@@FenderTele-ec7iu as an album, yes. as a Beatles album, Revolver is the peak. Pepper is a bit too mccartney heavy (which is great in itself), Revolver is more balanced, it's the Beatles working together at their very tightest.
You don't have to like Revolver more than Pepper, or Rubber Soul, or Abbey Road or any of their albums but make no mistake about it- Revolver was THE game-changer. Not only for them but for every band.
@@lucetteketley9114 American music started with country western, which led to the blues, and so forth -- so a shared history. Let's not underestimate how the Beatles -- who always gave credit where it was due -- still changed the music world with their very own songs and their many super-creative styles. :) It's said that all artists are influenced by somebody else and we can see how true that is.
@@Chris-kj7de john Lennon was mind blown by a song called Rock Island Line by Lonnie Donnegan. That tune is instrumental in the Beatles becoming what they did
This is the song that inspired the members of Chicago to start a band - a bunch of them were brass players and before this heard this they hadn't thought you could have this much brass instrumentation in rock n' roll...Chicago is also worth your time!
I saw Chicago perform " Got to Get You Into My Life" as an encore. It blew me away and I didn't know it was this song that inspired such a fantastic band. I saw the Beatles once and Chicago 12 times.
I’m a 69 year old woman who lived through a lot of rock concerts and and exceptional music. The Beatles evolved faster than we could keep up ☮️♥️🤘🏽🔥😎👵🏼
"The Beatles" didn't do "genre" -- DAMN the use of that word by pseudo-intellectuals. They made MUSIC. Others try to prgeonhole it into narrow "genre". It was rare at the time that any "self-respecting" rock and roll band would do ballads. "The Beatles" simply made MUSIC.
Paul wrote this after attending a Motown concert with, Stevie Wonder. The Revolver album was the album this gem comes from. Another great reaction Harri.👍
@@danielolson5378 This song was written for Cliff Bennet and the Rebel Rousers, a long time before any Beatles version was available and was a big hit in the UK
@@peterhall2810 Now when you're mentioning it i once had a collection album with different songs from the '60s including this song but with Cliff Bennet & The Rebel Rousers which i had completely forgot! Thanx for the reminding!
Paul still plays that exact same bass in his live shows today, can you imagine how much that bass guitar used from his Beatles days till now is worth now$?$?
@@gregoryjenkins8645 The Beatles wanted to record at Stax Records studio, but they studio asked for an exorbitant amount of money in order to record there. The band deeply admired the thick bass sound from Stax.
I'd rank Paul's bass playing up there with the best in Rock. He had such a melodic feel. Not just thub thub thub thub, and not note salad, but tasteful, melodic playing.
As a musician, i totally love that you listen deep enough into tracks to hear the full melodic bass playing done by Paul. He would often record the final bass last, so he could hear where it wouldn't clash, or be nullified by another instrument, and still completely caressed and served the song with beautifully melodic bass.
A critic wrote, " REVOLVER found the Beatles at the peak of their powers competing with one another because nobody else could touch them. " The album itself contained many different styles of music and was hugely influential. And they hadn't finished yet!
Paul said this song is literally about weed. On a professional note, he plays melodically because he’s a guitar player at heart. Most good bass players play good guitar
Okay Harri, our rolls are reversed, I have listened to the Beatles version my whole life and now I get to go check out Earth, wind& fire's version. I'm excited. Have a great day my friend. So glad to have met you and others though your channel and learn from each other, and that's really what its all about right. PEACE HIPPIE JOE
@@DavidB-2268 Good piece of info , I'm sure I watched the movie 30yrs ago or so but not ringing a bell . Only thing that keeps popping up in my head is Tommy, The Who movie. I have chemo brain, from my damn cancer treatment. I'm definitely not as sharp as I was. Thanks brother. PEACE
Thank you for your reaction, Harri! Paul was a musical genius, who could play so many instruments, and all well! His bass lines were like no one else's ever, just one of the reasons the band was so ground-breaking! Cheers,
When bands were being boxed into Rock, Pop, Folk, R&B, Psychedelic, Country, etc., The Beatles created/sampled everything, made it their own and watched their songs go to #1 over and over.
