The Beatles recorded three versions of this song, but John wasn’t happy with any of them. He asked George Martin to put all three of them together, and he did. The rest is history.🕊️❤️🎼
After hearing Tomorrow Never Knows on Revolver in August 1966, we heard nothing from them until this song and Penny Lane were released February 1967. We were blown away.
Think you've uncovered yet another Beatles fact. Not only did they improve quickly, but also continuously, to the end (The End). We didn't expect them to keep up to Revolver standards, that would be impossible. And then ..
Yeah brothers! Beatles blew everyone’s mind. Remember this was late 67-68, nobody was makeing music like this Laa and Chee. This brings back the first time I heard it! Thank you!
One of the "childhood" songs by the Beatles-the other being "Penny Lane", mainly a Paul McCartney song. Background and context for this one is deep. Both John and Paul lost their mothers as teenagers and were "trauma bonded" with each other. In addition, John's childhood and upbringing was incredibly dysfunctional and tragic. I would highly recommend you watch the movie "Nowhere Boy" to give you the incredibly complex story of his childhood upbringing which would affect him for the rest of his life. "Strawberry Field" (no "s" on the actual place) was an orphanage that John used to sit outside as a little boy and watch the children playing. Can you feel the sadness from just that alone? You guys are the best. Really looking forward to watching this reaction program.
Strawberry Field (with no s) was an orphanage in Liverpool. John had a troubled childhood, his mother gave him away to his aunt causing all sorts of identity issues. As a child, John would sometimes leave his aunt's home and sleep at the orphanage because, as he said, it was the only place he felt like he fit in.
@kentocco7059 John never slept at the Salvation Army orphanage. He would climb the wall and explore their gardens, Strawberry Field. He did feel at home in those gardens.
If you read my other comment, you'll know the truth of The Beatles. Quote from Bernard Purdie "I played on 21 tracks..Ringo never played on anything." Look it up.
I've been waiting for this one , a pleasant song ha ha, for me it's the greatest song of all time, and listening on headphones can't be beat, so many sounds going on , imagine being a teenager hearing this at the time in 67. Fantastic reaction, I knew you'd love it.....and you'll never tire of hearing it.
Yay! I've been waiting for you guys to get to this. Strawberry Fields (and Penny Lane to come) are stone masterpieces. Both songs were recorded for Sgt Pepper, when it was conceived as about their childhoods, but that theme was dropped when the songs were released as singles, making them ineligible for the album. What a miracle that the four Beatles found each other AND George Martin. Shout out to Ringo, for his monster drumming anchoring the psychedelia. And at the end of the final fadeout, you can hear John saying "cranberry sauce", which at the time was mistaken for "I buried Paul", as part of the "Paul is dead" rumor. Aren't you glad you didn't skip MMT? 🤣🤣🤣 Longtime subscriber here--you are by far my favorite reactors for your insights and enthusiasm! 🙏
@@AirplayBeats Thanks La and Che. Yeah, Ringo doesn't get enough credit for drumming tailored to enhance every song. Rock on with your own bad selves! ✊✊✊
It's a genius editing part by George Martin/Geoff Emerick - 2 completely different versions at different tempos, in different keys, slowed down/sped up, so they meet - see if you can spot the edit!
Additionally, the weird fade out/fade in at the end was because someone goofed up, and so they added the fade to hide it and give it some of that Beatles special sauce (as if this song wasn't "saucy" enough already)
@@TheodoreWeiser I thought the fade was due to one version went on for a long time ala jam, and they faded to cut it down and faded it back up to the end.
@danduntz2539 I think it was George Martin who told the story I was referring to. That said, both original takes were included on the Sgt Pepper box set released in 2017. They are an interesting listen regardless. They are takes 7 and 26 respectively and you can probably find them on RUclips
Sounds as weird and wonderful in 2024 as it did 57 yrs ago way back in 1967 and as Forrest Hump would say, "That's all I got too say about that". Peace ❤ Happy Thanksgiving!
