The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread

[Inder]

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/paul-mcc ... spiration/

For the Inders of the world to mull over (whether in Kintyre or not).

Wild Life is great. Due for a Ram-esque resurrection.

[Flex]

I just discovered this: Engelbert Humperdinck, Bing Crosby, Gwen Verdon, Bobbie Gentry (!!!), and Dick Shawn performing a medley of Beatles tunes:


Unsurprisingly, the Bobbie Gentry moments are the best in the clip. The rest of it is... interesting. Enjoyably clueless or horrifying turgid will probably depend on your tolerance for such things.

[Kory]

I just discovered this: Engelbert Humperdinck, Bing Crosby, Gwen Verdon, Bobbie Gentry (!!!), and Dick Shawn performing a medley of Beatles tunes:


Unsurprisingly, the Bobbie Gentry moments are the best in the clip. The rest of it is... interesting. Enjoyably clueless or horrifying turgid will probably depend on your tolerance for such things.

My tolerance is very

[WestwayKid]

I just discovered this: Engelbert Humperdinck, Bing Crosby, Gwen Verdon, Bobbie Gentry (!!!), and Dick Shawn performing a medley of Beatles tunes:


Unsurprisingly, the Bobbie Gentry moments are the best in the clip. The rest of it is... interesting. Enjoyably clueless or horrifying turgid will probably depend on your tolerance for such things.

Didn't Humperdinck's schlocky "Release Me" keep "Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane" from hitting #1 in the UK?

[Dr. Medulla]

I was skeptical that something could be worse than the Sgt. Pepper movie versions, but I think this outdid them.

[Marky Dread]

I just discovered this: Engelbert Humperdinck, Bing Crosby, Gwen Verdon, Bobbie Gentry (!!!), and Dick Shawn performing a medley of Beatles tunes:


Unsurprisingly, the Bobbie Gentry moments are the best in the clip. The rest of it is... interesting. Enjoyably clueless or horrifying turgid will probably depend on your tolerance for such things.

Didn't Humperdinck's schlocky "Release Me" keep "Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane" from hitting #1 in the UK?

This is true. No 2 in the UK and No 8 in the US. Think it hit No 1 in 6 other countries.

[coffeepotman]

For some strange reason I'm not thinking of a Beatles song right now

[Marky Dread]

For some strange reason I'm not thinking of a Beatles song right now

[WestwayKid]

Is "Long, Long, Long" Harrison's finest moment as a member of the Beatles? It's a really good song. The production is wonderful - love how Ringo's drum fills go from sounding gigantic to sounding very gentle and back again. The sound of the wine bottle vibrating on the speaker at the end is perfect and George's vocal is pretty breathtaking: wearing, resigned, hopeful. Sounds especially good in mono.

[Dr. Medulla]

Is "Long, Long, Long" Harrison's finest moment as a member of the Beatles? It's a really good song. The production is wonderful - love how Ringo's drum fills go from sounding gigantic to sounding very gentle and back again. The sound of the wine bottle vibrating on the speaker at the end is perfect and George's vocal is pretty breathtaking: wearing, resigned, hopeful. Sounds especially good in mono.

I lean towards "Here Comes the Sun," especially in the context of the band's collapse. There's still that hope there—it's all gonna be okay.

About a week ago, I was listening to the new edition of the White Album. I've never been that taken by "While My Guitar …"—never hated it, but never regarded it as all that special—but it really caught me ear this time. The entire album did for that matter, but that song especially grabbed me for being so, I don't know, penetrating? Intense?

[Heston]

It wasn't produced or realised very well, but my favourite George Beatles song is "It's All Too Much."

[WestwayKid]

Is "Long, Long, Long" Harrison's finest moment as a member of the Beatles? It's a really good song. The production is wonderful - love how Ringo's drum fills go from sounding gigantic to sounding very gentle and back again. The sound of the wine bottle vibrating on the speaker at the end is perfect and George's vocal is pretty breathtaking: wearing, resigned, hopeful. Sounds especially good in mono.

I lean towards "Here Comes the Sun," especially in the context of the band's collapse. There's still that hope there—it's all gonna be okay.

About a week ago, I was listening to the new edition of the White Album. I've never been that taken by "While My Guitar …"—never hated it, but never regarded it as all that special—but it really caught me ear this time. The entire album did for that matter, but that song especially grabbed me for being so, I don't know, penetrating? Intense?

The new remaster sounds pretty darned fantastic. It's a good song - and I think there was a lot of interesting sonic detail that had been buried. Listening to a mono vinyl rip of the song as I type this and it sound fantastic. There is a lot going on in the mix of that song - lots of different sounds.

I remember the first time I heard the White Album. I was maybe 12. My dad who was born in 1950 grew up with the Beatles - but he'd lost interest after Pepper - so I had all of their albums up through that one as part of my musical education and then I heard the White Album and my mind was blown. It was so weird and wonderful and insane and catchy. That first listen was one of the best musical moments of my life.

[WestwayKid]

It wasn't produced or realised very well, but my favourite George Beatles song is "It's All Too Much."

That is a good one - but yeah - I agree on the production. A bit muddy. That being said - there is some really cool stuff going on in that track. Ringo's drumming is great. The guitar playing from both Lennon and Harrison is great. They're both playing Epiphone Casinos, I believe.

[Dr. Medulla]

It wasn't produced or realised very well, but my favourite George Beatles song is "It's All Too Much."

The Stone Roses would have killed to have written that song. I love it, but, yeah, the right word is unrealized.

[Dr. Medulla]

I remember the first time I heard the White Album. I was maybe 12. My dad who was born in 1950 grew up with the Beatles - but he'd lost interest after Pepper - so I had all of their albums up through that one as part of my musical education and then I heard the White Album and my mind was blown. It was so weird and wonderful and insane and catchy. That first listen was one of the best musical moments of my life.

The first Beatles lp's I heard were the Red and Blue compilations (before that, my sisters had their earliest 45's, which I heard when I was about 8), but the first proper one was the White Album. It's a beautiful mess, with no unifying theme other than contradiction and divergent paths.