids. Good stuff in the early seventies! We would spin records too. The older cousin had some sort of record player resembling a Crosby suitcase and one of our favorites was Yellow Submarine. Specifically that song and All Together Now because we loved how the tempo cranked up and we would sing along and get wildly spun up on tea and easy bake cakes and fall about the room. Good times. I had to obtain my own copy. I was already a Beatle fanatic and had The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles Hits. That Alvin was quite the trouble maker! Ah, memories! 😁
Yeah but what did your cat think of it?
"It's All Too Much" is easily the best and most underappreciated Beatles/George song in their back catalogue. There's an indescribably transcendent quality about it that brings me close to tears... Steve Hillage and the Flaming Lips have respectively done excellent covers of this masterwork...
🎶 "The more I learn, the less I know,
And what I do is all too much..." 🎶
Journey - pre-Steve Perry, when they were a lite-prog band - did a cover of it on their second album. And I think that version was really successful, too. (Well, I think early Journey was much better in general, but that's another discussion...)
"magical mystery tour" is easier to take on blu-ray where the idea of a color film shown to the world in black and white is fixed. i enjoy your yellow eye shadow and devotion to george!
Always loved the uplift above the clouds with this soaring song at the triumphant end of the movie, the brilliant Australian band The Church have an excellent version of George's anthem
Journey covered this song when Greg Rollie was lead vocalist.
I remember it on a 90s grateful dead show tape before hearing the orig
I must be the only person who loves “It’s Only a Northern Song” 😢❤
No, you're not. I Iike both of George's songs and Hey Bulldog is one of my all time favorites.
I think it's a very underrated song, perhaps one of the cheekiest in their catalog.
Sorry: I think "Only a Northern Song" is an exceptionally good song with a very clever lyric but, you know: "You're correct there's nobody there".
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I love it’s only a northern song
Hey Bulldog _absolutely_ belongs on the White Album. Well played, Abby! 💯
The White Album is perfect. No more no less.
Hey Bulldog shoulda been a single!
At the very least it should have been the flip side of Lady Madonna. Apologies to The Inner Light but I think they just wanted to give George an opportunity to make a few extra bucks.
The final scene of Yellow Submarine is, along with Side Two of Small Faces Ogden's Nut Gone Flake, a perfect image of hippie idealism. When John calls after the vanquished Blue Meanies "Hello blue people! Won't you join us?" it gives me hope for humanity. Because somewhere, in some dimension or plane of existence, it really is like that.
It's all in the mind, y'know.
Here's a sixties story for ya: one of my animation colleagues, a legendary guy, ran away from home as a HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT and caught on with the LA unit of "Yellow Submarine"- his first job in animation. Unknown to anyone else, as a runaway, he was also living in a broom closet at the studio. One Friday night after he had slipped out to buy his canned dinner at a convenience store, he snuck back in and was locked into the closet for the whole weekend by the janitor, who didn't know he was there.
My favorite fun fact about this movie: the guy who was doing George’s voice was arrested for army desertion before he was done, so the guy who did Ringo’s voice finished up for him.
I was a teen in the mid 80s, and a huge Beatles fan. Hey Bulldog was a very obscure track then. When we'd gather instruments and amps set to eleven to jam some heavy metal, I'd pull that riff out of my pocket and the others would say "Whoa! That's a sick riff! Whose song is that!" And to their shock, I'd delightfully exclaim "The Beatles!" 😄
I love the yellow eyeshadow.
thank you, my silly new years resolution is to get out of the makeup rut and do some fun stuff
I always liked Northern Song
Another really great video!
One thing that's often overlooked is in "It's All Too Much". The lyrics "with your long blonde hair, and your eyes of blue" are taken from The Mersey's underrated 1966 song "Sorrow", that David Bowie later covered on the PinUps album.
And the solo trumpet from "The Prince of Denmark's March" of Jeremiah Clarke, it's absolutely incredible
I've heard that John says "To Jorma" of JA fame..
