This entire channel makes me grin so much. Amy and I share a similar background of classical music and very little contemporary music influence. It's so fun to discover this music and share the delight with others - and Amy's delight is infectious. Thank you, Amy!
Hey Elizabeth! Thank you for “stopping by” my place! I have also been following your journey through modern music and it’s been an encouragement to see another musician with a classical background exploring these “strange waters” with an open mind and ear. Many of my followers have written me saying that it would make them happy to see us meet sometime and I have to say that the idea thrills me too! I wrote you an email some time ago, but it probably got lost through the many you get. Anyway, lovely to hear from you and … let the music play!
I remember singing this song at the top of my lungs with all my childhood friends while we were all swinging on a swing set pretending we were out to sea.
I’m from México and 2 of my 3 children learned English because I used and still do, to sing Yellow Submarine and All Together Now (from the same álbum).
I have watched a few reviews of Revolver, and they have dismissed this song in a few sneering sentences, your comments were a delight, spending 40 minutes confirming that it was worth including in this album. You always provide an engaging perspective with your reviews
The Beatles' "Super Deluxe Remaster" box set of Revolver contained a snippet of the origins of this song - as sad and tragic a set of lyrics John ever wrote as a Beatle (and brought to devastating fruition with the song "Mother" on his first post-Beatles solo album). Paul, as was his genius for "taking a sad song and making it better", rescues John's mournful childhood memories and magically helps transform the song into a child's happy fantasy. Sir George Martin supplies the sound effects he had mastered ever since making hit comedy records with the Goon Squad and Peter Sellars, and the songwriters tapped the avuncular voice of Ringo Starr to bring it all to life. This was a watershed moment. What kind of hit song could the Beatles produce? ANY kind of hit song - the universe continued to expand. Yes, Revolver keeps getting more diverse, a key reason why so many choose it as the greatest of the greats.
I agree. John's original lyrics of "In the town where I was born no one cared, no one cared" & the gentle 3/4 fingerpicked progression gives it a melancholia that is so "Lennon". Paul gave it the McCartney treatment adding the sunshine & childlike sense of fun changing John's verse section to a straight ahead 4/4 march beat that made it a kid's favourite and perfect for Ringo. What an amazing Yin/Yang songwriting team they were
Ringo is laid-back, grounded, easy-going, casually humorous, altogether nice guy. A competent but limited singer. A perfect foil for the three wildly creative, crazy Beatles.
This fun song never loses its appeal - our children liked it and now our grandchildren like it, their first introduction to the group! Beatlejuice, 😃Why not? The Beatles were adept at writing humorous or just light-hearted songs as well as serious ones. How many other bands that you have heard do that? Yet more evidence of The Beatles' range. You'll soon be able to spot Ringo's singing - his voice is deeper, warm but more nasal. He takes the lead on Octopuses Garden and With A Little Help From My Friends too. After The Beatles split he had a short acting career and some solo hit singles. His spoken voice was ideal to narrate and provide character voices for the initial run of Thomas The Tank Engine childrens' stories on British TV. Look forward to your continued progress through The Beatles' ouvre.
The movie 'Yellow submarine' is truly a gem. However, I would suggest Amy to see the movie after you have reacted to the whole Revolver and Sgt Pepper, since several songs in these two albums are in the same movie. When I was fifteen I saw for the first time Yellow Submarine without knowing almost nothing about the Beatles. It was truly an enchanting experience. I never thought at that time the combination of music and images could be so wonderful. Now I am 63 and I am still struck by all this beauty. Greetings from Tuscany.
❤🎹 A playful song, right 👌 I love your description of the child plays and imagination 👍🏻😃 I love to see how you enjoyed it, and I enjoyed your reaction 😊 A whole album of children songs made in Beatles style, wow, what a great idea, fantastic 🤞🤞🤞 And finally, the comparison to a toy car with all the little details in it ... that was just a genius comparison, loved it loved loved it 👏👏👏👏😀 And now I'm looking forward to your next reaction to a Beatles song from Revolver
Donovan did just that. He made a double album titled H.M.S. Donovan, full of old nursery rhymes and children's poems and put them to music. He also wrote a number of his own songs in the same vein. Unfortunately, the record company refused to release it, so it was only available as an import. I highly recommend it since you have a young daughter.