Fact.....Strawberry Field is a Salvation Army property and visitor attraction in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton. It operated as a children's home between 1936 and 2005...........John Lennon grew up near it.........Great song....!!!
Every note of every song of theirs is perfect. John sang about what it means to be human. Try listening to his solo Plastic Ono Band album. Man, I miss him.
This song was written and recorded in 66 after Revolver. The Beatles didn't know yet where they wanted to go next and the double A single SFF/PL gave them the idea to do a concept album about their childhood memories but Paul took a different direction with the Sgt Pepper concept.
What's nuts, is that back then, the established view was that Ringo was not a very good drummer. Over time, I've heard drummers say that it's hard to duplicate his drumming style. I believed the hype back then but I'm changing my opinion of his importance to the band.
Ringo was overlooked because he wasn't flashy. Oddly, he is more appreciated in the 21st century as more people really listen and learn to appreciate his greatness.
@@Ben-sq6un No! 😆 It is "Cranberry Sauce" (twice) - just Lennon riffing on the title and slowed down by a few i.p.s. on the tape. Get hold of the re-issue with take 24/25 in full - it is quite clear that the "Paul" idea is nonsense. There's also a funny bit where Lennon says "calm down Ringo" in an exaggerated northern accent. They were clearly having fun. 😄
When this was released ... I was 11 ... it had been six months since the last Beatles single release ... which was a long time for the Beatles ... the fans were all waiting and primed for the next one ... and this blew - our - minds. A major step forward in the evolution of pop music.
I remember the first time listening to this as a kid - the line "Always know sometimes think its me, but you I know when it's a dream - I think I know, er, yes, I mean it's all wrong, that is I think I disagree". That line absolutely blew me a away as a kid - To be able to put those lyrics in a song is nothing short of genius.
John at his finest - Sir George at his most masterful. Martin's description on how this was pulled off in his book on the making of Sgt. Pepper is worth the price of admission. A gob smacking accomplishment, considering the available technology at the time.
Have you guys heard the soundtrack for the Vegas show Love? George Martin’s son and the remaining Beatles worked together on it and it has some really great mashups that now l like as much as the original ones. The live show was incredible and I have to say, I was with my family in tears at the end. It was that beautiful.
The "flute and cello" you were hearing were from a Mellotron. Revolutionary instrument at the time. It's set up like a piano but instead of hammers hitting strings like a piano or moving air through pipes on an organ, a Mellotron uses a key press to drag a spinning tape reel across a capstan to play a tuned recording. Effectively they were doing the first form of sampling ever. Playing back reels of recorded instruments by pressing keys on a keyboard. That's where the buzziness and time distortion you heard came from.
Well, the initial vague ideas would often come from them, but it's Geoff Emerick and the EMI engineers who had to innovate studio practises and experiment with equipment to create new sounds for the band, John and Paul would be enthused when presented with some new sound or development, but neither were technically knowledgeable, they loved novelty and being at the forefront of music and pushed EMI staff into new areas oblivious of how they might achieve things. The orchestrated arrangements, and often the vocal harmonies, were the influence of George Martin, and the ground breaking soundscapes were mainly down to Geoff's experimental nature. Strip all that away and you still have genius song writing, but, particularly from the Revolver album onwards, they would not have sounded they way they did without that fortuitous extended team.
Are y’all going check out The Rutles? Songs like; Your Mother Should Go, I Am the Waitress, Tragical History Tour. Okay, not real songs, but they did a movie ( George Harrison was involved) and many really good Beatles-like songs. I need to see y’all react to this!!!
You picked it out with the slowing of the song at the end of the second chorus. They had recorded two versions of the song, one which had horns and strings and much more aggressive drumming. John said he loved both versions and could not choose between the two. He asked George Martin to take half of one take and marry it to half of the other. George pointed out that they two takes were not only very different styles, but were a semitone apart. John told him that's no problem for George, just make it work. George figured out that if he slowed the second version down, it would drop into the same key and the two could be combined, but that results in the slightly sluggish sound to the vocals and strings, a really interesting effect!
