That Dancing In The Moonlight one is pretty mental I thought the sad event was going to be that he left his wallet so they had to sleep outside, but the setting inspired the song, what came next would have permanently broke many other people...
I've always kinda hated the song Dancing In the Moonlight (much prefer the Thin Lizzy tune of the same name), but the story has made me see it in a new light. What a strong person he must be for creating something positive out of such a horrible event. His girlfriend too, of course.
You may prefer the original by Boffalongo, on which Sherman Kelly sings lead. No cheesy-sounding keyboards like the KH version. ruclips.net/video/r6dFjDQx_BQ/видео.html
He also wrote and delivered a classic speech, a sample of which appears in Iron Sky by Paulo Nutini, 'machine minds with machine hearts .' from The Great Dictator
Chaplin also wrote Petula Clark's 1967 hit, "This Is My Song" but she absolutely hated Chaplin's original lyrics. She'd done some foreign-language versions (in French, Italian and German) and only recorded the English version because there was some time left over in the recording session. Clark thought the song would only be album filler and was surprised when her record label not only released it as a single but also pulled copies of her then-current album to add the song to the album. It would become her first #1 hit in the UK since 1961.
Charlie Chaplin was a cellist who had his cello converted to play left-handed. I believe he wrote most, if not all, of the music played under his films.
John Lennon's voice is what we hear (She Loves You) in All You Need is Love. Paul may have been singing with him, but his microphone fell towards John.
@@claytonshank6871 No, they'd already recorded that vocal but you can see Paul lip syncing it badly. The track is mostly mimed for TV, except I think John's lead vocal, Paul's bass and George's guitar. They spent ages on the backing track prior to the broadcast.
As a fan of Kate Bush and old horror movies, a few years ago I experienced the weird effect of recognising the sample used in 'Hounds of Love' while watching 'Night of the Demon' on RUclips!
There was bass distortion in a hit song in 1961. It was in the hit country song, Marty Robbins’ “Don’t Worry.” Admittedly, it happened by accident, but they left it in.
@@SchmavidSchmobb distortion ≠ a fuzz pedal, people seem to be confused by the two. Almost all examples of distortion pre satisfaction were accidental, Keith used an actual pedal designed for distortion which in turn popularized the fuzz pedal in the vocabulary of mainstream rock.
About a million years ago I put Dancing in the Moonlight on my "Happy Place" playlist which was list comprised of whimsical, bouncy, poppy songs I have now listened to hundreds of time since when I needed to get myself to a "Happy Place". Wow...mind blown!
Another interesting one is that back in 1968 Paul McCartney wrote Helter Skelter after reading an interview with Pete Townshend who described The Who’s song “I Can See For Miles” as “the loudest, heaviest song The Who ever recorded” and Paul wanted to write something similar, which also became one of the first heavy metal songs
Here are a few facts about How to Disappear Completly by Radiohead: - The song's title is taken from a book entitled "How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found" by Doug Richmond. - The song was inspired by a nightmare Thom Yorke had about floating down the Liffey in Dublin, Ireland while being pursued by a tidal wave. - The iconic line "I'm not here / This isn't happening" was actually advice given to Thom Yorke by Michael Stipe of R.E.M. on how to deal with the stress of touring.
Yikes, that last story was a shocker! In this country I guess the song is most well known as the Toploader version used as theme music for Jamie Oliver's breakthrough TV series.
I really enjoyed this video, David. That guitar part on "Satisfaction" retains the clicking sound when Richards stepped on the fuzzbox's pedal. He also comes in early once and late once with the riff.
When "Safisfaction" first came out I didn't know what that instrument was, I thought it was maybe a saxophone but it wasn't really a sax, but it didn't sound like any guitar I'd ever heard. It looks like Keith Richards thought it sounded like a sax also if he was using it as a stand-in for a horn section. Soon fuzz guitar was everywhere, for instance on Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction".
Fuzz and distortion were actually developed in an effort to mimic horns. How far we've come. Another fun fact: George Harrison also used fuzz guitar to demo the horn part for Got To Get You Into My Life, but in that case they actually did replace it. You can hear it on the new Revolver box set.
When _Brandy_ was current I thought it was about an alcoholic, pushed into his state by depression, trying to shake off his addiction but failing: "Oh, Brandy, well, you kissed me and stopped me from shaking".