My elementary school music teacher back in the 90s used this song to teach beats and musical measures (in 4/4 time). We would listen to it once through counting the beats and following measures on blank sheet music, then again with a yellow crayon and make a mark in each measure they sang yellow, again with a blue crayon, then a green crayon. I have never forgotten this lesson! A great intro for children to the Beatles and counting music!
John and Paul specifically wrote this for Ringo to sing on the album…. There was always one for Ringo…… it had to be written so it could be sung in the range of Ringo
And of the 5 he sang up to this point, 3 of them were covers: Boys, Honey Don't, Act Naturally. At least he got a partial songwriting credit for What Goes On!
Narrow vocal ranges are good! It means lots of ordinary people (adults or children) can sing it. That makes for huge popularity and so has the potential for big sales - whether it is childrens parties, sports game chants, or tunes from popular musicals.
Hey thanks, Amy - particularly liked your piano demonstration of the harmony on the 'simplistic' chorus. As a single lifted from the album in 1966, it was subject to high-rotation radio play and yet it never got old.. thanks to that harmonic interest - more than likely George Martin's contribution. He really was the fifth Beatle, and your analysis (here, there and everywhere) reveal a little of the magic and vindicate his production.
Always great to hear Yellow Submarine! I hope you'll react to some of Lennon's solo work like: Mind Games, Starting Over, Watching the Wheels, Mother, God, or Isolation.✌
John Lennon's song was sad and Paul brought in the kid's song about a sailor. John's dad was a sailor who left the family. It has a base of sadness uplifted to a sing-along
One of the unusual things about Beatles albums was that each member got to sing at least one song on each album. Can't think of any other group that did this. I can't imagine that they were contractually obligated to do this, but just agreed among themselves to do this. I wonder if Ringo ever objected and said "no, i don't want to sing that" or if he said he wanted to sing more often.
If you don't like "Wheels on the Bus", wait until you get a load of "Baby Shark!". LOL To get an idea of Ringo's personality there's probably no better place to start than to watch the movies "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help". No worries about song surprises there since you've already listened to most of those two albums.
Ringo is still touring at 83 and he has a unique format All-Starr Band, where he tours with solo artists or people from bands who had two or three hits. You get a mix of Ringo and Beatles songs and big hits from the other artists. It works really well. Current line up includes Edgar Winter, Colin Hay from Men at Work and Steve Lukather from Toto. Cool to hear Africa and Roseanna with Winter playing keys and Starr on drums. Saw them last year and 83 yo Ringo was doing jumping jacks on stage. He's in great shape.
Glad you enjoyed this fun and popular Beatles song, and that you finally got to hear Ringo sing. You will hear Ringo again in the future, particularly with their popular "With a Little Help from My Friends." He has been on a few before this (typically given one song per album), but they have been covers (usually country-western) that were not included in your project. As you said, Ringo's voice is suited to this song. He joked that if they didn't like his singing on it they could always find a country-western song for him to do for his one song. Great reaction!
A song so good they made a movie about it. Ringo's voice has great honesty and earnestness to it, so he's tailor made for singing things like this. Other than that, I just like how the Beatles don't have any sort of pretentiousness to them, they want to give Ringo a song to sing on each album, and they're willing to do a sort of oddball type of tune if that's what it takes. They sort of got so popular that they started to not care too much about how popular they were and started doing whatever they felt like doing.
Verse melody (and "captain"): Lennon. Upbeat chorus melody: McCartney. Main singing voice: Starr with Harrison also very audible on the chorus. In a way, the most Beatles song ever.
For me, the Yellow Submarine is a metaphor for Beatlemusic in general, the way it takes us out of the ordinary world, into a realm of warmth, hope and love.
Love You To -> Here There and Everywhere -> Yellow Submarine -> She Said She Said. Talk about variety! First line of She Said is quite the brutal awakening after Yellow Submarine chorus.
The artwork is in the style of Peter Max who was very popular at the time. A psychedelic view of things in bright color styling. Peter Max had approved the work as he didn’t work in animation.
I really enjoy your analysis on the songs you have done so far. I would recommend the LA Women , Soft Parade and Whisful Sinful from The Doors. Also try Björk too, you might liket it.
