Beatles First Listen - "Anna (Go To Him)" and "Chains"
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John's voice on "Anna" goes through me like a hot knife through butter. Just adore John's voice.
I AGREE, you can hear the ANGUISH in his voice......I LOVE this song and at 16 it just resonated with me, even though I didn't even have a boyfriend or a crush on any one at the time. I WISH I had one, and may be that's why. I love ALL the covers that the Beatles did. I felt they did them better than the originals. What I love about the Beatles music is I can always UNDERSTAND and HEAR EVERY WORD in the lyrics. Where a LOT of music today, I can't understand what they are saying
Ditto. So interesting, soulful and expressive.
Gives me chills.
My favorite rock singer ever. His voice has so much soul.
@@Funktaro5 I miss him still.
Lennon’s voice, has an immediate, raw quality. He conveys emotion effortlessly x
Yes their chemistry was unique. As George Martin said the night they made this album, “the more they play, the better they get.”
Goffin and King were a hit-making machine in the early sixties. The lyrics to their songs aren't autobiographical. When Carole King went on her own after their split, the songs become more personal.
True. Goffin was lyricist, King the musician. The musical about Carole King is excellent
Goffin-King weren't the only Brill Building married couple songwriters. Another was Barry Man-Cynthia Weil.
She was responding to a market for singer-songwriters that preceded her.
Pauls bass work is amazing, as you'll find out if you keep exploring Beatles music.
Agreed. I sometimes just focus on the bass track on Sgt. Pepper. Masterful.
Goffin and King were responsible for many, many number 1 songs, including several they wrote for the Monkees. Carol Kings' Tapestry is one of the best-selling albums of all time. 14Xs Platinum.
They were among the famous Brill Building songwriters in the ‘50’s & ‘60’s. Dozens of songwriters like Paul Simon, Neil Diamond, Burt Bacharach and so many others worked there, in the neighborhood known as Tin Pan Alley. ✌️❤️🎶
They were titans in songmaking. Carol King wrote paired and alone and still performs. Her album Tapestry is a favorite of mine. She is the subject of the broadway Musical Beautiful. Aretha Fanklin's (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman was their conposition. James Taylor's You've got a Friend. Crying in the Rain, recorded by the Everly Brothers, One Fine Day recorded by The Chiffons, Some Kind of Wonderful, recorded by The Drifters, Will you Love Me Tomortow, recorded by the Shirelles was the first by a black all-girl group to reach number one in the United States per wikipedia ....
.the list just goes on and on.
@@dwgrly Well, if you're listing songs, I have to point out Goffin/King wrote two of my favorite songs by the Monkees, Pleasant Valley Sunday and Star Collector. They wrote about a half a dozen more for the Monkees, including a song written with Monkee member Michael Nesmith, Sweet Young Thing.
@@alpetrocelli4465 And Randy Newman.
It was recorded in MONO, and the albums were almost all originally in mono and not stereo. That gives that ambience to it. Plus, no overdubs, no digital mixing, adding, or subtracting. Live recording to it's best.
mono plays in both ears equally. You cannot pan tracks to one side or the other.
McCartney is one of the top rated bass players in rock. His later bass work is incredible.
Carol King is one of the top singer-songwriters of the classic rock period. Check out her album Tapestry
Agreed on McCartney's amazing bass. I sometimes just focus on the bass in Sgt. Pepper.
You can easily recognize John's voice from the others.
I agree that much of their early output is simple, but at the time their sound was so new, different from what came before, yet inspired by it. It caught our attention and for 7 years most of us were rapt by their meteoric growth as artists, but the early stuff is what made us pay attention.
They were so tight because of the the outlier factor...months of 10 hour playing in Hamburg...also in those early years, the style was to have a main singer and backup...their singing together was something new and so fresh that they started and their voices together was magic, especially John and Paul;s harmonies...George had a very good voice...Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones called them the 4 headed monster because they could all sing...I love each and every stage of their musical progression
The stones called them "the four headed monster because of their ability to keep writing hit after hit with no end in sight. Nobody could keep up with them.
@@mgonzales56 I agree with you. They wrote hit after hit and most of them went to the very top of the charts.
You are right. It's pure and uncut. No gimmicks, just pure unadulterated God-given talent. Thanks again!
"Anna (Go To Him)" was written by Arthur Alexander, an early pop/soul pioneer in the 1960s. Ironically, British Invasion groups like The Beatles pretty much pushed artists like Alexander off the charts. He was driving a school bus in the 90s when the music world re-discovered him and recorded and toured again. Unfortunately his renaissance was short-lived, he died in 1993 at the age of 53.
I think Anna is greatly underrated for its song structure. Arthur Alexander deserves a lot of credit for writing such a good song.
His voice was perfect for this one!
As far as Anna goes, their cover is such a great take, but what can get overlooked is just how good the song itself is.
Syed.... I'm 70, yes I do love your channel and also loving that you are delving right back to the beginning of The Beatles recordings and taking them forward.. It's worth it to hear the growth and just how quickly they developed... Sorry for the recording lesson It might be boring but it might help. In 1963 the only records that were really released on stereo were records of classical music. All these early pop/rock records were released as mono recordings... Stereo was for Hi-Fi buffs and the equipment cost a fortune to buy. Plus consider that the radio and television signals that we all got was purely one speaker and there weren't ANY stereo signals for broadcast. SO for virtually all of their recording life The Beatles were only worried about how the mono mixes sounded as that was how the public heard them.... What you are hearing now is a re-mix in the broadest sense... some of the early re-releases that were put out in "Stereo" in inverted commas in the 70's and 80's for the CD generation were atrocious because they simply took two tracks and put them to the left and the other two tracks and put them on the right.... so you had in effect music in one ear and the vocals and overdubs in the other... What you are hearing here is a much better re-mix for the Spotify generation.. But to hear them as I heard them and as others of my age heard them, imagine all the sounds melded together... Keep on Rocking.