The Earth Wind & Fire version was done for a film version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band starring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton. It's not a particularly good movie at all, but has some awesome Beatles covers...and some rather painful ones. 😛
EWF, Billy Preston, and Aerosmith were the only good covers in that movie. The rest was a fabulously tacky cheesefest that's quite enjoyable... if you're really stoned. Luckily, I was exactly that when I saw it the first week it was out! :D
In their early days the Beatles covered R & B singers of the United States and gave those singers credit for using their songs. Later, they began to write their own material and good material. In the 80s and 90s radios stations began to specialized in one music format per station. Oldies and so forth, therefore many radio listeners listen to what they prefer i.e. R & B, Rock. There are a few stations that play a variety of R & B, Rock and Roll, and Pop where you will hear the Beatles' music. I.E. WKRB 90.0 Richburg, SC which has five transmitters that cover Northeast and parts of upstate South Carolina and reaches into southern mid North Carolina.
Actually, it was released as a single 10 years later, in 1976, to promote the "Rock an Roll" compilation album, and was a top 10 hit (#7 in Billboard, #3 in Cashbox).
It is funny when you hear the cover version of a song first ! lol. It’s happened to me a lot and I would say about half the time I do eventually embrace the original.
That's why it always helps to look under a song title for the name/s in parentheses. And if you research the covers on "The Beatles" first and second LPs (as example,) you'll discover they were originally by Black R&B performers, mostly girl groups. What the US was calling "rock and roll" (white performers of Black music) the Europeans were calling "rhythm & blues".
Great reaction videos ... I am a huge Beatles fan .... and I love Earth Wind & Fires' version of this tune. I have seen Earth Wind and Fire in concert a number of times... and they are spectacular ......
The Beatles toured with Cliff Bennett in 1966 andthey also shared the same manager (Brian Epstein). That is why Bennett was the first to release this song. He may have asked the Beatles if he could sing it, or they may have written it with hm in mind.
The horn section was deliberately recorded with distortion to sound kind of like a distorted guitar. When the musicians heard how they sounded on tape they were upset.
haha... I had never heard the Earth, Wind and Fire version, and I love them! Just listened... predictably it was great. Just discovered your channel... awesome!
In 1966 the Beatles were actually planning on recording their Revolver album at the STAX Studio in Memphis but had to abandon the plan when word got out and locals started descending on the place. I can only imagine how different that album would have sounded if the plan had succeeded.
So, the Earth wind and Fire take on this song was original and good. This Beatles original is truly excellent, but wait, there was a 1966 number one single version of the song by Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers - and that is the pinnacle! On that version the horns section and the vocals are giving it 200%. You might want to take a listen to that version as well (but make sure you get the mono version, not the stereo remix). Recently Paul McCartney has fessed up that he wrote this song after first experiencing LSD (I think it was LSD?) and in his words his immediate reaction was "I got to get this into my life!" which is where the song title came from.
I used to drink with a guy called Ian Hamer (RIP), who played trumpet on this. He told me that the brass hook came from his improvisations at the session.
I am truly enjoying your journey through The Beatles. It is the songbook of my life. People today really have no concept of the impact they had at the time. Nobody since has come close.😀
The beatles wrote songs for other people to record, including this one. Other songs that come to mind are: I want to be your man (rolling stones) and do you want to know a secret (billie j kramer ad the dakotas). A lot of other musicians were also doing this including david bowie for mott the hoople. Gene pitney wrote a lot of songs for other people and didn't record a single one. Paul also wrote a song for mary hopkin (those were the days) after seeing her on a UK talent show.
For whatever reason, this song had a resurgence in the seventies, at least here in Canada. And because it was right around the same time that Band on the Run was playing, I thought that this was Wings for a few years until I got deeper into the Beatles catalogue.
I think its resurgence in Canada was for the same reason as in the US. In the summer of 1976, Paul McCartney was making his first tour of North America since The Beatles had stopped touring in 1966. This spurred the first major wave of Beatles nostalgia since the group had split up six years earlier and Capitol Records took advantage of this by issuing a Beatles compilation LP called ‘Rock n Roll Music’ in June. ‘Got To Get You Into My Life’ was issued on 31 May 1976 as the single to promote the album. It reached the top of the Canadian charts and #7 on the US charts, which was impressive for a song that was by that time already 10 years old. In both the US and Canada, ‘Rock n Roll Music’ reached the #2 position on the LP charts, being kept out of the #1 spot by ‘Wings At The Speed of Sound’, the album Paul McCartney & Wings were touring in support of. So, with Paul in the Top Ten on both the singles and the album charts with both bands and Wings on the road in North America, it’s not at all surprising you thought it was a Wings record.
