It’s so cool reading the comments of people who grew up with the Beatles while they were around. I grew up with the Beatles too, yet decades after the 60s, but still enjoy these classics!
I love that piccolo trumpet ending the song at 5:21. That was the way I heard "Penny Lane" growing up in 1967. But on all stereo remakes, that little closing lick on the piccolo trumpet is absent. The song never seems to end right without it.
I love it as well, and agree that the ending doesn't seem right without it! Curiously, it only appeared on a U.S. "promotional" single - you were lucky if your local radio station kept playing that version in the ensuing months! It was missing from the end of even subsequent "regular" mono mixes, such as on the UK single, and the "main" U.S. single; that mono is all you ever actually heard in the U.S. until _Rarities_ in 1980 (which had the piccolo trumpet ending spliced onto the first-ever U.S. release of the song in stereo): The 1967 _Magical Mystery Tour_ album, even the "stereo" version, used a plain-ending mono mix of the song, presented in FAKE stereo. And the 1973 "Blue Album" in the U.S. just presented the song in mono (still "plain-ending"). Meanwhile, an early-70s version of the MMT album in West Germany used only true-stereo versions of songs, but, as you say, with a plain ending for "Penny Lane". Likewise, the UK version of the "Blue Album" used the plain-ending stereo version. Then when the MMT CD came out in '87, the plain-ending stereo was used 'round the world.
According to the book , "The Beatles Recording Sessions" by Mark Lewisohn, the Piccolo trumpet at the end of the song was an edit piece on the mono version. When the song was mixed for stereo, the engineers forgot about it. This apparently did not concern The Beatles, so it is missing from the stereo version.
@@alanr4447a Okay, but in the video from the cartoon: Was the "spliced" ending really used for the ending credits, or did somebody just add that to the video recently? It seems odd that the "plain ending" is there for the song, but the "spliced" ending is there for the closing credits.
@@kbob1163 The "spliced" ending was NOT used in the cartoon. I dubbed that in myself because I thought it would be a treat to hear the "trumpet coda"! (In fact I shortened it by editing out "There beneath the blue suburban skies".) BTW the trumpet coda may have been an "edit piece on the mono version" as Lewisohn said, but the only place it was USED in the 1960s was on the U.S. PROMOTIONAL single, and NOT on the main-release single (which was mono) in either U.S. or UK, nor in any mono mix appearing on the MMT album in the U.S. (which was not issued in the UK), either the mono or "stereo" version of that album (which used the NO-trumpet-end mono mix in FAKE stereo), nor even on the U.S. release of the "Blue" album in 1973, which again used the no-trumpet-end mono mix!
Probably the BEST interpretation of Penny Lane I have ever heard by Howard Goodall...“By the time The Beatles discovered mid-song key changes, Classical music had long since abandoned them. McCartney in particular had become intrigued by modulation as a device. But he seemed instinctively to know that the best modulations occur by stealth, when mood and color change unperceptively, as if by magic. It may surprise you to learn for example that in the cheerful, happy-go-lucky song ‘Penny Lane’ he pulls off clever immensely satisfying key changes no less than 7 times. Almost without you noticing. This is the work of a composer who really knows what he’s doing. What effect then does this modulation have on a song? Well for one thing, it alters our perception of the chorus. Listen to what it sounds like without the modulation. (plays music). Its fine isn’t it? But it’s not very surprising. In the proper version, there’s much more of a shifting gear as we move into the chorus. (plays music). It is, of course, quite common in a pop song for the voice to rise up to a higher range for the chorus to sound more celebratory, more frenzied, more desperate, or more passionate. And McCartney’s voice does indeed rise predictively upward for the chorus. But here’s the clever bit…while the voice is rising upwards for the chorus, the modulation is actually a DOWNWARDS shift (plays music). Moving the key downwards has the subconscious effect of making us feel slightly wistful - as if the ‘joy’ isn’t a ‘total joy’ but a joy experienced that is slightly removed from the events it portrays. Since the song is about McCartney’s memories of growing up in suburban Liverpool, this makes perfect emotional sense to us as we listen. There’s one other by-product of this downward shift…at the end of the chorus we’re forced to move back UP a gear as the verse starts again. Because we’re now modulating upwards, the incoming verse greets us like a new day…full of optimism and youth. (plays music). A lesser writer than McCartney would have left it at that. But Penny Lane is about journeys…into the past, down a street, through suburban Liverpool. And so the harmony goes on a journey too… in the very final chorus, McCartney surprises us once more, and lets the harmony shift again - this time upwards into the chorus - and the result is gloriously celebratory!!! Penny Lane is one of the most magical, life-affirming songs in The Beatles repertoire. It also features a baroque piccolo trumpet solo inspired by Paul McCartney hearing one on a TV broadcast of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. McCartney’s thirst for knowledge and understanding of Classical music was extremely influential in The Beatles work. Divisions between Classical and Popular seemed to dissolve in their later recordings. In this respect, McCartney was way ahead of his time. Anticipating a future that didn’t recognize artificial barriers between musical styles.”
