First Listen - "PS I Love You" and "Baby Its You" by The Beatles (Hip Hop Fan Reacts)
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If you just continue the discography chronologically you’ll really understand their genius. They get better song by song. You also have to consider what else was on the radio. Believe me, as a young kid every single song was a revelation compared the other stuff that was on the radio at the time. They were charting the course for everyone.
SO TRUE, and all of us who were kids and teens (like me) and experienced these songs FIRST HAND will CONFIRM what RICK W just said. There music WAS so DIFFERENT from what we were hearing then on the radio.
Exactly, hearing them chronologically you'll recognize how all their music was great and evolved into more complex songs. They sowed the seeds of much of the 70s rock music. I think Syed is appreciating the greatness and catchiness of their early sound.
Agree entirely, and that's why you had to be there. I was 12 and all I remember is how rubbish the music was. All the Bobbies and Shanes and Cliffs. And then it all changed almost overnight.
I was there, in real time.
Remember all radio play songs had to be under 3 minutes. Lol guess who changed that?
Shalalalaa.
in that second bridge they trade off the vocal fills. First it's John with "oh-oh-oh", then Paul with "You know I want you to" and then George "yeah". I find it fantastic and wonderful that this FIRST record is mirrored by the LAST (as Abbey Road concludes), the instrumental thing they do, trading off guitar licks, first one, then another, then the other. It's so group oriented!
Baby It's You is pretty damned good for a cover. John's vocal is really strong and the backing harmonies are...just like they always are...spectacular.
ALL their COVERS were GOOD, in fact, even though they stayed basically true to the popular original versions, I still liked their covers even more than the originals.
'Baby it's you' was written by master songwriter Burt Bacharach. Both the Shirelles and the Beatles recorded great versions of it.
Written in 1962, "PS I Love You" is very much in the 1950s vein of Pop style with a bit of R&B thrown in for good measure.
It has more of a "cha cha" beat, we used to dance the cha cha or the "chalypso" which was a combination of the cha cha and Calypso. The Beatles' song "I'M HAPPY JUST TO DANCE WITH YOU" also had a beat where we could do those two dances.
The talent level and creativity is master level. You are seeing McCartney and Lennon just getting into their stride. Yes, they made a lot of hits, but there are virtually no DUDS or much filler. Blows my mind to see the quality overall.
They were good at these types of song and, difficult to see now, changed what was expected from a group.
The best thing about listening to the early stuff is how far they progress and change the 'norm' in the next 4 or 5 years.
Yes, it is noticed that no two songs by The Beatles sound alike. I really don't know how they could come up with so many different melodies. That is part of what makes them great. Then, after they split, each of them continued to come up with great melodies. Amazing is the only word to describe them.
Their music was always age appropriate. Their early music was for young teenagers of the Baby Boomers. We ate it up. As we grew older, they evolved too. Fantastic trend setting band!
I was an OLDER teenager (Baby Boomer, born 1947)... 16/17 in 1964 when they hit here in the U.S. and I TOO LOVED their early music, still do, because it was the first music we heard from them, and brings back a lot of great memories of the "Beatlemania" period. You didn't have to be a young teenager to relate to those songs.
@@patticrichton1135 I think he meant teenage baby boomers. Not teenagers of baby boomers.
Good point about the sheer variety of songs they recorded. And the versatility increased over the years. Smart, because everyone had favourite Beatles songs, regardless of their taste.
Absolutely! They NEVER got "BORING' We couldn't wait for their next single or album to come out, to see what they were going to do next!
To give you a further idea of what great songwriters were dealing with, Paul had written a song that the band didn't think was right for The Beatles. So Paul gave it to his girlfriend's brother who recorded it. Peter and Gordon's record, "A world without love" hit #1 in the charts in 1964, interrupting a string of Beatles chart toppers!
It's a very catchy tune and was was featured in the opening of "Last Night in SOHO" last year.
They did the same for Billy J Kramer with From a Window.