I completely agree with you on All too Much. 👍👍👍
All To Much captures the LSD experience better than anything else I've ever heard.
As a Liverpool-born guy
I'm so thankful that the most famous band in the world come from my city
Liverpool (The team I support) once had a chant in the tune of Yellow Submarine during the 70s & 80s.
Can't wait for more content this year!
Y.N.W.A!!! 🙌🏽❤⚽
After 50+ years, i realize how brilliant the George Martin side of the soundtrack is, just fantastic. So effective in supporting the film scenes, such sophistication and skill. I listen to it on occasion and I'm always pleasantly surprised. Another huge bit of Fortune for the lads, stumbling on Martin. The Beatles were charmed.
Pepperland is such a beautiful song
I love the instrumental songs, the songs have something magical
I love the film, and I love your review! 😊 👍
I was still young/early teens when I finally got to hear and own the album (UK early '70s pressing) in the early 1970s. I loved the new songs for the LP, but when 'Hey Bulldog' and then 'It's All Too Much' exploded out of my record player, I was astounded by the sheer power (Bulldog), and the incredible guitar feedback chaos of "All Too Much"...Two songs that have stayed with me for all these years as something rarely heard, but absolute masterpieces! Especially "It's All Too Much"; that song is just wild, and goes all over the place with vocals and instruments, and all the while behind it is that incredible distorted guitar and flowing feedback... Majestic!! 😊 I've long, long, long loved George's later Beatles songwriting style; very powerful rock anthems.... "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is just one of those songs that can still take your breath away, and in that vein, "It's All Too Much" just RIPS the breath out of your lungs for you!! 😂
I even like "Only A Northern Song".... 😉
When my niece was around six years old, she watched "Yellow Submarine" and loved it! When we played "Nowhere Man", she used to imitate the way The Beatles were walking during that scene!
21:54 The true magic in this video are those yellow cowboy boots!
You added a lot to your review with your art-historian's expertise. That's such an important part of that Beatles project, and your insights help to add depth to the experience.
In my boyhood, I was delighted whenever *Yellow Submarine* was shown on television; being a draftsman-artist since the age of three, for me the anticipation factor was on a par with the annual telecast of *The Wizard of Oz.*
While the "Hey Bulldog" sequence, when it was added, made for an absorbing first-time experience of discovery, repeat viewings made me consider it a detriment to the film version I grew up with. It just doesn't fit comfortably with the flow of the film, for me. It's too long, it slows the battle sequence, the animation is slipshod-seeming, and the song itself is uninspiring in the film's context.
With the arrival of the Beatles' final live-action sequence, I always feel like a balloonist come back down to earth after an exhilarating flight. Seeing the flesh-and-blood fellows (all together then) is like stepping onto terra firma once more. Of course it's great to get back where one belongs - but, oh, the heights we attained... 😎
I love 'Its all too much " . I remember when my daughter was born 8 years ago i played that so loud in my car cause i was so happy and scared at the same time .
Steve Hillage does a wonderful cover of "It's All Too Much".
Well spotted!
Steve Hillage Produced the excellent Sons & Fascination for Simpleminds in 1981
So does Journey
Great synopsis of the album: with your arts background, you paid close attention to the symbolism of the colours as well which other album-cover commentators tend to neglect - or even to notice at all; this is an important addition as a lot of Rockers begin as artists themselves and so when creating a work have very often taken this into account as well. Pink Floyd of course solved this problem by the use of that iconic prism! So much going on here I will have to return to ensure I took it all in! You do not stint to say the least!
Great, as usual. Another film/album combination that might be fun to do is "Quadrophenia". Probably my favorite Who album and a really good movie as well.
Hi Abby, 10:50 it’s John, and he’s saying “To your muff” - check out the Songtrack remix, it’s much more discernible there. It’s Liverpool slang for… I forgot what, but I’m sure someone below will know the right answer.
The throw away songs on this album have created the opposite effect for me. I love this album. It’s All Too Much and Hey Bulldog are some of the bands best tracks and the classic hits also included somehow make this a must have album. I’m not sure that was the intention. It’s like the bastard child that wins the lottery.