You were right about Lennon shouting out the words in the background, with the very English way of saying "yell-oow". Apparently (according to Mark Lewisohn's official book (published by EMI), The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions) John went into the echo chamber to provide that particular vocal sound.
One of the Beatles' big secrets here: they could translate genuinely childlike experience for an adult audience without hiding behind parody or sneering. The trace of irony, if present at all, is very gentle, even from John.
Ringo doesn't sing a lot, but when he does it's a real treat. I should say he doesn't sing on very many Beatles songs, because sometimes he has other projects with other bands.
I've always been a fan of the Beatles and at one point during college in our mechanical engineering curriculum we had to do exercises on a Vickers hydraulic testbed, operating valves, changing pressure and flow settings and since it was just one huge device with knobs and levers and gauges all over the place, the whole class had to take on different tasks, operating various bits, or taking notes and whatever... Me being clever, I had this submarine thing going on in my head I yelled out: -INLET PRESSURE 3000 PSI!! My classmates responded while taking notes: -3000 PSI AYE AYE!! -FLOW AT 120 GPM! -FLOW 120 GPM SIR!! -120 GPM AYE AYE!! And so on... within 5 minutes the teacher was doing the Jean-Luc Picard facepalm and realised he'd lost the class!! Everytime I hear this song, this comes to mind!! Now if you want to venture into hardcore kids music stuff, you need to react to old Sesame Street stuff!! They had funk and polyrythms going on to teach kids how to count... Now its just "Let's keep it dumb 4/4 because we're not sure how they'll handle it"
Yes, we sang it in the playgrounds and on the school bus with words adapted to the situation. A few weeks ago (55+ years later) everyone was singing it on a bus going home after a boozy night out, including the driver..
You know I've watched several of your videos now and I find them informative and engaging but they leave me with one question: Have you been living under a rock? I mean I get that it might not be your favorite genre of music but how can you have gotten to adulthood without hearing songs like Yellow Submarine?
I agree about the backing vocal in the chorus--I like how it "tucks in" moving underneath he main line. Does that count as 4-part or 3-part harmony in the chorus--are there 4 independent lines? Seem to have a few minutes of blank screen at the end of the video?
Would be interesting and fun to listen the original demo's of the Beatles songs and then how the song evolved to its final form. etc. Also the shaping influence of the song by George Martin.
I am pretty sure the second voice was Paul's. 2 reasons: 1) he does this playful second voices in many other songs; 2) he reaches this low voice range, but I never saw John reaching it.
33:12 some say this is Swedish. Even though my mothers tongue is Swedish I'm not sure. It could be something like this: "Posten är här Mr. Bakery, posten är här" which means "The mail is here Mr. Bakery, the mail is here" Followed by: "Då fortsätter vi resan" which means "Then we continue the journey"
Ringo was very self conscious about his vocal limitations, so, as the others wrote songs meant for him, they kept the melodies simple and step wise. As far as his personality, one would describe him as "playful, yet shy." Here is a video of Ringo during a live set, performing a Country & Western cover, Act Naturally, that was released on a 1965 single as the B-side of Yesterday: ruclips.net/video/b5rpAqfd35Q/видео.html Ringo took his stage name from, and had great affection for, Country and Western music.
Speaking of old records with sound effects, George Martin produced some of those old Goon Show comedy recordings and radio programs with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan. The Beatles and many other British artists were Goon Show fans, and Yoko gave John a gift of 40 hrs of Goon Show tapes.
I can think of 4 others, although I suspect there could be more: 'Honey Don't'; 'Matchbox'; 'Don't Pass Me By'; & the truly awful 'What Goes On' (literally the only Beatles song I class as below par & having few redeeming features).
@@howardosden3112 Ah yes! Had to go and look it up coz I felt there was a couple more missing. Gotta add 'I Wanna Be Your Man' & 'Goodnight' to that list. Now I can sleep. Also would give a special mention to 'Carry That Weight' as I always thought I could hear Ringo's voice loudest in the bombastic chorus & then when I saw the Get Back doco recently and realised Paul had originally written it for Ringo it all made sense.
