Ram was one of my early album purchases and it chokes me up to think how long ago my friends and I listened to these songs. A lot of life has gone by...
Masterful, magical, melody. McCartney's greatest gift to us all. The whimsy, humor, lyrics, all secondary. Melody is the thing that resonates decade after decade.
This is my absolute favorite song from my childhood. I would be elated when this came on the radio. It actually creates a sense of calm, comfortable, euphoric space.
I felt exactly the same. I remember the joy I felt when the song would come on when we were in the car on vacation. At that time we only had AM radio, so the song was a revelation to me again years later when I finally heard it with a good pair of stereo headphones.
Oh yes, they did, oh yes, they did, oh yes, they did. However, I do consider theirs to be rivaled by Carly Simon. In any case, I believe that nobody does it better than those two themes.
@@0okamino That's really true. But Paul set the bar high and Carly was up to the challenge. The story behind Live and Let Die is Paul, Linda and George Martin finished it, presented it to the producers. They didn't like it [for no real reason other than they were musical morons] and tried to turn it down...Martin said there's nothing wrong with this, it's perfect, if you don't accept it, we'll just release it anyway, recoup our money and make a lot of money, and you'll have to get someone else to write you another tune. They backed off and said okay...the song goes to #1, the film was a big hit, George Martin wrote the film's music score...Another "Well DUH!" moment in musical history I guess.
@@thomastimlin1724 People really don't give George Martin enough credit for being the complete monster (in the best possible way) that he really was. Dude was like a muse in human form.
This has fond memories. When I was in kindergarten, I’d ask my dad to play this for me every night before I went to bed. It became a ritual. That was the last year my parents were together. It still makes me happy listening to it.
RAM was the first album I ever bought with my own money. I was 10 years old, and had a very cheap little record player that I played this album on, over and over again. It introduced me to listening to new music that I hadn't heard on the radio before.
I remember buying the album from Viscount Records at Northwest Plaza shopping center. I was 12 and my dad agreed to pay the difference between my $2 and the purchase price.
#1 in 1971, first gold record after The Beatles, Linda's first time in the recording studio. Another example of his putting more than two songs together, are they medleys or a suite or something else? I always liked it, it's different and ... So Fun! :)
Band of the Run is a good record, very far away from a "masterpiece" imo. Too cold and mechanical, artificial, impersonal American style for being a masterpiece. A good work of craftsmanship. That of saying that it is a "masterpiece" is an industry cliché i guess.
I remember hearing this song on the car radio during my family's car trip in the summer of 1971. It brings back such nostalgic feelings for me. "Ram" is an underrated album; in my view, the album is a masterpiece.
I remember it on the radio too! Our babysitter would take my sister and I for rides in her 64 Ford galaxy convertible and listen to the radio. Sometimes she'd stop at the drugstore and she'd buy us Snicker bars for 10¢
I was seven years old when this was released, and still have a vivid memory of my twenty-four year old sister laughing, dancing, and jumping up and down very high at the line: "Live a little, be a gypsy get around, get around, get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around!" For me, that is the most fun part of the song, which is all fun, all the way through, even the "we're so sorry" to Uncle Albert.
Another song that's fun is "Magneto And Titanium Man" from McCartney's album "Venus and Mars". Also, "You Gave Me The Answer" from the same album, where Paul says he can imagine Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing to it.
The RAM album (that this is from) is an eccentric pop masterpiece. Years ahead of its time. Lennon loved the chorus of Albert and sang it with friends on his birthday. There is an audio online of this-a genuine one, avoid the spoofs! PS Back In The USSR has an airplane sound effect/Sgt Pepper has crowd recordings. Check out Thrillington too-the instrumental version of RAM with Richard Hewson arranging.
This song is such a fun singalong. There was no way any of The Beatles could match the work they did as a band in solo or other projects , but there’s gems everywhere to be found in their post-Beatles work. My personal favourite albums of Paul’s are McCartney 1 and 2 and Band on the Run , an album that excels start to finish.
❤ Oooh, I love that you react to Paul's early work after the Beatles. RAM is the second of his albums. I remember when it came out and I always loved it. Let's see how you react ... BTW, the Beatles used other than instrumental effects in Yellow Submarine ... "It's kind of cabaret" ... well said 👌 It's just a fun song with great switches between the different parts, as you noted 👍😊 I enjoyed this reaction again so much 🤞😃👏👏👏👏
i was so happy about this song, i remember the moment i first heard it... i thought, good god! thank you god! he's going to keep up the same level of artistry he produced while in the beatles, then... lots of good high-quality stuff here and there
Sir Paul is such a genius and this is such a great song. He packs so much into this 3 1/2 minutes of pure joy. I have no idea how he would even begin to create this song. Thank you Paul for all the joy you have brought into this world!
Thank you for this. I have always loved the melancholy of Uncle Albert. Linda’s vocal contributions to that part are particularly effective. Paul mentioned that he sometimes called Linda’s rather formidable father the “admiral.”
I loved this song growing up. I remember camping out at the lake in the summer of 72 listening to this song. Perfect song, perfect atmosphere and I was 7 y/o at the time.
A thumpingly brilliant song. Best played at 11 while singing along at the top of your lungs. Sadly, I don't believe it was performed live during a major tour.
The song's steep melodic climb evokes the unexpected and thrilling vocal transition in "Hey Jude," where the intimate ballad seamlessly shifts into the powerful, anthemic finale.