I was walking down the street with my wife just the other day and heard the Buddy Holly song coming out of a shop, at which point I mentioned the fact that the drummer is playing on his knees (I think I read about it years ago in a Buddy Holly biography). I'm not sure my musical trivia made any impression on my wife (usually doesn't), but I did enjoy a little moment of triumph this morning when I got to show her the clip from this video - thanks!
Fun fact : Radiohead's Debut album "Pablo Honey" was named after a phone prank title of the same name by New Yorks Jerky boys who put out albums of numerous prank phone calls back in the day .
One unusual thing I've noticed about "Dancing in the Moonlight" is that it uses the same rhyme for every line in all the verses and the chorus: "ite". Over the course of the song lines end with 'night', 'sight', 'right', 'delight', 'bite', 'light', etc. but never any other rhyme. I can't think of another song that does this.
I never associated Life on Mars with My Way at all (who could have done, it's so well-disguised), but when the chord sequences are pointed out here, it becomes clear!
_Everyday_ knee drumming: The Beatles ADORED Buddy Holly and imitated his songs whenever it made sense. One example is they did knee-drumming bits on _I'm Looking Through You_.
there are always so many little facts out there, Douglas Adams it a favourite author, I was very excited when I saw the track title for the first time. actually most of that section is hitch hikers referencing even the "What's That?" which arthur asks when he hears his house being bulldozed . I remember that Airbag was unfortunate enough to be released close to the Death of Lady Diana and many people thought it was written about that do to the unfortunate coincedences in the lyrics. An interesting fact is the Song "Total Eclipse of the Heart" which was written as a vampire love song was alleged by Meatloaf originally written for him but was given to Bonnie Tyler instead.
I've never listened to Radiohead, but as soon as I heard the words "Paranoid Android," I was like, "I know what that's a reference to!" I love the Hitchhiker's Guide series.
Great fact bombs on "Paranoid Android" there. I knew about the title and the 'first against the wall' references but the actual album title is a new one on me!
Session great Vinnie Bell invented the electric sitar, famously used by Steely Dan on Do It Again. Vinnie plays his famous watery guitar on the Twin Peaks theme. One of the many great New York session guitarists back in the day, including Al Gorgoni, most of them of Italian heritage including Vinnie, who also played in Sinatra's live band.
Wow I just discovered dancing in the moonlight last year. One of my favorite songs and still currently getting me through rough times. That's so sad hearing the back story. Thank you.
The end of All You Need is Love referencing other Beatles songs is like what Fall Out Boy did with What a Catch, Donnie (or should I say, what FOB did is like what the Beatles did)
Tom Wilson, who organized the electric version of "Sound of Silence", is the person laughing hysterically at the beginning of "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream." Dylan and the band blew the intro, and both Dylan and Wilson cracked up. Wilson died at 47 of Marfan Syndrome, a disease that causes bizarre physical symptoms including hyper extensive and hyper flexible joints in the hands-leading to speculation that Nicole Paganini also had it, since some of his works are virtually impossible to play with human sized hands, but there are reports during his lifetime of him performing them.
I agree, but at the same time I can understand why the electric version was a hit and the original wasn't. (I love the whole Wednesday Morning 3AM album, too.)
There is a beautiful irony, though, that Simon and Garfunkel... those careful, artful, masterful musicians... pretty much only became famous because somebody thought Sounds of Silence was not exciting enough for radio; and proceeded to throw together a half-assed overdub that even goes out-of-time at points in the song (that has ALWAYS bothered me. Lol).
I like the original a little more. But I think the instrumental is very cool and has some ethereal quality to it. After all they hired top tier musicians for doing this
The Foo Fighter phone vocal in 1997 is unique, but the organ part for "Parallels" by Yes was recorded twenty years earlier over a Swiss phone line. Apparently, Swiss phone lines were of such a quality they could get a good recording. The organ was in a church in Vevey, so instead of moving the organ or having a Rock band in a church, it was recorded via phone line. I had to read about this, I could not tell from sound quality.
I knew a few of these including most of the songs within All You Need is Love, the Buddy Holly "drums" and about The Stones first use of fuzz box on a hit, Roy Orbison writing Pretty Woman on the tour bus.
The bit about Song 2's opening drums reminds me a bit about a fact I commented when you first asked for submissions. The Peter Gabriel track "Big Time" has a bass part played by two people at once - bassist Tony Levin held the notes on the strings, and one of the drummers from the album's sessions, Jerry Marotta, struck the strings with his drumsticks to sound the notes. This resulted in a distinctive, percussive bass tone. (Levin has stated that the technique was inspired by legendary jazz drummer Gene Krupa.) In order to replicate this sound on his own for concerts and for other recordings, Levin developed what he calls "funk fingers" by taking the ends of drumsticks and attaching them to his fingers, which he's used on occasion on various other recordings throughout his career.