No Amy, this could never be John Lennon's voice! Never-ever! How can you even consider that?! Still, he was the one who came up with the song. After that, with Paul McCartney, they changed the song into something for Ringo Starr. 37:22 Yes Amy, this is what we call "perfect Pop songs". They knew how to create a perfect Pop song. It's still something all bands are trying to emulate today.
For the next song, I hope Amy reads the "Background and inspiration" section in Wikipedia. It really gives a taste of their extreme life at the time. It was like the whole world revolved around them that year.
John's fingerprints are all over this song: "I'm the son of a sailor. I'm the son of a sailor's son." Re: handing this song to Ringo, his next feature -- "With a Little Help From My Friends" has basically the same tempo and marching rhythm (although it's in a different key.)
Arrangements of Beatles-songs have long existed in numerous variations, from interpretations in classical music to the singing animals of the Woofers+Tweeters Ensemble.
I see that, in the score, the swung notes are written with dotted 8th/16th combinations, instead of broken triplets. Is that common in classical music as well?
McCartney claims Frere Jacques was an inspiration, since he was trying to write a children's song. Yellow Submarine went on being the #1 selling song in the UK for 1966
This entire channel makes me grin so much. Amy and I share a similar background of classical music and very little contemporary music influence. It's so fun to discover this music and share the delight with others - and Amy's delight is infectious. Thank you, Amy!
Hey Elizabeth! Thank you for “stopping by” my place! I have also been following your journey through modern music and it’s been an encouragement to see another musician with a classical background exploring these “strange waters” with an open mind and ear. Many of my followers have written me saying that it would make them happy to see us meet sometime and I have to say that the idea thrills me too! I wrote you an email some time ago, but it probably got lost through the many you get. Anyway, lovely to hear from you and … let the music play!
I remember singing this song at the top of my lungs with all my childhood friends while we were all swinging on a swing set pretending we were out to sea.
Beatles did everything: love songs, rockers, psychedelia, proto metal, grunge, a birthday song and a kid's song. Awesome band.
They were artists. They were driven to create art. That’s why they kept evolving their entire time together to the very end.
One of Ringo's early highlights, he would kind of write his own sequel in 1969 with "Octopuses Garden".
I’m from México and 2 of my 3 children learned English because I used and still do, to sing Yellow Submarine and All Together Now (from the same álbum).
Still got 8 songs on this album to go, all different, all great, with the most incredible end to an album in history (for me).
It’s very much a sea shanty.
This is wonderful, Amy. So much fun! Thank you for sharing this with us. 🙂
I have watched a few reviews of Revolver, and they have dismissed this song in a few sneering sentences, your comments were a delight, spending 40 minutes confirming that it was worth including in this album.
You always provide an engaging perspective with your reviews
The Beatles' "Super Deluxe Remaster" box set of Revolver contained a snippet of the origins of this song - as sad and tragic a set of lyrics John ever wrote as a Beatle (and brought to devastating fruition with the song "Mother" on his first post-Beatles solo album). Paul, as was his genius for "taking a sad song and making it better", rescues John's mournful childhood memories and magically helps transform the song into a child's happy fantasy. Sir George Martin supplies the sound effects he had mastered ever since making hit comedy records with the Goon Squad and Peter Sellars, and the songwriters tapped the avuncular voice of Ringo Starr to bring it all to life. This was a watershed moment. What kind of hit song could the Beatles produce? ANY kind of hit song - the universe continued to expand. Yes, Revolver keeps getting more diverse, a key reason why so many choose it as the greatest of the greats.
I agree. John's original lyrics of "In the town where I was born no one cared, no one cared" & the gentle 3/4 fingerpicked progression gives it a melancholia that is so "Lennon". Paul gave it the McCartney treatment adding the sunshine & childlike sense of fun changing John's verse section to a straight ahead 4/4 march beat that made it a kid's favourite and perfect for Ringo. What an amazing Yin/Yang songwriting team they were
Thanks for this. They were artists driven to create art… together.
Ringo is laid-back, grounded, easy-going, casually humorous, altogether nice guy. A competent but limited singer. A perfect foil for the three wildly creative, crazy Beatles.
His unique drumming, a human metronome with creativity, has gained so much added respect the last decade… and counting.
What a delightfully unique, and appropriate reaction!