Paul's father was a musician. So he was exposed to dance hall/big band sounds when he was young. Evidenced by songs like When I'm Sixty-Four and Honey Pie from the White Album (that you haven't heard yet). John, being a rock 'n' roller, dismissed these types of songs as "Granny music". But if done well, they are good music just the same. There are a few similar songs, here and there, on Paul's later solo albums.
I was going to recommend the same. Along with "Martha, My Dear," Paul showed a great fondness for old music hall type music of his father's generation, to our benefit! BTW, check out the Bygones' version of Honey Pie - it's worthy of the original!
@@bevklayman4158Well, Paul had range, in that he appreciated all forms of music, while John was a rocker-elitist, who, whether he would admit it or not, became influenced, to some degree, by Paul's "granny music".
The album titled "McCartney" (1970) was Paul's first post-Beatles work. It is beautiful and should be listened to as a whole. Uncle Albert is a great tune from Ram, but definitely have a listen to the track "Another Day" also from Ram.
Another Day was a stand alone single (his first solo release single) in 1972. Not included on the Ram album though was included on Disc 2 of the special edition of Ram.
Light-hearted, smile inducing, your reaction reminded me of my reaction, every time I hear it. I first heard it when I was 7. I never get tired of hearing it!
the admiral halsey part always reminds me of burt bacharach with what i believe is french horns. it's nice to be able to listen to a beatle song along with you,even though it's post beatles,without worrying about copyright issues. do more! one of my favorite post beatles songs is ringo's "photograph".
I love this song so much. It fills me with so much joy. They shot a lovely video to go with it too, which is also charming. Now I'm about to start to sound like a crazy person (and I'll try to explain myself as best as possible) but this song plus the video gave me a kind of epiphany that's stuck with me. The dog and kids playing on the beach, and waves crashing and Linda and Paul young with their new baby, plus the joy and spontaneity in the music is something that seems absolutely impossible to just statically exist in "block universe". You know, the one in which physicists say must be because free-will apparently doesn't exist. I know this is totally un-rigorous of me, but I can't get away from this feeling I get when hearing this song. The fact of the existence of this song - how it came to be, starting from the big-bang, the birth of the sun, life on earth, rise of human civilization, up to the time of The Beatles, and Pauls' growth to the point that he and Linda shot that film and recorded this song.... sorry, there is NO way it's all just preordained!! Crazy right? :-) Strange how music affects different people in different ways eh?
Yes Paul did a bit of this on Ram, check monkberry moon delight, Ram is a great album so you should check also my favorite Eat at home that is cheeky to say the least, back seat of my car, Ram on, heart of the country, smile away and too many people.
Glad you liked it;) Summer of 1971 I was 16 sunning on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan listening to this on the radio. Linda and Paul also made a fun little movie to accompany Uncle Albert. I think you would enjoy watching it. It's here on youtube somewhere..
I thought "Maybe I"m Amazed" (1970) was probably his first big non-Beatles hit. It was on McCartney's first solo album, McCartney (1970), but wasn't released as a single though. It was about how Linda helped Paul deal with the Beatles breakup. As far as the humour and sound effects on this song - before the Beatles, George Martin produced the radio show The Goon Show, with Peter Sellers and others, which used a lot of sound effects. "Yellow Submarine also had quite a few that Paul probably participated in.
🕊🌿🇬🇧 Ah yes, absolutely perfect song selection🕊 I was 9 years old when this song premiered on the radio. The volume of exquisite music written by Paul and Linda McCartney, and wings was, and is among the most beautiful, and enduring. Our host delivers a consise, and 🍀spot-on deeply heart felt discription of the song as it carrys on to its finish, and she is right when she mentions its carnival like atmosphere in some parts.🌿. I have loved this song since childhood, I thank this channel for recognizing its true value🇬🇧🌿
That was my favourite Paul McCartney single. I often think it's a bit like the McCartney version of Burt Bacharach's "Say a little prayer". Paul's @@kingslaphappy1533
A couple of very humorous pieces by Paul are "Temporary Secretary" and one that's never been officially released called "Robber's Ball". And, by the by, echoing many others, I've really enjoyed watching, and look forward to, your Beatle and Beatle solo reactions (I think I get a burst of oxytocin when I see a new one's available). I also want to compliment Vlad on how he's overseen the whole Beatles project. Oh, and while I'm sure Vlad is way ahead of me on this, a couple other of Paul's medley type songs are Band on the Run and The Pound is Sinking.
Yes, I was also thinking of Temporary Secretary. I think of it as Paul updating himself when New Wave music came along in the late 70s/early 80s. It certainly felt like nothing he had done before and I’m not sure I even like the song, but I always listened to it when it came on the radio.
The track was the first solo track that had a Beatles quality. The whole "Ram" album is brilliant. Paul had a hot streak in 1971, he wrote many non album tracks and singles that year, most you can find on the Ram bonus disc.
What blows me away is how critically dismissed it was at the time. I understand that Harrison and Lennon were writing more PERSONALLY MEANINGFUL songs at the time and that "Ram" is basically McCartney just having fun, but - it's an extraordinary album.
@redadamearth Rolling Stone magazine blew it by panning this album, they didn't see the groundbreaking influence it would have with DYI, homespun and alternate rock. Paul was thinking ahead and folks didn't see it. Even Leater Bangs didn't see it. The album had a profound influence.
