Always loved this song, the changing tempos and silly lyrics ("BUTTER PIE??? The butter wouldn't melt so I put it in a pie.") Sung this many times over beers with friends when a college student in the 70's. Love the Beatles, grew up with the Beatles. Their music will never die.
It really is an actual thing, butter pie is it is called Lancashire e. It is made of potatoes onions butter and pie crust senators baked like a normal fruit pie.
When I was in sixth grade we would sing this song in the morning before starting class . This was back in the early 70's. Mary B. Erskine elementary , Seguin,Tx. Mr. Lippi's class. Mr. Lippi the hippie. Wonderful time to be alive. Good memories
This song takes me back to my early youth - 1st grade. My sister used to listen to the radio station that was playing this song in the morning before school. I don't know why, but even to this day, it leaves me with an upbeat feeling of hope every time I hear it. I know it goes without saying, but they just don't make music like this anymore!
Same for me. My sister and my father were big time Beatles fanatics. I would sit in the car as they drove and listen. This song was ALWAYS on. Whenever I hear Beatles songs to this day, I get random flash backs of things that happened in my youth. Especially this one and Band on The Run 🏃♀️ 🏃🏻
I am 51.... I remember hearing this on a radio in 1971 , shortly after moving into our house, where my mom still lives. My earliest recollection of a song.
I'm 52. I grew up on family property that was owned by my "Uncle Albert". He passed away 3 years ago. I loved him so much. I think of him every time I hear this song.
I love this song. When I was a little girl and my mother's best friend would sit for me, she ALWAYS had this song playing in her house. It took me years to find out the song name. One day, I found myself humming it and my dad said randomly, "The song's called Uncle Albert, if you wanna know." lol....thanks, Dad. :)
Sounds like it is right off of yellow submarine. This song took off like a Saturn 5 when it came out and got huge amounts amounts of airplay . I can imagine the other Beatles being jealous when they heard it . To me it almost sounds more like the Beatles than the Beatles. The talent of sir paul is staggering!
@@Projectpompeii thanks for the reply. im really odd when it comes to the subject of passing away. I'd ike to say that they've just made it to the place we're all headed to. the kettles on the boil and we're so easily called away.
Thank you for posting this Beatle song. Oh, how it brings back memories of childhood visits to Adelaide Road, the Ferry, Royal Iris across the Mersey from Birkenhead. The smell of the ferry docks, the smoke from steam engines at the terminus Station & of course fish 'n chips doused with vinegar & salt, eaten out greased paper wrapped in the Liverpool Echo! What memories, Thank you!
I was 3 in 1971...this was one of the first songs I remember along with" I'll be there" by the Jackson 5, my mom bought me both 45's and my brother and I would listen to them over and over. The strange collaboration and imagery of the words of this song intrigued me when I was a kid...along with the mishmash of musical styles and transitions.
I must comment on this song. I love this song. I hear it and I listen to the first part, and I'm like who could ever like this? And then I hear part 2, and suddenly I'm reliving a childhood fantasy. It is so brilliant, so wonderful, surely there is a fact question and this song can't be dismissed summarily. The melody is one of the great musical compositions of the last hundred years.
It's crazy to think that, save for Linda's vocals, Paul did literally everything here. Music, lyrics, vocals, production. Most talented songwriter of all time.
A bonkers song that was released around the time the drugs had kicked in..I always think when I hear it that it proves the Beatles weren't the geniuses lots of people said they were. It's one that's got the McCarthy stamp on it.
HAPPY 80th BIRTHDAY 🎁 🎼🎵🎶PAUL!! ( so hard to believe we were once all so so Young ) It’s been one Hell of a Ride of Life and So GREAT having you around with the GREATEST MELODIES EVER COMPOSED IN THE WORLD AND HISTORY OF MANKIND!! I’m so Glad I was part of it now in my 60’s!!!
I remember being 3 or 4 in the early 70s hearing this song on the radio all the time. It has so many layers and this little girl loved the part about the little gypsy. I still remember those feelings of 42 years ago. Such a great time in my life and such great music. This song has a childlike quality.
+Chris Gonzalez So do I. I grew up with my Uncle named Albert. I didn't appreciate him until it was too late. Love & miss you Uncle Albert. I will NEVER forget you.
+Chris Gonzalez So do I. I grew up with my Uncle named Albert. I didn't appreciate him until it was too late. Love & miss you Uncle Albert. I will NEVER forget you.
Late summer of 1971. I can remember it like it was yesterday - even though I wasn't quite 8. Recall hearing this in the car as we crossed Vancouver's iconic Lions Gate Bridge with the sun shining down. Wonderful memories!
Beatles are still the biggest success music wise for England and my thanks go out to them And Mr John Lennon for being a true Labour supporter northern born Lad regarding politics in life And always will remember your memory for the victory days that is was when you where growing up being 5 years of age in those history political victory days I as also born in In the memory to those general public lower rank war hero’s in life on the 11th of November every year. gr
Bless you outcast668 ,Many working Americans are working inside a false American propreganda that is designed for the Republicans. Remember about the old saying of the " Have or the have nots!" It's not a reality check!. It's life for the working class inside the brain washed America! Why don't you think the recent many American immigrants are just laughing their asses off at us!
Hendrick Yee Thank you..it's all so clear now. I'm going to quit my job and sit around smoking pot, having casual sex (with illegal immigrants or whoever) while relying on the government for my needs so I won't be confused with a dreaded Republican.