I never understood the voice they gave George in these cartoons. What even IS that accent? It sounds like a Peter Lorre impression! Not even vaguely British, much less Liverpudlian.
@@TheMadcap919these cartoons were made in America, two guys voiced the Beatles, there was no effort to make anything close to "authentic" other than "make'em sound English" ...
I watched this cartoon in 1965 when I was 5 years old. At that time I remember seeing an image of that cartoon in my mind, that's the first time I realized I could see things in my imagination.
Every evening after school I was maybe 8 or 9 yrs old, sitted in front of the TV and watch those cartoons with a little white ball jumping over the lyrics. That was the way TV teached latin kids to learn english. Eso pasaba en Puerto Rico en los 70's
Despite all of the cartoon's other flaws, the closing credits do include the second trumpet blast on the song, which was only released to radio stations back during the day.
In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer. We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim. Most lyrics say that the banker is waiting for a trend. He's in the barber shop waiting for a haircut or a trim, not a trend.
The ending of this reminds me of the end of "The New 3 Stooges" cartoons where Moe Larry and Curly Joe's shadows always run off into the sunset! Also, adding the 7 extra note "Penny Lane" is a nice touch! Thank You for sharing ;)
Wow! That was exactly 4 years before I was born. Also Paul McCartney was knighted on March 11 1997. Being that March 11 is my birthday, I think that's pretty cool!
No, it's American Paul Frees doing John and George, and British Lance Percival doing Paul and Ringo. (He also did Old Fred in "Yellow Submarine" -- but NOT Paul or Ringo.) Paul Frees was a prolific voice artist for cartoons and voice-overs. His most famous voice work was as Boris Badinov in the Bullwinkle cartoons (which like-voice sometimes pops up in Beatles episodes). He also did The Thing in Hanna-Barbera's late-60s Fantastic Four ("It's clobberin' time!").
I watched these Beatles cartoons when I was in Kindergarten! I guess Ringo was the only one of the four who was easily impersonated vocally!! George sounds as if he's from India!
James Blonde and Cartoon Beatles... That's just about as awesome as the Brits can be represented in a cheesy cartoon series.. :D Agent oh-oh-heaven... and robbing Penny Lane (the Beatles' song, but also maybe Ms. MoneyPENNY?) LOL
Both the voice of John and George are being done by voice veteran, Paul Frees, he was the greatest cartoon voice actor of all time. He did the voice of the talking rings in the movie The Time Machine in 1961.
Instead of all the shitty cartoons that are out now, and that will be out in the future, I'm showing these cartoons to my future children. Long live The Beatles
On this day in 1967 {March 11th} a video of the Beatles performing "Penny Lane" and the b/w, "Strawberry Fields Forever", was aired on late Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand'... One month earlier on February 25th the record entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; with "Penny Lane" peaking at #1 {for 1 week} on March 18th and "Strawberry Fields Forever" reaching #8... The Beatles, along with Elvis, never appeared live on 'Bandstand'... R.I.P. to The King, John, George, and Mr. Clark {1929 - 2012}
thanks for uploading these. it inspired me to do the same with all 39 full length episodes. classic stuff. the music sound great in the 60's coming through the mono speaker of my console tv!