Very true about winning you over over time. I mainly stuck to Rubber Soul and after Beatles, but eventually after listening to their early stuff more they’re really quite good.
Their output was phenomenal. They were producing enough songs that they started to give tracks away to other artists. They initially saw themselves as a song writing team, and that's where they saw their long term career going, imagining that their time as pop stars and performers would be very limited. Pop music at that time was still thought of as ephemeral and the fans fickle, loosing interest and going onto the next young act pretty quickly. The other thing that The Beatles stuck to, pretty much until the 'Abbey Road' album, was that they felt they would be short changing their fans if the hit singles also appeared on their current album. I'm not sure this ever happened with any other artists, but their singles (including 'B' sides) were unique song releases, stood up on their own and acted as tasters for the direction of the albums.
I knew they would wear you down eventually, and it's only their first album! 😉
You are getting it now Syed.... I'm completely loving how you are beginning to pick up on how they became who they are and why they became as important as they did... Of course I understand that it's not your style of music... After all it IS 60 YEARS old... but undeniably, it's still fresh and you got it so right... every song is different in style or from or execution... especially as you are listening to complete albums from start to finish. You can really hear that.... and it only gets more and more pronounced and you get that in spades in the White Album where you have 40 different songs all in the one go... Keep on Rocking.
What the Beatles are doing in their earliest songs is crucial: they are building a pop foundation that will run all through every song they make right up to the last cut on "Let It Be". It's a pop sensibility that you can even hear in songs like "A Day in the Life" and "Tomorrow Never Knows".
I agree; and it's one reason they were able to be that rare and almost paradoxical combination of a band that was at the same time critically acclaimed, wildly popular, AND very cool, throughout the 60s.
Abbey Road was the last Beatles album recorded. Let It Be (then known as Get Back) was recorded in January 1969. Abbey Road was recorded in around the summer of 1969..
Plus as their music "grew" (evolved and progressed) their (us) fan base was ALSO growing up along WITH their music, maturing just as their music matured
The use of harmonies in "PS" is subtle but interesting. Harmonies are used for accents in the earlier verses but then take over the verse at the end. John's last line in "Baby" is "Baby, come home" which throws the whole perspective from lamenting over a girl he wants to that of a girl that is his. Yes, Lennon/McCartney knew what they were doing with songwriting. In 1964 (in the US) they released 6 LPs and multiple singles, and made a movie, and toured the world while dominating the charts. They were under contractual obligation as well, and they still kept this level of creativity.
"P.S. I Love You" swings -- and is so well played!
You're getting how GOOD they were from the outset.
These guys melt me for 60 years….❤
Please continue to play their next album and so on. That’s the only way you will truly see the impact they had on music.
YES, it's what I am always trying to convince OTHER reactors to do, instead of jumping around their catalogue, or starting at the end and going backwards, or WORSE, TOTALLY IGNORING the Beatles early albums, which is just WRONG! I hope he continues this way.
@@patticrichton1135 I agree 100%.
Those romantic bittersweet songs always moved me and still are. I guess it is a nostalgic touch to it today, after all it is sixty years since i first heard it.
MacCartney had a knack for writing songs in the form of letters, like "P.S., I Love You," and "Paperback Writer."
The important thing to remember when listening to / discovering early beatles is to compare their work against the music of other artists in the charts at the time. Having lived through beatlemania in the 60s, it was always exciting to hear a new beatles record and see how it was they who were pushing the envelope and always bringing the next big thing. And also, many people discovered a lot of r&b and old rock n roll that they may have never heard before. That was the case for me.
Well said, Marc. I agree. I also lived through Beatlemania in the 60s.
Thank you so very much for continuing the Beatles
The thing that catches my ear in this one is the use of harmony -- picking out the first syllable or two in each line, then the very Everly Brothers harmony in the bridge.