One memory of this I had was riding the school bus to my junior high in 1967 the kids broke out into a very loud rendition of Yellow Submarine… on a yellow school bus!
that's so cute omg
first-i'm glad they released it as an album. i love the orchestral music.
i saw the movie in the theatre the week it was released. i liked it. that was the only time i saw it.
i bought a lot of sheet music when i was a kid. this portfolio was one of them. i remember a lot of verses for 'it's all too much', more verses than the album or the movie. the 8 minute version perhaps?
i remember an article that claimed when abbey road finally got an 8 track recorder, the beatles would do crazy things things like use chair cushions for drums. maybe something like that was behind the hand-claps. i always wondered.
and talk about serendipity-could you even imagine 'only a northern song' on sgt pepper instead of 'within you, without you'? i can't.
unfortunately, these tidbits were plucked from my memory, and we all know how dangerous that can be. thanks for all your work.
one more thing. i hate to be THAT guy, but segue is pronounced SEHG-WAY, not SEHG-YOO. but you know that. thanks
"maybe time's gone on Strike" G. Harrisong............. I Don't blame it! .......blue meany thumbs up! Well done Abby!
I just hit like and it was the 909th like for this video. Whoever hits like next will get the One After 909. How Beatlesy.
Great review today! You were right, Yellow Submarine was the "flip side" of Magical Mystery Tour: Tour was a dreadful movie, but a wonderful album, Yellow Submarine was a wonderful film, but a dreadful album! Side one consisted of four new songs, which feel like castoffs, and side two consisted of George Martin's film score, which serves as bland musical wallpaper. That really hurts me to say, because George Martin's Live and Let Die score, I consider to be required listening! As disappointing as I find this album, I absolutely adored this delightful behind-the-scenes journey! I eagerly look forward to your future reactions and reviews! ❤
The classical music is some of the most soothing, inspiring compositions I’ve ever heard. I’d love to hear it live someday.
I remember playing this movie for my friend and we didn’t watch it all because she said she was getting a “migraine” and I was like “bro, I would get home from preschool and put this movie on every day”. I don’t know, maybe I was on drugs when I was little.
23:27 Oh, your teapot looks gorgeous - what a Wonderful present! 🤗
I have two hand-embroidered Alice wall decorations - each about 10" square, one depicting a composite scene from "Wonderland" and the other a composite scene from "Looking-Glass". I got them at the Canterbury Cathedral gift shop about four years ago, so presumably they're from a local parishioners craft society or something like that and raising funds for the upkeep of the Cathedral. They're very intricate and incredibly well made, and they're two of my most cherished possessions.
Best Wishes
PS. "I'm late, I'm late! For a very important date!" 😉
Great review Abby, not many people talk about this album, as it's a bit of a mess, and it really should have been released as an EP. The best of the four new songs, Hey Bulldog, is a real standout and was rightly added to the recent Blue album track listing. It's All Too Much has grown on me over the years, I just love that opening burst of guitar feedback, Jimi Hendrix would have been proud of that!
the response to the movie is so perceptive here and the recognition of the many influences goes beyond what i've seen myself. the eleanor Rigby sequence is sensational. the possibility of other vinyl monday forays into film and music doubles is another enticing development in a channel that just seems to twist and turn, keeping us unbalanced, and surprised at every new step.
I watched the film at the weekend and though altogether now is an inconsequential thing i sang along. the cropping of it's all too much is savage. hey bulldog, yeah I need closure now from that riff for a little while ( that bass that bass).
I loved the glow of this gorgeous episode. vinyl monday only has the limits that you Abby choose to impose upon it (well obviously, what a twit i am) so much work so much inventiveness. i just don't know what to expect next.
Thank you for showing the excerpt of the Beatles cartoon at 8:45 min's. I always thought I had remembered watching Beatles cartoon in 1968 waiting to catch the school bus, but you never hear about it in Beatles history shows! Whenever I brought it up in social conversations about 'The Beatles', people would say "What Cartooons?" , and I found myself doubting my own reality ... But you have proven that "yes it was real" and righted some of the wrongs! Thank you again!