David Mason, a classical musician who played the trumpet solo in the Penny Lane song in this cartoon, died April 29, 2011 at age 85. According to a Newsday obituary Paul McCartney saw Mason playing the trumpet on tv in a Bach concert and George Martin producer recruited Mason to record with the Beatles. R.I.P. David Mason.
Damn...i didnt like the beatles until my boyfriend and i watched Yellow Submarine on our first date...now I cant get enough of them o.o Penny Lane...what a great song!
i am agree with Paul. The band did a lot of things to become one of the greatest bands and James Blond gets all the glory. I think James Blond didn´t play a guitar in all his life
Yes! The first year they produced the show, 1965, they needed to create a "full season" of episodes (50+ segments), and they called upon several different animation crews to create product, and many of them churned out pretty crappy results. The following years, they only needed "supplememtal" episodes, so only the best crew was used, and at the same time the Beatles music itself was becoming more innovative. The same animation team went on to create "Yellow Submarine"!
Paul: "It's too much man, it's too much" Ringo: *holding George* "He's over come" John: "Oh what a pity" I LOVE THAT BIT. I JUST LOVE THE BEATLES! THEY MAY NOT BE VOICED BY THEM , BUT ANYTHING BEATLES IS GEAR!!!!
@WeirdCandycain Gear means is cool, fab, awesome ect. It's used by Ringo in the movie A Hard Day's Night. He says: "Gear, I've been dying to do some work" It's a 60's slang like bird, fab or groovy. I hope that answered your question :)
Interesting how at the end the fireman sticks his head out of the sewer with the sewer cover still on his head, much like the spy in the "You've got to hide your love away" scene from "Help"
@remmaps123321 Well remember that although Magical Mystery Tour came out AS an album several months after Sgt. Pepper, the songs Penny Lane and SFF came out as a SINGLE several months BEFORE Pepper, and that's how those 2 songs became the last ones made into episodes.
I actually managed to find and buy a shirt for my son with the cartoon Beatles on it- and at the time I just thought it was cool, never having seen the cartoon for myself. Now I'm glad I've come across it; I'll be watching a bit more of this now (: IDK about the voices of the four, but i love that the songs are still legit!
The piccolo trumpet player featured in the recording (whose work substantially added to the ambiance) was a highly skilled musician, to the point where some people questioned the authenticity.
Thanks! I've always preferred that myself! I had always thought the "normal" ending seemed a little 'flat', and when I first heard the 'trumpet coda', I thought, "THAT'S what it needed!" :) (I actually first heard it on station WMMS in Cleveland in 1979, during a "Buzzard Beatles Blitz". Of course I bought the U.S. "Rarities" when it came out the next year!) What I put here was actually from the Anthology 2 CD, with most of the other 'extra sounds' taken out.
Yes, of course, I was commenting because I was so surprised that someone, obviously very young, heard James Blunt, and not the obvious take on James Bond.
All Right ! ha,Ha, Finally ! - the original trumpet ending of Penny Lane !! haven't heard it in decades BUT that's the ending on the single we bought in the US.
LOL!! That's so funny! I must admit that the part at the end of the episode was a really shocking expierience, and that's the truth. Thanks so very much for posting this episode.
PAUL wrote "Penny Lane" -- and was the main singer on it (multi-tracked)! John's early version of "In My Life" had a similar theme -- but it was still THAT song, not "Penny Lane" itself.
Paul Frees "impersonated" John and George; Lance Percival was Paul and Ringo (which he did again in "Yellow Submarine"), 'CAVERN' [they were never given screen credit].
On this day in 1967 {February 12th} a video clip of the Beatles performing "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" was aired on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show' Thirteen days later on February 25th both songs entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; with "Penny Lane" peaking at #1 {for 1 week} and spending 10 weeks on the Top 100 And "Strawberry Fields Forever", the B-side, reached #8 and stayed on the Top 100 for 9 weeks R.I.P. John, George, and Mr. Sullivan {1901 - 1974}
hahahahahaha I love the stooges ending u put in here xD!! this carton is awesome. they should have done cartoons about other bands as well! anyone agree?