Great vocals on both tracks Paul on the first and John on the second. One of John’s best. These early recordings were pure magic with a unique quality even for them. Great reaction. Thanks
There is an extra layer of creativity in the way they emphasize different words as they sing the lyrics. Even in an early song, they do more than simply sing harmony.
Man can’t wait for “There’s a place” my favorite song off this album. The harmony in that song just scratches an itch in my brain
I LOVE LOVE LOVE "THERE"S A PLACE" when this album came out ( well, it wasn't the "PLEASE PLEASE ME" album here in the U.S. It was on VeeJays "INTRODUCING THE BEATLES" album, I played "There's a Place" over and over again. Even though I didn't have a boyfriend to love, I related to that song, for some reason. I would get teary eyed then. NOWADAYS in my old age, I relate to it even more, and still get teary eyed.
HA! Knew The Fabs would get you in the end. Start to finish is the best way. You then fully realise the exponential growth in every artistic endeavour song by song. And it's enormous. Which is what makes them, them.
"Get you in the end"! "Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah"! 😅😂. Good choice!
@@sarahfullerton6894 It's not like them to pretend - and they'll get you, get you in the end! Yes they will, they'll get you in the end, oh yeah!
@@sarahfullerton6894 TWO of my FAV early songs "I'LL GET YOU" ("oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah" LOL) AND "THANK YOU GIRL" which I have ALWAYS felt was REALLY a "THANK YOU" from the Beatles TO ALL their GIRL FANS for loving THEM.
@@buddyneher9359 GOOD ONE!!! You BEAT me TOO IT!!!
I have been following along on this Beatles journey, and I am constantly surprised at how good these songs sound to me. When I first started hearing the early Beatles, I really didn't like it much except for a few of the really energetic ones, like Long Tall Sally and Roll Over Beethoven. I was listening to Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd I'm and Boston and Kansas and Rush and so forth. And I loved the later Beatles. And I loved their solo careers. But then I just started buying their old albums in order and played them a lot and gradualky, I really grew to like it so much.
And now when I hear them, I suddenly remember all the incredible minute details and textures in these songs that just wormed its way into my brain with all that listening back then. For almost all of these, given the song title, I could sing you a bit of the melody and some of the words, some songs more than others, but there is so much detail in these arrangements and different textures and tones and attitudes. Each one of them feels like an old friend, and it just makes me feel really good as I hear it. I never thought it had seeped into my musical mind that much, when I was so young.
Love that Steve Dahlberg, that you learned to like their early music.
"The Beatles" ALWAYs had FUN! The energy, the coherence, the joi de vivre!
I've seen lots of reactors take "the Beatles journey," but yours is the most thoughtful and insightful I've seen yet.
Hearing this reminded me of another artist that heavily influenced The Beatles, the Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan and many more. That was Buddy Holly. He was the true start to rock and roll in the fifties. He died in a plane crash in 1959. This is what Don McLean's song "American Pie" is about. The Beatles and The Stones have both covered some of Buddy Holly's songs. You need to check him out. His hits were "Peggy Sue", "Everyday", "That'll Be the Day", "It's So Easy To Fall in Love", "True Love Ways" and many more. There is even a movie about him, "The Buddy Holly Story". I would like to see you check it out. I enjoy the channel, and great reactions and analysis. Glad to see younger people getting into, and appreciating the music I grew up with.
This is a really sweet one. At least to me it is sweet. Kind of an "earworm". Fun and tasty. And yeah, the girls loved it. LOL.
And yeah, these guys worked hard. As an example the movie Get Back is about the guys deciding to do a new album in a few weeks AND do a concert featuring those songs. In a few weeks!
From what I've read they would go into the studio with some songs but they also expected to come up with additional new material while they were putting together the new songs they brought in. Holy moly.
From late 1963 thru 1964 they had recorded 4 studio, 2 movies and 2 soundtrack albums, for those movies; in a little over 6 years, they had recorded 16 albums, 3 movies and a television special; also, a soundtrack for an animated movie.