@@DavidB-2268 No problem! I was 11 in 1976 and completely Beatles-besotted. I’d discovered them a year or so earlier and with the nostalgia wave raging in ‘76 was driving my parents nuts begging for Beatles records, magazines, books... anything. We lived in the ‘burbs outside Chicago, and I thought it was terribly unfair they wouldn’t let an 11 year old go to the Wings concert in the city that summer! 😂
Got to Get You into My Life is Paul's love song to weed. Its written in a Harlem Cab Calloway style, which might be why it appealed to Earth Wind & Fire - a great cover!
Paul wrote this song to express his love for weed, introduced to him and the other Beatles by Bob Dylan in 1964, two years before this song was recorded & released
This song was released as a single for a compilation album, in North America in 1976, ten years after the Beatles broke up in 1976. It reached #7 on the U.S. hot 100 and was a number one hit in Canada. 🇨🇦
@@docbearmb The Beatles version of I wanna be your man was never a hit for The Beatles as it was never a stand alone single, and it was not written for The Stones but covered by them.
Lots of people will swear that Joe Cocker sang the only and definitive “With a Little Help From My Friends” but the original was by the Beatles on the album Sergeant Pepper. The original was only vaguely similar to the Joe Cocker version.
You're technically correct, EW&F did own this song. Even Paul will tell you that version is what he calls perfect, The Beatles wanted to record this at Stax records so they could get the better horn players but could not make it happen.
Love EW&F and their version of this song. That said, Revolver is among my very favorite Beatles albums. You can almost smell Sgt. Pepper brewing on this album!
Paul was the first Bassmiester!!! He showed the bass didn't just have to help keep time and fill gaps. A melody man through and through!! I think because he's a lefty and a piano player first, he was able to understand melody that the bass keys could ALSO provide to the song. 🤟🏻😎👍🏻
Marvin Gaye made my favorite cover of the Beatles "Yesterday". I love both bands and both versions. The Beatles are genius and you gotta thank Paul for this one
All of Revolver is great! I like John's "I'm Only Sleeping" & "And Your Bird Can Sing" at least on the British version. "Good Day Sunshine" was covered a lot too.
Everybody’s Beatles story is singular and unique and yet universal. We all loved them but for our own diverse reasons. Their youth and vitality came to boomer’s attention just after the traumatizing events in Dallas 11/63. We needed to scream and sing and shake our heads. I’ll always be grateful they were there.
From the 1966 album Revolver, Got To Get You In To My Life was released as a single in 1976 to launch a new Beatles album called Rock N Roll Music, a compilation of songs from previously released material. The song became a top 10 hit and a couple of years later was covered by Earth, Wind & Fire who also hit the top 10 and #1 soul.
The only, ONLY, 'criticism' I have of anything The Beatles ever did is that many of their songs were just too short. They leave me wanting more of their sound and genius. Under 3 minutes made them AM radio friendly but for me a good short song can be an even better longer song. The longer the better (and, yes, that's what she said)
All the other Beatles had tried LSD. Paul was the the last and his experience was the germ of the song's creation: "I was alone I took a ride, I didn't know what I would find there. Another road where maybe I could see another kind of mind there". Earth Wind and Fire's version was done for the crap movie " Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". The movie also featured Aerosmith doing a solid "Come Together", Billy Preston did alright with "Get Back", and The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton performed a lot of forgettable versions of Beatles' classics.The soundtrack was produced George Martin who was at the helm for all The Beatles' albums with the exception of Let It Be.
The Beatles wanted to record at least some of the Revolver album at Stax Records in Memphis. The idea fell through, but you can see what they had in mind with this song.
6:30 minutes of the video: Great singers are a dime a dozen. Writing a catchy tune is what matters. And the number of catchy tunes The Beatles wrote is off the charts.
Yes, this song was first done by the Beatles and it will always be one of their classics!!! Earth, Wind & Fire (EWF) was asked to cover & perform a Beatles song for the movie "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" (which was a tribute to the Beatles) and EWF selected "Got To Get You Into My Life." When the guys from the Beatles heard EWF's version of their song & watched them perform it, they were highly impressed and rumor has it that it was Paul McCartney who said to them, "I think they did it better than us" (something to that effect). Because it became known as one of the best covers of all-time!!! No disrespect to the Beatles, because they are who they are and no one can ever take that away from them; but in my humble opinion, EWF took this song to another level...
