The Missing Beatles: Songs Without All Four Members
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- Опубликовано: 22 июн 2024
- The Beatles released 214 songs according to the official canon, even counting the recent now and then. And within that list, all four members of the band are present in one way or another in 87% of the songs. But what about that 13%, what happened, why are one, two or even three members of the band absent from a song? Whether for personal reasons, artistic reasons, fights or accidents, there are almost 30 songs (and some of them very famous) in which one or more beatles are absent. And in today's video we will review in chronological order each song and their reasons for not having the full line-up of the band.
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the ballad of john and yoko is just john and paul! paul plays the drums.
Fun fact: while recording that, John jokingly called Paul, Ringo and in return Paul called John, George
@@BeatlesWeezerFan1995 That take on Abbey box set
Paul was on harmony vocals, bass guitar, drums, piano and maracas. Thanks to Paul's help John gave "Give Peace a Chance" originally an old common credit Lennon-McCartney which was used all the albums in 1969-1986.
The Love me do recording on Please Please Me doesn’t include Ringo, but rather a session drummer from the time. The original single did have Ringo though.
Not true, Ringo played percussion on that 1st recording of 'Please Please Me'.
Rings plays tambourine, he did play on the album version
Her Majesty DID actually appear on Abbey Road. It wasn’t LISTED on the cover or labels for the first run.
Awesome video! I do want to bring up just a few details though. While John did not play on Golden Slumbers, he did provide backing vocals on Carry That Weight. From my understanding, he did not take part in the initial recording, but did later attend an overdub session where his vocals were added in. Secondly, there is one song that is missing from this list, Savoy Truffle. John did not play on that song, although I’m not sure why. But still a great and informative video!
great video :), i like the new narrator too.
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day also the new narrator is fantastic also have a wonderful first week of summer ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊
This is excellent. Well done!
Very well done thanks
Great video.
Here Comes The Sun is the most popular and most streamed Beatles song in the digital age, and John Lennon appears nowhere on the track.
I think he was recovering from a car crash
@@Alex_HausamCorrect.
Perhaps that's why it's so good.
A big part of the reason some of the songs on the White Album don't include all the Beatles is that they were under time pressure to get the record finished. So they were working in several studios at once.
Amazing when they made the White Album you can tell they weren't in synch. They started to right the ship for Get Back/Let It Be, then knocked it out of the park with Abbey Road. Perhaps they know that was their swan song.
Despite the "White Album" being their least group like record, it remains my favorite with 'Abbey Road' a very close 2nd. Also, they absolutely knew that 'Abbey Road' was going to be the last record.
no, they didn't know it was their last album
thats re writing history
@@evertvdb000 I think they did. The Beatles had become a drag for all of them. They were ready to move on.
@@ontheruntonowhere you are making stuff up.
its 100% contrary to what the beatles said or acted at the time.
early september 1969 there was a recorded meeting between J,P and G about the future of the beatles. they were talking about a X mas single
@@evertvdb000 A single isn't an album and a meeting isn't a single. I stand by my comment.
Them recording without members of the band in so many later songs feels so unique, in some cases it really served the songs. Julia and Blackbird in particular. I just love that idea of playing to the song’s needs.
I have to disagree with you. Julia and Blackbird sound like they should be on their solo albums. They go against what made the Beatles such a great band. I’m probably in the minority, but it’s probably why my favorite songs on the white album are the ones where at least three of the Beatles are on it.
Totally agree. They always put the music first.
SUPERB! Thank you.
It’s established Paul played bass on “She Said”, but left before the vocals were added, thus giving an unusual John & George vocal combo.
Too bad, I was hoping to be able to claim 'Mccartney didnt even play on the only Beatles song I like.'
I thought I read that McCartneys said he was not on this song at all
GOOD JOB!
So, basically, if any track that has a Beatle on it, is a 'Beatles' track (like 'Yesterday' (just Paul), 'Julia' (just John), 'Within You, Without You' (just George), 'Goodnight' (just Ringo) - so all their solo records are actually 'Beatles' recordings.
Songs released under “The Beatles” are generally considered Beatles songs, yes.
the 1974 Ringo album is the closest to a Beatles reunion we ever got
there a bunch of tracks with them
The lines between what is Beatles and what not is one of marketing: many somgs recorded during the Beatles sound like their solo output and many recorded outside that label sound remarkably Beatle esque. I’ve always been of the opinion it doesn’t matter: a rose by any other name after all.