"Hit-makers." Well, yes, the writers did do that, and while doing so, made each song written unique and memorable. How easy it is for we, who lived through that time, to recollect every word.
You can say THAT again!
I love The Beatles.
Interesting thing about P.S I Love You. Ringo is not playing drums on it, a studio musician named Andy White is. He was hired because the previous drummer, Pete Best, had been at the Beatles first EMI session and George Martin didn't like his drumming, so he hired Andy, not knowing they had quickly hired Ringo, who they had known since their Hamburg days. Ringo was recorded playing drums on Love Me Do, which you can listen to that version on the Past Masters album. Andy played on Love Me Do and PS I Love You (although original UK single pressings featured Ringo's drumming). Ringo was demoted to tambourine on Love Me Do and maracas on PS I Love You. Ringo would be the drummer for every Beatles song (except for Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence, because Ringo had temporarily left during the White Album sessions, Martha My Dear, and The Ballad of John and Yoko, of which Paul McCartney would play drums on.).
OMG. This song is PS I Love You is reminding me of my late husband. He always wrote me love notes. And if he could write me one now, it would go just like this song.
A definite Latin percussive beat on P.S. I love You... giving it a unique vibe & wistful melody.
I think part of the reason groups in the early '60s released albums quickly is because nobody knew how long the bands would last. There's an interview with the Beatles early in their success where they're predicting that it will all be over in a couple of years, and there's a similar interview with the Rolling Stones. Nobody was expecting the carrer as a pop or rock musician to carry on into their old age.
In one interview that is on video, Paul said "who knows we might not be able to write songs when we're 40" That is SO FUNNY to hear him say that at 22, NOW. A reporter asked him if they would ever use an orchestra on any of their recordings and Paul sort of looked at him like the guy was crazy, and wrinkled his nose, and pretty much indicated that it was not something they would ever do. I can't remember exactly what his response was, but it wasn't a possibility in his mind at that time.
congrats syed youre finally starting to get it ! keep listening to their albums in consecutive order !
One of my favorite vocalizations by Paul -- smooth and sexy. Love it! (See, I waffled back and forth between John and Paul being my favorite "Beatle" ... )
You hit it exactly. As a group they were hit makers. As a gigging group their sets were dominated by covers of HITS.
Yes, BEFORE they were famous and had a recording contract....but when they toured after becoming famous it was mainly their songs except for a few, like Long Tall Sally, Boys, Roll Over Beethoven, and Rock and Roll Music, which they would do on their tours
That is the thing with the Beatles. You can appreciate every song. Pretty soon they start hitting on every song. You not only appreciate it, you love it. Pretty soon they write every song too. It was usually two or three albums a year. Don't forget the singles they release between the albums. After this album, most of the singles aren't on the albums.
Yes but he can hear those singles on the PAST MASTERS Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 albums which are all the songs that were never on their original albums.
Syed, you make a good point about their melodies all being different; considering how huge their catalog is, it would hard to find songs of theirs that are all that similar to another, unlike many bands that have not only a signature style but their songs tend to sound a bit similar. As for their early lyric writing abilities, I think they always had it in them, but the song styles until the mid-60's
tended to have simpler lyrics (with some exceptions, of course, such as Dylan, etc.). That would soon change!
It wasn't a glockenspiel, but a celesta (played by George Martin), which is similar to the glockenspiel, but played on a keyboard.
Syed….you should watch the breakdown of PS on Virgin Rock today. Remarkable.
I love her videos! Her perspective as a classical musician who is still new to rock music is so interesting to hear
@@ErikMCMLXV cool handle. Were you born in 1965?
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 thanks! And yes I was.
Hi Syed! I'm new to the channel and really enjoying your reviews. I like you listening in chronological order. It definitely gives you more insight into the band.