As some have already mentioned, this song was a combination. They (the Beatles & producer George Martin) were doing takes of the song. John Lennon finally found 2 takes he liked and told George Martin. Martin was perplexed because the takes were in two different tempos so combining would be difficult, if not impossible. John, either not understanding (or not caring) about what it would take to do this, just told Martin to "figure it out". One night, in a drug-infused state, and unbeknownst to Martin, who was still trying to "figure it out", the Beatles and some friends (such as Mick Jagger and Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones, Marianne Faithful and others), went to the studio and recorded a bit for the song. It was a hodge podge of cacophony (did I mention drugs were involved) that John would present to Martin, telling him to include it. Martin was flabbergasted - what the hell was he supposed to do with THIS? Immense credit goes to George Martin who figured if he slowed one take down a bit, it would match the other in a near-perfect blend and he even managed to use the bit John gave him; it's near the end and is the part with the really rapid-fire drumming.
Martin's production on this is probably even more notable than you immediately realise. Their were two version of the song - quiet and slower - louder and faster. They were even in different keys! Yet Lennon wanted the two merged together. Martin eventually realised that it would just about work if he sped one half up and the other other half down. As luck would have it, the segue was (almost) seamless.
The very last part of this wonderful song someone says "I buried Paul". On Sgt. Pepper, the last song John sings "I read the news today oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade". Conspiracy theorists were convinced that was a reference to Paul and that he died in a car crash. The Walrus was Paul was on another song 'Glass Onion "I told you about Strawberry Fields, you know the place where nothing is real, well here's another clue for you all, the walrus was Paul. There was a lot of conspiracies claiming Paul was dead. He of course wasn't but I believe that if you play this record backwards as some did you hear the truth lol. Great stuff guys, later...
As with most conspiracies the real truth is much more mundane, thing is John was actually saying 'Cranberry sauce', as evidenced when you hear isolated tracks, and confirmed in interviews with George Martin and Geoff Emerick. It was a spur-of-the-moment thing, during this December recording session the band had been discussing America's 'Thanksgiving' traditions.
You’ll have to get into the Paul’s dead conspiracy. At the tail end of the song you can hear John saying; “I buried” and it almost sounds like he says “Paul”. It’s a fun trip to take with they way people have broke the conspiracy down
Crazy, all this over the top production was wasted on us back in the day. Most of us were listening on shall I say crappy hi fi. Now with all this high tech listening devices, it’s like hearing it for the first time. Keep up the great reactions gentleman.
That ending thing sounds like a subway train coming and goin by.....it was the 60s, imagine he as ring stuff hi on LSD....wow...I never did it I was to square....ha
They double tracked the vocal, one track slowed down intentionally - "Why does John Lennon sound different in Strawberry Fields? "John Lennon wrote the song and sang it. The reason it sounds different than usual John vocals is that two sections of vocals were chosen by John to be used on the song, but each one was in a different key. George Martin had to slow the vocals down to match them together in pitch and splice it together." They kept us on our toes all through the 60's
only downer is that they didnt continue on with he end but when Georges guitar kicks in gear. if that was pink floyd they would have dragged it out to 10 minutes.
They recorded two different versions. John wanted the first part of one out together with the second part of the other. They were at slightly different speeds, so George Martin sped up one and slowed down the other and spliced them together and voila! All this on four track mind you
PS-had to check to see if you guys have reacted to John Lennon, "Mother". It doesn't look like you have. It's a must listen reaction. You have never heard anyone express so much pain in a vocal delivery in a song ever.
Recorded in 1966, and released as a single in February of 1967, John set the standard for musical genius. This song, by any other band would have been dismissed as too insane! The Beatles clout got instant airplay. The Dylan movie has a clip of Allen Ginsberg marvelling about the fact that they had No idea how much power they had to influence the culture of the day! That changed! Here we are, fascists run our country.