@@deVisserFamily agreed. a McCartney song is a McCartney song no matter if it's a Beatles song, Wings or solo. hell, there are many songs like Junk that was made during the Beatles era but ended up being a solo song
4:16 - TERRIBLY SLOPPY RESEARCH MISTAKE! Alan Civil was NOT a trumpet-player. It rather surprised me that he might have been, so I did actually check, and no, he was NOT. It's extremely difficult for a trumpet-player to play French horn, and if you find one, they're great. The reason is that a French horn is longer than a trombone. Maybe it's longer than a tuba (I don't know). But while it's longer than a trombone, it typically plays notes that are higher than the notes the trombone plays. This means that the French horn is playing notes that are higher up in the overtone-series of its length. That means that the bugle-notes are closer together. My conductor had a shortage of French horns, and wanted me to switch from trumpet. I couldn't do it. I'd finger a note on French horn and blow it, and then my lips would involuntarily slip and I'd be bugling a note one whole-tone away, sometimes a half-tone. I couldn't control it. I stayed in the trumpets.
Thanks for the detailed account. I hardly ever put on the White Album and the run down here helps to explain why.
The debate on whether Ringo actually did play on the second half of Dear Prudence or not is still ongoing.
Yes but the whole idea is that three of the other Beatles took themselves out of the song for artistic reasons so they're still part of the song even though they're not on the track when you're in the band sometimes it's best to take yourself out of a particular song
Geez crazy how many songs on Revolver didn’t involve all 4 Beatles 😮 love all your videos!
I remember reading somewhere that Revolver was a real troubled album. John had started dabbling with harder drugs like heroin and they had a hard time getting him to the studio, let alone getting him engaged in the work. Cynthia said 66 was about the time the "weird" people started showing up in John's circle. people like Magic Alex and later that woman from the Orient whose name shall not be uttered here. John mentioned in an interview in the mid-70s that he wanted to leave the Beatles in 1966 but he lacked the confidence to strike out on his own. Interestingly, The Beatles final tour coincided with the release of Revolver but they never played any of the tunes from that album on that tour. Taxman, Good Day Sunshine, even She Said could have been played live but they never were, perhaps reflecting the bad feelings during that recording, especially between John and Paul.
@@itinerantpatriot1196 I think John was hitting both the acid and pot super hard in ‘66. Heroin didn’t come around until ‘68 with Yoko.. but regardless Beatlemania was taking its toll by that point
@@DowneyOrrick I can't remember where I read that account but John said he was the one who got his girlfriend on heroin. How much of that is true and how much of that was John covering for her is anyone's guess but in her book Cynthia did say things started going downhill in their marriage when the oddballs and the grifters as she called them started coming around. Not that it wouldn't have come apart anyway but it was around that time that John started going on serious benders.
@@itinerantpatriot1196 Also original Paul was being Revolved out
@@itinerantpatriot1196 Her name is Yoko Ono. Yoko is a well-regarded artist and composer, the love of John's life, and the mother of a wonderful musician and songwriter in Sean Ono Lennon. To hate 'that woman from the Orient' is not only childish and racist, it's also to hate John because he loved her, and to hate everything the Beatles stood for, which was love.
Great new narrator!
I just hope the recording of Good Night with John's vocals and guitar would resurface some day. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Me too. I was hoping for a miracle when the special edition of the White album came out , but no such luck. I don't remember who said it but supposedly Lennon sang the song in the manner of ' Beautiful Boy '. Also , there is a selfish thief out there that has a studio recording of ' Grow old with me '.
@@foxmulder2941 Grow Old With Me is Stolen?
@@lazyartiste_2357 Yes, that is why only a home demo was released.
@@foxmulder2941 😱😱😱
@@foxmulder2941it's on the white album box set i think
Pretty good thanks
I liked the way the worked up Yesterday live with all four
I've heard that Ringo added drums to the tail end of Dear Prudence......
Who played on "She Said She Said" has long been disputed. Paul himself says that he thinks he didn't play on it. But many scholars and historians (including Mark Lewisohn, John C. Winn, and the Beatles Bible) think that Paul had already recorded the bass part on the rhythm track before he left the session.
Well, let’s just be cleared, the recording of a song is just the recording but the shape of a song takes time and is written before, composed, even if some aren’t present at the recording they were definitely present at the composition, lyrics, harmonies, melodies… in a band, ideas shape songs, recording fix mistakes and the mix/ post production gives you the final song. Not just the recording sessions.