Help! is my favorite Beatles movie.
If anybody is familiar with the Britcom Are You Being Served?, Short-lived role of Mr. Goldberg was played by Alfie Bass. He was in Help!
A Hard Day's Night had a future star in the audience of a concert scene. Phil Collins.
Within u and Without u is one of my favorites---the time will come
I was born in 1964, so 'Yellow Submarine' was really my introduction to the Beatles. I didn't become aware of the earlier cringe-inducing cartoons until the early 80s. Which made the movie look much better by non-association. I suspect the people responsible for shortening the US release considered it as being for children and thus their concern about the audience's endurance.
If you'd like to take on another movie with an amazing soundtrack that expertly covers a bunch of genres, check out 'Phantom of the Paradise'. Brian de Palma directed and cast Paul Williams as the Phil Spector that few outside the business knew existed then. Williams also created the soundtrack and it is a wonder. The underlying theme, that signing a big label record deal is making a deal with the Devil, is just as real today. Joe Bob sez check it out.
Paul's first instrument as a kid was the trumpet, so it makes sense. And according to Paul, John's mother played the ukulele, so.
it all makes sense now!
@@abigaildevoe 😊
Only The Beatles could make a song as good as Hey Bulldog and just stick it in a soundtrack record (also aplies to Only a Northern Song). Also, If you don't tear up a bit in the Nowhere Man scene you don't have a heart
Hey Bulldog should have been in the White Album instead of some of the dross that did make that double album.
I suspect the reason George Martin re-recorded the soundtrack was to make sure the performance and sound were the best they could be. He had the time to review what he composed and refine it. Not many composers have that opportunity especially for recordings of new orchestral music. I think the music he composed here is his best compositional work. He knew the Beatles were going to be historic so it had to be as perfect as perfect can be. I think the composition "Pepperland" is a gorgeous work, so elegantly composed and orchestrated. As the Beatles learned from him - Mr. Martin learned from them. Great review Ms. Devoe. You're a character.
Its funny you can see when george started writing on the organ.
The best explanation I’ve heard for what is said at the beginning of Its All Too Much is “To Jorma” in reference to the Jefferson Airplane member. All the Beatles were spending a lot of time in California exploring their hippie scene at the time, and musically the song sounds like their tribute to San Francisco style psychedelia.
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If you want to see the White Album played live, in song order, perfectly, check out The Analogues on RUclips. These guys are unbelievable and use the same instruments that The Beatles used. Their attention to detail is amazing. They also play Sgt. Peppers album live and A day in the Life is done to perfection
one of my buddies showed me those!
Great review i live the film and the soundtrack is fun its not ky go to beatles album but its fun to spin every once in a while my favorite scene in the film is the part when george takes ringos car great video abby ❤❤❤ keep ot up and i enjoyed the beginning of the video that was hilarious
They should've put the four songs on Magical Mystery Tour when it was first released on CD.
Though, in my perfect world, Revolution #9 would be replaced by Hey Bulldog and Beatles versions of Sour Milk Sea and Goodbye on "The Beatles" or white album or whatever you want to call it. So easy to make a great album greater.
PS I also love It's All Too Much but it wouldn't be right on the post-psychedelic white album.