You guys need to check out the Documentary Sound City, It’s a recording studio they actually have artist in there creating a song in a matter of hours Paul McCartney does one …amazing
La, wait til you hear Ringo's tight Ludwig crack of his snare drum? I love it!!!! Penny Lane is a great song too!!! You'll catch it right when he hits it. Throughout the whole song too!!!
From what I had read there were two versions and john was working with George martin to find the right sound, I believe they ended up splicing the first half of one recording with the second half from the other, it was great the way it ended up..
The way the different instruments and studio trickery are layered and added and made more complex throughout the song is just a masterpiece. Especially with the limited equipment and tracks they had to work with. I don’t think I hear Paul’s voice at all on this. All Lennon.
George Martin was a genius. Figuring out a way to mix one rendition of the song(first bit) , and adding the second remake of the song at the end too. Both takes were at different pitch and different tempos. I wonder after hearing all the albums, are you going to listen to Love? Or at least the single "Tomorrow Never Knows/Within You Without You"? For some weird reason the music video was removed from RUclips.
This was actually made up of two takes that were in a different key and the producer told John that he couldn't merge them but John said he liked bits of both so they played around with it and George Martin actually slowed down one of the tapes to make it match up musically and that's why it seems to drag because it is being played slower than it actually was. Revolutionary. I'm sharing this reaction to my site Besides It's A B-Side with a recommendation to your channel. Hope that's OK.
The masterpiece that is Strawberry Fields Forever. All done on 4 tracks!
The GOAT Band. Period. End of discussion. Great bands during and after, but only one Beatles.
The Beatles recorded three versions of this song, but John wasn’t happy with any of them. He asked George Martin to put all three of them together, and he did. The rest is history.🕊️❤️🎼
After hearing Tomorrow Never Knows on Revolver in August 1966, we heard nothing from them until this song and Penny Lane were released February 1967. We were blown away.
Think you've uncovered yet another Beatles fact. Not only did they improve quickly, but also continuously, to the end (The End). We didn't expect them to keep up to Revolver standards, that would be impossible. And then ..
The end of this song help start the "Paul is dead" rumor. People thought he says "I buried Paul" when what he really is saying is "I'm very bored."
Pioneering conspiracy theories (thanks, lads).
My favorite of all the great Beatles songs!
Ringo shines out in this one!
True that!
At the end, John say as “ cranberry sauce”. This was misinterpreted as “ I buried Paul” which started the Paul is dead rumors.
Yeah brothers! Beatles blew everyone’s mind. Remember this was late 67-68, nobody was makeing music like this Laa and Chee. This brings back the first time I heard it! Thank you!
This was actually recorded in late 66 and released in February of 67
There was a ton of heady psychedelic music in 66/67
One of the "childhood" songs by the Beatles-the other being "Penny Lane", mainly a Paul McCartney song.
Background and context for this one is deep. Both John and Paul lost their mothers as teenagers and were "trauma bonded" with each other. In addition, John's childhood and upbringing was incredibly dysfunctional and tragic. I would highly recommend you watch the movie "Nowhere Boy" to give you the incredibly complex story of his childhood upbringing which would affect him for the rest of his life.
"Strawberry Field" (no "s" on the actual place) was an orphanage that John used to sit outside as a little boy and watch the children playing. Can you feel the sadness from just that alone?
You guys are the best. Really looking forward to watching this reaction program.
ridiculously brilliant production/engineering.....nice one chaps👍
Another masterpiece from the Fab Four. 🎶🎶🎶👍🙋♀️
Strawberry Fields was a orphanage in Liverpool.
Strawberry Field (with no s) was an orphanage in Liverpool. John had a troubled childhood, his mother gave him away to his aunt causing all sorts of identity issues. As a child, John would sometimes leave his aunt's home and sleep at the orphanage because, as he said, it was the only place he felt like he fit in.