Good point
I love Balckbird! Lol
Nice job, but one correction: 'Her Majesty' was indeed on all editions of Abbey Road, albeit by accident. It wasn't listed on the original LABEL, or album cover, but it was physically there on all editions.
True
Then again they managed to make full band versions of yesterday on tours lol
A Beatles song is a Beatles song, I don’t care if only one or all 4 are on it. Even the latest one, Now and Then, they are all 4 there but at different years, I will take it. This doesn’t include their solo albums.
I think the drum outro on dear prudence was Ringo
A few comments on the songs listed in the video:
Love You To - I've always assumed John and Paul were on the backing vocals, but is there evidence that John wasn't even there? And what is Ringo supposed to be doing on this one?
She Said She Said - There is some indication that the rhythm track was completed before Paul walked out but it's pretty clear that he isn't in the backing vocals.
Within You Without You - Is it possible that John and Paul take part in the laughing at the end of the track?
Dear Prudence - There seems to be some indication that the drum flourish at the end of the song was a later overdub, and could have been done by Ringo.
Maxwell's Silver Hammer - Could John have added the bass vocal harmony at the end of the song?
And a few more songs that I'm wondering about:
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - I realize Paul mimes the bass in the movie, but is there really a bass on the recording?
Savoy Truffle - I always thought this was another George song without John on it.
Old Brown Shoe - Is John on this one? Perhaps in the backing vocals?
Something - I seem to remember reading that John took part on rhythm guitar, but that it was replaced by an overdub.
Across The Universe - This sounds like another one without drums.
Love you to has Ringo on tambourine, same for across the universe, I think it has maracas or some percussion
Yes, there is bass on Hide your love
It's so sad. I feel they lied to me.
Harrison said the laughter at the end of within you without you was by some of the Beatles
John was on early takes of Maxwells silver hammer.. then he strategically avoided the studio when this song was being worked on..
It was CONTRACTUAL STIPULATIONS that made them all "Beatles" songs, though they had some differences in getting the writing credit. By contract anything written by Paul AND/OR John was credited to "Lennon/McCartney". Only George and Ringo ever received solo credit for any compositions.
yesturday
Ringo overdubbed very jazzy Ringo-ish drums over the last few bars of Dear Prudence
I don’t think it’s confirmed but it does sound like him
I was going to say the same thing.
its the last verse.
7:44 "John Lennin" worked on Revolution 9. What about "Stallin"?
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Hello, do you also have the channel "La Hemeroteca"?
Ah yes, “Top Gear”, that famous music show.
I had heard that " Not A Second Time " did not have Harrison or McCarthy on it...rather John, acoustic guitar/ vocals, Ringo on drums & George Martin on piano. ???
Definitely no McCarthy 😁 Kennedy was absent too.
Did John play on While My Guitar Gently Weeps? Old Brown Shoe? Something?
John certainly played organ on Gently Weeps, maybe the bass. thats disputed.
Old Brown Shoe he very probably contributed backing vocals, and maybe guitar. Thats also disputed, but the diary of Mal Evens claims John plays guitar on the backing track.
Something, John plays the decending piano rif on the middle eight.
To be totally honest, the new narrator sounds like so many other RUclips videos.
Actually USSR drum tracks are a composite mess of Paul, John and George
Paul 100% played bass on she said she said, you can get him in the revolver outtakes for the instrumental track used on the album
thanks!
No he didn't Paul Tell himself according to Ringo as well
@@beatlemaniacwaltdisneyfan4753 listen to take 15 she said she said you can hear Paul before John, he even counts it in
@@musicbox_usa you still made a great video!
@@beatlemaniacwaltdisneyfan4753 Paul remembered incorrectly. Mark Lewisohn confirmed Paul on the used track long ago, as did Giles Martin more recently for the Deluxe set a couple years ago. Paul DID storm out of the studio, but it was AFTER the basic track was laid down. So he's not there for the vocals, but he is playing bass.
Aren't Paul and Ringo absent from "Across the Universe" as well?
7:31 Balckbird
Ringo participa como metrónomo en Because :)
Re: "Not present" in X amount of songs. I'll bet they ALL enjoyed their split of Beatles revenue FOUR ways. No one ever brings up that fact. "Yesterday"? "So how are you going to spend your 1/4 share in the royalties of that one Mr Lennon? Mr Starr? Mr Harrison?" ..ad infinitum.