This fun song never loses its appeal - our children liked it and now our grandchildren like it, their first introduction to the group! Beatlejuice, 😃Why not? The Beatles were adept at writing humorous or just light-hearted songs as well as serious ones. How many other bands that you have heard do that? Yet more evidence of The Beatles' range. You'll soon be able to spot Ringo's singing - his voice is deeper, warm but more nasal. He takes the lead on Octopuses Garden and With A Little Help From My Friends too. After The Beatles split he had a short acting career and some solo hit singles. His spoken voice was ideal to narrate and provide character voices for the initial run of Thomas The Tank Engine childrens' stories on British TV.
Look forward to your continued progress through The Beatles' ouvre.
The movie 'Yellow submarine' is truly a gem. However, I would suggest Amy to see the movie after you have reacted to the whole Revolver and Sgt Pepper, since several songs in these two albums are in the same movie. When I was fifteen I saw for the first time Yellow Submarine without knowing almost nothing about the Beatles. It was truly an enchanting experience. I never thought at that time the combination of music and images could be so wonderful. Now I am 63 and I am still struck by all this beauty. Greetings from Tuscany.
Yellow Submarine, a wonderful cartoon, best watched with a mildly exotic cigarette.
❤🎹 A playful song, right 👌 I love your description of the child plays and imagination 👍🏻😃 I love to see how you enjoyed it, and I enjoyed your reaction 😊 A whole album of children songs made in Beatles style, wow, what a great idea, fantastic 🤞🤞🤞 And finally, the comparison to a toy car with all the little details in it ... that was just a genius comparison, loved it loved loved it 👏👏👏👏😀
And now I'm looking forward to your next reaction to a Beatles song from Revolver
And the band begins to play… (enter Lonely Hearts Club)
Donovan did just that. He made a double album titled H.M.S. Donovan, full of old nursery rhymes and children's poems and put them to music. He also wrote a number of his own songs in the same vein. Unfortunately, the record company refused to release it, so it was only available as an import. I highly recommend it since you have a young daughter.
Glad you liked this one, it’s a Fab song😚
I loved the movie as a kid!
My elementary school music teacher back in the 90s used this song to teach beats and musical measures (in 4/4 time). We would listen to it once through counting the beats and following measures on blank sheet music, then again with a yellow crayon and make a mark in each measure they sang yellow, again with a blue crayon, then a green crayon. I have never forgotten this lesson! A great intro for children to the Beatles and counting music!
Literally my childhood nursery rhyme. My dad would sing me to sleep as a baby with Yellow Submarine. ❤
I cannot flippin' wait for Tommorow Never Knows
I think we all are, 1966 FFS
Ringo sang lead on 11 of the Beatles songs, including two that he wrote or co-wrote, as well as having a number of hit songs as a solo artist.
I always imagine that the "echoing voice" - who indeed is John - is the parrot on the pirate's shoulder 😊
WHAT A FANTASTIC ALBUM !
👍
Two great song ideas were successfully combined to create a memorable song.
For a song about an undersea vehicle and journey, it’s totally laid-back and carefree. Ringo’s vocals here are perfect.
it's like a magical portal for adults to escape back to childhood
That Beatles--esque nursery rhyme book idea is brilliant
I used this song to introduce my kids to The Beatles.
Uno de los mejores análisis de Amy sobre una canción de los Beatles a mi parecer; enhorabuena.
The line "sky of blue and sea of green" was contributed by Donovan.
Just so you know, Amy, Ringo also sings Octopus's Garden, a song I really love.
Also hope to see Ringo's "With A Little Help From My Friends" in The Beatles 150
John and Paul specifically wrote this for Ringo to sing on the album…. There was always one for Ringo…… it had to be written so it could be sung in the range of Ringo
And of the 5 he sang up to this point, 3 of them were covers: Boys, Honey Don't, Act Naturally. At least he got a partial songwriting credit for What Goes On!
Narrow vocal ranges are good! It means lots of ordinary people (adults or children) can sing it. That makes for huge popularity and so has the potential for big sales - whether it is childrens parties, sports game chants, or tunes from popular musicals.