Weird that in the Billboard print you see "The Sounds of Silence" at No. 1 when the new hit version was actually called "The Sound of Silence". I guess it is still mixed up a lot nowadays.
5:30 Bad Brains did this in 1987, 9 years before Foo Fighters. The song "Sacred Love" had its vocals recorded over the phone while singer HR was in jail for selling pot
Don't fully understand why, but I can only ever think of Sainsbury's when Dancing in the Moonlight crosses my mind. I know they used it for a while in the 90s/early 00s, but it's weird that I have such a powerful association even now. Maybe just because I was very young at the time?
@@badgasaurus4211 Id say that has more to do with Bowie being the type of guy to say and do whatever he wanted and felt comfortable with; Sweet Thing is enough proof to me that if he wanted to that he could've become the consistent superior to Sinatra (with time and effort). That being said, Bowie never put particular effort into perfecting or maintaining his voice so altogether he's a worse vocalist. However my comment was only about Bowie's performance in Heroes which I believe was beyond most Sinatra interpretations.
@David Bennett Piano I hear and see John singing it in the headphones and when watching the live performance. Paul loses his mic on the second "She loves you yeah yeah yeah" where both Paul and John's mic are pointed at John singing it. I never knew this was such a debate among people, but after looking for confirmation, it seems there are many different thoughts on who sang it. I hear and see John, hands down, but agree to disagree 😉😊
Fun and enlightening! 4:53 Charlie deep dive: lads in bog standard leather "motorcycle" boots with worn soles. Charlie's soles sport a wavy grip. Even the bottom of the man's feet were Saville Row.
Who really sings _She Loves You_ - during _All You Need Is Love_ outro? People have debated it for years. Elsewhere is a video with a definitive answer. Basically, one time is John and one time is Paul (but I forget which order). They planned to sing it together. During the live take, a weird accident happened where the microphone was randomly kicked over to one guy and then to the other, getting them both, but not together.
@@DavidBennettPiano Excellent! I realize these days people don't read novels as much as they used to, but that's one that's at least worth giving a shot, with all of the clever jokes and interesting plot details....
@@DavidBennettPiano The original BBC Radio 4 version is still on Audible, You’ll like the music score by Paddy Kingsland of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
I think it's a source of debate among Beatles fans about who actually sang this part. There's a great video by You Can't Unhear This about this topic, definitely worth a watch. For the record I definitely hear John singing it too :)
As a fan of HHGTTG it was impossible not to link 'paranoid android' to the book; I'd be surprised if anyone who read the book did not make that connection. About the song quotes in 'All you need is love': what I always found hilarious about the Rutles version, 'Love, life' (which, as is the case with all Rutles songs, is almost as good as the thing it parodies) is that they, too, throw in a line from another Rutles song at the end, their version of 'She loves you', which is called 'Hold my hand (yeah, yeah)'. But where the real version makes it work so that you may not even notice it's even there, in the Rutles version the 'Hold my hand' thing is blurted out completely out of key and off the beat. It's pretty funny.
It can allllmost be played….i was thinking that too until i saw that you need to hit both the hat and the snare at the same time…you can basically do it but you’ll be missing 2 hi hat hits….it would be unnoticeable though…and theoretically you could do it with your foot on the hat pedal…open and close the hat on that beat…wouldn’t be exact though
Interesting! Hope to see a sequel to this, or why not make it a series? There's one song I expected to see here though - the details about the "drum solo" in Englishman in New York by Sting. I haven't double checked the info I have, but I've heard that rather unconventional "instruments" were used there. Check it out. 🙂
Motown's first hit - Barret Strong's "Money, That's What I Want" - uses a fuzz guitar tone and pre-dates the Stones' "Satisfaction" by about 6 years (recorded in 1959)
And "Satisfaction" isn't even the first *English* song to have fuzz in it. The Kinks's "You Really Got Me" was released in 1964, and became the first single by someone other than the Beatles to sell a million copies.
On Blur... in Belgium we tell our children that Blur"s Song 2 originated after Damon listened to dEUS' 1996 song "Fell off the floor man". Obviously. 😎 Ask him and he'll tell you so.
should've mentioned the Boffalongo's original version of Dancing in the Moonlight which is the version Sherman Kelly actually wrote, which sounds pretty different than King Harvest's version.