Your observations are right on. From the outset, each song was created as a unique piece, with style, perspective, and production varying to suit the song. Yes, The Beatles were prolific. They took writing seriously. Lennon and McCartney would meet, and show each other what they'd come up with. They'd pick one, bounce ideas off each other, and often have a song composed by the end of the day.
And yes, the songs were written/selected to charm listeners. You may notice that they are often direct statements to the audience. I wanna hold your hand, twist and shout, etc.
And you're right about Ringo's unique style. One factor is that he plays a standard drum set left handed, which means he often has to reach over, when right-handed drummers have an easier move. This creates a unique syncopation. Also, he has a funky, bluesy feel, where he is often just a hair behind the beat. And finally, he plays to support the song and provide a rock-solid foundation, not draw attention to himself. He thought drum solos were awful. Paul McCartney said that when Ringo first played with the band, it was a revelation, and they all looked at each other and smiled.
Hope some of that is fun or interesting, haha. Thanks for your engagement, insight, and good will.
Few self contained "guitar" bands at the time were using/writing "borrowed chords," i.e., not in the specific key signature, it's an altered chord borrowed from another key, usually that fits the song in the original key for an effect. The flatted 6th chord [6th note of the scale] the Beatles use this on the "You, you you" at the end, and throughout the song on the word "you," when singing PS I love you...
7:40 LOL! This is how I was at first too. I also got into later era music first, and while I immediately gelled with some late era Beatles songs like A Day in the Life, I couldn't get into the early stuff at first because it sounded too dated.
But just like you, it wore me down, especially when I listened to more contemporary music to that time and heard how far above that the early Beatles music was. Now I love their whole catalogue. And yeah, one of my favorite things about them is just how different they sound from one song to the next. Not many bands have that, and even rarer they do that and it's still all so good.
Worth checking out "Baby It's You" by a band called "Smith" in 1969, they really rocked it out, including an amazing female vocalist.
Baby it's you was written by Burt Bacharach.
When you have early Lennon/McCartney songs back to back with a Burt Bacharach song and competing on a level playing field, then that's proof of how damn good they were even then.
Much to my surprise, 'Baby It's You' was written by Burt Bacharach.
But the definitive version of that song is from Smith with Gayle McCormick bringing it.
The Beatles started as a good band and then they turned into an excellent band then they turned into a super band and then they changed the world.
IIRC, they were contracted to do 2 albums per year along with touring and additional singles. When they wrote, I think they started with a line or a few notes from other people's songs and took it from there.
When they were starting out, the competition was fierce, and cover songs, which was their bread and butter the first couple years, kept getting sung by bands ahead of them in the line up. So they decided they needed songs nobody else was going to know. That started the whole Lennon and McCartney fire.
Johns voice is so wonderful .
I have been listening to the Beatles since I was in the second grade in 1964. While I am not a big fan of some of their early songs, I like the best of their early stuff just as much as their later hits.
Hi, you should compare the orginal versions of the covers and see what they did to make it there owm..
Their harmonies really stand out.
Sometimes I wonder what would’ve happened if EMI’s deal with The Beatles didn’t demand two albums every year, during their early days. Lennon n McCartney were forced to churn out singles at a tough pace. Obviously it worked out though, given the discog we have now
"They wear you down" 😀😀 oh, you just wait! mwahahahahaha!
"Boys" and "Baby, It's You" were originally by "The Shirelles". So "The Beatles" loved US Black R&B. MOST of their covers were of Black R&B.
5:41 It's ridiculous how much they accomplished in so few years. The band was broken up before any of them had hit 30!
Sha La La La La :)
Their melodic power is incredible
Baby It's You music was written by Burt Bacharach
As a 12/13 year old girl when this album came out, it was the connection their songs, as topically simple as they are, that made what they sang reach out on a direct, personal level. Note how most of the titles included pronouns: “I”, “You”, “Me”, “She”, etc. No filter - they were singing to me.
I agree Rockpile girl, and I was 16 when their first album came out in the U.S. but was on the "Introducing the Beatles" album which came out in January when "Meet the Beatles" came out. So I immediately bought both of them as soon as they got to the record stores.