Hey thanks, Amy - particularly liked your piano demonstration of the harmony on the 'simplistic' chorus. As a single lifted from the album in 1966, it was subject to high-rotation radio play and yet it never got old.. thanks to that harmonic interest - more than likely George Martin's contribution. He really was the fifth Beatle, and your analysis (here, there and everywhere) reveal a little of the magic and vindicate his production.
Always great to hear Yellow Submarine! I hope you'll react to some of Lennon's solo work like: Mind Games, Starting Over, Watching the Wheels, Mother, God, or Isolation.✌
I'm 56 and still have some ,The little red engine, Addlains cave,Robin Hood, etc
John Lennon's song was sad and Paul brought in the kid's song about a sailor. John's dad was a sailor who left the family. It has a base of sadness uplifted to a sing-along
Thank you! Spans my personal history, trying to lay my hands on a VHS of the movie to show my son and my rona theme song.
BEATLEJUICE!!!!!!! 😸😸😸
One of the unusual things about Beatles albums was that each member got to sing at least one song on each album. Can't think of any other group that did this. I can't imagine that they were contractually obligated to do this, but just agreed among themselves to do this. I wonder if Ringo ever objected and said "no, i don't want to sing that" or if he said he wanted to sing more often.
If you don't like "Wheels on the Bus", wait until you get a load of "Baby Shark!". LOL To get an idea of Ringo's personality there's probably no better place to start than to watch the movies "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help". No worries about song surprises there since you've already listened to most of those two albums.
Always enjoy your Beatle videos! Will you be covering 'Paperback writer/Rain' single{?}as they were recorded at the Revolver sessions also.
Your delight is delightful to watch
Ringo is still touring at 83 and he has a unique format All-Starr Band, where he tours with solo artists or people from bands who had two or three hits. You get a mix of Ringo and Beatles songs and big hits from the other artists. It works really well. Current line up includes Edgar Winter, Colin Hay from Men at Work and Steve Lukather from Toto. Cool to hear Africa and Roseanna with Winter playing keys and Starr on drums. Saw them last year and 83 yo Ringo was doing jumping jacks on stage. He's in great shape.
Great work - now you must watch the "Yellow Submarine" movie :)
Yes, and if she wants to get to know Ringo's personality, at least his public persona, she should watch "Hard Day's Night."
Glad you enjoyed this fun and popular Beatles song, and that you finally got to hear Ringo sing. You will hear Ringo again in the future, particularly with their popular "With a Little Help from My Friends." He has been on a few before this (typically given one song per album), but they have been covers (usually country-western) that were not included in your project. As you said, Ringo's voice is suited to this song. He joked that if they didn't like his singing on it they could always find a country-western song for him to do for his one song. Great reaction!
It’ll be fun when Amy gets to Octopus’ Garden as it echoes this one.
@@dago87able Yeah for sure. Looking forward to it.
A song so good they made a movie about it.
Ringo's voice has great honesty and earnestness to it, so he's tailor made for singing things like this. Other than that, I just like how the Beatles don't have any sort of pretentiousness to them, they want to give Ringo a song to sing on each album, and they're willing to do a sort of oddball type of tune if that's what it takes.
They sort of got so popular that they started to not care too much about how popular they were and started doing whatever they felt like doing.
"How're you sailing on top and then you're living beneath? It doesn't make sense." They submerged. That's kind of what submarines do 😉
My Favorite Group and My Favorite Channel! Peace
Verse melody (and "captain"): Lennon. Upbeat chorus melody: McCartney. Main singing voice: Starr with Harrison also very audible on the chorus. In a way, the most Beatles song ever.
got tickets to see Ringo at radio city music hall in september!
Ringo is the greatest!!
Love and Peace!
For me, the Yellow Submarine is a metaphor for Beatlemusic in general, the way it takes us out of the ordinary world, into a realm of warmth, hope and love.
Remember they grew up in Liverpool, a major seaport!
Love You To -> Here There and Everywhere -> Yellow Submarine -> She Said She Said. Talk about variety! First line of She Said is quite the brutal awakening after Yellow Submarine chorus.
She Said She Said comes before Yellow Submarine though. Looks like that one's been skipped (which is a shame because it's one of my favourites).
The artwork is in the style of Peter Max who was very popular at the time. A psychedelic view of things in bright color styling. Peter Max had approved the work as he didn’t work in animation.
I really enjoy your analysis on the songs you have done so far.