over the last few months I've been working hard on creating/extending certain Beatles albums in order to include all their extra tracks but still have them be cohesive sequenced albums! I've really put a lot of love into these and I hope it shows. Magical Mystery Tour follows the tracklist for the UK EP (cause it really flows bc the band sequenced it themselves) and then I've extended it after that with the rest of the 1967 songs, and I've been enjoying this album like a farther out but nearly as excellent Sgt Pepper. I feel ok desicrating it since the band weren't very involved in the US albums' creation. The Beatles Again is them doing a shorter white album with different songs imo. Get Back is the 1970 Glyn John's sequence but with *much better* Naked mixes - it really works better as an album. Collection Of Beatles Oldies is all their non-album tracks up to Revolver sequenced to sound close to an album. I recommend listening to all except Get Back in mono:
Magical Mystery Tour:
1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. Your Mother Should Know
3. I Am The Walrus
4. Fool On The Hill
5. Flying
6. Blue Jay Way
7. All Together Now
8. Hello Goodbye
9. Strawberry Fields Forever
10. Penny Lane
11. Only A Northern Song
12. All You Need Is Love
13. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
14. Baby You're A Rich Man
15. It's All Too Much
The Beatles Again:
1. Revolution 1
2. The Inner Light
3. Lady Madonna
4. Not Guilty (Take 102 with studio chatter removed and faded to match the rough mix on bootlegs)
5. Hey Bulldog
6. Come And Get It (1969 Mix)
7. Across The Universe (WWF Version)
8. What's The New Mary Jane (3:10 1969 single mix only found on bootleg)
9. Old Brown Shoe
10. Hey Jude
11. The Ballad Of John And Yoko
Get Back:
1. One After 909 (Naked Version)
2. Don't Let Me Down (Naked Version)
3. Dig A Pony (Naked Version)
4. I've Got A Feeling (Naked Version)
5. Get Back (Naked Version)
6. Let It Be (Naked Version)
7. For You Blue (Naked Version)
8. Two Of Us (Naked Version)
9. I Me Mine (Naked Version)
10. The Long And Winding Road (Naked Version)
11. Across The Universe (Naked Version)
A Collection Of Beatles Oldies:
1. She Loves You
2. From Me To You
3. We Can Work It Out
4. She's A Woman
5. Day Tripper
6. This Boy
7. I Feel Fine
8. Rain
9. Paperback Writer
10. Bad Boy
11. Thank You Girl
12. I'll Get You
13. Yes It Is
14. Cry For A Shadow
15. Ain't She Sweet
16. I Want To Hold Your Hand
17. I'm Down
*also included is this 'core catalogue' is the official UK Long Tall Sally EP.
Superb, thank you. Another great Hippy album is Small Faces Ogden's Nut Gone Flake.
😸😼😽😺💛✌🐤🐠🌻🍋 Whole Lotta Yellow !!!
10:52 idk if anyone else said this, but what George says is "to Jorma", guitarist of Jefferson Airplane
It really isn't.
@@stitchgrimly6167 it is
@@cabinessence_timely_helloExcept that it really isn't and blatantly John's voice.
@@scottandrewbrass1931 clearly sounds like George to me
"Too Much" is a great song, I love it.
All the world's a birthday cake, so take a piece but not too much.
This album to me is that song plus "Hey Bulldog", and that's pretty much it (though I do also enjoy "Only a Northern song".
I like to think that It’s All too Much begins with John yelling “ Sue your Mother! “ . Prove me wrong😄
I've always liked "Hey Bulldog" as well as "It's All Too Much" - so under-rated. Yes, those dancing figures are creepy, no escaping that! Appreciate your research habits- they work. Thanks Abby.
Even if people prefer Pete Best as a drummer, I don't think the Beatles movies, including the animated one you just reviewed, would be the same if Best was the drummer. Great review of the music and movie!
Nothing would exist if Best was the drummer.
I saw Yellow Submarine on the big screen as a kid in the sixties. Still love it. We have it on Blu-ray. My favorite Beatles movie is HELP!
I love side 2!
Actually I enjoyed the Beatles cartoons back in the 70’s. It exposed me to a lot of Beatles music you didn’t hear on the radio. For example “Devil in her heart” hearing 1950’s do wop ! Or a vocal free “and your bird can sing” over the opening titles. So it was still worthwhile from that perspective. Incidentally I always thought of “ only a northern song” as George having a go at Dick James and the publishing company. Also a bit of a sly dig at John and Paul and George Martin in the lyrics. “ if you think the band is going wrong. Your correct we just wrote it like that “😂. Perhaps George felt around the time of recording Sgt Pepper that all three men were allowing their egos to get out of hand.