Nah they released circa 330+ songs counting a handful of giveaways 🤡
You're incorrect! All 4 Beatles appear on she said she said. Paul is playing the bass. Paul can be heard talking before the count in, not to mention the backing track was recorded live. Both guitars, the bass, and drums are all going during the taping of the rhythm track, so George cannot be the one playing bass. George plays bass on the track that follows, good day sunshine.
ruclips.net/video/mv2XU-FIRSU/видео.htmlsi=DgjjWk3iONzGK5Z1
7:33 Balckbird?
Sorry sorry :(
@@musicbox_usa just busting your chops.
Kenneth Essex-e! 😂😂
I never knew John was absent because of a accident, i thought it was because of indifference.
John's indifference is a myth. he was hurt when he wasn't asked to contribute to a song.
7.34, lol balckbird :)
sorry :(
"Balckbird"???
we so sorry, uncle albert
eeeeeesher demos, silly.
Her majesty is not a song!
Corn, can you tell me how to get to the bathroom?
narration sounds like AI
Paul made his last LP alone played every instrument and it is not good. John was the better song writer.
John was great alone but not as prolific as Paul and far less varied in scope. I would argue that George was the most successful solo artist because he was always writing alone anyway so had it down. And the awesome The Traveling Wilburys was the icing on the cake. I feel John and Paul needed each other and were less interesting musically without each other’s input. I like to think that had John lived, they would eventually have found each other again, out of creative boredom if nothing else. But I think there was more there, something like love, that would have brought their music back to a world that still misses them.
Calling Revolution 9 a song is an insult in itself. That was John giving the finger to his bandmates and letting his whacked out no-talent-hack grifter girlfriend play Beatle for an afternoon. She claims George was in on it and actually instigated the thing but I saw an interview with George where he called it crap and denied having any part in it. That woman lies so much she would need someone else to call her dog if she wasn't too selfish to even own a dog so take whatever she says about anything with two tons of salt. And yes, I have no time for that woman.
Revolution 9 >>>>> all paul songs
@@booferz_ I don't know where you got that idea but that noise is absolutely not Paul. Or is that a clever way of saying that noise is better than anything Paul wrote? If you believe that...whatever.
@@booferz_You bloody deaf change your picture
@@booferz_funny how Paul is the most popular Beatle to this day and the one who has made the most out of his career. John listened to his dumb ass second wife and quit doing anything because she told him he wasn’t any good. He had loads of talent and a beautiful voice, but meeting her was the worst thing that ever happened to him.
@@booferz_ Only a Yoko fanboy could like Revolution 9.
The (double) White Album was plagued by egos, arguments and divergent self-interests. If someone had put their foot down on all four and told them to get their act together, it would have made a magnificent stand-alone LP, if only they'd cut out the shite tracks.
How I would have done it.
Side 1
1. Back in the USSR - Paul
2. Dear Prudence - John
3. Revolution 1 - John
4. (Not Guilty) - George
5. Cry Baby Cry - John
6. Savoy Truffle - George
7. Martha My Dear - Paul
8. Julia - John
Side 2
1. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - George
2. Blackbird - Paul
3. Glass Onion - John
4. Long Long Long - George
5. I Will - Paul
6. Mother Nature’s Son - Paul
7. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - Paul
8. Good Night - John
This would give Paul 6/16, John 6/16, George 4/16.
A better balance for writer’s royalties overall, I think.
No Helter Skelter, no Happiness is a warm gun, no Birthday,
no Everybody's got something to hide, no Sexy Sadie, no Revolution 9...
White Album for vegans practically.
Now that's what I call a boring piece of 🤓💩
Thank god for excess and deranged egos
and even more thanks for yer sad @ss not being close to Abbey Road at that time
The only reasonable idea in that mess is including Not Guilty;
putting it in and putting Obladi Oblada as Lady Madonna B-side
are the only substantial tracklist alterations I could support
I’d be concerned about the validity of any statement made in this video when it so confidently claims the Beatles played on the BBC's radio music show “Top Gear”.
16th July, 1964.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_(radio_programme)
"Fiveth?" seriously?
this narrator is pronouncung the british order of dates (example: 22nd January instead of the american January 22nd) and is embarrasing himself. if this isnt AI.
its pronounced like "THE 22nd OF January" saying "twenty second january" sounds baad. and all the dates are like this, blech