Nobody could sing a "torch" song like John Lennon
Shirelles is pronounced "shuh-RELLS". The Beatles were really showing their influences on these songs, Paul's Elvis-like louder part to the ending of PS I Love You, and John gets a little Buddy Holly-like in his vocals on Baby It's You. And yes, they were a huge dynamo of recording - new albums every seven or eight months through their career - unthinkable by today's standards.
sometimes LESS than that.
@@patticrichton1135 reminds me of the quote from 'The Rutles' "Their first album took half an hour to record. The second one took even longer!"
3:50 The Shirelles is emphasized on the second syllable like girl names Michelle or Rochelle. No biggie, you wouldn't know if you hadn't heard it pronounced.
The Beatles were destined to be great!
when you get to revolver and beyond you should listen to the remixes! right now you're listening to the infamous 2009 remasters lol but they're only at revolver with the remixes - working backwards through their catalogue
Baby It's You of course written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Paul and John students of the great Brill Building composer duo's.
How lucky I am to have grown up with the Beatles, it`s hard to explain but they REALLY did own the world! Their honesty, jokes, John's antiwar movement, their cool clothes that also conquered the world, but were everyday people that connected, they were real people that can be heard in their music, especially Johns painful honesty! Very hard to find even back then, they truly were different in an honest and beautiful way, if that makes sense.
baby its you that is
Yep,, hit makers is right!
You can hear echoes of Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers in "PS." Both artists you should give a listen.
It was, what will make a 16 year old girl love you.
Another Good Cover on Baby It's You in a different style was done ca 1969 by the band "A Group Called Smith." the female lead singer was a power house on that psychedelic blues style version. Of course the was another version by the group "The Sheep" called Baby It's Ewe...😂
There is a third cover of Sounds of Silence you should listen to. By Pentatonix.
Syed, you should check out Robert Plant's POST Led Zep band the Honeydrippers, specifically "Sea Of Love".
"Baby It's You" is a cover ... or did I miss where you said that? The Shirelles recorded it in 1961; written by Luthor Dixon and Burt Bacharach.
I enjoyed this video. Most 'reactions' are just people saying 'I've never heard any eg Kate Bush' and then shrieking and going 'wow'. This was intelligent.
No egos there until John died, now MCcartney and Lennon
Syed: You should listen to the Shirelles original to see that this is just an adequate cover.
Beatles' fans say the ego thing only came in from one person who wasn't in the band - but I'm not sure that is true.
I think they were under contract for two albums a year
Baby it's you was not written by the Beatles. I believe it was Burt Baccarach in collaboration with a couple other people.....................Best version of this song is the one recorded by a group simply called....Smith.
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Just as an interesting aside here's a great cover of "Baby It's You" done in '69 by a group called A Band Named Smith that is sung again by a female lead. Here's a link to the audio version on RUclips... ruclips.net/video/wTu3SaIcZSc/видео.html
The group is pronounced more like the "Sher-rells" :)
Sir George Martin aka "The 5th Beatle" was as important as any member.
The early songs aren't my cup of tea either but I also appreciate the historical significance and your reactions.
Baby It's You is a cover of the Shirrells song. And, as often the case with the Beatles, the cover is better than the original (in my opinion). Thanks!
I feel the same as you, I like all the Beatles' covers better than the originals
@@patticrichton1135 Great minds think alike 🙂 Take care!
PS I Love you could have been sung by Buddy Holly
By the way McCartney had the most charm(though they all were charming) BUT John easily had the most wit.
"Baby It's You," written by the great Burt Bacharach (the CHs are pronounce like a K). The best version I've heard is by the band Smith (not to be confused with The Smiths) in 1969. Their first album, A Group Called "Smith," spent 11 weeks on the top 40 charts
Here’s the original Shirelles version ruclips.net/video/LxgALz8z1pM/видео.html