![]() They might be second-rate Beatles songs, but still. For McCartney's part, "All Together Now" is a cheery and pleasant sing-along befitting an animated soundtrack, and Lennon's "Hey Bulldog" is a tough and funky piano-driven rocker, by a good margin the best song here. But "It's All Too Much" stretches on for an endless six and a half minutes, the constipated production in fruitless search of a tune. "Only a Northern Song" at least has a good joke going for it, simultaneously alluding to the North of England and the Beatles' Lennon-McCartney-dominated publishing company (i.e., no matter what Harrison wrote for this particular number, it belonged to Northern Songs, Ltd.). "Only a Northern Song" and "It's All Too Much" are filled with swirling psychedelic production- tooting horns, backward instruments, shimmering percussion- but beneath the din there's not much else interesting going on. Neither of Harrison's songs ranks with his best. But even setting aside their exceedingly high standards, this lot is pretty middling, if certainly still enjoyable. Granted, we're talking about a time when the Beatles were making some of the finest pop albums of all time, so the question of what constitutes "good enough" is relative. They never found release during the time they were recorded because, well, they weren't good enough. The other four were holdovers from sessions in 1967 (Paul McCartney's "All Together Now", George Harrison's "It's All Too Much" and "It's Only a Northern Song") and 1968 (John Lennon's "Hey Bulldog"). ![]() ![]() Of the six tracks by the Beatles on the album's first side, two, "Yellow Submarine" and "All You Need Is Love", are already familiar from their original contexts (as part of Revolver and as a single, respectively). ![]() So actors mimicked their voices, their input into the story consisted of a meeting or two with the filmmakers, and when it came time to assemble the soundtrack, they combed through the vault to see what was left over. Brian Epstein had died in August, and with him gone, there was little motivation for the Beatles to participate in any meaningful way. And while the record releases associated with Magical Mystery Tour are of staggeringly high quality, the Yellow Submarine soundtrack is like the work of a supremely talented band that couldn't really be bothered. While the latter film was derided as pretentious and incoherent, the Yellow Submarine feature was well-received. Two years later, “Yellow Submarine” would spawn an animated movie of the same name, which remains a hit among generations of fans, both old and young - appropriate considering the childlike qualities that inspired the original song.In one sense, the Yellow Submarine project is the opposite of Magical Mystery Tour. 2, kept out of the top spot by “You Can’t Hurry Love” by the Supremes. 1 in 11 countries, including the U.K., Australia and Canada. “Yellow Submarine” would quickly top charts around the world, reaching No. The single was released as a double A-side with “Eleanor Rigby” on Aug. All of these elements were used to bring the fantasy world of “Yellow Submarine” to life. Members of the Beatles’ larger team - including road managers Mal Evans and Neil Aspinall and driver Alf Bicknell - rattled chains, blew whistles and generally added to the chorus of sounds. The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones clinked glasses together and played an ocarina. His wife at the time, Pattie Boyd, lent her voice to some high-pitched shrieks. George Harrison made the sound of waves by swirling water in a bathtub. Producer George Martin, who had cut his teeth producing comedy albums for the likes of Peter Sellers, utilized everyone he could when it came to layering effects on the track. The Beatles recorded "Yellow Submarine" during the 1966 sessions for Revolver. Listen to the Beatles' 'Yellow Submarine' ![]() Scottish singer Donovan, with whom McCartney was good friends, contributed as well, coming up with the line “Sky of blue and sea of green in our yellow submarine." The track’s simple structure was by design, “so kids could understand it.” Bandmate John Lennon would later help with the melody, imparting an idea from a previous song he had discarded. “I just made up a little tune in my head, then started making a story, sort of an ancient mariner, telling the young kids where he'd lived and how there’d been a yellow submarine.” “I wrote it as not too rangy in the vocal,” McCartney explained. “Yellow Submarine” seemed like it could be the perfect vehicle. McCartney had been trying to come up with a song to feature Beatles’ drummer Ringo Starr on lead vocals. Caught in a half-awake, half-asleep trance, McCartney’s mind began to race: “I remember thinking that a children's song would be quite a good idea, and I thought of images, and the color yellow came to me, and a submarine came to me, and I thought, ‘Well, that’s kind of nice, like a toy, very childish yellow submarine.” ![]()
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