@kentocco7059 John never slept at the Salvation Army orphanage. He would climb the wall and explore their gardens, Strawberry Field. He did feel at home in those gardens.
Have always loved this Beatles song. It instantly relaxes me🍃🍂Thanks guys for continuing to react to these great tunes.🧡🧡
Ringo worked overtime on Strawberry Fields
He sure did!!
If you read my other comment, you'll know the truth of The Beatles. Quote from Bernard Purdie "I played on 21 tracks..Ringo never played on anything."
Look it up.
ruclips.net/video/hz9EGGiOuso/видео.htmlsi=4Vm2nBuxzerq5ui6
The opening flutes were tapes Rolling on a melotron keyboard, Just like "stairway to heaven" by JPJ. The First samples ever played
I've been waiting for this one , a pleasant song ha ha, for me it's the greatest song of all time, and listening on headphones can't be beat, so many sounds going on , imagine being a teenager hearing this at the time in 67. Fantastic reaction, I knew you'd love it.....and you'll never tire of hearing it.
This may be the greatest rock song of all time IMO.
So beautiful.
The Mellotron intro is to die for.
Yay! I've been waiting for you guys to get to this. Strawberry Fields (and Penny Lane to come) are stone masterpieces. Both songs were recorded for Sgt Pepper, when it was conceived as about their childhoods, but that theme was dropped when the songs were released as singles, making them ineligible for the album. What a miracle that the four Beatles found each other AND George Martin. Shout out to Ringo, for his monster drumming anchoring the psychedelia. And at the end of the final fadeout, you can hear John saying "cranberry sauce", which at the time was mistaken for "I buried Paul", as part of the "Paul is dead" rumor.
Aren't you glad you didn't skip MMT? 🤣🤣🤣 Longtime subscriber here--you are by far my favorite reactors for your insights and enthusiasm! 🙏
Thanks for rocking with us for so long my friend. Ringo is the MAN!!!
@@AirplayBeats Thanks La and Che. Yeah, Ringo doesn't get enough credit for drumming tailored to enhance every song. Rock on with your own bad selves! ✊✊✊
That one never gets old!
You guys make my Mondays! God bless happy Thanksgiving. Beatles are Gods Gift. Can’t wait for your reaction to blue Jay way!
Producer George Martin can't be ignored. Without his orchestrations who knows what the Beatles would have sounded like.
Best psych album of all time.
It's a genius editing part by George Martin/Geoff Emerick - 2 completely different versions at different tempos, in different keys, slowed down/sped up, so they meet - see if you can spot the edit!
Additionally, the weird fade out/fade in at the end was because someone goofed up, and so they added the fade to hide it and give it some of that Beatles special sauce (as if this song wasn't "saucy" enough already)
@@TheodoreWeiser I thought the fade was due to one version went on for a long time ala jam, and they faded to cut it down and faded it back up to the end.
@danduntz2539 I think it was George Martin who told the story I was referring to. That said, both original takes were included on the Sgt Pepper box set released in 2017. They are an interesting listen regardless. They are takes 7 and 26 respectively and you can probably find them on RUclips
Lennon's masterpiece. Nothing else to add!
COULD HAVE NOT SAD IT BETTER MY SELF, YOU NAILED IT MAN, JOHN'S TRUE MASTER PEICE AND MY FAVORITE LENNON SONG......
Sounds as weird and wonderful in 2024 as it did 57 yrs ago way back in 1967 and as Forrest Hump would say, "That's all I got too say about that".
Peace ❤
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!!
This may possibly be the greatest song ever writen .
Fact.....Strawberry Field is a Salvation Army property and visitor attraction in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton. It operated as a children's home between 1936 and 2005...........John Lennon grew up near it.........Great song....!!!
Every note of every song of theirs is perfect. John sang about what it means to be human. Try listening to his solo Plastic Ono Band album. Man, I miss him.