You make me realize how many great classic songs I have enjoyed over my 64 years! We were really spoiled back in those days. Iconic, imaginative, enjoyable, unforgettable new songs like this, coming out just about every week! Another great one from that era? "Green-Eyed Lady" by Sugarloaf. Check it out.👍
@@stephensmith1343 It was pre-arranged by Paul for the band, and the basic track was recorded in one take, so what Amy says about the engineer "stitching it together" is untrue.
One of the best post Beatles albums. Paul is in the zone. This album got me through junior high school. Right when I was really starting to appreciate rock music. The beginning of a very successful period for Paul. Red rose speedway had some great tunes on it also. Band on the run is a masterpice.
I grew up listening to my dad's Beatles records, but he didn't have any of the later records any of them did. I discovered this album when I was maybe 13 years old (1980?) This song was such a fun discovery. I loved the different styles and the journey that the song took me on. It's silly and fun and I still love it.
Good to see you love that music. I have loved it since I first heard it. One of the local radio stations, the day it was released, played it end to end all night. So many people requested it they didn’t play anything else. He has many other funny songs, since you asked, smile away, monk berry moon delight, and several others.
If McCartney had only ever written this one song he would have gone down as a good songwriter. The fact that he gave us volumes of other exceptional music means he will go down as an all time legend.
I have been a subscriber for some time now. I really like the variety of music you choose. I wish you would play more Harp, you are so talented. However, what I love the most is your smile and so much of your personality that comes through !!!! Thank you and please keep it up !!!
It's so nice to finally see you reacting to a song, rather than never getting to hear the song or see your responses. Other channels post full Beatles songs and they seem to stay up... but maybe that's only until their caught. It's too bad that you have to worry about it. This is a much better experience.
Classic Beatles meets Monty Python. I was 7 years old when it released. I loved it then as a kid singalong song and still love it the same now. And yes, The Beatles used playful sound effects in songs. I suspect you’ve never heard Yellow Submarine.
utter utterly brilliant song, i was living in australia at the time, 13 years old, part of the song sounded like proserpine, and we lived in bowen about 40 miles from proserpine. i can never get tired of hearing this song, thank you Paul. (ps the long and winding road was another of your classics which i could listen to every day)
Uncle Albert ( and the rest of the Robbins family..) ,used to live up the road here on the wirral...thanks for sharing....😊😊😊😊....peace and love from the wirral peninsula,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea...geography and rhyme....E
One of my first records. Nice memories, nicely-done video. Thank you! Apropos of nothing: my father served aboard the carrier USS Saratoga in 1936 under then-Captain William Halsey.
Even though he is held in super high regards, I still think his solo career is very underrated. This is a masterpiece, just many other songs from his solo catalogue and his time with Wings and don't forget the Fireman.
4:44 I love your excitement hearing this song, and lots of the Beatle catalog for the first time. They had lots of songs with sound effects long before this one. Yellow Submarine 1966, Back in the USSR 1968, Blackbird 1968 And more, those are just off the top of my head.
me too... i did not quite understand why my older brothers and the entire neighborhood were getting so wigged out by the brilliance of the beatles. at the first, it was entirely the music that attracted people to them, even before they knew them as the fab four and the hysteria seemed to never end
Anytime I see someone discover something Beatles or anything after the Beatles that each individually put out and physically and emotionally enjoy it… makes me tear up. Music is the most wonderful thing in the world right there with food. Paul will always be my favorite musician of all times. RAM is a great album!
A really fun and great song and reaction. I'm glad you enjoyed its humor and quirkiness, and found it entertaining. Paul has many other great post Beatles ones (including with his band Wings) for you to still hear. A lot of these sound very much like the late Beatles Paul songs to me, without the John and George harmonies that is. Great reaction!
It was great hearing your unedited response to something I have loved since it came out. This is my favourite Paul McCartney song. Next comes a super serious one, For No One. The butter in the pie is a sexual allusion. Paul had used pie in this way in Penny Lane. In Bestlespeak, Tea means marijuana, hence him being coy and apologetic but unable to answer Uncle Albert’s call. Rain is also a sexual allusion which he reused on Mamonia, a really astonishing song. In the Beatles five years earlier, it was a placeholder for the effect of psychotropic drugs on the brain. Uncle Albert was an actual uncle and Admiral Halsey was the head of the US navy during WW2. He was a big deal but in Paul’s funny telling, he couldn’t get a birth even though he controlled the whole navy. The hands across the water bit is a celebration of Paul and Linda’s marriage, a wonderful union across the Atlantic Ocean.
It should be fun to watch your reaction to the frog song 😄 (We All Stand Together). Another Paul's lovely songs to listen are: "No more lonely nights", "My Love" and "Pipes of Piece". And then ... a bunch of others
I love the way you light up while listening to this. I always thought that verbal sound effect was a Cricket but now I hear it as a phone ringing. lol I feel silly.