It's hard to do a Beatles cover that surpasses the original, but EWF did with this one. Mind you I love the original. But the Beatles were deliberately aiming to capture the soul sound and feel. So in EWF's hands the song becomes what it was meant to be.
I used to hear both versions on the radio. They were both so good, they became intertwined. As I'm listening to one version, I keep expecting elements of the other version. Does that make sense?
"Revolver" is a truly great album. The Beatles were like 1,000 hit wonders.
in a recording career, spanning just 7 years
@@FenderTele-ec7iu as an album, yes. as a Beatles album, Revolver is the peak. Pepper is a bit too mccartney heavy (which is great in itself), Revolver is more balanced, it's the Beatles working together at their very tightest.
You don't have to like Revolver more than Pepper, or Rubber Soul, or Abbey Road or any of their albums but make no mistake about it- Revolver was THE game-changer. Not only for them but for every band.
@@mikek5958 Yes
@@FenderTele-ec7iu Of course they did that goes without saying but that album in particular changed rock music forever.
Isn’t it great how many people across all races, creeds, backgrounds, etc. loved and were inspired by the Beatles? The Beatles forever...
And how many races inspired the Beatles. :)
@@lucetteketley9114 American music started with country western, which led to the blues, and so forth -- so a shared history. Let's not underestimate how the Beatles -- who always gave credit where it was due -- still changed the music world with their very own songs and their many super-creative styles. :) It's said that all artists are influenced by somebody else and we can see how true that is.
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Not just the Beatles. Music permeates through us all. The Beatles were an exceptional conduit but music is in is all
@@Chris-kj7de john Lennon was mind blown by a song called Rock Island Line by Lonnie Donnegan. That tune is instrumental in the Beatles becoming what they did
This is the song that inspired the members of Chicago to start a band - a bunch of them were brass players and before this heard this they hadn't thought you could have this much brass instrumentation in rock n' roll...Chicago is also worth your time!
No wonder.Heard some early Chicago..Didnt recognise them😀
I Will add that Blood, Sweat and Tears did a cover of this Song!
How do you like the idea that your favorite Beatle, Paul, wrote and sang lead on the original of one of your favorite songs?? Kinda trippy, right??
@@charlesxavier.. that's the version Harri Best knows best !
I saw Chicago perform " Got to Get You Into My Life" as an encore. It blew me away and I didn't know it was this song that inspired such a fantastic band. I saw the Beatles once and Chicago 12 times.
I’m a 69 year old woman who lived through a lot of rock concerts and and exceptional music. The Beatles evolved faster than we could keep up ☮️♥️🤘🏽🔥😎👵🏼
One thing I NEVER take for granted is the diversified musical genres of the Beatles 🙏🏼
"The Beatles" didn't do "genre" -- DAMN the use of that word by pseudo-intellectuals. They made MUSIC. Others try to prgeonhole it into narrow "genre".
It was rare at the time that any "self-respecting" rock and roll band would do ballads. "The Beatles" simply made MUSIC.
Paul wrote this after attending a Motown concert with, Stevie Wonder. The Revolver album was the album this gem comes from. Another great reaction Harri.👍
Remember reading that Paul said in an interview the song was about Mary Jane and not the Spiderman girlfriend with the same name ;)
I remember Paul or John, saying it’s about taking LSD? Listen to the words,it makes good sense
@@joemasse4568 Paul said it was about weed. Or "pot" as he called it when he said it
@@danielolson5378 This song was written for Cliff Bennet and the Rebel Rousers, a long time before any Beatles version was available and was a big hit in the UK
@@peterhall2810 Now when you're mentioning it i once had a collection album with different songs from the '60s including this song but with Cliff Bennet & The Rebel Rousers which i had completely forgot! Thanx for the reminding!
There will never be anyone like The Beatles ever again. The songwriting success they had is simply inimitable.
Good observation on Paul's bass playing. It was the Beatles' secret sauce.
Paul still plays that exact same bass in his live shows today, can you imagine how much that bass guitar used from his Beatles days till now is worth now$?$?
Well Said!
Paul’s take on James Jameson Motown funky bass sound. The Fabs almost recorded this and Taxman at Motown.
@@gregoryjenkins8645
The Beatles wanted to record at Stax Records studio, but they studio asked for an exorbitant amount of money in order to record there. The band deeply admired the thick bass sound from Stax.