This song was written and recorded in 66 after Revolver. The Beatles didn't know yet where they wanted to go next and the double A single SFF/PL gave them the idea to do a concept album about their childhood memories but Paul took a different direction with the Sgt Pepper concept.
One of the best
Maybe my favorite song of theirs. It's close between this and I Want You
Just think, four years before that they were singing, I wanna hold your hand!
John playing this acoustic demo is so good
Hi fellas... Take one of this masterpiece is THE version. Can't wait till you do the White Album 😎
What's nuts, is that back then, the established view was that Ringo was not a very good drummer. Over time, I've heard drummers say that it's hard to duplicate his drumming style. I believed the hype back then but I'm changing my opinion of his importance to the band.
Ringo was overlooked because he wasn't flashy. Oddly, he is more appreciated in the 21st century as more people really listen and learn to appreciate his greatness.
@@jamesspanglet6702 Agreed
Cranberry sauce! (The bit at the end)
I buried Paul, very clear.
@@Ben-sq6un No! 😆 It is "Cranberry Sauce" (twice) - just Lennon riffing on the title and slowed down by a few i.p.s. on the tape. Get hold of the re-issue with take 24/25 in full - it is quite clear that the "Paul" idea is nonsense. There's also a funny bit where Lennon says "calm down Ringo" in an exaggerated northern accent. They were clearly having fun. 😄
Beatles forever 💪💪💪💯💯💯😎😎😎
Great album and eternal music.
This track and Walurus changes your whole outlook look on John, doesn’t it guys!
Yes indeed!!
Che was already on board with John. I had to catch up
@@AirplayBeats I love you guys channel.
Magical, Yeah !
When this was released ... I was 11 ... it had been six months since the last Beatles single release ... which was a long time for the Beatles ... the fans were all waiting and primed for the next one ... and this blew - our - minds. A major step forward in the evolution of pop music.
I remember the first time listening to this as a kid - the line "Always know sometimes think its me, but you I know when it's a dream - I think I know, er, yes, I mean it's all wrong, that is I think I disagree". That line absolutely blew me a away as a kid - To be able to put those lyrics in a song is nothing short of genius.
John at his finest - Sir George at his most masterful. Martin's description on how this was pulled off in his book on the making of Sgt. Pepper is worth the price of admission. A gob smacking accomplishment, considering the available technology at the time.
Pure genius!!
George: lead guitar, Mellotron (slide guitar sound), swarmandal, timpani, maracas
George was in his happy place.
Have you guys heard the soundtrack for the Vegas show Love? George Martin’s son and the remaining Beatles worked together on it and it has some really great mashups that now l like as much as the original ones. The live show was incredible and I have to say, I was with my family in tears at the end. It was that beautiful.
A masterpiece!! Thanks fellas!!
Not just a song…an event.
❤️❤️❤️ Thanks guys
Great reactions, Fellas.
The "flute and cello" you were hearing were from a Mellotron. Revolutionary instrument at the time. It's set up like a piano but instead of hammers hitting strings like a piano or moving air through pipes on an organ, a Mellotron uses a key press to drag a spinning tape reel across a capstan to play a tuned recording. Effectively they were doing the first form of sampling ever. Playing back reels of recorded instruments by pressing keys on a keyboard. That's where the buzziness and time distortion you heard came from.
George Martin was the first to admit that most of the many special techniques invented and used by the Beatles came from the boys!
Well, the initial vague ideas would often come from them, but it's Geoff Emerick and the EMI engineers who had to innovate studio practises and experiment with equipment to create new sounds for the band, John and Paul would be enthused when presented with some new sound or development, but neither were technically knowledgeable, they loved novelty and being at the forefront of music and pushed EMI staff into new areas oblivious of how they might achieve things.
The orchestrated arrangements, and often the vocal harmonies, were the influence of George Martin, and the ground breaking soundscapes were mainly down to Geoff's experimental nature. Strip all that away and you still have genius song writing, but, particularly from the Revolver album onwards, they would not have sounded they way they did without that fortuitous extended team.