I think that Henry the eighth wrote Greensleeves for Jane Seymour, so I’m not sure how much of a folk melody it is but definitely a very popular piece of English Tudor music.
I’m pretty sure that’s actually just a myth; most historians nowadays seem to think the song was composed during Elizabeth I’s reign, so after the death of Henry VIII. Part of the evidence of this is that it is based on a type of Italian song that didn’t make its way to England until after Henry VIII died.
usually when I watch these kind of videos I already know ~90% of the "music facts you didn't know", but this one really brought some truly new and interesting stuff to the table. bravo David!
Nice video ! You speaking French is so cute ! It’s pronounce « comme dabitude ». The D and the A come together. Also in French we almost never pronounce the H
the song Lucky, by Radiohead borrows harmonic shape from the Eagles Journey of the Sorcerer which was used as the theme for the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. the shape of the melody in the chorus is lifted from the Eagles' tune's chorus, but slowed way down. I think the tempo shift is what keeps people from noticing it. was hoping you'd mention that.
That last story is intense. These are all really interesting. Thanks for compiling this video.
"The leader raped her" but "she was ok". I know what he meant but it sounds somewhat peculiar. (Don't wanna use the word "funny".)
Ya ,holy heck
Yeah the way he says it, she was ok but i had a headache... yeahhh i don't know if that's true
That Dancing In The Moonlight one is pretty mental
I thought the sad event was going to be that he left his wallet so they had to sleep outside, but the setting inspired the song, what came next would have permanently broke many other people...
I love how Radiohead is in every video
And the beatles
agreed but they are so musically gifted it’s hard not to
Not as much as the legendary Beatles
and Bowie too ❤
It’s not a David Bennett video if it doesn’t have Radiohead and The Beatles in it
I've always kinda hated the song Dancing In the Moonlight (much prefer the Thin Lizzy tune of the same name), but the story has made me see it in a new light. What a strong person he must be for creating something positive out of such a horrible event. His girlfriend too, of course.
You may prefer the original by Boffalongo, on which Sherman Kelly sings lead. No cheesy-sounding keyboards like the KH version. ruclips.net/video/r6dFjDQx_BQ/видео.html
I think the most amazing thing is that Smile was composed by Charlie Chaplin.
He also wrote and delivered a classic speech, a sample of which appears in Iron Sky by Paulo Nutini, 'machine minds with machine hearts .' from The Great Dictator
@@zfid I didn't know that! I will try and find it. Thank you.
Chaplin also wrote Petula Clark's 1967 hit, "This Is My Song" but she absolutely hated Chaplin's original lyrics. She'd done some foreign-language versions (in French, Italian and German) and only recorded the English version because there was some time left over in the recording session. Clark thought the song would only be album filler and was surprised when her record label not only released it as a single but also pulled copies of her then-current album to add the song to the album. It would become her first #1 hit in the UK since 1961.
Wow! I didn't know THAT either!
I always presumed her hits were Tony Hatch compositions!
Charlie Chaplin was a cellist who had his cello converted to play left-handed. I believe he wrote most, if not all, of the music played under his films.
John Lennon's voice is what we hear (She Loves You) in All You Need is Love. Paul may have been singing with him, but his microphone fell towards John.
I definitely thought it was John.
Isn’t this even confirmed by the official video?
@@claytonshank6871 No, they'd already recorded that vocal but you can see Paul lip syncing it badly. The track is mostly mimed for TV, except I think John's lead vocal, Paul's bass and George's guitar. They spent ages on the backing track prior to the broadcast.
As a fan of Kate Bush and old horror movies, a few years ago I experienced the weird effect of recognising the sample used in 'Hounds of Love' while watching 'Night of the Demon' on RUclips!
Kate Bush beat Rob Zombie to it lol....
There was bass distortion in a hit song in 1961. It was in the hit country song, Marty Robbins’ “Don’t Worry.” Admittedly, it happened by accident, but they left it in.
Yes, Keith used the pedal that was made based on that broken console distortion.
The bass in Don't Worry sounds cool, thanks for mentioning it.
Originally, Marty Robbins didn’t want the distortion on the track, but someone at the studio talked him into keeping it in…and the rest is history.
Also, the kinks the year before
@@SchmavidSchmobb distortion ≠ a fuzz pedal, people seem to be confused by the two. Almost all examples of distortion pre satisfaction were accidental, Keith used an actual pedal designed for distortion which in turn popularized the fuzz pedal in the vocabulary of mainstream rock.