The Beatles refused to provide their own voices for their animated counterparts in this series, so Paul Frees {John/George} and Lance Percival {Paul/Ringo} were used, 'Video'. Only their Parlophone/Capitol recordings were heard in these cartoons...
@xthestarchildx That was "PRICE of popularity". And to provide further info on what was probably even harder to make out because it is largely drowned out by a "whoosh" sound effect, the last word of Ringo's line here is (my emphasis), "Who wants to be a handsome hero? I'd rather stay as I am, heh heh, a handsome COWARD!"
It was Paul who suggested they actually GO there to stop the thieves - but it's true that it wasn't really Paul who was responsible for the misunderstanding....
When the Beatles are standing around Penny Lane, the spired church building that pops up in the background here and there looks just like the actual church that stands near the actual roundabout in the actual Penny Lane.
Very cool that you ended the cartoon with the trumpet solo from the Penny Lane promo single. I prefer that version and they should put it on CD. I have it on the US "Rarities" album.
It’s so cool reading the comments of people who grew up with the Beatles while they were around. I grew up with the Beatles too, yet decades after the 60s, but still enjoy these classics!
this one is just so great. i love when ringo says "Why be a handsome hero? I'd rather stay as I am, handsome."
This is wonderful, as a child in 1964 this was a show I did not miss.
I love that piccolo trumpet ending the song at 5:21. That was the way I heard "Penny Lane" growing up in 1967. But on all stereo remakes, that little closing lick on the piccolo trumpet is absent. The song never seems to end right without it.
I love it as well, and agree that the ending doesn't seem right without it! Curiously, it only appeared on a U.S. "promotional" single - you were lucky if your local radio station kept playing that version in the ensuing months! It was missing from the end of even subsequent "regular" mono mixes, such as on the UK single, and the "main" U.S. single; that mono is all you ever actually heard in the U.S. until _Rarities_ in 1980 (which had the piccolo trumpet ending spliced onto the first-ever U.S. release of the song in stereo): The 1967 _Magical Mystery Tour_ album, even the "stereo" version, used a plain-ending mono mix of the song, presented in FAKE stereo. And the 1973 "Blue Album" in the U.S. just presented the song in mono (still "plain-ending"). Meanwhile, an early-70s version of the MMT album in West Germany used only true-stereo versions of songs, but, as you say, with a plain ending for "Penny Lane". Likewise, the UK version of the "Blue Album" used the plain-ending stereo version. Then when the MMT CD came out in '87, the plain-ending stereo was used 'round the world.
@@alanr4447a Thanks, really great info!
According to the book , "The Beatles Recording Sessions" by Mark Lewisohn, the Piccolo trumpet at the end of the song was an edit piece on the mono version. When the song was mixed for stereo, the engineers forgot about it. This apparently did not concern The Beatles, so it is missing from the stereo version.
@@alanr4447a Okay, but in the video from the cartoon: Was the "spliced" ending really used for the ending credits, or did somebody just add that to the video recently? It seems odd that the "plain ending" is there for the song, but the "spliced" ending is there for the closing credits.
@@kbob1163 The "spliced" ending was NOT used in the cartoon. I dubbed that in myself because I thought it would be a treat to hear the "trumpet coda"! (In fact I shortened it by editing out "There beneath the blue suburban skies".) BTW the trumpet coda may have been an "edit piece on the mono version" as Lewisohn said, but the only place it was USED in the 1960s was on the U.S. PROMOTIONAL single, and NOT on the main-release single (which was mono) in either U.S. or UK, nor in any mono mix appearing on the MMT album in the U.S. (which was not issued in the UK), either the mono or "stereo" version of that album (which used the NO-trumpet-end mono mix in FAKE stereo), nor even on the U.S. release of the "Blue" album in 1973, which again used the no-trumpet-end mono mix!