Probably one of the most creative songs the Beatles did - tempo changes, octave changes, new instrumentation used, this was genius and it still blows my mind. Beatles were on another level
LOVE this one, Amy! Thanks for doing it. This is the most Beatle-esque McCartney song. But why was the end of the song faded out? The instrumentation was supposed to crumble into discord. "Monkberry Moon Delight" from the same album is all a real gas. Got to heat it!
i got a big kick out of your reaction...Paul got your funny bone going. Total fun. The more nonsensical the better. Where's the rule book that says songs have to make logical sense? People looking for logic in humor are about the saddest bunch you'll ever meet. Thanks for NOT being one of those people lol. The song was a gem of my childhood. In 1971 We'd run around between classes singing Hands Across the Water in the school halls to annoy the teachers. Turns out they just laughed. One day the choir teacher pretended to have a new song for them to learn, she sat down at the piano and started singing Hands Across the Water...the whole class cracked up laughing. She had a great sense of humor. They wound up singing the whole song at the Spring Concert...this is why the kids loved her. Rain sound effects were used in many records...Rhythm of the Rain by the Cascades...Riders on the Storm by the Doors....so it's not surprising Paul would use it in his song. I was a trumpet player...I love the Flugel Horn in this, then adding the French Horns..
"Yellow Submarine" was the big one for sound effects. Reckon Paul was influenced by John's voice ("everyone of us has all we need" etc.) on YS for the 'posh voice' here.
Hello, Amy: Thank you for doing this one; I have the 45. Another Beatles song that is similar to this one in that it pieces sections together is, 'You Know My Name, Look Up The Number. I think Paul's first solo hit was, 'Another Day' of which I also have the 45.
This and "Band on the Run" are two of my very favorite songs from that era. One thing that almost all of Paul's songs have in common is "fun" (and occasionally "silly").
I think it would be good to explore a different side of Paul for your next reaction, because he is so diverse. He had a long running band called Wings, and I'm recommending a song called Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five. It's a rock song with a funky beat and progressive elements, with a full orchestra adding to a rousing climax. And Paul expertly plays drums, piano/keys, and guitar in addition to his usual bass and singing. I think it's his best post-Beatles song. Thanks!
I’m 72 and haven’t heard this for years..I’m almost tearing up 😂. PM is a genius.
Ram was one of my early album purchases and it chokes me up to think how long ago my friends and I listened to these songs. A lot of life has gone by...
Masterful, magical, melody. McCartney's greatest gift to us all. The whimsy, humor, lyrics, all secondary. Melody is the thing that resonates decade after decade.
This is my absolute favorite song from my childhood. I would be elated when this came on the radio. It actually creates a sense of calm, comfortable, euphoric space.
Yes, mine too! I can remember a little kid of 10 years old thinking that the song almost scared me, but in a good way!
Still does!
I felt exactly the same. I remember the joy I felt when the song would come on when we were in the car on vacation. At that time we only had AM radio, so the song was a revelation to me again years later when I finally heard it with a good pair of stereo headphones.
Albert Hofman is who it's about (in part), I think.
This song reminds me of let him in,
Paul, the master of the masterpieces, masterpiecing, as usual ...
Paul McCartney has brought so much happiness to this planet ❤
Paul and Linda did what I think is the best Bond theme tune, Live and Let Die.
Oh yes, they did, oh yes, they did, oh yes, they did.
However, I do consider theirs to be rivaled by Carly Simon. In any case, I believe that nobody does it better than those two themes.
@@0okamino That's really true. But Paul set the bar high and Carly was up to the challenge. The story behind Live and Let Die is Paul, Linda and George Martin finished it, presented it to the producers. They didn't like it [for no real reason other than they were musical morons] and tried to turn it down...Martin said there's nothing wrong with this, it's perfect, if you don't accept it, we'll just release it anyway, recoup our money and make a lot of money, and you'll have to get someone else to write you another tune. They backed off and said okay...the song goes to #1, the film was a big hit, George Martin wrote the film's music score...Another "Well DUH!" moment in musical history I guess.
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Nice reference
@@thomastimlin1724 People really don't give George Martin enough credit for being the complete monster (in the best possible way) that he really was. Dude was like a muse in human form.
@@thomastimlin1724 actually they wanted the song but for another singer. Martin told them no Paul, no song!
This has fond memories. When I was in kindergarten, I’d ask my dad to play this for me every night before I went to bed. It became a ritual. That was the last year my parents were together. It still makes me happy listening to it.
This is so a 70's story that i've got a real tear forming... : )
@@gillescoin2374 Me too...
Whimsical, weird, wonderful.
That´s Paul.
RAM was the first album I ever bought with my own money. I was 10 years old, and had a very cheap little record player that I played this album on, over and over again. It introduced me to listening to new music that I hadn't heard on the radio before.
I remember buying it at The Bay, I was 11. It was a cassette as I had just been given a cassette player.
I remember buying the album from Viscount Records at Northwest Plaza shopping center. I was 12 and my dad agreed to pay the difference between my $2 and the purchase price.
Proves you already had musical taste in your soul.
I was 7 and had been crushed at 6 when The Beatles broke up. Such a fun song ... Light and silly wonderfulness.
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The look on your face made me smile. I hope you get to listen to the entire album.
It takes a gloriously twisted mind to write songs like this, and that's what made Macca so special!
Makes.......!
i loved this song! would turn the radio dial as soon as it was over to try and find it again! AM and FM.
Some of the “nautical” Beatles songs feature sound effects. Yellow Submarine and Octopuses Garden come to mind.
And Blackbird had the sound of birds on it.
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I think that was one of those novelty bird whistles the you add water to.
Back in the USSR has the aircraft effect .