Oh man, I've heard Everlong a million times in my life, but I never noticed the backing vocals!!
About a million years ago I put Dancing in the Moonlight on my "Happy Place" playlist which was list comprised of whimsical, bouncy, poppy songs I have now listened to hundreds of time since when I needed to get myself to a "Happy Place". Wow...mind blown!
Another interesting one is that back in 1968 Paul McCartney wrote Helter Skelter after reading an interview with Pete Townshend who described The Who’s song “I Can See For Miles” as “the loudest, heaviest song The Who ever recorded” and Paul wanted to write something similar, which also became one of the first heavy metal songs
I always thought it was John singing She Loves You at the end of All You Need Is Love
It's actually more complicated than it being just one or the other. ruclips.net/video/yTzejEpFp9E/видео.html
There's a you can't unhear this video about it!
Here are a few facts about How to Disappear Completly by Radiohead:
- The song's title is taken from a book entitled "How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found" by Doug Richmond.
- The song was inspired by a nightmare Thom Yorke had about floating down the Liffey in Dublin, Ireland while being pursued by a tidal wave.
- The iconic line "I'm not here / This isn't happening" was actually advice given to Thom Yorke by Michael Stipe of R.E.M. on how to deal with the stress of touring.
Yikes, that last story was a shocker! In this country I guess the song is most well known as the Toploader version used as theme music for Jamie Oliver's breakthrough TV series.
I really enjoyed this video, David. That guitar part on "Satisfaction" retains the clicking sound when Richards stepped on the fuzzbox's pedal. He also comes in early once and late once with the riff.
Ok
When "Safisfaction" first came out I didn't know what that instrument was, I thought it was maybe a saxophone but it wasn't really a sax, but it didn't sound like any guitar I'd ever heard. It looks like Keith Richards thought it sounded like a sax also if he was using it as a stand-in for a horn section. Soon fuzz guitar was everywhere, for instance on Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction".
Interesting!
Fuzz and distortion were actually developed in an effort to mimic horns. How far we've come.
Another fun fact: George Harrison also used fuzz guitar to demo the horn part for Got To Get You Into My Life, but in that case they actually did replace it. You can hear it on the new Revolver box set.
When _Brandy_ was current I thought it was about an alcoholic, pushed into his state by depression, trying to shake off his addiction but failing: "Oh, Brandy, well, you kissed me and stopped me from shaking".
Song #2 wasn't directed so specifically at Nirvana as it was much of the banal post-grunge and alternative that popped up in the US in Nirvana's wake.
Interesting video as always. Thanks. The last bit, on Dancing in the Moonlight, was unexpected.
I was walking down the street with my wife just the other day and heard the Buddy Holly song coming out of a shop, at which point I mentioned the fact that the drummer is playing on his knees (I think I read about it years ago in a Buddy Holly biography). I'm not sure my musical trivia made any impression on my wife (usually doesn't), but I did enjoy a little moment of triumph this morning when I got to show her the clip from this video - thanks!
Every time I hear the name Buddy Holly I always think of the Weezer song 💀
Thank you, Dave. You are my favourite music teacher
Fun fact : Radiohead's Debut album "Pablo Honey" was named after a phone prank title of the same name by New Yorks Jerky boys who put out albums of numerous prank phone calls back in the day .
One unusual thing I've noticed about "Dancing in the Moonlight" is that it uses the same rhyme for every line in all the verses and the chorus: "ite". Over the course of the song lines end with 'night', 'sight', 'right', 'delight', 'bite', 'light', etc. but never any other rhyme. I can't think of another song that does this.
'Girls' by Beastie Boys
The My Way fact is extraordinary. I like Bowie's lyrics but Anka's are so legendary, it's difficult to hear it differently.
I never associated Life on Mars with My Way at all (who could have done, it's so well-disguised), but when the chord sequences are pointed out here, it becomes clear!
Claude François, the gentleman who sang the original, Comme d'habitude, died whilst changing a lightbulb in his bathroom, poor soul was electrocuted.
_Everyday_ knee drumming: The Beatles ADORED Buddy Holly and imitated his songs whenever it made sense. One example is they did knee-drumming bits on _I'm Looking Through You_.
there are always so many little facts out there, Douglas Adams it a favourite author, I was very excited when I saw the track title for the first time. actually most of that section is hitch hikers referencing even the "What's That?" which arthur asks when he hears his house being bulldozed . I remember that Airbag was unfortunate enough to be released close to the Death of Lady Diana and many people thought it was written about that do to the unfortunate coincedences in the lyrics.