I'd rank Paul's bass playing up there with the best in Rock. He had such a melodic feel. Not just thub thub thub thub, and not note salad, but tasteful, melodic playing.
As a musician, i totally love that you listen deep enough into tracks to hear the full melodic bass playing done by Paul. He would often record the final bass last, so he could hear where it wouldn't clash, or be nullified by another instrument, and still completely caressed and served the song with beautifully melodic bass.
So many good songs on this album. One of my favorites is And Your Bird Can Sing.
The opening guitar segment (george?) is a thing of beauty.
Love that album,love the Beatles.
@@TheCornishCockney Paul and George.
one of my fav as well
A critic wrote, " REVOLVER found the Beatles at the peak of their powers competing with one another because nobody else could touch them. " The album itself contained many different styles of music and was hugely influential. And they hadn't finished yet!
Paul turned the bass into an equal/lead instrument while creating a killer rhythm track for a song.
nonsense. he is a third-rate bass player at best.
You've said it! "Name the genre; they've done it..." That's what made them the world's greatest recording artists... versatility!
Paul said this song is literally about weed.
On a professional note, he plays melodically because he’s a guitar player at heart. Most good bass players play good guitar
Please stay in your “Beatles mode”. Paul’s vocals are flawless as usual.
But it's Lennon's voice that has character.
Paul’s vocals send me to another world. A man of a thousand voices!
Okay Harri, our rolls are reversed, I have listened to the Beatles version my whole life and now I get to go check out Earth, wind& fire's version. I'm excited. Have a great day my friend. So glad to have met you and others though your channel and learn from each other, and that's really what its all about right. PEACE HIPPIE JOE
EW&F did their version for the Sgt. Pepper movie.
@@DavidB-2268 Good piece of info , I'm sure I watched the movie 30yrs ago or so but not ringing a bell . Only thing that keeps popping up in my head is Tommy, The Who movie. I have chemo brain, from my damn cancer treatment. I'm definitely not as sharp as I was. Thanks brother. PEACE
Much love and peace Joe
Great fun sharing your first time hearing truly awesome music buddy
Well, to be fair, and I have been a Beatles fan since 1964, the Earth Wind & Fire cover of this song is truly wonderful.
Revolver, every song on this album is worth listening to.
Thank you for your reaction, Harri! Paul was a musical genius, who could play so many instruments, and all well! His bass lines were like no one else's ever, just one of the reasons the band was so ground-breaking! Cheers,
The Beatles never cease to amaze me with huge catalog of music they have just awesome 👌 great choice of song man love Earth Wind & Fire too ❤
When bands were being boxed into Rock, Pop, Folk, R&B, Psychedelic, Country, etc., The Beatles created/sampled everything, made it their own and watched their songs go to #1 over and over.
The Earth Wind & Fire version was done for a film version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band starring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton. It's not a particularly good movie at all, but has some awesome Beatles covers...and some rather painful ones. 😛
More of the latter than the former, in my opinion. But it was this movie that got me into the Beatles so I can't complain too much.
EWF, Billy Preston, and Aerosmith were the only good covers in that movie. The rest was a fabulously tacky cheesefest that's quite enjoyable... if you're really stoned. Luckily, I was exactly that when I saw it the first week it was out! :D
@@Serai3 well, okay...it's kind of a guilty pleasure for me. 😳
@@emmapeelfan Oh, for me, too. Good memories associated with it. :)
Totally agree about the ending. The song should have been a couple of minutes longer with that great wind down.
Great review. Love your analysis, honest, and respect for both the songs and artists. And love this song, one of my all time Beatles faves!
In their early days the Beatles covered R & B singers of the United States and gave those singers credit for using their songs. Later, they began to write their own material and good material. In the 80s and 90s radios stations began to specialized in one music format per station. Oldies and so forth, therefore many radio listeners listen to what they prefer i.e. R & B, Rock. There are a few stations that play a variety of R & B, Rock and Roll, and Pop where you will hear the Beatles' music. I.E. WKRB 90.0 Richburg, SC which has five transmitters that cover Northeast and parts of upstate South Carolina and reaches into southern mid North Carolina.
The Earth Wind and Fire version was in the Sgt Pepper movie.
I heard an interview with Paul on the Beatles XM channel where he says this song is about pot.
I agree with you❤
I love The Beatles, all of them, but McCartney to me is just a musical GENIUS
You speak the truth. If everyone was completely objective about it they would think the same..