Probably the BEST interpretation of Penny Lane I have ever heard by Howard Goodall...“By the time The Beatles discovered mid-song key changes, Classical music had long since abandoned them. McCartney in particular had become intrigued by modulation as a device. But he seemed instinctively to know that the best modulations occur by stealth, when mood and color change unperceptively, as if by magic. It may surprise you to learn for example that in the cheerful, happy-go-lucky song ‘Penny Lane’ he pulls off clever immensely satisfying key changes no less than 7 times. Almost without you noticing. This is the work of a composer who really knows what he’s doing. What effect then does this modulation have on a song? Well for one thing, it alters our perception of the chorus. Listen to what it sounds like without the modulation. (plays music). Its fine isn’t it? But it’s not very surprising. In the proper version, there’s much more of a shifting gear as we move into the chorus. (plays music). It is, of course, quite common in a pop song for the voice to rise up to a higher range for the chorus to sound more celebratory, more frenzied, more desperate, or more passionate. And McCartney’s voice does indeed rise predictively upward for the chorus. But here’s the clever bit…while the voice is rising upwards for the chorus, the modulation is actually a DOWNWARDS shift (plays music). Moving the key downwards has the subconscious effect of making us feel slightly wistful - as if the ‘joy’ isn’t a ‘total joy’ but a joy experienced that is slightly removed from the events it portrays. Since the song is about McCartney’s memories of growing up in suburban Liverpool, this makes perfect emotional sense to us as we listen. There’s one other by-product of this downward shift…at the end of the chorus we’re forced to move back UP a gear as the verse starts again. Because we’re now modulating upwards, the incoming verse greets us like a new day…full of optimism and youth. (plays music). A lesser writer than McCartney would have left it at that. But Penny Lane is about journeys…into the past, down a street, through suburban Liverpool. And so the harmony goes on a journey too… in the very final chorus, McCartney surprises us once more, and lets the harmony shift again - this time upwards into the chorus - and the result is gloriously celebratory!!! Penny Lane is one of the most magical, life-affirming songs in The Beatles repertoire. It also features a baroque piccolo trumpet solo inspired by Paul McCartney hearing one on a TV broadcast of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. McCartney’s thirst for knowledge and understanding of Classical music was extremely influential in The Beatles work. Divisions between Classical and Popular seemed to dissolve in their later recordings. In this respect, McCartney was way ahead of his time. Anticipating a future that didn’t recognize artificial barriers between musical styles.”
Great educative comment! Thank you! I love all the details. 😊
The facial portrayal is good, too. Paul's heavy eye-lids, John's boyish-native-wit look.....😊
I never understood the voice they gave George in these cartoons. What even IS that accent? It sounds like a Peter Lorre impression! Not even vaguely British, much less Liverpudlian.
To me it sounds like he’s Chinese or something.
John Lennon's high pitched voice is very inaccurate.
That’s what I was thinking when I first heard George’s accent in the cartoon. I think
“What the fuck is this accent?!”.
Sounds Irish to me
@@TheMadcap919these cartoons were made in America, two guys voiced the Beatles, there was no effort to make anything close to "authentic" other than "make'em sound English" ...
I watched this cartoon in 1965 when I was 5 years old. At that time I remember seeing an image of that cartoon in my mind, that's the first time I realized I could see things in my imagination.
Wow that's genuinely cool! Love this stupid little show lol
Every evening after school I was maybe 8 or 9 yrs old, sitted in front of the TV and watch those cartoons with a little white ball jumping over the lyrics. That was the way TV teached latin kids to learn english. Eso pasaba en Puerto Rico en los 70's
What a great blast from the past. Each Saturday morning, at the height of Beatlemania, I'd watch these classics!
Took me back to my early childhood. Thank you so very much for posting.
From the Beatles Cartoon series that began in 1965; this episode was made in 1967. I taped the rerun off MTV about 20 years ago.
Can belive that people actually have beef with this cartoon
I love this song. It always puts me in a good mood when I listen to it!
Despite all of the cartoon's other flaws, the closing credits do include the second trumpet blast on the song, which was only released to radio stations back during the day.