Obviously (to me) Paul was apologizing to Beatles fans for the break up in the Uncle Albert section, then in the Admiral Halsey section he's clearly speaking to Lennon (butter wouldn't melt= a stubborn arrogance) , and in the gypsy part he's talking about moving out on his own with Linda. Isn't it obvious? In any case, such a wonderful pop song, one of my all-time favorites.
My dad used to sing a little song to me: “Little Joya, won’t you get around Get your feet up off the ground Little Joya, get around” I’m just learning now at age 20 that this is where it was from 😄
We're so sorry, Uncle Albert We're so sorry that the people who hit dislike caused you any pain. We're so sorry, Uncle Albert. But there's no account for taste and I believe they have no ear for music and their brains are laid to waste.
ncisducky4ever That was absolutely hilarious and quite original. Some people just don't have an ear for music like this in all fairness but still I found your verses really funny!
I was 14 years old when I bought this 45 record at a record store my parents gave me a record player for Christmas I played it over and over .I much older now and still my favorite!❤️
+LasVegasLites obviously you are the one who was dropped on your head umm Las Vegas Lites? What the fuck does that even mean? Lol You making some terrible cigarettes? Somebody sell you a bunch of tobacco from halfie's found at the airport? You obviously have brain damage since you went out of your way to TRY to bring other people down. I bet you can't write shit for a song. Keep smoking those Las Vegas Lites lol
+LasVegasLites hold on I will say it in a way you can understand... U r dum an make no sence... How can you even misspell that? Lol like really I had to actually bypass auto correct to type something so stupid lol
I listened this song for the first time in 1971 while living for a while with my aunt in Hartford CT. I had no idea who sang it but i loved it from the first time.
I just had a dream and I heard this song. I haven't consciously thought about it since I was 5. I was born in 1966. I woke up and googled hands across the water. I didn't remember the name. How unbelievably strange...the mind is a mystery... SMH
Inolvidables recuerdos me trae esta bonita cancion, especialmente recuerdo a mi hermano Alfredo (QEPD) lo queremos mucho y extrañamos la familia entera.
Happy 50th anniversary to this great peppy song by Beatle Paul McCartney! (It was released right around this time in 1971; it’s early August 2021 as I post this comment.) May this song be enjoyed for another 50 years as well, ha ha! :)
*My hubby loves this song-he sings it to our 13 yr old 3 legged cat, Alfred(small change in the lyrics from Albert to Alfred,lol) It's just the sweetest thing I've seen* 😭
This is my current favorite Paul McCartney song... I love how it has no meaning, and they just had fun with it! :) I LOVE John Lennon, and his songs do have meanings and messages. But I also like to hear songs that are just fun to listen to and make no sense at all! I love when they talk about butter pies and kettles boiling and then those things have to relation to the song... I think my favorite part of the song is, We're so sorry, Uncle Albert, but we haven't done a bloody thing all day! :)
A huge pop masterpiece, one of the greatest of all time, and certainly one of the greatest that had ever happened up until the time it came out. I was 10 years old in 1971, and in the summer of '71, I immediately became transfixed on this song and many others that were coming down the pike at that time on AM radio. This song was one of the very first that I feel in love with, and that got me hooked on pop music. It was truly the golden age for pop/rock/Top 40 (the mid-1950's through the 1980's, that is--with all of the twists and turns that each decade brought). I must comment though, that this was a Paul and Linda McCartney song, which happened AFTER the 1970 breakup of the Beatles (Paul would soon thereafter form his new band, Paul McCartney and Wings)--so to be showing the Beatles in all of the video stills as if this is a Beatles tune is erroneous. The Beatles had already disbanded a year earlier, and all four guys had gone their separate ways and begun their solo careers by August of 1971, when this song was released. It's nothing short of BOGUS then, to be showing all four Beatles in the shots in this video as though this is THEIR song, It isn't. It's Paul and Linda McCartney's. (Mostly Paul's, written about his real "Uncle Albert") And it should ONLY be given any acknowledgement here as such. Look it up. The facts aren't hard to uncover. The rest of the Beatles didn't have anything to do with this song--so what the hell are they all doing in the video? Creidt ONLY where credit is due....... I'm a rabid Beatles fan--and as such, I actually respect all of the boundaries that need to be respected--including those that would EXCLUDE the Beatles other than Paul for credit for this song. I'm totally calling bullshit on this one. It's from the album RAM by Paul and Linda McCartney, and it is sooooooooo NOT a Beatles song--so the moron (or the youngster who didn't know any better) needs to be set straight on this one.......
My family drove to Florida from Ohio, we were moving, Ok, on a whim - my father- I remember this song in 1970, sleeping on the lawn of Palm Beach Atlantic college where my beloved past Brother Rich enrolled - we got there late, my dad was f........n cheap! I'll never forget looking at the stars!!......... Jan
I was 14 or 16 i think domineering mom had been shouting in car again this song came out I was in old car Pontiac Bonneville and on bridge North Carolina long trip to cousins I put my only possession Realistic Radio AM Shack radio full volume with Ear piece saw someone in sky jamming with me looking down and two hands linking Europe and USA and my friends as he held hands across the SKY!!!! Man a Spiritual Mystic Moment of Escape and rhythm and ultimate cool. People never knew how cool I really was.Thank You Beetles!Hands Across The SKy!!