Paul McCartney is definitely a musical genius. He can play every instrument better than anyone else. He did many of the Wings hits all by himself.
This was McCartney's nod to Motown and has always been one of my favourites 🙂
The Earth Wind and Fire version was recorded for the movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1978 and even performed in the movie.
Paul really stepped up his bass game on Revolver. Also his song-writing game
whatever
An embarrassment of riches : it wasn't released as a single, was only featured on the album.
Actually, it was released as a single 10 years later, in 1976, to promote the "Rock an Roll" compilation album, and was a top 10 hit (#7 in Billboard, #3 in Cashbox).
@@Tuning_Spork Yes, 10 years later without the consent of the Beatles.
@@vania1917 Oh, please: George Martin prepared that LP, including some tweakings of the mixes.
You'll find the Beatles "mode" is impossible to change. Once in Beatles mode, ALWAYS in Beatles mode..🤟🏻😎👍🏻
Hey Bulldog is another great bass song 😎👍🏼
It is funny when you hear the cover version of a song first ! lol. It’s happened to me a lot and I would say about half the time I do eventually embrace the original.
Another great song that you will like off of Revolver is For No One.
Oh yes...
Small time favorite. Breaks me up every time I hear it.
That's why it always helps to look under a song title for the name/s in parentheses.
And if you research the covers on "The Beatles" first and second LPs (as example,) you'll discover they were originally by Black R&B performers, mostly girl groups. What the US was calling "rock and roll" (white performers of Black music) the Europeans were calling "rhythm & blues".
Great reaction videos ... I am a huge Beatles fan .... and I love Earth Wind & Fires' version of this tune. I have seen Earth Wind and Fire in concert a number of times... and they are spectacular ......
The Beatles toured with Cliff Bennett in 1966 andthey also shared the same manager (Brian Epstein). That is why Bennett was the first to release this song. He may have asked the Beatles if he could sing it, or they may have written it with hm in mind.
Just watched the Earth Wind & Fire live version of this song after watching your video. It was great! Earth Wind & Fire is great band. Thanks!
The horn section was deliberately recorded with distortion to sound kind of like a distorted guitar. When the musicians heard how they sounded on tape they were upset.
haha... I had never heard the Earth, Wind and Fire version, and I love them! Just listened... predictably it was great. Just discovered your channel... awesome!
In 1966 the Beatles were actually planning on recording their Revolver album at the STAX Studio in Memphis but had to abandon the plan when word got out and locals started descending on the place. I can only imagine how different that album would have sounded if the plan had succeeded.
Listen to "We Can Work it Out". It's a priceless gem.
The Stevie Wonder cover of "We Can Work It Out" is fantastic.
The E,W,&F cover is from a Beatles tribute album done in the mid 70's.
All Beatles songs and their solo songs are gems 💎 to me
So, the Earth wind and Fire take on this song was original and good. This Beatles original is truly excellent, but wait, there was a 1966 number one single version of the song by Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers - and that is the pinnacle! On that version the horns section and the vocals are giving it 200%. You might want to take a listen to that version as well (but make sure you get the mono version, not the stereo remix).
Recently Paul McCartney has fessed up that he wrote this song after first experiencing LSD (I think it was LSD?) and in his words his immediate reaction was "I got to get this into my life!" which is where the song title came from.
I used to drink with a guy called Ian Hamer (RIP), who played trumpet on this. He told me that the brass hook came from his improvisations at the session.
I am truly enjoying your journey through The Beatles. It is the songbook of my life. People today really have no concept of the impact they had at the time. Nobody since has come close.😀
Love your view on the song and also love Earth , wind and fire, phillip Bailey beautiful singer.
Always loved this song, I loved all of the Beattles songs.
What a great song and a great bass player.
Love your positive energy, Harri.
Thanx Ronald
EW&F are a fantastic group...Really Super.
Good enough to cover The Beatles, for sure.
If you love maccas bass,then check out little played,Hey Bulldog.
Get the version where they record the song.
You'll love the groove.
Paul's own version of 'Sweet Leaf' long before Ozzy had his and before Country Joe and the Fish did their own.
This was re-released as a single in 1976 and hit #7 on Billboard chart, and #1 in Canada!
At one point the best known version of this for a lot of people was probably Cliff Bennett and The Rebel Rousers.