@@arthurott4561Also one of the recordings of Across The Universe.
You know my name, also. Typical Mccartney-ish.
#1 in 1971, first gold record after The Beatles, Linda's first time in the recording studio. Another example of his putting more than two songs together, are they medleys or a suite or something else? I always liked it, it's different and ... So Fun! :)
Band On The Run is a masterpiece. Every track is amazing
This is from "RAM".
Calm down. No it isn't.
Band of the Run is a good record, very far away from a "masterpiece" imo. Too cold and mechanical, artificial, impersonal American style for being a masterpiece. A good work of craftsmanship. That of saying that it is a "masterpiece" is an industry cliché i guess.
@ yes I know. My comment should’ve made that distinction. Apologies
Your thumbnail looks like Rick Beato. Is it you??
I remember hearing this song on the car radio during my family's car trip in the summer of 1971. It brings back such nostalgic feelings for me. "Ram" is an underrated album; in my view, the album is a masterpiece.
I remember it on the radio too! Our babysitter would take my sister and I for rides in her 64 Ford galaxy convertible and listen to the radio. Sometimes she'd stop at the drugstore and she'd buy us Snicker bars for 10¢
I was seven years old when this was released, and still have a vivid memory of my twenty-four year old sister laughing, dancing, and jumping up and down very high at the line: "Live a little, be a gypsy get around, get around, get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around!"
For me, that is the most fun part of the song, which is all fun, all the way through, even the "we're so sorry" to Uncle Albert.
Another song that's fun is "Magneto And Titanium Man" from McCartney's album "Venus and Mars". Also, "You Gave Me The Answer" from the same album, where Paul says he can imagine Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing to it.
The RAM album (that this is from) is an eccentric pop masterpiece. Years ahead of its time. Lennon loved the chorus of Albert and sang it with friends on his birthday. There is an audio online of this-a genuine one, avoid the spoofs! PS Back In The USSR has an airplane sound effect/Sgt Pepper has crowd recordings. Check out Thrillington too-the instrumental version of RAM with Richard Hewson arranging.
SPOILER !!! ; )
Also check out the version of RAM (entire album) performed live on stage by Tim Christensen and the Damn Crystals, Mike Viola and Tracy Bonham
There's no chorus in the Albert section. Lennon hated the Admiral Halsey part.
@@gettinhungrig8806 I think he meant "after Uncle Albert"... ; )
@@gettinhungrig8806 Du, the ''Hands across the water'' section. There's always one.
This song is such a fun singalong.
There was no way any of The Beatles could match the work they did as a band in solo or other projects , but there’s gems everywhere to be found in their post-Beatles work. My personal favourite albums of Paul’s are McCartney 1 and 2 and Band on the Run , an album that excels start to finish.
It's simply genius. Including your analysis and reaction ... Thank you!
❤ Oooh, I love that you react to Paul's early work after the Beatles. RAM is the second of his albums. I remember when it came out and I always loved it. Let's see how you react ...
BTW, the Beatles used other than instrumental effects in Yellow Submarine ...
"It's kind of cabaret" ... well said 👌 It's just a fun song with great switches between the different parts, as you noted 👍😊 I enjoyed this reaction again so much 🤞😃👏👏👏👏
i was so happy about this song, i remember the moment i first heard it... i thought, good god! thank you god! he's going to keep up the same level of artistry he produced while in the beatles, then... lots of good high-quality stuff here and there
I spent my 45 cents a week pocket money on this song at 12 years old. Still love it.
Sir Paul is such a genius and this is such a great song. He packs so much into this 3 1/2 minutes of pure joy. I have no idea how he would even begin to create this song. Thank you Paul for all the joy you have brought into this world!
"The butter wouldn't melt so we put it in a pie". I think this is Wings at their best. It's bonkers, but in a great way.
(Re other weird McCartney things, probably The Frog Chorus)
I’m pretty sure it’s an innuendo.
This was the album before Wings. Attributed to Paul and Linda McCartney. (No Denny Laine.)
Wings didn't exist when this album was made.
This is pure inhibited wild McCartney creativity
It's VERY real-life in a funny way. ; )
Thank you for this. I have always loved the melancholy of Uncle Albert. Linda’s vocal contributions to that part are particularly effective. Paul mentioned that he sometimes called Linda’s rather formidable father the “admiral.”
I loved this song growing up. I remember camping out at the lake in the summer of 72 listening to this song. Perfect song, perfect atmosphere and I was 7 y/o at the time.
This is one of the reasons Paul will always be my favorite Beatle.
Nothing like Paul’s magic, fantastic human being
The most insane McCartney song from this era is Monkberry Moon Delight, it has insane vocals and it's criminally underrated
A stompingly brilliant song. Best played at 11 while singing your heart along with it.
A thumpingly brilliant song. Best played at 11 while singing along at the top of your lungs. Sadly, I don't believe it was performed live during a major tour.
Indeed! great song, Paul rocking very loud!
Love how the music makes you smile. Its wonderful
You're a joy to watch. So openminded and full of the joy of discovering new music.
The song's steep melodic climb evokes the unexpected and thrilling vocal transition in "Hey Jude," where the intimate ballad seamlessly shifts into the powerful, anthemic finale.