+James Neale It must be true. A kid that was born into a good pair of shoes into this life without hand me downs at the age of seven was daydreaming about the reality of the musicians known as the Beatles! I haven't heard anything that came close to them since that time period to date.
Me neither like manic in the air. We used sit around play some backwards. Then even later in life the enigma mystery of John Lennon and the FBI and CIA tracking him the song Imagine describes the coming New World Order Announced this month Fool on the Hill hidden hints to Flat Earth studies and corrupted science he refused to swallow the red pill Im am the Eggman I am the Walrus hidden chant smoke pot. And if you can type in on RUclips Proof Paul McCartny died and all the lyrics ponting to the mystery enctypted. I mean WOW
James Neale So true 'bout the various references in the Fab-4's music! While there is some debate in the interpretations... clearly there was 'much to say' in there lyrics! I heard years ago that A Day In The Life was a tip-off that Paul had died. I always saw it as john foretelling his own death!
My late father is Alejandro always went by Alex! We would pick up my to young cousins about 8 and 9 years old, on the way to our family ranch to work. When this song came out, in the 70's my mischievous little cousins would sing this to my dad and instead of singing Uncle Albert they would sing Uncle Alex. It was an inside joke cause they wouldn't do the work they were supposed to do and my dad would get pissed off at them for not doing their job and for teasing him with this song!
This is a good example of how Paul needed the kick of John Lennon. Without John, Paul was too syrupy. Without Paul, John was too in-your-face. Together--they were magic.
FABULOUS LIVELY SONG! And thanks for including the lyrics! I can just picture this song being featured on the old prime time sitcom,"Laverne and Shirley," like the girls, plus even Lenny and Squiggy, and Carmine, singing it in a talent show, or something,especially Shirley singing verse, "Admiral Halsey notified me, He had to have a berth or he couldn't get to sea...." while wearing one of those straw "boater"hats, that she would jiggle up and down, as she sang(typical silliness, of Shirley Feeney, on the show!)Thanks again, for posting-EXCELLENT LIVELY SONG!
I had this recording on what I've come to realize, was a "pirated" 8-track tape! The tape had this song on it, with a bunch of old, pre-psychedelic Beatles songs as well. Sketchy looking, poorly printed sticker on the tape. Bought it at the same neighborhood package store where we got the 8-track player. This, and a Peter Frampton tape were my favorites. My parents had a bunch of Johnny Cash stuff they'd listen to on that thing too. Had to be around '76/'77. Memories come flooding back!
I always thought it was : '"He had to have a bath or he couldn't get to sleep" LOL! Thanks for uploading with lyrics. Gotta love this internet age!!!! Who-hoo for technology.....no more guessing like in the good ol' days :)
Great song great band!!i miss you John thank you for all the great memories.it was a very very bad way that you were taken from us all.Sadly you went the very thing that scared you most.May that trash never gets out!!! He will answer to the higher God...J.W....
This is one truly odd pop track! People take for granted that it is what it is... but it once wasn't!!! McCartney shepards it into existence slowly, mysteriously, beautifully... so many parts, perfectly unfolding into a mini symphony of pop fragments... oddly uniquely subtly, quirky greatness... How's that!?!
"The butter wouldn't melt so I put it in the pie." I would put the butter in the microwave and set it for several seconds first. I could add more time if needed. Another option would be to put the butter in the pie and microwave it together. 😂😂
One of my favourite BEATLES songs, for the beautiful memories that it brings ✌❤🇬🇧 . . Rest easy and well, George Harrison...it would be your 79th birthday, couple days ago.. . Rest in the Light of God, John Lennon, you did so good... . Thanks both of you, for the Extraordinary Legacy and the Immensely Loved Contributions to the PEACE and LOVE ✌❤ Long Life to Paul and Ringo ❤❤ . Today is February 26, 2022 And I love you, endlessly 🇬🇧✌
When I heard it first, I thought that Paul decided to lump together material for couple of different songs that he had ready to record individually with Beatles. This medley sounds probably better than individual songs would have..
For some reason this song popped into my head yesterday and this morning as I was driving to work I was listening to CBS 880 from NYC. Every morning they do segment called "On this Day" and they share little bits of info about different things that happened in the past on that particular day. Well this morning (8/2/22) one of the things they spoke about was that on August 2nd 1971 Paul McCartney formed the group Wings dashing any hopes of the Beatles getting back together. And this song was playing in the background while they told the story. I was like WOW I had just thought about that song yesterday. What a coincidence 😄 And I always thought it was the Beatles that sang it. Didn't know it was Wings.
Wow, FANTASTIC job on this video! Luv the pics! And Luv the song! And thanks for posting the lyrics...I always thought is was "he had to hunt a bus or he couldn't get to city" LOL!!!!! Thanks for setting me straight on that.
one of my favourite McCartney songs as i am a huge beatles fan from way back and this is from the ram album one of my favourite McCartney albums Peter S
methat Iare I agree; it isn't the Beatles. The pics confused me at first, cuz I haven't heard this for 25 years probably. All I could remember was liking a song that went "Hands across the Water!" So, I googled that, but I wasn't sure who it was behind Paul McCartney. ♫
Actually Finn, it isn't "Wings" at all. It's from his "Ram" album, which is credited to Paul and Linda McCartney. Wings didn't exist yet....at any rate, that's no big deal. What a great song! (I was 11 years-old.) God, it all goes fast, eh? ♫
muchas gracias por estas preciosas fotos. thank you very much for this precious pictures. just in 5 days i´ll see paul in the greatest concert of all the times in my country, Peru, greetings, :D
This song was humming in my head and couldn't remember the title, just remember the time I was listening was in the 70s, finally figured out this is the song....Thank you.