The beatles wrote songs for other people to record, including this one. Other songs that come to mind are: I want to be your man (rolling stones) and do you want to know a secret (billie j kramer ad the dakotas). A lot of other musicians were also doing this including david bowie for mott the hoople. Gene pitney wrote a lot of songs for other people and didn't record a single one. Paul also wrote a song for mary hopkin (those were the days) after seeing her on a UK talent show.
For whatever reason, this song had a resurgence in the seventies, at least here in Canada. And because it was right around the same time that Band on the Run was playing, I thought that this was Wings for a few years until I got deeper into the Beatles catalogue.
I think its resurgence in Canada was for the same reason as in the US. In the summer of 1976, Paul McCartney was making his first tour of North America since The Beatles had stopped touring in 1966. This spurred the first major wave of Beatles nostalgia since the group had split up six years earlier and Capitol Records took advantage of this by issuing a Beatles compilation LP called ‘Rock n Roll Music’ in June. ‘Got To Get You Into My Life’ was issued on 31 May 1976 as the single to promote the album. It reached the top of the Canadian charts and #7 on the US charts, which was impressive for a song that was by that time already 10 years old. In both the US and Canada, ‘Rock n Roll Music’ reached the #2 position on the LP charts, being kept out of the #1 spot by ‘Wings At The Speed of Sound’, the album Paul McCartney & Wings were touring in support of. So, with Paul in the Top Ten on both the singles and the album charts with both bands and Wings on the road in North America, it’s not at all surprising you thought it was a Wings record.
@@curtiswilliams578 thanks for the info. I was 8 in '76, and I can still remember the "wait, what?" when I realized the mistake.
@@DavidB-2268 No problem! I was 11 in 1976 and completely Beatles-besotted. I’d discovered them a year or so earlier and with the nostalgia wave raging in ‘76 was driving my parents nuts begging for Beatles records, magazines, books... anything. We lived in the ‘burbs outside Chicago, and I thought it was terribly unfair they wouldn’t let an 11 year old go to the Wings concert in the city that summer! 😂
It was released in support of the Rock and Roll album, a compilation released in 1976.
Got to Get You into My Life is Paul's love song to weed. Its written in a Harlem Cab Calloway style, which might be why it appealed to Earth Wind & Fire - a great cover!
Paul wrote this song to express his love for weed, introduced to him and the other Beatles by Bob Dylan in 1964, two years before this song was recorded & released
Nope It’s the Beatles Tune! 😎👏👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This song was released as a single for a compilation album, in North America in 1976, ten years after the Beatles broke up in 1976. It reached #7 on the U.S. hot 100 and was a number one hit in Canada. 🇨🇦
They were very generous lads.FYI. They wrote a chart topper for the Rolling Stones "I wanna be Your Man"
The Stone’s version was never as big a hit as the Beatles’.
@@docbearmb It was at No.12 for the Rolling Stones in the UK-Charts.
@@docbearmb The Beatles version of I wanna be your man was never a hit for The Beatles as it was never a stand alone single, and it was not written for The Stones but covered by them.
@@markhayes6211 Perhaps “hit” was an overstatement on my part. But the Beatles version got a lot more airplay than the Stones’ back then.
Another McCartney masterpiece! Paul can play anything. He did the amazing solo in Taxman when George couldn't come up with one he liked.
Lots of people will swear that Joe Cocker sang the only and definitive “With a Little Help From My Friends” but the original was by the Beatles on the album Sergeant Pepper. The original was only vaguely similar to the Joe Cocker version.
Since this song is from the Revolver album you gotta check out the last song on the album Tomorrow Never Knows!! Very creative and ahead of its time!
You're technically correct, EW&F did own this song. Even Paul will tell you that version is what he calls perfect, The Beatles wanted to record this at Stax records so they could get the better horn players but could not make it happen.
A great song and one that the Beatles could have written for Earth Wind and Fire. It so suits their style...
Love EW&F and their version of this song. That said, Revolver is among my very favorite Beatles albums. You can almost smell Sgt. Pepper brewing on this album!
Paul was the first Bassmiester!!! He showed the bass didn't just have to help keep time and fill gaps. A melody man through and through!! I think because he's a lefty and a piano player first, he was able to understand melody that the bass keys could ALSO provide to the song. 🤟🏻😎👍🏻
Marvin Gaye made my favorite cover of the Beatles "Yesterday". I love both bands and both versions. The Beatles are genius and you gotta thank Paul for this one
Have you ever heard this ? ruclips.net/video/EsMjTTFRHdY/видео.html
All of Revolver is great! I like John's "I'm Only Sleeping" & "And Your Bird Can Sing" at least on the British version. "Good Day Sunshine" was covered a lot too.