Beatles made a great video for this song
They did drag the tape to get the keys to match up and give it the psychedelic sound
Psychedelic heaven.
Are y’all going check out The Rutles? Songs like; Your Mother Should Go, I Am the Waitress, Tragical History Tour. Okay, not real songs, but they did a movie ( George Harrison was involved) and many really good Beatles-like songs. I need to see y’all react to this!!!
The Beatles along with George Martin created the imagery of music you can now see what you hear and if you got a buzz on you Can See For Miles😊
"Dragging" yep, I believe you're right: I think they knocked some parts a half-step down by slowing the tape
You picked it out with the slowing of the song at the end of the second chorus. They had recorded two versions of the song, one which had horns and strings and much more aggressive drumming. John said he loved both versions and could not choose between the two. He asked George Martin to take half of one take and marry it to half of the other. George pointed out that they two takes were not only very different styles, but were a semitone apart. John told him that's no problem for George, just make it work. George figured out that if he slowed the second version down, it would drop into the same key and the two could be combined, but that results in the slightly sluggish sound to the vocals and strings, a really interesting effect!
As some have already mentioned, this song was a combination. They (the Beatles & producer George Martin) were doing takes of the song. John Lennon finally found 2 takes he liked and told George Martin. Martin was perplexed because the takes were in two different tempos so combining would be difficult, if not impossible. John, either not understanding (or not caring) about what it would take to do this, just told Martin to "figure it out". One night, in a drug-infused state, and unbeknownst to Martin, who was still trying to "figure it out", the Beatles and some friends (such as Mick Jagger and Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones, Marianne Faithful and others), went to the studio and recorded a bit for the song. It was a hodge podge of cacophony (did I mention drugs were involved) that John would present to Martin, telling him to include it. Martin was flabbergasted - what the hell was he supposed to do with THIS? Immense credit goes to George Martin who figured if he slowed one take down a bit, it would match the other in a near-perfect blend and he even managed to use the bit John gave him; it's near the end and is the part with the really rapid-fire drumming.
Great drumming by Ringo
Love the backward cymbals. More than just Ringo on drums.
Many people consider this the greatest Beatles song... there are lots of candidates, but it is hard to argue with that assessment
My name is Paul and thanks to John for burying me.
Listening to this through your ears makes this one even better and it was already GOATED. Keep up the good work guys.
They did a lot of studio trickery, knowing they were never going to perform these songs live.
If you wait till the last seconds of the song you hear John saying "I burried Paul".
Cranberry sauce....cranberry sauce...
@TheOfficialMinistryOfTruth Correct.
Martin's production on this is probably even more notable than you immediately realise. Their were two version of the song - quiet and slower - louder and faster. They were even in different keys! Yet Lennon wanted the two merged together. Martin eventually realised that it would just about work if he sped one half up and the other other half down. As luck would have it, the segue was (almost) seamless.
The very last part of this wonderful song someone says "I buried Paul". On Sgt. Pepper, the last song John sings "I read the news today oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade". Conspiracy theorists were convinced that was a reference to Paul and that he died in a car crash. The Walrus was Paul was on another song 'Glass Onion "I told you about Strawberry Fields, you know the place where nothing is real, well here's another clue for you all, the walrus was Paul. There was a lot of conspiracies claiming Paul was dead. He of course wasn't but I believe that if you play this record backwards as some did you hear the truth lol. Great stuff guys, later...
As with most conspiracies the real truth is much more mundane, thing is John was actually saying 'Cranberry sauce', as evidenced when you hear isolated tracks, and confirmed in interviews with George Martin and Geoff Emerick. It was a spur-of-the-moment thing, during this December recording session the band had been discussing America's 'Thanksgiving' traditions.
"George Martin didn't have a mouse". - He ate all the cheese himself.
Love it
John manipulated tapes he found in the studios archives. He had George Martin slow his vocals down so they would be in key.