I use this song to celebrate Uncle Albert (Einstein's) thoughts on gravitational waves, just announced discovered today, oh over a hundred years after uncle Albert Einstein said they should be there. To uncle Paul and uncle Albert Einstein. SCIENCE Bitches! :)
Always loved this song, the changing tempos and silly lyrics ("BUTTER PIE??? The butter wouldn't melt so I put it in a pie.") Sung this many times over beers with friends when a college student in the 70's. Love the Beatles, grew up with the Beatles. Their music will never die.
The Beatles did not sing Uncle Albert. It is post Beatles
It really is an actual thing, butter pie is it is called Lancashire e. It is made of potatoes onions butter and pie crust senators baked like a normal fruit pie.
I know this is old but I had never noticed that part about the butter before! 😂😂😂
Vous avez absolument raison
When I was in sixth grade we would sing this song in the morning before starting class . This was back in the early 70's. Mary B. Erskine elementary , Seguin,Tx. Mr. Lippi's class. Mr. Lippi the hippie. Wonderful time to be alive. Good memories
This song takes me back to my early youth - 1st grade. My sister used to listen to the radio station that was playing this song in the morning before school. I don't know why, but even to this day, it leaves me with an upbeat feeling of hope every time I hear it.
I know it goes without saying, but they just don't make music like this anymore!
Same for me. My sister and my father were big time Beatles fanatics. I would sit in the car as they drove and listen. This song was ALWAYS on. Whenever I hear Beatles songs to this day, I get random flash backs of things that happened in my youth. Especially this one and Band on The Run 🏃♀️ 🏃🏻
Nostalgia 😔
yes!
@@davetinoco Those are actually both McCartney songs. Not Beatles songs.
@@dagopalmero2269 I know
I'm '98, and i love this song, this song is beautiful, many feeling in this song has.
Are you 100 now?
@@Xebel_Rebel it's possible they aren't even alive anymore
@@jackg.7512 :(
Did... did you make it to 100?
@@Xebel_Rebel 1998 mate
This has got to be one of the most underrated masterpieces ever written and produced. A brilliant piece of collaborative work.
Piper Alpha the butter wouldn’t melt so I put it in the pie...
@Michael Savin New subscriber for recognizing his brilliant comment.
I love the catchy little riff at 2:27
For sure
@@fbl2166 Truly is
I am 51.... I remember hearing this on a radio in 1971 , shortly after moving into our house, where my mom still lives. My earliest recollection of a song.
I'm 52. I grew up on family property that was owned by my "Uncle Albert". He passed away 3 years ago. I loved him so much. I think of him every time I hear this song.
A great song to remember him by ❤️
it's so cool how hearing a song so many years later can instantly bring you back to a moment like that
It's true what one had stated. It's not were you had resided at, more like what one is born into in life philosophically.
bill smith I too same age, whoa, same memory
Love this song. Takes me back to younger days when life was simple but good.
I love this song. When I was a little girl and my mother's best friend would sit for me, she ALWAYS had this song playing in her house. It took me years to find out the song name. One day, I found myself humming it and my dad said randomly, "The song's called Uncle Albert, if you wanna know." lol....thanks, Dad. :)
This really sounds like it would’ve been a Beatles song if they were still together in whatever year it was written
50 years ago this time, summer 1971 is when this song was released.
And yes, the Beatles had recently disbanded at the time.
thought it was
Sounds like it is right off of yellow submarine. This song took off like a Saturn 5 when it came out and got huge amounts amounts of airplay . I can imagine the other Beatles being jealous when they heard it . To me it almost sounds more like the Beatles than the Beatles. The talent of sir paul is staggering!
I'm getting real Abbey Road vibes from this!
Listening to this song thinking of my uncle albert, 79, in a nursing home and has covid. I love you uncle albert
@@charleselry5681 ignorant for you to think this stuff is a joke, I've had multiple family members pass away from it
were so sorry uncle albert
@@VansLudwig he ended up passing away this year shortly after he got vaccinated....sadly. miss him a lot
@@Projectpompeii thanks for the reply. im really odd when it comes to the subject of passing away. I'd ike to say that they've just made it to the place we're all headed to.
the kettles on the boil and we're so easily called away.
@@VansLudwig we haven’t done a bloody thing all day.
Thank you for posting this Beatle song. Oh, how it brings back memories of childhood visits to Adelaide Road, the Ferry, Royal Iris across the Mersey from Birkenhead. The smell of the ferry docks, the smoke from steam engines at the terminus Station & of course fish 'n chips doused with vinegar & salt, eaten out greased paper wrapped in the Liverpool Echo! What memories, Thank you!
I was 3 in 1971...this was one of the first songs I remember along with" I'll be there" by the Jackson 5, my mom bought me both 45's and my brother and I would listen to them over and over. The strange collaboration and imagery of the words of this song intrigued me when I was a kid...along with the mishmash of musical styles and transitions.
Then you’d be a year older than I am, as I was two in 1971.
I must comment on this song. I love this song. I hear it and I listen to the first part, and I'm like who could ever like this? And then I hear part 2, and suddenly I'm reliving a childhood fantasy. It is so brilliant, so wonderful, surely there is a fact question and this song can't be dismissed summarily. The melody is one of the great musical compositions of the last hundred years.