Paul's father was a musician. So he was exposed to dance hall/big band sounds when he was young. Evidenced by songs like When I'm Sixty-Four and Honey Pie from the White Album (that you haven't heard yet). John, being a rock 'n' roller, dismissed these types of songs as "Granny music". But if done well, they are good music just the same. There are a few similar songs, here and there, on Paul's later solo albums.
I was going to recommend the same. Along with "Martha, My Dear," Paul showed a great fondness for old music hall type music of his father's generation, to our benefit! BTW, check out the Bygones' version of Honey Pie - it's worthy of the original!
I always loved Paul's "granny music", even more than the more rock-n-roll stuff. I'll take _Honey Pie_ over _One after 909_ any day
@@BrennanYoung Part of the Beatles' magic that they had such range.
I loved both!
@@bevklayman4158Well, Paul had range, in that he appreciated all forms of music, while John was a rocker-elitist, who, whether he would admit it or not, became influenced, to some degree, by Paul's "granny music".
Even tough Paul do not play It in his concert, Uncle albert is one of my favourites
The album titled "McCartney" (1970) was Paul's first post-Beatles work. It is beautiful and should be listened to as a whole. Uncle Albert is a great tune from Ram, but definitely have a listen to the track "Another Day" also from Ram.
I agree…the 1970 “McCartney” album is excellent the whole way through!
Another Day was a stand alone single (his first solo release single) in 1972. Not included on the Ram album though was included on Disc 2 of the special edition of Ram.
Light-hearted, smile inducing, your reaction reminded me of my reaction, every time I hear it. I first heard it when I was 7. I never get tired of hearing it!
Omg! My childhood song! Thanks for memories! ❤
this is a masterpiece and so was your reaction !
the admiral halsey part always reminds me of burt bacharach with what i believe is french horns. it's nice to be able to listen to a beatle song along with you,even though it's post beatles,without worrying about copyright issues. do more! one of my favorite post beatles songs is ringo's "photograph".
I love this song so much. It fills me with so much joy. They shot a lovely video to go with it too, which is also charming.
Now I'm about to start to sound like a crazy person (and I'll try to explain myself as best as possible) but this song plus the video gave me a kind of epiphany that's stuck with me.
The dog and kids playing on the beach, and waves crashing and Linda and Paul young with their new baby, plus the joy and spontaneity in the music is something that seems absolutely impossible to just statically exist in "block universe". You know, the one in which physicists say must be because free-will apparently doesn't exist. I know this is totally un-rigorous of me, but I can't get away from this feeling I get when hearing this song. The fact of the existence of this song - how it came to be, starting from the big-bang, the birth of the sun, life on earth, rise of human civilization, up to the time of The Beatles, and Pauls' growth to the point that he and Linda shot that film and recorded this song.... sorry, there is NO way it's all just preordained!! Crazy right? :-) Strange how music affects different people in different ways eh?
As a Beatle fan, this was an absolute PERFECT release! The world was still very hungry for Paul!
Probably the most Beatle, post-Beatle song done by any of them at that point
Happy birthday, Amy!!
Yes Paul did a bit of this on Ram, check monkberry moon delight, Ram is a great album so you should check also my favorite Eat at home that is cheeky to say the least, back seat of my car, Ram on, heart of the country, smile away and too many people.
The word play (including ketchup/catch up) in MMD is fun
Monkberry Moon Delight is MacCartney at his absolute bonkers best..
Thanks for playing this FANTASTIC song, the greatest song ever recorded !!! Your the BEST !!!
Really? lol
Glad you liked it;) Summer of 1971 I was 16 sunning on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan listening to this on the radio. Linda and Paul also made a fun little movie to accompany Uncle Albert. I think you would enjoy watching it. It's here on youtube somewhere..
Lol I was 15 on the Canadian shores of Lake Erie sunning on our little beach at our cottage
I thought "Maybe I"m Amazed" (1970) was probably his first big non-Beatles hit. It was on McCartney's first solo album, McCartney (1970), but wasn't released as a single though. It was about how Linda helped Paul deal with the Beatles breakup. As far as the humour and sound effects on this song - before the Beatles, George Martin produced the radio show The Goon Show, with Peter Sellers and others, which used a lot of sound effects. "Yellow Submarine also had quite a few that Paul probably participated in.
I think his first hit single was "Another Day"
🕊🌿🇬🇧 Ah yes, absolutely perfect song selection🕊 I was 9 years old when this song premiered on the radio. The volume of exquisite music written by Paul and Linda McCartney, and wings was, and is among the most beautiful, and enduring. Our host delivers a consise, and 🍀spot-on deeply heart felt discription of the song as it carrys on to its finish, and she is right when she mentions its carnival like atmosphere in some parts.🌿. I have loved this song since childhood, I thank this channel for recognizing its true value🇬🇧🌿
Thank you Amy for sharing this! Keep digging, they're more Golden Nuggets out there. Many, keep looking and posting. Just joined tonight!
`Another Day` was Paul`s first solo single a few months earlier.
Thst’s another great single, super well written.
That was my favourite Paul McCartney single. I often think it's a bit like the McCartney version of Burt Bacharach's "Say a little prayer". Paul's @@kingslaphappy1533
A couple of very humorous pieces by Paul are "Temporary Secretary" and one that's never been officially released called "Robber's Ball". And, by the by, echoing many others, I've really enjoyed watching, and look forward to, your Beatle and Beatle solo reactions (I think I get a burst of oxytocin when I see a new one's available). I also want to compliment Vlad on how he's overseen the whole Beatles project. Oh, and while I'm sure Vlad is way ahead of me on this, a couple other of Paul's medley type songs are Band on the Run and The Pound is Sinking.