The Earth Wind and Fire version was on/from the Sargent Pepper movie. It was the best cover on that album as they brought real creativity to the song
“With A Little Help From My Friends” is another Beatles song with a different, brilliant interpretation, by Joe Cocker.
Everybody’s Beatles story is singular and unique and yet universal. We all loved them but for our own diverse reasons. Their youth and vitality came to boomer’s attention just after the traumatizing events in Dallas 11/63. We needed to scream and sing and shake our heads. I’ll always be grateful they were there.
Try to compare The Beatles "With a Little Help from my Friends" with Joe Cocker's cover at Woodstock. Different but, both great.
Earth, Wind and Fire makes everything better. The first 45 seconds of In The Stone is by far my favorite sound to hear.
From the 1966 album Revolver, Got To Get You In To My Life was released as a single in 1976 to launch a new Beatles album called Rock N Roll Music, a compilation of songs from previously released material. The song became a top 10 hit and a couple of years later was covered by Earth, Wind & Fire who also hit the top 10 and #1 soul.
As a kid growing up in the 1970s I heard this on the radio and thought it must be a Wings song.
This was re-released in Spring of 1976 and was a massive hit at the time of the Bicentennial.
The only, ONLY, 'criticism' I have of anything The Beatles ever did is that many of their songs were just too short. They leave me wanting more of their sound and genius. Under 3 minutes made them AM radio friendly but for me a good short song can be an even better longer song. The longer the better (and, yes, that's what she said)
All the other Beatles had tried LSD. Paul was the the last and his experience was the germ of the song's creation: "I was alone I took a ride, I didn't know what I would find there. Another road where maybe I could see another kind of mind there".
Earth Wind and Fire's version was done for the crap movie " Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". The movie also featured Aerosmith doing a solid "Come Together", Billy Preston did alright with "Get Back", and The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton performed a lot of forgettable versions of Beatles' classics.The soundtrack was produced George Martin who was at the helm for all The Beatles' albums with the exception of Let It Be.
Hard to pick between this and the EWF version. Both fantastic.
The Beatles wanted to record at least some of the Revolver album at Stax Records in Memphis. The idea fell through, but you can see what they had in mind with this song.
Funny, Earth Wind and Fire are great, I didn't know they'd done a cover version. Will check it out.
The groove is there because the Beatles put it there.
I just found out now that Lennon and McCartney wrote this. I'm amazed. Is there any limit to McCartney's musical genres?
Earth Wind and Fire do a fantastic version!!!🎵🎼🎶👌👍✌️😎
6:30 minutes of the video: Great singers are a dime a dozen. Writing a catchy tune is what matters. And the number of catchy tunes The Beatles wrote is off the charts.
Yes, this song was first done by the Beatles and it will always be one of their classics!!! Earth, Wind & Fire (EWF) was asked to cover & perform a Beatles song for the movie "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" (which was a tribute to the Beatles) and EWF selected "Got To Get You Into My Life." When the guys from the Beatles heard EWF's version of their song & watched them perform it, they were highly impressed and rumor has it that it was Paul McCartney who said to them, "I think they did it better than us" (something to that effect). Because it became known as one of the best covers of all-time!!! No disrespect to the Beatles, because they are who they are and no one can ever take that away from them; but in my humble opinion, EWF took this song to another level...
I love this song
Oh! Darling by the Beatles with Paul McCartney on lead vocals. He is amazing on it
It's hard to do a Beatles cover that surpasses the original, but EWF did with this one. Mind you I love the original. But the Beatles were deliberately aiming to capture the soul sound and feel. So in EWF's hands the song becomes what it was meant to be.
I used to hear both versions on the radio. They were both so good, they became intertwined. As I'm listening to one version, I keep expecting elements of the other version. Does that make sense?
Hahahah that has happened to me with a few songs too
Am I the only one that really love flying? I’d recommend listening to the whole of magical mystery tour
Harri, Paul says this song is about falling in love with pot, yep, marijuana. Hahaha. I'm also in love. Haha. Peace.
Best girlfriend EVER. :D
@@Serai3 Hahaha. Peace.
Absolutely , from 64/65 on he almost always looks stoned . Loved it a bit too much in Japan .
@@stuartharrison165 Hahaha.
You beat me to it! Good to know that other people know.