It's crazy to think that, save for Linda's vocals, Paul did literally everything here. Music, lyrics, vocals, production. Most talented songwriter of all time.
He certainly gives Todd Rundgren a run for his money!
Think I heard he did everything on Maybe I’m amazed. Pry whole album!
A bonkers song that was released around the time the drugs had kicked in..I always think when I hear it that it proves the Beatles weren't the geniuses lots of people said they were. It's one that's got the McCarthy stamp on it.
HAPPY 80th BIRTHDAY 🎁 🎼🎵🎶PAUL!! ( so hard to believe we were once all so so Young ) It’s been one Hell of a Ride of Life and So GREAT having you around with the GREATEST MELODIES EVER COMPOSED IN THE WORLD AND HISTORY OF MANKIND!! I’m so Glad I was part of it now in my 60’s!!!
I remember being 3 or 4 in the early 70s hearing this song on the radio all the time. It has so many layers and this little girl loved the part about the little gypsy. I still remember those feelings of 42 years ago. Such a great time in my life and such great music. This song has a childlike quality.
+winogirlll omg you could not have said it better. i feel the same exact same way.
+Chris Gonzalez So do I. I grew up with my Uncle named Albert. I didn't appreciate him until it was too late. Love & miss you Uncle Albert. I will NEVER forget you.
+Chris Gonzalez So do I. I grew up with my Uncle named Albert. I didn't appreciate him until it was too late. Love & miss you Uncle Albert. I will NEVER forget you.
+Carol Gladfelder Accidentally sent the same reply twice. Been having problems with my computer.
43yrs later, have you picked your feet up off the ground?? little gypsy???
Brings back beautiful memories from the summer of 1971. Best July I ever had.
I love the song and photos just nice Thanks
Robert Thomas why? Tell us!
Happy 50th anniversary to this great peppy song!
August of 71 was my best (I was born)
Late summer of 1971. I can remember it like it was yesterday - even though I wasn't quite 8. Recall hearing this in the car as we crossed Vancouver's iconic Lions Gate Bridge with the sun shining down. Wonderful memories!
I turned 4 in August of that year. I thought this song came out either 1969 or 1970. Seems like I wasn't too far off.
it's "hands across the water, heads across the sky"
Well there's a familiar face
It’s “paaaaaants across the water”
Beatles are still the biggest success music wise for England and my thanks go out to them
And Mr John Lennon for being a true Labour supporter northern born Lad regarding politics in life
And always will remember your memory for the victory days that is was when you where growing up being 5 years of age in those history political victory days I as also born in
In the memory to those general public lower rank war hero’s in life on the 11th of November every year.
gr
Other commenters are right. It’s “heads across the sky.“
Really? I'm 31 dad's a fan my whole life he just been letting me sing it wrong
This brings back memories of when I was 8 and life was so simple .
Because we were innocent then...
I was 10 when this came out, loved it then but much more so now I'm a tad older.
@@1iluvfigs47unicorn3 plus a family was a family back then as well, lots of love 💕
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I love the way this song was used in an episode of Only Fools and Horses.
same here ilove this
Same
Which is exactly what brought me here
Del boy.
I love Only Fools, And Horses. I watch all the repeats on Television, on a channel, called Gold.
@ 1:34 "We're so sorry, Uncle Albert… But We haven't done a bloody thing all day." Seems like my normal week, relaxed...
Bless you outcast668 ,Many working Americans are working inside a false American propreganda that is designed for the Republicans. Remember about the old saying of the " Have or the have nots!" It's not a reality check!. It's life for the working class inside the brain washed America! Why don't you think the recent many American immigrants are just laughing their asses off at us!
Hendrick Yee Thank you..it's all so clear now. I'm going to quit my job and sit around smoking pot, having casual sex (with illegal immigrants or whoever) while relying on the government for my needs so I won't be confused with a dreaded Republican.
Buster Merryfield, Great Uncle Albert, in Only Fools, And Horses. He was a great character.
timeless fun....always brings back wonderful memories of high and happy days of our youth...Ahhh....Mmmm
Obviously (to me) Paul was apologizing to Beatles fans for the break up in the Uncle Albert section, then in the Admiral Halsey section he's clearly speaking to Lennon (butter wouldn't melt= a stubborn arrogance) , and in the gypsy part he's talking about moving out on his own with Linda. Isn't it obvious? In any case, such a wonderful pop song, one of my all-time favorites.
My dad used to sing a little song to me:
“Little Joya, won’t you get around
Get your feet up off the ground
Little Joya, get around”
I’m just learning now at age 20 that this is where it was from 😄
We're so sorry, Uncle Albert
We're so sorry that the people who hit dislike caused you any pain.
We're so sorry, Uncle Albert.
But there's no account for taste
and I believe they have no ear for music and their brains are laid to waste.
ncisducky4ever people are just being disagreeable.
It's possible that such a time-capsule song as this, can have bitter memories attached...therefore, thumbs down.
LOL that was funny!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Those people who hit the dislike button don't know real music.
ncisducky4ever That was absolutely hilarious and quite original. Some people just don't have an ear for music like this in all fairness but still I found your verses really funny!
I was 14 years old when I bought this 45 record at a record store my parents gave me a record player for Christmas I played it over and over .I much older now and still my favorite!❤️
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Nice memory to hang on to. You are lucky.