An interesting fact is the Song "Total Eclipse of the Heart" which was written as a vampire love song was alleged by Meatloaf originally written for him but was given to Bonnie Tyler instead.
I've never listened to Radiohead, but as soon as I heard the words "Paranoid Android," I was like, "I know what that's a reference to!" I love the Hitchhiker's Guide series.
Great fact bombs on "Paranoid Android" there. I knew about the title and the 'first against the wall' references but the actual album title is a new one on me!
I do wonder if the reason why, on Android, you say "OK Google" is also based on "OK Computer" / Hitchhiker's.
Fascinating stuff David -- thanks for passing it on ❤
These are always timed perfectly for my bus ride home!
Session great Vinnie Bell invented the electric sitar, famously used by Steely Dan on Do It Again. Vinnie plays his famous watery guitar on the Twin Peaks theme. One of the many great New York session guitarists back in the day, including Al Gorgoni, most of them of Italian heritage including Vinnie, who also played in Sinatra's live band.
The backing singer on Everlong literally phoned it in. Love it.
Particularly in the past it was quite common to cover songs that had only come out recently.
Wow I just discovered dancing in the moonlight last year.
One of my favorite songs and still currently getting me through rough times. That's so sad hearing the back story.
Thank you.
The end of All You Need is Love referencing other Beatles songs is like what Fall Out Boy did with What a Catch, Donnie (or should I say, what FOB did is like what the Beatles did)
always love to see a new david bennett upload 👍
Dolly Parton wrote "Jolene" on the same day that she wrote "I Will Always Love You".
Tom Wilson, who organized the electric version of "Sound of Silence", is the person laughing hysterically at the beginning of "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream." Dylan and the band blew the intro, and both Dylan and Wilson cracked up. Wilson died at 47 of Marfan Syndrome, a disease that causes bizarre physical symptoms including hyper extensive and hyper flexible joints in the hands-leading to speculation that Nicole Paganini also had it, since some of his works are virtually impossible to play with human sized hands, but there are reports during his lifetime of him performing them.
Great video thanks! I also like that Blur's 'Tender' features the sound of a plank of wood whacked against the floor in the studio toilet apparently
The original Sound of Silence is so much better than the electric version
I agree, but at the same time I can understand why the electric version was a hit and the original wasn't. (I love the whole Wednesday Morning 3AM album, too.)
Seems like everyone says this, but I feel so strongly the opposite
The sounds...of salesmen
There is a beautiful irony, though, that Simon and Garfunkel... those careful, artful, masterful musicians... pretty much only became famous because somebody thought Sounds of Silence was not exciting enough for radio; and proceeded to throw together a half-assed overdub that even goes out-of-time at points in the song (that has ALWAYS bothered me. Lol).
I like the original a little more. But I think the instrumental is very cool and has some ethereal quality to it. After all they hired top tier musicians for doing this
The Foo Fighter phone vocal in 1997 is unique, but the organ part for "Parallels" by Yes was recorded twenty years earlier over a Swiss phone line. Apparently, Swiss phone lines were of such a quality they could get a good recording. The organ was in a church in Vevey, so instead of moving the organ or having a Rock band in a church, it was recorded via phone line. I had to read about this, I could not tell from sound quality.
Song 2 was also originally a slow folk song. Damon Albarn has said and demonstrated in an interview with Zane Lowe
There's a similar faster version of it in this live acoustic version they did ruclips.net/video/QtZ09eBRRYI/видео.html
It wouldn't be David without Radiohead and the Beatles lol
8:30 I tested with headphones- Each vocal is on a separate ear. Clever job, duo.
I knew a few of these including most of the songs within All You Need is Love, the Buddy Holly "drums" and about The Stones first use of fuzz box on a hit, Roy Orbison writing Pretty Woman on the tour bus.
The bit about Song 2's opening drums reminds me a bit about a fact I commented when you first asked for submissions. The Peter Gabriel track "Big Time" has a bass part played by two people at once - bassist Tony Levin held the notes on the strings, and one of the drummers from the album's sessions, Jerry Marotta, struck the strings with his drumsticks to sound the notes. This resulted in a distinctive, percussive bass tone. (Levin has stated that the technique was inspired by legendary jazz drummer Gene Krupa.) In order to replicate this sound on his own for concerts and for other recordings, Levin developed what he calls "funk fingers" by taking the ends of drumsticks and attaching them to his fingers, which he's used on occasion on various other recordings throughout his career.