I would recommend the LA Women , Soft Parade and Whisful Sinful from The Doors. Also try Björk too, you might liket it.
You were right about Lennon shouting out the words in the background, with the very English way of saying "yell-oow". Apparently (according to Mark Lewisohn's official book (published by EMI), The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions) John went into the echo chamber to provide that particular vocal sound.
We were taught this song in nursery school
You should watch the movie "A Hard Day's Night". It doesn't have any musical spoilers in it, and you would get a sense of their (public) personas.
One of the Beatles' big secrets here: they could translate genuinely childlike experience for an adult audience without hiding behind parody or sneering. The trace of irony, if present at all, is very gentle, even from John.
Ringo doesn't sing a lot, but when he does it's a real treat.
I should say he doesn't sing on very many Beatles songs, because sometimes he has other projects with other bands.
When I was a child if I had trouble going to sleep my parents would put me in the car and drive around playing this song till I fell asleep
I've always been a fan of the Beatles and at one point during college in our mechanical engineering curriculum we had to do exercises on a Vickers hydraulic testbed, operating valves, changing pressure and flow settings and since it was just one huge device with knobs and levers and gauges all over the place, the whole class had to take on different tasks, operating various bits, or taking notes and whatever... Me being clever, I had this submarine thing going on in my head I yelled out:
-INLET PRESSURE 3000 PSI!!
My classmates responded while taking notes:
-3000 PSI AYE AYE!!
-FLOW AT 120 GPM!
-FLOW 120 GPM SIR!!
-120 GPM AYE AYE!!
And so on... within 5 minutes the teacher was doing the Jean-Luc Picard facepalm and realised he'd lost the class!! Everytime I hear this song, this comes to mind!!
Now if you want to venture into hardcore kids music stuff, you need to react to old Sesame Street stuff!! They had funk and polyrythms going on to teach kids how to count... Now its just "Let's keep it dumb 4/4 because we're not sure how they'll handle it"
Yes, we sang it in the playgrounds and on the school bus with words adapted to the situation.
A few weeks ago (55+ years later) everyone was singing it on a bus going home after a boozy night out, including the driver..
As a 10 year old playing in the streets of Liverpool when this came out I can confirm we all sang it.
You know I've watched several of your videos now and I find them informative and engaging but they leave me with one question: Have you been living under a rock? I mean I get that it might not be your favorite genre of music but how can you have gotten to adulthood without hearing songs like Yellow Submarine?
I agree about the backing vocal in the chorus--I like how it "tucks in" moving underneath he main line.
Does that count as 4-part or 3-part harmony in the chorus--are there 4 independent lines?
Seem to have a few minutes of blank screen at the end of the video?
Would be interesting and fun to listen the original demo's of the Beatles songs and then how the song evolved to its final form. etc. Also the shaping influence of the song by George Martin.
For a true diversity experience, let's hope Vlad doesn't skip the last song on the album.
Nobody does whimsical like the Beatles 🌈
My daughter loved this song when she was small. I suggest another Ringo lullaby from the white album: Goodnight.
¡¡¡She Said She Said!!!
I used to sing the words as "yellow sumbarine" when I was a child. I still jokingly refer to submarines like that sometimes 😂.
I am pretty sure the second voice was Paul's. 2 reasons: 1) he does this playful second voices in many other songs; 2) he reaches this low voice range, but I never saw John reaching it.
Sailed up to the sun = surfacing from the depths. Lived beneath the waves...That's what submariners do while at sea.
33:12 some say this is Swedish. Even though my mothers tongue is Swedish I'm not sure.
It could be something like this:
"Posten är här Mr. Bakery, posten är här" which means "The mail is here Mr. Bakery, the mail is here"
Followed by:
"Då fortsätter vi resan" which means "Then we continue the journey"
The other voices (answers to the vocals) are John shouting into a megaphone. I guess this was a pretty chaotic session.
I remember many people enjoyed the movie in a state of altered consciousness. The Blue Meanies got me.
Me yelling at the screen: It's Ringo Starr!!!! lol lol. As for personality, Ringo Starr hosted Thomas the Tank Engine at one point, if that helps.