Love this song so much.
Heard this on Flashback this Sunday morning
I listen to this every Monday morning haha
LasVegasLites It's not supposed to that's the point
+LasVegasLites obviously you are the one who was dropped on your head umm Las Vegas Lites? What the fuck does that even mean? Lol You making some terrible cigarettes? Somebody sell you a bunch of tobacco from halfie's found at the airport? You obviously have brain damage since you went out of your way to TRY to bring other people down. I bet you can't write shit for a song. Keep smoking those Las Vegas Lites lol
+LasVegasLites hold on I will say it in a way you can understand... U r dum an make no sence... How can you even misspell that? Lol like really I had to actually bypass auto correct to type something so stupid lol
Sincerely wishing music today could be more like this
I wish I could find a video of Paul and Linda doing this song because I love it 💞 The words are so creative. I wish music was like this still!!!
Heard this for the first time when I was 14, have only just found it at 27... worth it.
This song leaves me thinking what was uncle Albert thinking of when he was honoured by the Beatles with this magical song Desiree East Perth WA
"Butter pie, butter pie? The butter wouldnt melt, so I put it in the pie."
That's an interesting set of lyrics.
I listened this song for the first time in 1971 while living for a while with my aunt in Hartford CT. I had no idea who sang it but i loved it from the first time.
I remember being 5 years old and absolutely loving this song when it came on in the car, or on the Hi-Fi at home.
I just had a dream and I heard this song. I haven't consciously thought about it since I was 5. I was born in 1966. I woke up and googled hands across the water. I didn't remember the name. How unbelievably strange...the mind is a mystery... SMH
@@tracieday8661 I'm a 1966 baby too!
Still great after all the years. Haven't heard it in years. Will be 58 in a week. Great birthday present. Makes me feel young again.
Hands across the water, heads across the sky :)
Yeah that’s what I thought. NOT hands across the sky.
This song is pure excellence a masterpiece Paul McCartney is my favourite of them all from Desiree Fox from East Perth WA
Inolvidables recuerdos me trae esta bonita cancion, especialmente recuerdo a mi hermano Alfredo (QEPD) lo queremos mucho y extrañamos la familia entera.
Happy 50th anniversary to this great peppy song by Beatle Paul McCartney! (It was released right around this time in 1971; it’s early August 2021 as I post this comment.) May this song be enjoyed for another 50 years as well, ha ha! :)
MI CANCION FAVORITA DE CUANDO ERA UN NIÑO!!!... HACE MUCHO TIEMPO!! NADIE JAMAS COMO ELLOS!!!.............
*My hubby loves this song-he sings it to our 13 yr old 3 legged cat, Alfred(small change in the lyrics from Albert to Alfred,lol) It's just the sweetest thing I've seen* 😭
I love that I also love this song so much. My cats love music too
This is my current favorite Paul McCartney song... I love how it has no meaning, and they just had fun with it! :)
I LOVE John Lennon, and his songs do have meanings and messages. But I also like to hear songs that are just fun to listen to and make no sense at all!
I love when they talk about butter pies and kettles boiling and then those things have to relation to the song...
I think my favorite part of the song is, We're so sorry, Uncle Albert, but we haven't done a bloody thing all day!
:)
A huge pop masterpiece, one of the greatest of all time, and certainly one of the greatest that had ever happened up until the time it came out. I was 10 years old in 1971, and in the summer of '71, I immediately became transfixed on this song and many others that were coming down the pike at that time on AM radio. This song was one of the very first that I feel in love with, and that got me hooked on pop music. It was truly the golden age for pop/rock/Top 40 (the mid-1950's through the 1980's, that is--with all of the twists and turns that each decade brought).
I must comment though, that this was a Paul and Linda McCartney song, which happened AFTER the 1970 breakup of the Beatles (Paul would soon thereafter form his new band, Paul McCartney and Wings)--so to be showing the Beatles in all of the video stills as if this is a Beatles tune is erroneous.
The Beatles had already disbanded a year earlier, and all four guys had gone their separate ways and begun their solo careers by August of 1971, when this song was released.
It's nothing short of BOGUS then, to be showing all four Beatles in the shots in this video as though this is THEIR song,
It isn't.
It's Paul and Linda McCartney's. (Mostly Paul's, written about his real "Uncle Albert")
And it should ONLY be given any acknowledgement here as such.
Look it up.
The facts aren't hard to uncover.
The rest of the Beatles didn't have anything to do with this song--so what the hell are they all doing in the video?
Creidt ONLY where credit is due.......
I'm a rabid Beatles fan--and as such, I actually respect all of the boundaries that need to be respected--including those that would EXCLUDE the Beatles other than Paul for credit for this song.
I'm totally calling bullshit on this one.
It's from the album RAM by Paul and Linda McCartney, and it is sooooooooo NOT a Beatles song--so the moron (or the youngster who didn't know any better) needs to be set straight on this one.......
RAM is one of my favorite albums ever :)
+Raul Mejia
Yeah.. Random Access Memory is pretty cool. I wish I had DDR4 so badly..
Wait.. What were we talking about?