Weird that in the Billboard print you see "The Sounds of Silence" at No. 1 when the new hit version was actually called "The Sound of Silence". I guess it is still mixed up a lot nowadays.
what a nice surprise, cheers David 👍
5:30 Bad Brains did this in 1987, 9 years before Foo Fighters. The song "Sacred Love" had its vocals recorded over the phone while singer HR was in jail for selling pot
Don't fully understand why, but I can only ever think of Sainsbury's when Dancing in the Moonlight crosses my mind.
I know they used it for a while in the 90s/early 00s, but it's weird that I have such a powerful association even now. Maybe just because I was very young at the time?
Bowie had crazy vocals on Heroes (and I say this as a vocalist) vocals that surpassed Sinatra in My Way imo…
One of my favourite vocal performances by him was Word on a Wing. At the end its so gorgeous to me
Bowie is a rather clunky vocalist, Sinatra has been surpassed many times but I don’t think Bowie is a good example
@@badgasaurus4211 on heroes
@@badgasaurus4211 Id say that has more to do with Bowie being the type of guy to say and do whatever he wanted and felt comfortable with; Sweet Thing is enough proof to me that if he wanted to that he could've become the consistent superior to Sinatra (with time and effort). That being said, Bowie never put particular effort into perfecting or maintaining his voice so altogether he's a worse vocalist. However my comment was only about Bowie's performance in Heroes which I believe was beyond most Sinatra interpretations.
@@badgasaurus4211 you kidding? Bowie is an incredible vocalist. Check out Wild is the Wind
John sings She Loves You, not Paul.
Paul starts it, then John joins 😉😉😊😊
@David Bennett Piano I hear and see John singing it in the headphones and when watching the live performance. Paul loses his mic on the second "She loves you yeah yeah yeah" where both Paul and John's mic are pointed at John singing it.
I never knew this was such a debate among people, but after looking for confirmation, it seems there are many different thoughts on who sang it.
I hear and see John, hands down, but agree to disagree 😉😊
Fun and enlightening! 4:53 Charlie deep dive: lads in bog standard leather "motorcycle" boots with worn soles. Charlie's soles sport a wavy grip. Even the bottom of the man's feet were Saville Row.
Love these facts videos! Thank you for doing another one.
Great to see Warren! Btw fun fact about the Hounds of Love album.. recorded with no cymbals throughout
Song 2 drum reminds me of George Harrison's I've Got My Mind Set On You
I love that everything is news to me in videos by David. No other channel can tell me things I didn’t know!
Looking forward to the next stream.
12:25 For anyone wondering, the subtitles here are in Swedish
Who really sings _She Loves You_ - during _All You Need Is Love_ outro? People have debated it for years. Elsewhere is a video with a definitive answer. Basically, one time is John and one time is Paul (but I forget which order). They planned to sing it together. During the live take, a weird accident happened where the microphone was randomly kicked over to one guy and then to the other, getting them both, but not together.
Interesting video! As you might guess, I love the Hitchhiker's references! Hope you read the book someday (if you haven't already)...
Read the book recently and LOVED it! Going to read Restaurant at the end of the universe soon!
@@DavidBennettPiano Excellent! I realize these days people don't read novels as much as they used to, but that's one that's at least worth giving a shot, with all of the clever jokes and interesting plot details....
@@DavidBennettPiano The original BBC Radio 4 version is still on Audible, You’ll like the music score by Paddy Kingsland of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
All these years I thought John was singing “yes, it is” (itself a Beatles song). Shows what I know.
Came down here to say the same thing.
I think it's a source of debate among Beatles fans about who actually sang this part. There's a great video by You Can't Unhear This about this topic, definitely worth a watch. For the record I definitely hear John singing it too :)
I’d always heard “Get together” myself.
One of the most interesting videos I've seen as of late. Awesome job David!
As a fan of HHGTTG it was impossible not to link 'paranoid android' to the book; I'd be surprised if anyone who read the book did not make that connection.
About the song quotes in 'All you need is love': what I always found hilarious about the Rutles version, 'Love, life' (which, as is the case with all Rutles songs, is almost as good as the thing it parodies) is that they, too, throw in a line from another Rutles song at the end, their version of 'She loves you', which is called 'Hold my hand (yeah, yeah)'. But where the real version makes it work so that you may not even notice it's even there, in the Rutles version the 'Hold my hand' thing is blurted out completely out of key and off the beat. It's pretty funny.