"James Blond, no. 00"
"00 what?"
"That's all, when the girls see him, they say "oh oh, heavan" "
LOL . I'm so glad I found these cartoons :)
In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer.
We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim.
Most lyrics say that the banker is waiting for a trend.
He's in the barber shop waiting for a haircut or a trim, not a trend.
Yep, it was a Saturday morning cartoon series on ABC, beginning in 1965, with a few new episodes produced through 1967 (which year this was one of).
There is a special MAGIC in the Beatles , mono recordings. They are beautiful !
RINGO IS DA 1 WITH THE DEEP VOICE AND BIG NOSE; JOHN IS DA 1 THAT'S HANDSOME; PAUL IS THE 1 WITH THE ROUND BELLY; GEORGE HAS HIS BIG CHIN
The ending of this reminds me of the end of "The New 3 Stooges" cartoons where Moe Larry and Curly Joe's shadows always run off into the sunset! Also, adding the 7 extra note "Penny Lane" is a nice touch! Thank You for sharing ;)
Wow! That was exactly 4 years before I was born. Also Paul McCartney was knighted on March 11 1997. Being that March 11 is my birthday, I think that's pretty cool!
very good, Great quality, I never knew they had such a big selection of Beatles cartoons. Great!!
"Did you hear that?"
*extra extra close up zoom in of John's face*
"some thieves are planning to rob Penny Lane!"
i cracked up at that lol
The voices are way off but this is hysterical! I love John's face when he's talkin about the thieves
No, it's American Paul Frees doing John and George, and British Lance Percival doing Paul and Ringo. (He also did Old Fred in "Yellow Submarine" -- but NOT Paul or Ringo.) Paul Frees was a prolific voice artist for cartoons and voice-overs. His most famous voice work was as Boris Badinov in the Bullwinkle cartoons (which like-voice sometimes pops up in Beatles episodes). He also did The Thing in Hanna-Barbera's late-60s Fantastic Four ("It's clobberin' time!").
Very good episode 👍🏻, that the Beatles not only sing the song but we’re actually at the place.
I'm old. I remember being a pre-schooler and watching these in the late 60's. And I thought they were SO COOL!
Good times.... :o)
I watched these Beatles cartoons when I was in Kindergarten! I guess Ringo was the only one of the four who was easily impersonated vocally!! George sounds as if he's from India!
James Blonde and Cartoon Beatles...
That's just about as awesome as the Brits can be represented in a cheesy cartoon series.. :D
Agent oh-oh-heaven... and robbing
Penny Lane (the Beatles' song, but also maybe Ms. MoneyPENNY?)
LOL
I like the sentation in stereo of everyone songs of the Beatles into this classics cartoons
I can't believe this. The girls are going crazy for that detective guy and yet not the Beatles. I find that stupid
FR
Both the voice of John and George are being done by voice veteran, Paul Frees, he was the greatest cartoon voice actor of all time. He did the voice of the talking rings in the movie The Time Machine in 1961.
Instead of all the shitty cartoons that are out now, and that will be out in the future, I'm showing these cartoons to my future children. Long live The Beatles
this clip is so good, much better than them riding a horse through the street
He was also the voice of Santa Claus in the TV Special Frosty The Snowman, he did two other voices in that special.
How the fuck did I get here?
I don't know
By making all the correct decisions in life
On this day in 1967 {March 11th} a video of the Beatles performing "Penny Lane" and the b/w, "Strawberry Fields Forever", was aired on late Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand'...
One month earlier on February 25th the record entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; with "Penny Lane" peaking at #1 {for 1 week} on March 18th and "Strawberry Fields Forever" reaching #8...
The Beatles, along with Elvis, never appeared live on 'Bandstand'...
R.I.P. to The King, John, George, and Mr. Clark {1929 - 2012}
didn't give a damn about the cartoon,waited for the song,every week loved it,still do
thanks for uploading these. it inspired me to do the same with all 39 full length episodes. classic stuff. the music sound great in the 60's coming through the mono speaker of my console tv!