Ringo was very self conscious about his vocal limitations, so, as the others wrote songs meant for him, they kept the melodies simple and step wise. As far as his personality, one would describe him as "playful, yet shy." Here is a video of Ringo during a live set, performing a Country & Western cover, Act Naturally, that was released on a 1965 single as the B-side of Yesterday: ruclips.net/video/b5rpAqfd35Q/видео.html Ringo took his stage name from, and had great affection for, Country and Western music.
Pretty sure that Ringo also sang "Octopuses Garden" as well.
Speaking of old records with sound effects, George Martin produced some of those old Goon Show comedy recordings and radio programs with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan. The Beatles and many other British artists were Goon Show fans, and Yoko gave John a gift of 40 hrs of Goon Show tapes.
I can think of 3 other Ringo songs off the top of my head; Act Naturally, A Little Help From My Friends, and Octopuses Garden. Oh, make it 4; Boys.
I can think of 4 others, although I suspect there could be more: 'Honey Don't'; 'Matchbox'; 'Don't Pass Me By'; & the truly awful 'What Goes On' (literally the only Beatles song I class as below par & having few redeeming features).
@@marascusbomm Well done! 👏
@@howardosden3112 Ah yes! Had to go and look it up coz I felt there was a couple more missing. Gotta add 'I Wanna Be Your Man' & 'Goodnight' to that list. Now I can sleep. Also would give a special mention to 'Carry That Weight' as I always thought I could hear Ringo's voice loudest in the bombastic chorus & then when I saw the Get Back doco recently and realised Paul had originally written it for Ringo it all made sense.
No Amy, this could never be John Lennon's voice! Never-ever! How can you even consider that?!
Still, he was the one who came up with the song. After that, with Paul McCartney, they changed the song into something for Ringo Starr.
37:22 Yes Amy, this is what we call "perfect Pop songs". They knew how to create a perfect Pop song. It's still something all bands are trying to emulate today.
She's referring to the echo voice that does sound like John: "Sky of blue (sky of blue) and sea of green (sea of green)..."
@@captainsatellite2112 She doesn't at 3:04
Ringo also sings “Act Naturally” and “Boys” from the earlier albums.
+ Honey Don't, I Wanna Be Your Man, What Goes On
@@mc3067 Yeah ... and Amy didn't do any of them (to my recollection). So ... of course she didn't recognize Ringo 😉
@@mc3067 Matchbox, If You’ve Got Trouble
For the next song, I hope Amy reads the "Background and inspiration" section in Wikipedia. It really gives a taste of their extreme life at the time. It was like the whole world revolved around them that year.
John's fingerprints are all over this song: "I'm the son of a sailor. I'm the son of a sailor's son." Re: handing this song to Ringo, his next feature -- "With a Little Help From My Friends" has basically the same tempo and marching rhythm (although it's in a different key.)
Not my favorite Beatles song but it was fun when I was a teenager
36:25 Not an entire album, but Paul McCartney & Wings made a cover Mary Had a Little Lamb.
With a little help from my friends... And, the Beatles were a HUGE INFLUENCE on Queen!!!!!!!!!!!
Arrangements of Beatles-songs have long existed in numerous variations, from interpretations in classical music to the singing animals of the Woofers+Tweeters Ensemble.
Your cover series, you need to do Sugar Hill Gang version of Apache! It's the most famous version of that song
I see that, in the score, the swung notes are written with dotted 8th/16th combinations, instead of broken triplets. Is that common in classical music as well?
Yellow submarine is a sea shanty taken to the level of surreal genius not unlike the song Louie Louie by the Kingsmen.
Submarines surface too - hence the sky of blue.
Lennon wrote the verses McCartney wrote the chorus separately and then basically they ensembled it. The yellow submarine idea was McCartney.
Rip Marianne Faithful who contributed to backing vocals on this song
McCartney claims Frere Jacques was an inspiration, since he was trying to write a children's song. Yellow Submarine went on being the #1 selling song in the UK for 1966
Ringo usually had one solo vocal every album.
Matte Kudasi by King Crimson, extraordinary beautiful ballad
Love all KC and those three 80s albums were awesome.
Another song with Ringo on lead vocals is
'With A Little Help From My Friends'!
I suggest a comparison with Joe Cocker's cover version!
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Drummer and plumber versions?