Love the channel, love the rundowns! I’m so glad you covered this album. I’ve preached “it’s all too much” for the longest time. Trippiest “60sest” thing they ever put out and just plain fun. Check out the Steve Hillage cover. He takes it out into some wild new galaxies
Wonderful review, Abby. I have always loved the Yellow Submarine film, but nothing prepared me for when I got the Blu-ray disc and watched it in 5.1 surround sound. It completely immerses you. Unbelievable way to experience this film, I highly recommend it!
George expressed some frustration in Only A Northern Song .
One of his many whiny little beyotch songs.
he could be sassy and whiney sometimes - he was the baby of the band after all!
Well thanks for clearing up the art work, I always thought it was done by Peter max , I recently watched the movie casablanca and the bar scene of dueling national anthems , the French national anthem is the beginning of all you need is love , I will never stop learning, and you help with your extensive research, the list of singers on all you need is love is an eye opener, Patti boyd , mick and Keith among other celebrities, now I wanted to re visit the yellow submarine film , Amazon prime has it but it's not available in the US, but July 13 its available to prime members for free , I've never seen it , so its on my list , I did watch the Woodstock and the last waltz films both excellent especially the last waltz , thanks for all you do Abby, new york
Love your explanation on the art style and the inspirations. I seen this movie numerous times but always wondered how the cartoonists got their ideas from.
The UK/Australian press has a review of the White Album on the back.
You should have spoken more about the lost verse in the song “It’s All Too Much!!!”
We stan Abigail Devoe in this house! With that said, segue is pronounced like seg-way. Far be it from me to tell you that you can’t say sig-you tho.❤
Thanks, Abzzz. I've heard the story you mentioned about the band not expecting the Yellow Sub film to be worth their while, so they didn't want to be a part of it. I've also heard that they didn't participate simply because they were not asked (I think Paul said it in the '90's). FYI: I bought the wondrous diecast Corgi Yellow Sub toy (reissue) about 25 years ago & still loving it.
Well done, Abby! This was fun to watch! You make 40 minutes seem like 10.
That is the best teapot! Want 😻
Now I know more details about this beautiful meandering train wreck than I did last night.....thanks bunches...The Blue Meanie Brigade from Pepperland..
Great video. I like all their films, but my least favourite was the old version of Let It Be, it was a bit glum, glad Peter Jackson made it again with all the fun parts. Keep the videos coming.
Great stuff! As an 8 year old I loved Ringo singing yellow submarine! I didn't like the film that much but hey I liked Magical mystery tour which is insane!
Oh T Rex Next week Abi wonderful choices!
" the Beatles used 4 drummer and Ringo wasn't one of them " Bernard Purdy fact Pete Best played more hours as drummer for the Cheatles than Ringo ever did this is a fact
Yellow Submarine (UK release, with mono audio mix on BluRay) is the greatest animated film of all time, in my opinion. Nothing beats it.
Your 40 min YS Extravaganza was more "Watchable" than the movie. Lots of history and insight. I loved it.
Sorry for being pedantic, but segue is pronounced seg- way. Don't be embarrassed; I was older than you when I realized misled wasn't pronounced "missle- d"
Love your show. I'm amazed at the depth and detail of your research, as well as your presentation
impossible to stop watching till it's over
17:28 - I loved the speeded-up All You Need is Love. Maybe Giles should put that out as well. 😆😆😆😆
regardless of anything else, that was the best written, most naturally delivered and quite enjoyable review i think i ever witnessed. you're description of the film was just par-excellence in every respect. the film is a true delight. but i must disagree with your assessment of the "magical mystery tour" film. its saving grace are its musical sequences. even the "death cab for cutie" bonzo dog doo-dah band segment is a gem.
to me "its only a northern song" reminds me of "i want to tell you" from revolver. the beat seems to be moving kinda backwards and melody purposely off key. "all together now" is very much a party song in the vein of the beach boys "barbara ann." "hey bulldog" and "its all too much" are beloved songs by any true beatle aficionado. oddly, i like the shorter, album version of "its all too much" to the longer version. i think it flows better.
thanks for the video and great job.