+Raul Mejia arthur on the water, harry in the sky
My family drove to Florida from Ohio, we were moving, Ok, on a whim - my father- I remember this song in 1970, sleeping on the lawn of Palm Beach Atlantic college where my beloved past Brother Rich enrolled - we got there late, my dad was f........n cheap! I'll never forget looking at the stars!!......... Jan
Thanks for sharing your life experience mate! Caroline x Australia 🇦🇺 STRAYA SOUTHERN Cross ➕ Southern HEMISPHERE
A remarkable talent, and still out there doing his thing.
Paul McCartney - the most genious writer of Pop-Songs! He´s got the talent of composing songs of which you think they´ve existed already forever
I was 14 or 16 i think domineering mom had been shouting in car again this song came out I was in old car Pontiac Bonneville and on bridge North Carolina long trip to cousins I put my only possession Realistic Radio AM Shack radio full volume with Ear piece saw someone in sky jamming with me looking down and two hands linking Europe and USA and my friends as he held hands across the SKY!!!! Man a Spiritual Mystic Moment of Escape and rhythm and ultimate cool. People never knew how cool I really was.Thank You Beetles!Hands Across The SKy!!
+James Neale Dude! You should write beat-poetry!
WOW because of you i might try God Bless The Watchmen
+James Neale It must be true. A kid that was born into a good pair of shoes into this life without hand me downs at the age of seven was daydreaming about the reality of the musicians known as the Beatles! I haven't heard anything that came close to them since that time period to date.
Me neither like manic in the air. We used sit around play some backwards. Then even later in life the enigma mystery of John Lennon and the FBI and CIA tracking him the song Imagine describes the coming New World Order Announced this month Fool on the Hill hidden hints to Flat Earth studies and corrupted science he refused to swallow the red pill Im am the Eggman I am the Walrus hidden chant smoke pot. And if you can type in on RUclips Proof Paul McCartny died and all the lyrics ponting to the mystery enctypted. I mean WOW
James Neale So true 'bout the various references in the Fab-4's music! While there is some debate in the interpretations... clearly there was 'much to say' in there lyrics! I heard years ago that A Day In The Life was a tip-off that Paul had died. I always saw it as john foretelling his own death!
My late father is Alejandro always went by Alex!
We would pick up my to young cousins about 8 and 9 years old, on the way to our family ranch to work. When this song came out, in the 70's my mischievous little cousins would sing this to my dad and instead of singing Uncle Albert they would sing Uncle Alex. It was an inside joke cause they wouldn't do the work they were supposed to do and my dad would get pissed off at them for not doing their job and for teasing him with this song!
This is a good example of how Paul needed the kick of John Lennon. Without John, Paul was too syrupy. Without Paul, John was too in-your-face. Together--they were magic.
Very well said! I so wish they could have had the chance later in life to revisit their creative partnership...
I'd love to have got to what john influence would have done to this song. it's a good good song it's a 3 song mash up. the first part drags in places.
No one could have said this better. I agree!
Come together right now over me
I think he asked John but ... John didn't add a bloody thing all day lol!
FABULOUS LIVELY SONG! And thanks for including the lyrics! I can just picture this song being featured on the old prime time sitcom,"Laverne and Shirley," like the girls, plus even Lenny and Squiggy, and Carmine, singing it in a talent show, or something,especially Shirley singing verse, "Admiral Halsey notified me, He had to have a berth or he couldn't get to sea...." while wearing one of those straw "boater"hats, that she would jiggle up and down, as she sang(typical silliness, of Shirley Feeney, on the show!)Thanks again, for posting-EXCELLENT LIVELY SONG!
Paul McCartney, the Beatle who knew how to rain.
you got that.
I had this recording on what I've come to realize, was a "pirated" 8-track tape! The tape had this song on it, with a bunch of old, pre-psychedelic Beatles songs as well. Sketchy looking, poorly printed sticker on the tape. Bought it at the same neighborhood package store where we got the 8-track player. This, and a Peter Frampton tape were my favorites. My parents had a bunch of Johnny Cash stuff they'd listen to on that thing too. Had to be around '76/'77. Memories come flooding back!
Live a little be a gypsy get around, get your feet up off the ground- live a little get around
Real people. Real music. I miss it.
Only Fools And horses great song in a great show :)
Never until today have I ever heard the first part of this song. Always thought it was called "Hands Across the Water" and started with that phrase.
I always thought it was : '"He had to have a bath or he couldn't get to sleep" LOL!
Thanks for uploading with lyrics. Gotta love this internet age!!!!
Who-hoo for technology.....no more guessing like in the good ol' days :)
He had to have a berth or he couldn't get to sea
I always thought it was buzz !
Deborah: I still hear it that way. I don't care what anyone says. 😁
This brings me back to so many things
Live a little gypsy get around. Get your feet up off the ground live a little get around.............
Great song great band!!i miss you John thank you for all the great memories.it was a very very bad way that you were taken from us all.Sadly you went the very thing that scared you most.May that trash never gets out!!! He will answer to the higher God...J.W....
Excelente canción, me lleva inmediatamente a mi infancia, haciéndome evocar a mi primo Alfonzo Ortiz (QEPD), de manos de quien la conocí!
This is one truly odd pop track! People take for granted that it is what it is... but it once wasn't!!! McCartney shepards it into existence slowly, mysteriously, beautifully... so many parts, perfectly unfolding into a mini symphony of pop fragments... oddly uniquely subtly, quirky greatness... How's that!?!
One of the strangest but greatest songs in history...
Most insightful comment so far.
Awesome subtle lead guitar in the background. Wonderfully done.