I was a kid in the 60s. I so wanted to see this cartoon, but it didn't play in our area.
Oh god, they're so adorable even as cartoons! I love how Ringo talks, lol -3
David Mason, a classical musician who played the trumpet solo in the Penny Lane song in this cartoon, died April 29, 2011 at age 85. According to a Newsday obituary Paul McCartney saw Mason playing the trumpet on tv in a Bach concert and George Martin producer recruited Mason to record with the Beatles. R.I.P. David Mason.
Damn...i didnt like the beatles until my boyfriend and i watched Yellow Submarine on our first date...now I cant get enough of them o.o
Penny Lane...what a great song!
i am agree with Paul. The band did a lot of things to become one of the greatest bands and James Blond gets all the glory. I think James Blond didn´t play a guitar in all his life
nice to know they not not singing this song in their 'Sgt.Pepper' appearance they look like their 1964 Hard Day's Night counterpart!
loving the struggling musician . The drain cover was a stroke of genius
cool, never knew there is a Beatles Cartoon with their music, coz i'm too young, awesome :)
I love how they worked the words "Finger Pie" into a kid's cartoon! Classic.
watched this several days ago but the trumpet blasts are still haunting me, ringing in my ears, as it were.
i love how paul wears the fireman's helmet like a turtle's shell.
Yes! The first year they produced the show, 1965, they needed to create a "full season" of episodes (50+ segments), and they called upon several different animation crews to create product, and many of them churned out pretty crappy results. The following years, they only needed "supplememtal" episodes, so only the best crew was used, and at the same time the Beatles music itself was becoming more innovative. The same animation team went on to create "Yellow Submarine"!
LOL! I thought i IMAGINED seeing this insipid cartoon a a young kid. Thanks for the proof that it actually existed!
The one time the Beatles aren't running from girls.
Or yoko
LOL!! Wow! I just love this cartoon! It's so funny I can hardly help but laugh! I'm so glad you posted this! Thanks again!
john:the only strange looking characters around here are us!!! LOL for that!
Paul: "It's too much man, it's too much"
Ringo: *holding George* "He's over come"
John: "Oh what a pity"
I LOVE THAT BIT. I JUST LOVE THE BEATLES! THEY MAY NOT BE VOICED BY THEM , BUT ANYTHING BEATLES IS GEAR!!!!
"Open the gate and let the lucky girls in!"
Is Paul really THAT crazy!? XD
@WeirdCandycain Gear means is cool, fab, awesome ect. It's used by Ringo in the movie A Hard Day's Night. He says: "Gear, I've been dying to do some work" It's a 60's slang like bird, fab or groovy. I hope that answered your question :)
Wow! Does this video bring back memories of wasting Saturday mornings watching cartoons in early 1967!
I love how suave they make Paul look XD
Interesting how at the end the fireman sticks his head out of the sewer with the sewer cover still on his head, much like the spy in the "You've got to hide your love away" scene from "Help"
You've got to love Ringo's nose.. a truly accurate portrayal xD
I've seen this episode at least 20 times over. Just this play through, I caught the James Bond references. I believe that classifies as EPIC FAIL!
@remmaps123321
Well remember that although Magical Mystery Tour came out AS an album several months after Sgt. Pepper, the songs Penny Lane and SFF came out as a SINGLE several months BEFORE Pepper, and that's how those 2 songs became the last ones made into episodes.
4:47 excellent mix of irish and pakistani there.
I actually managed to find and buy a shirt for my son with the cartoon Beatles on it- and at the time I just thought it was cool, never having seen the cartoon for myself. Now I'm glad I've come across it; I'll be watching a bit more of this now (:
IDK about the voices of the four, but i love that the songs are still legit!
The animated series was my intro to the Beatles. It was also one of my earliest memories.
The guy who did Paul and Ringo did a good job. The guy who did John and George was just horrific!
The piccolo trumpet player featured in the recording (whose work substantially added to the ambiance) was a highly skilled musician, to the point where some people questioned the authenticity.