You guys almost missed the acid flashback with the backwards flute and guitar passage at the end.
You’ll have to get into the Paul’s dead conspiracy. At the tail end of the song you can hear John saying; “I buried” and it almost sounds like he says “Paul”. It’s a fun trip to take with they way people have broke the conspiracy down
Cranberry sauce.
I was around when they put this shit on AM radio! The 45 had this on one side and Penny Lane on the other!
" I BURIED PAUL "
Cranberry sauce.
Crazy, all this over the top production was wasted on us back in the day. Most of us were listening on shall I say crappy hi fi. Now with all this high tech listening devices, it’s like hearing it for the first time. Keep up the great reactions gentleman.
That ending thing sounds like a subway train coming and goin by.....it was the 60s, imagine he as ring stuff hi on LSD....wow...I never did it I was to square....ha
They double tracked the vocal, one track slowed down intentionally -
"Why does John Lennon sound different in Strawberry Fields?
"John Lennon wrote the song and sang it. The reason it sounds different than usual John vocals is that two sections of vocals were chosen by John to be used on the song, but each one was in a different key. George Martin had to slow the vocals down to match them together in pitch and splice it together." They kept us on our toes all through the 60's
only downer is that they didnt continue on with he end but when Georges guitar kicks in gear. if that was pink floyd they would have dragged it out to 10 minutes.
If you like the cello, Bachs cello suite 1 is probably the signature cello composition of all time.
Oh, looking forward to the White album
The treat comment was spot on! A couple of drops of 25, and nothing is kinda real. 😊
They recorded two different versions. John wanted the first part of one out together with the second part of the other. They were at slightly different speeds, so George Martin sped up one and slowed down the other and spliced them together and voila! All this on four track mind you
PS-had to check to see if you guys have reacted to John Lennon, "Mother". It doesn't look like you have. It's a must listen reaction. You have never heard anyone express so much pain in a vocal delivery in a song ever.
Big difference between "Hearing" and "Listening.
Recorded in 1966, and released as a single in February of 1967, John set the standard for musical genius. This song, by any other band would have been dismissed as too insane! The Beatles clout got instant airplay. The Dylan movie has a clip of Allen Ginsberg marvelling about the fact that they had No idea how much power they had to influence the culture of the day! That changed! Here we are, fascists run our country.
You guys need to check out the Documentary Sound City, It’s a recording studio they actually have artist in there creating a song in a matter of hours Paul McCartney does one …amazing
La, wait til you hear Ringo's tight Ludwig crack of his snare drum? I love it!!!! Penny Lane is a great song too!!! You'll catch it right when he hits it. Throughout the whole song too!!!
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From what I had read there were two versions and john was working with George martin to find the right sound, I believe they ended up splicing the first half of one recording with the second half from the other, it was great the way it ended up..
The demo versions on the Anthology album is so good (better?)
No time for the non-hits, eh? "Flying" & "Blue Jay Way" are amazing...
The way the different instruments and studio trickery are layered and added and made more complex throughout the song is just a masterpiece. Especially with the limited equipment and tracks they had to work with. I don’t think I hear Paul’s voice at all on this. All Lennon.
George Martin was a genius. Figuring out a way to mix one rendition of the song(first bit) , and adding the second remake of the song at the end too. Both takes were at different pitch and different tempos. I wonder after hearing all the albums, are you going to listen to Love? Or at least the single "Tomorrow Never Knows/Within You Without You"? For some weird reason the music video was removed from RUclips.
Good thing they stopped touring before this song came out. How would they have performed this live with technology of that day (no samplers)?
This was actually made up of two takes that were in a different key and the producer told John that he couldn't merge them but John said he liked bits of both so they played around with it and George Martin actually slowed down one of the tapes to make it match up musically and that's why it seems to drag because it is being played slower than it actually was. Revolutionary. I'm sharing this reaction to my site Besides It's A B-Side with a recommendation to your channel. Hope that's OK.