"The butter wouldn't melt so I put it in the pie." I would put the butter in the microwave and set it for several seconds first. I could add more time if needed. Another option would be to put the butter in the pie and microwave it together. 😂😂
That would work now, but microwaves weren’t a thing when the song was written. One would’ve commonly melted it in the oven or on the stove/burner.
Lot of great photos
I adore this ... it reaches so deeply. Thank you, Beatles.
One of my favourite BEATLES songs, for the beautiful memories that it brings ✌❤🇬🇧
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Rest easy and well, George Harrison...it would be your 79th birthday, couple days ago..
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Rest in the Light of God, John Lennon, you did so good...
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Thanks both of you, for the Extraordinary Legacy and the Immensely Loved Contributions to the PEACE and LOVE ✌❤
Long Life to Paul and Ringo ❤❤
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Today is February 26, 2022
And I love you, endlessly
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Fantastic song : three for the price of one
Love this~grew up w/these geniuses.What a time it was...!!!!
This song was all Paul, after the Beatles but before Wings.
I fell in love with the Beatles in 72. I had no idea they'd broken up. I miss that innocence. RAM was one of McCartney's best 👍
I LOVE This song my Dad ever put This song
Paul was a genius for getting Herb Alpert to play the bridge with his trumpet.
Song made from the finest cannibas.
what cannabis? :)
Jose Lira The finest. Can't you read? :P
haha me too :)
ha ha
Jose Lira it’s weed
so beautiful, more than 4 medleys and it's perfect. a real masterpiece
When I heard it first, I thought that Paul decided to lump together material for couple of different songs that he had ready to record individually with Beatles. This medley sounds probably better than individual songs would have..
Just curious since this is Paul McCartney after the Beatles why you use all Beatles era photos? Not a big deal. Great song and thanks for sharing.
Maybe because it's a very Beatles sounding song...
I was thinking the same thing.
It's a very Paul McCartney sounding song. Beatles sounding, not exactly.
It's still Beatles
tough one
What a treat in 2023, great video, thank you!
3:11 - Their real accent comes out there for a second. "Alright"
For some reason this song popped into my head yesterday and this morning as I was driving to work I was listening to CBS 880 from NYC. Every morning they do segment called "On this Day" and they share little bits of info about different things that happened in the past on that particular day. Well this morning (8/2/22) one of the things they spoke about was that on August 2nd 1971 Paul McCartney formed the group Wings dashing any hopes of the Beatles getting back together. And this song was playing in the background while they told the story. I was like WOW I had just thought about that song yesterday. What a coincidence 😄
And I always thought it was the Beatles that sang it. Didn't know it was Wings.
I love the English! Hands across the water.
This is the best video Ive seen for the song"Were So Sorry Uncle Albert" by the Beatles, thanks for posting this up.
BUTTAH PIE!?! the butter wouldn't melt so i put it in a pie XD
Billboard's 298th #1 hit of the rock era. God bless! RIP, the Lovely Linda!
Correct lyrics:
I had another look and I had a cup of tea and butter pie
(Butter pie)
(The butter wouldn't melt so I put it in the pie)
Thank you. You are correct.
Wow, FANTASTIC job on this video! Luv the pics! And Luv the song! And thanks for posting the lyrics...I always thought is was "he had to hunt a bus or he couldn't get to city" LOL!!!!! Thanks for setting me straight on that.
Sir Paul McCartney Rocks!!!!!
one of my favourite McCartney songs as i am a huge beatles fan from way back and this is from the ram album one of my favourite McCartney albums Peter S
Credit should be focused on Paul McCartney not the Beatles ...
Nope... The Wings
I stand corrected and apparently so does Sergio ...
OH and I was referring to the imagery being focsed so much on the Beatles
methat Iare I agree; it isn't the Beatles. The pics confused me at first, cuz I haven't heard this for 25 years probably. All I could remember was liking a song that went "Hands across the Water!" So, I googled that, but I wasn't sure who it was behind Paul McCartney. ♫
Actually Finn, it isn't "Wings" at all. It's from his "Ram" album, which is credited to Paul and Linda McCartney. Wings didn't exist yet....at any rate, that's no big deal. What a great song! (I was 11 years-old.) God, it all goes fast, eh? ♫
muchas gracias por estas preciosas fotos. thank you very much for this precious pictures. just in 5 days i´ll see paul in the greatest concert of all the times in my country, Peru, greetings, :D
Fools and Horses
During the war!
This song was humming in my head and couldn't remember the title, just remember the time I was listening was in the 70s, finally figured out this is the song....Thank you.
Who th fuck gave a thumbs down.. it's the best song in the world
Your mother gave thumbs down
Ralph james after I gave yours a finger up
Jack Christopher lolololol...that was good i have to admit. Peace
+Jack “Does Stuff” Christopher LOL,
This song is pure genius and Paul McCartney is by far the most talented of them all
2:23 is one of the best sounds in life. Makes me wanna slap a chipmunk. And then dance with it.
Haha. What?
drewkuch I vibe
Love hearing Linda's background vocals!
Rest in Peace Angel!
We miss you as much as Paul does.
I use this song to celebrate Uncle Albert (Einstein's) thoughts on gravitational waves, just announced discovered today, oh over a hundred years after uncle Albert Einstein said they should be there. To uncle Paul and uncle Albert Einstein. SCIENCE Bitches! :)
I was about 8 years old. At the time. I loved the boys and I have loved them forever . The Beatles ❤