Thanks! I've always preferred that myself! I had always thought the "normal" ending seemed a little 'flat', and when I first heard the 'trumpet coda', I thought, "THAT'S what it needed!" :) (I actually first heard it on station WMMS in Cleveland in 1979, during a "Buzzard Beatles Blitz". Of course I bought the U.S. "Rarities" when it came out the next year!) What I put here was actually from the Anthology 2 CD, with most of the other 'extra sounds' taken out.
Yes, of course,
I was commenting because I was so surprised that someone, obviously very young, heard James Blunt, and not the obvious take on James Bond.
All Right ! ha,Ha, Finally !
- the original trumpet ending of Penny Lane !!
haven't heard it in decades BUT that's the ending on the single we bought in the US.
LOL!! That's so funny! I must admit that the part at the end of the episode was a really shocking expierience, and that's the truth. Thanks so very much for posting this episode.
Paul: "That's too much man, too much"
It was the perception that he didn't speak much, and the cartoon characters were designed as "caricatures" of their personalities.
it's always paulie, innit?
he always gets into trouble on these funny cartoons, just like on the "help!" episode ^^
PAUL wrote "Penny Lane" -- and was the main singer on it (multi-tracked)!
John's early version of "In My Life" had a similar theme -- but it was still THAT song, not "Penny Lane" itself.
Paul Frees "impersonated" John and George; Lance Percival was Paul and Ringo (which he did again in "Yellow Submarine"), 'CAVERN' [they were never given screen credit].
"'E's overcome"
RIP Amber, she just died
On this day in 1967 {February 12th} a video clip of the Beatles performing "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" was aired on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'
Thirteen days later on February 25th both songs entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; with "Penny Lane" peaking at #1 {for 1 week} and spending 10 weeks on the Top 100
And "Strawberry Fields Forever", the B-side, reached #8 and stayed on the Top 100 for 9 weeks
R.I.P. John, George, and Mr. Sullivan {1901 - 1974}
dude the beatles rock thank you for posting these alan4447a
"Let's play a trick on Ringo!"
"Why does everyone keep picking on me?"
"oh-oh!"
!Ho-ho!"
"Ho!"
"When the girls see him, they say _Oh! Oh!"_
Heaven!
I didn't know until now that the beatles HAD a TV show! ...But no wonder they disowned it...
hahahahahaha I love the stooges ending u put in here xD!! this carton is awesome. they should have done cartoons about other bands as well! anyone agree?
The Beatles refused to provide their own voices for their animated counterparts in this series, so Paul Frees {John/George} and Lance Percival {Paul/Ringo} were used, 'Video'. Only their Parlophone/Capitol recordings were heard in these cartoons...
@xthestarchildx
That was "PRICE of popularity". And to provide further info on what was probably even harder to make out because it is largely drowned out by a "whoosh" sound effect, the last word of Ringo's line here is (my emphasis), "Who wants to be a handsome hero? I'd rather stay as I am, heh heh, a handsome COWARD!"
Hahah I love how cartoony they look. Love the Beatles!
"it's to much man it's to much" LOL paul
Too*
How is it possible that even cartoon Paul can look at me with those eyes and make me swoon?
It was Paul who suggested they actually GO there to stop the thieves - but it's true that it wasn't really Paul who was responsible for the misunderstanding....
i love it when paul goes 'lets be off!' idk why.
Paul's even cute as a cartoon character :-)
When the Beatles are standing around Penny Lane, the spired church building that pops up in the background here and there looks just like the actual church that stands near the actual roundabout in the actual Penny Lane.
first rate cartoon arts and sciences. I love it.
Penny Lane was such a fine hit single. Making a cartoon out of it was a good move. 😂😂
After 40 years, I don't think it matters that much if they used 1966-style Beatles for songs of the later 60's. They were still themselves.
the glorious spice of popularity at 0:39
Very cool that you ended the cartoon with the trumpet solo from the Penny Lane promo single. I prefer that version and they should put it on CD. I have it on the US "Rarities" album.
@TheFIRSTFatJohn
You're welcome! :D "That should have been the ONLY ending all along" -- totally AGREE!