Yes, I was also thinking of Temporary Secretary. I think of it as Paul updating himself when New Wave music came along in the late 70s/early 80s. It certainly felt like nothing he had done before and I’m not sure I even like the song, but I always listened to it when it came on the radio.
The mix and production of this song still holds up today! 😊❤️
To start off with a blank canvas and come up with all this. WOW his genius really shows !
The track was the first solo track that had a Beatles quality. The whole "Ram" album is brilliant. Paul had a hot streak in 1971, he wrote many non album tracks and singles that year, most you can find on the Ram bonus disc.
What blows me away is how critically dismissed it was at the time. I understand that Harrison and Lennon were writing more PERSONALLY MEANINGFUL songs at the time and that "Ram" is basically McCartney just having fun, but - it's an extraordinary album.
@redadamearth Rolling Stone magazine blew it by panning this album, they didn't see the groundbreaking influence it would have with DYI, homespun and alternate rock. Paul was thinking ahead and folks didn't see it. Even Leater Bangs didn't see it. The album had a profound influence.
😂 this is 1 of my fav Paul tunes
You make me realize how many great classic songs I have enjoyed over my 64 years! We were really spoiled back in those days. Iconic, imaginative, enjoyable, unforgettable new songs like this, coming out just about every week! Another great one from that era? "Green-Eyed Lady" by Sugarloaf. Check it out.👍
I'm 74 and couldn't agree more! We enjoyed an embarrassment of riches musically in our youth.
When I’m 64 I think I will feel the same !
Green eyed lady is an incredible song! I would love to see her explore that one! 😀
This is three songs in one. Paul was good at that.
Maybe stitching separate song fragments together, good at that.
@@stephensmith1343 It was pre-arranged by Paul for the band, and the basic track was recorded in one take, so what Amy says about the engineer "stitching it together" is untrue.
One of the best post Beatles albums. Paul is in the zone. This album got me through junior high school. Right when I was really starting to appreciate rock music. The beginning of a very successful period for Paul. Red rose speedway had some great tunes on it also. Band on the run is a masterpice.
I loved your reactions! It really is a fun song- been a part of my life for over 50 years...
I grew up listening to my dad's Beatles records, but he didn't have any of the later records any of them did. I discovered this album when I was maybe 13 years old (1980?) This song was such a fun discovery. I loved the different styles and the journey that the song took me on. It's silly and fun and I still love it.
Good to see you love that music. I have loved it since I first heard it. One of the local radio stations, the day it was released, played it end to end all night. So many people requested it they didn’t play anything else.
He has many other funny songs, since you asked, smile away, monk berry moon delight, and several others.
"Monkberry moon delight" is my favorite one.
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Paul McCartney sempre genial ❤
If McCartney had only ever written this one song he would have gone down as a good songwriter. The fact that he gave us volumes of other exceptional music means he will go down as an all time legend.
A perfect album to do after the Beatles. Ram is a great album all tracks. Thanks Virgin Rock
Another impecable reaction, thanks for sharing. Another gem that has stitched together segments is Billy Joel's "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant"
I have been a subscriber for some time now. I really like the variety of music you choose. I wish you would play more Harp, you are so talented. However, what I love the most is your smile and so much of your personality that comes through !!!! Thank you and please keep it up !!!
This is such a beautiful song....always gives me goosebumps. But youre reactions are beautiful too....
It's so nice to finally see you reacting to a song, rather than never getting to hear the song or see your responses. Other channels post full Beatles songs and they seem to stay up... but maybe that's only until their caught. It's too bad that you have to worry about it. This is a much better experience.
Classic Beatles meets Monty Python. I was 7 years old when it released. I loved it then as a kid singalong song and still love it the same now. And yes, The Beatles used playful sound effects in songs. I suspect you’ve never heard Yellow Submarine.
utter utterly brilliant song, i was living in australia at the time, 13 years old, part of the song sounded like proserpine, and we lived in bowen about 40 miles from proserpine. i can never get tired of hearing this song, thank you Paul. (ps the long and winding road was another of your classics which i could listen to every day)
Uncle Albert ( and the rest of the Robbins family..) ,used to live up the road here on the wirral...thanks for sharing....😊😊😊😊....peace and love from the wirral peninsula,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea...geography and rhyme....E
One of my first records. Nice memories, nicely-done video. Thank you!
Apropos of nothing: my father served aboard the carrier USS Saratoga in 1936 under then-Captain William Halsey.
Even though he is held in super high regards, I still think his solo career is very underrated. This is a masterpiece, just many other songs from his solo catalogue and his time with Wings and don't forget the Fireman.
4:44 I love your excitement hearing this song, and lots of the Beatle catalog for the first time. They had lots of songs with sound effects long before this one.
Yellow Submarine 1966, Back in the USSR 1968, Blackbird 1968 And more, those are just off the top of my head.
Paul was my fav Beatle. I watched their first Ed Sullivan appearance, the night it first aired.
me too... i did not quite understand why my older brothers and the entire neighborhood were getting so wigged out by the brilliance of the beatles. at the first, it was entirely the music that attracted people to them, even before they knew them as the fab four
and the hysteria seemed to never end
Ive always loved this track. First heard it in early childhood
I keep on going back and listening to the song 'Junk.' It has such a very pretty melody.