1:40 You can play it by one person, there's a technique in which you play the snare and the hihat with only one hand, check it out!
It can allllmost be played….i was thinking that too until i saw that you need to hit both the hat and the snare at the same time…you can basically do it but you’ll be missing 2 hi hat hits….it would be unnoticeable though…and theoretically you could do it with your foot on the hat pedal…open and close the hat on that beat…wouldn’t be exact though
The sounds of silence are my favorite songs ever.❤❤
John is singing She Loves You.
Yup!
Interesting! Hope to see a sequel to this, or why not make it a series? There's one song I expected to see here though - the details about the "drum solo" in Englishman in New York by Sting. I haven't double checked the info I have, but I've heard that rather unconventional "instruments" were used there. Check it out. 🙂
Never noticed the "in the mood" bit in the beatles song! I i heard both songs all the time
Song 2 drove me nuts and the landlord who lived above us.
What an informative video, well done.
5:00 That's crazy. For a long time i thought this guitar line was played on a Saxophone or something similar.
Motown's first hit - Barret Strong's "Money, That's What I Want" - uses a fuzz guitar tone and pre-dates the Stones' "Satisfaction" by about 6 years (recorded in 1959)
And "Satisfaction" isn't even the first *English* song to have fuzz in it. The Kinks's "You Really Got Me" was released in 1964, and became the first single by someone other than the Beatles to sell a million copies.
I'm 66. Upon first hearing "Dancing in the Moonlight"
to this very day, it is one of the few songs that makes
me feel happy any time I hear it
About recording over the phone, David McWilliams did that decades earlier on the chorus of "Days of Peraly Spencer"
Great video! The stories behind Sound of Silence and Life On Mars are fascinating.
On Blur...
in Belgium we tell our children that Blur"s Song 2 originated after Damon listened to dEUS' 1996 song "Fell off the floor man".
Obviously. 😎
Ask him and he'll tell you so.
6:50 No, I never wondered but thanks for sharing.
Man… the stones are just so darn good
4:40 I thought the first example of fuzz distortion was Marty Robbins: "Don't Worry."
I love your channel! I do believe it was Ringo that sang She Loves You at the end of All You Need Is Love.
should've mentioned the Boffalongo's original version of Dancing in the Moonlight which is the version Sherman Kelly actually wrote, which sounds pretty different than King Harvest's version.
I know Cole did it first but I always think of "Smile" as a Durante song. I love those ballad albums Durante made in the 60's
The Edge by David McCallum (Ducky from NCIS), I’m sure you’ll instantly recognize it.
Love this channel! Thank you!!!
I think that Henry the eighth wrote Greensleeves for Jane Seymour, so I’m not sure how much of a folk melody it is but definitely a very popular piece of English Tudor music.
I’m pretty sure that’s actually just a myth; most historians nowadays seem to think the song was composed during Elizabeth I’s reign, so after the death of Henry VIII. Part of the evidence of this is that it is based on a type of Italian song that didn’t make its way to England until after Henry VIII died.
hats with the left pedal, homes
That final "She Loves you yeah yeah yeah" in All you Need is Love sounds like John to me, are you sure it was Paul?
The video for Pretty woman was filmed in Batley market in west Yorkshire. He had performed there and actually met his wife there!
sounds like John singing 'loves you yeah yeah yeah' at the end of All You Need is Love to me...
usually when I watch these kind of videos I already know ~90% of the "music facts you didn't know", but this one really brought some truly new and interesting stuff to the table. bravo David!
I love the knee slaps of buddy holly are awesome
Fascinating again. Thank you.
I love this video format
Always a purest i love the original version of sound of silence
I didn't even know that there was a different version. I only knew the original
Aladdin Sane includes musical quotes of Rhapsody in Blue, Tequila and On Broadway.
Great Information David
Wow you’ve exploded my mind!! thank you!!
Nice video ! You speaking French is so cute ! It’s pronounce « comme dabitude ». The D and the A come together. Also in French we almost never pronounce the H
David, excellent review. Thank you. Steven Z.😀
the song Lucky, by Radiohead borrows harmonic shape from the Eagles Journey of the Sorcerer which was used as the theme for the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. the shape of the melody in the chorus is lifted from the Eagles' tune's chorus, but slowed way down. I think the tempo shift is what keeps people from noticing it. was hoping you'd mention that.
blastbeats on knees are a staple of true acoustic black metal genre
4:37 Perfect transition 🤌