The bass line oh Hey Bulldog is off the chain. Love your videos.
Thanks again Abby
Although he wasn't involved in the animation the visual style of this movie belongs to Alan Aldridge (see his cover design for The Who's "A Quick One"), Lennon liked his work enough to appoint him "His Royal Master of Images to their Majesties The Beatles", designing "The Beatles' Illustrated Lyrics" in 1969 and "The Butterly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast" in 1973. British animation legend Richard Williams was the chief animator on "Yellow Submarine". And "It's All Too Much" is the best Beatles song not recorded at Abbey Road ( I think it was done at Olympic)
Great review Abby! I liked the way you compared "Hey Bulldog" to a sort of more mature "I Am the Walrus", and "Only a Northern Song" as an extension of "Blue Jay Way". 👍
The 2012 Blu-ray and DVD restored version looks and sounds even better than the 1999 remaster. I got the Blu-ray last year and was blown away by the quality. But to be fair, any home video release looks far better than what I caught on TV when I was a kid. It was in 1988 on a cold December Sunday afternoon as Ch 5 ran a really beat up, scratch filled print. Little did I know it would be the last time it'd air on commercial television in NYC. I wound up renting the 1987 MGM/UA VHS release six years later over and over again. (This used the US version of the film, not only missing Hey Bulldog but also has a few other minor changes and unique bits not in the standard UK version.) Even tried to order one through the video store, only to find out the tape was out of print due to a rights issue. I wound up finding a used copy in 1998, which I still have. Then the news broke that the rights impasse was solved and it'd be restored and re-released the following year.
Hey Bulldog was on the Capitol release Rock and Roll 1977. First time I had ever heard it then, I was 16. The Beatles became my obsession. Love this channel!!
"Yellow Submarine" is a fun movie and soundtrack,you feel like returning to your childhood seeing this animated cartoon movie.
In most polls YS always winds up at the top of least favorite Beatles albums. I can see their point. You have Georges It's All Too Much (❤) and Johns Hey Bulldog on here, but people want two sides of Beatles music. But side two helped me to develop a taste for classical music. A glass of wine and a gummy bear will pull you through.
Greetings. Fun Fact- It's All Too Much George Sings " With Your Long blond hair and your eyes of Blue" is a line from The Merseys " Sorrow"( yes The McCoys covered it!) Back then it wasn't called stealing or sampling. Was called Complimenting. Peace and Love.
Canterbury Prog Rocker, guitarist Steve Hillage does a fantastic cover of "It's All Too Much" on his Todd Rundgren produced "L" from 1976.
Fun record. Fun animated film Great memories.
Side two by George Martin is superb.
Oooh...Jeepster is in our very near future...NICE!
Great video, i love the movie. My favorite scene is Eleanor Rigby love the fact that animators, who made the movie are in it holding umbrellas! :D
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Lots to say - great video, first of all. I love Yellow Submarine the movie, which my grandfather took me to see in about 1970. The soundtrack was the first record I ever bought with my own money a couple of years later, and I was super disappointed by the B-side - but I didn't know enough to recognize what those songs actually were. Lastly I agree that "Northern Song" is the weakest of the new tracks, but I do like its lyrical similarities to George's "This Song" from 33 1/3 in 1976.
I’ve come to LOVE the film score! Especially the three Sea pieces. They are so cool. That is orchestral Psych if ever such a thing excited! As for “Too Much” do check out the Steve Hillage cover version. From the L album, produced by Todd Rundgreen.
Thanks Abigail that was Awesome I never thought of The Yellow Submarine that much because I saw it a few times on the TV in the 70's but In my part of the world we were still with black and white TV with my Mum telling me that she Saw them live singing on stage with me trying to tell her you can't they are a cartoon
I like how you brought Mexican food into this. You said, "Oh, queso." 🤣🤣🤣
Well done Abbey I can see your art history really came in handy doing this one. Love your cute dress too by the way.