Anytime I see someone discover something Beatles or anything after the Beatles that each individually put out and physically and emotionally enjoy it… makes me tear up. Music is the most wonderful thing in the world right there with food. Paul will always be my favorite musician of all times. RAM is a great album!
A really fun and great song and reaction. I'm glad you enjoyed its humor and quirkiness, and found it entertaining. Paul has many other great post Beatles ones (including with his band Wings) for you to still hear. A lot of these sound very much like the late Beatles Paul songs to me, without the John and George harmonies that is. Great reaction!
It was great hearing your unedited response to something I have loved since it came out. This is my favourite Paul McCartney song. Next comes a super serious one, For No One.
The butter in the pie is a sexual allusion. Paul had used pie in this way in Penny Lane. In Bestlespeak, Tea means marijuana, hence him being coy and apologetic but unable to answer Uncle Albert’s call. Rain is also a sexual allusion which he reused on Mamonia, a really astonishing song. In the Beatles five years earlier, it was a placeholder for the effect of psychotropic drugs on the brain. Uncle Albert was an actual uncle and Admiral Halsey was the head of the US navy during WW2. He was a big deal but in Paul’s funny telling, he couldn’t get a birth even though he controlled the whole navy. The hands across the water bit is a celebration of Paul and Linda’s marriage, a wonderful union across the Atlantic Ocean.
It should be fun to watch your reaction to the frog song 😄 (We All Stand Together).
Another Paul's lovely songs to listen are: "No more lonely nights", "My Love" and "Pipes of Piece".
And then ... a bunch of others
I enjoy hearing this just as much today, as I did fifty-three years ago when I first heard it. 🤗
I love the way you light up while listening to this. I always thought that verbal sound effect was a Cricket but now I hear it as a phone ringing. lol I feel silly.
Probably one of the most creative songs the Beatles did - tempo changes, octave changes, new instrumentation used, this was genius and it still blows my mind. Beatles were on another level
LOVE this one, Amy! Thanks for doing it. This is the most Beatle-esque McCartney song. But why was the end of the song faded out? The instrumentation was supposed to crumble into discord. "Monkberry Moon Delight" from the same album is all a real gas. Got to heat it!
i got a big kick out of your reaction...Paul got your funny bone going. Total fun. The more nonsensical the better. Where's the rule book that says songs have to make logical sense? People looking for logic in humor are about the saddest bunch you'll ever meet. Thanks for NOT being one of those people lol. The song was a gem of my childhood. In 1971 We'd run around between classes singing Hands Across the Water in the school halls to annoy the teachers. Turns out they just laughed. One day the choir teacher pretended to have a new song for them to learn, she sat down at the piano and started singing Hands Across the Water...the whole class cracked up laughing. She had a great sense of humor. They wound up singing the whole song at the Spring Concert...this is why the kids loved her. Rain sound effects were used in many records...Rhythm of the Rain by the Cascades...Riders on the Storm by the Doors....so it's not surprising Paul would use it in his song. I was a trumpet player...I love the Flugel Horn in this, then adding the French Horns..
McCartney has such a great sense of melody, always!
I think Amy's listened to all of Sergeant Pepper's by now, and she'll remember the farm animal effects on "Good Morning Good Morning"!
"Yellow Submarine" was the big one for sound effects. Reckon Paul was influenced by John's voice ("everyone of us has all we need" etc.) on YS for the 'posh voice' here.
And Paul included bird song in Blackbird
That was great, and happy birthday Amy if it be so!
This was on a Wings Greatest CD my dad had when i was a kid. One of the first albums I remember. It's so good. :)
Hello, Amy: Thank you for doing this one; I have the 45. Another Beatles song that is similar to this one in that it pieces sections together is, 'You Know My Name, Look Up The Number. I think Paul's first solo hit was, 'Another Day' of which I also have the 45.
Basically the majority of side 2 on Abbey Road is a fantastic medley, sort of like this, of about 6 very short songs. And I am hear to say I LOVE it!
Incredibly creative odd tune that I've always enjoyed.
One of the most unique songs I've ever heard - and in a good way. IMHO almost a masterpiece.
I always thought the lyric was "He had to have a BATH, or he couldn't get to SLEEP"
So did I.
But he's an admiral. He's in the Navy. He had to have a berth or he couldn't get to sea!
I like the way she laughs at the changing mood of the piece and how she's being amazed in a sincere way 🍄
This is such a fun song, and I’ve always loved it. My husband hates it, so when it comes on the radio, I crank up the volume. 😂
Love this song, it ranges in me emotions from peaceful & happy day to day to more serious feelings of complex world peace & unity …
This album marks the happiest days and nights of my life. Sigh!
This and "Band on the Run" are two of my very favorite songs from that era. One thing that almost all of Paul's songs have in common is "fun" (and occasionally "silly").
I think it would be good to explore a different side of Paul for your next reaction, because he is so diverse. He had a long running band called Wings, and I'm recommending a song called Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five. It's a rock song with a funky beat and progressive elements, with a full orchestra adding to a rousing climax. And Paul expertly plays drums, piano/keys, and guitar in addition to his usual bass and singing. I think it's his best post-Beatles song. Thanks!