The more you listen to The Beatles, the more you'll appreciate the unique greatness in the voices of each of them, on top of their fabulous musicianship. There are many good reasons why The Beatles are still considered the GOAT of all GOATs in music history more than 50 years AFTER they disbanded.
Their post-Beatles solo careers (with & without other groups) were also incredibly creative & oh, so entertaining!!!! John Lennon - Imagine. Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord. Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy. One great song from each. So very many more!!!
Listen & enjoy!! The most wonderful rabbit hole you can ever jump into is the one that starts with The Beatles!!!
That crispy mixing is i think part of why vinyl is so loved. They were mixed with that in mind, plus records just sound crisp compared to tape and digital.
The vocals in todays music seems to get lost, I always have trouble understanding what words they are singing! If it's a live performance on TV these days, I have to put closed captioning on and HOPE they have the lyrics to the song.
It sounds simple because of the recording technology of the time. There were limited tracks to record on and limited time. I think you're listening to a stereo mix as well which were something of an after thought at the time as most people listened in mono. The mono mix got the most effort and the stereo one is quite rudimetary with some instruments panned left and others panned right.
Goffin and King got divorced a few years later. Carole King's work is definitely worth checking out. She's an amazing songwriter and singer.
these early recording, show, the Beatles were Johns band, he sang lead more often than not. Try and find an early concert and John sings lead a lot. But George Martin picked up very early that either of the 3 could sing lead, plus Ringo as an added attraction. Even Mick Jagger commented, he was envious, where he was the only vocalist in the RS.
Anna and Chains are two of my favorite Beatles songs
You will also want to check out some of George's more influential later Beatles songs such as, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something". As others have mentioned here Carole King is also worth checking out in her own right at some point. She was one of the highly influential singer-songwriters of the time. I concur with the other recommendations for checking out some of the songs from Tapestry, if not the whole album itself. It ranks pretty high on the greatest albums of all time lists, or at least it should. The most recent Rolling Stone ranking put it at #25, for whatever that's worth. King's solo career when combined with teaming up with Goffin rank as #7 on their Greatest Songwriter's list, with Dylan at #1, McCartney at #2, and Lennon at #3.
To argue against my own recommendation for Carole King, it is probably not something you want to do right away. Particularly if you are searching for songs that you feel some kind of connection to, because I don't think you will necessarily find it with her music. But from a historical perspective of the era, it is worth listening to some of her songs.
Picture it: you’re 10 years old or so, in the finished basement where your bedroom is and working on gluing and painting Aurora monster models like Frankenstein and the Wolfman and listening to this album on repeat. Between the music and the glue, this is irreplaceable and instrumental to my appreciation of modern music.
Anna was a cover that John really liked....I Saw Her Standing there was a Beatles original
Your channel is great, my man!
You have hit it perfectly about Goffin and King. Goffin was expressing his own thinking and feeling. He went on to endure very bad mental health problems.
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow ... and that's why the Beatles were/are universally loved.
I like the way you're taking this. These two songs are covers of Black R&B recordings.
They also did another Arthur Alexander song, John singing it, "Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)," which is available on their "Live at the BBC" recordings.
Carole King is a master singer songwriter. Her 1971 album Tapestry is roundly considered a Masterpiece.
Oh, McCartney is one of the best bassist in rock history. He's not the most technical, although it ain't bad. But his musicality is unmatched. You'll see that evolve, just like they all evolve, very quickly as you go through their catalog, which is really mandatory to fully understand the history of music.
Paul is a very MELODIC bass player. He (in his words) got "lumbered with the bass" after Stu Sutcliffe left the band, and no one else wanted to play the bass. Paul is also a fantastic lead guitar player, and so it was frustrating for him to play bass, which in those days....in Paul's words...".was the fat guy in the back going bum. bum..bum" So he played bass very differently and became very melodic. It's also very hard to be a lead singer and play bass at the same time....that is why you DON'T see a LOT of bass players who can sing lead at the same time.
Carol King was a big time song writer who worked with Neil Sedaka. Her album "Tapestry" won a Grarmmy. Depth can be very simple.
Not sure how much King worked with Sedaka. He had a school crush on her and wrote and had a hit with his song, 'O Carol'. It's not a great song. King thought she could do better and came up with 'It might as well rain until September' which was a hit for The Shirelles, iirc. Goffin was a bit older and started writing with King and they got married. All high school age kids! Paul Simon and Art Garfunkle were, as kids, part of that network and went by the name Tom and Jerry.
Paul McCartney topped many best bassists list all through the Beatles' years and even continuing after that. Playboy Magazine's yearly list comes to mine. Paul topped it several times and their lists was usually very Jazz heavy, with very few Pop/Rock artists. (I read Playboy for articles like these.)
It's not the reading of Playboy we're worried about!
Just finished Anna. I had forgotten about this but I used to play this album a lot and I really love this song and I know that I loved chains to which is coming up. And I guess I missed the first two, I'm not sure how that happened.
But I can tell you exactly why this sounds crisp compared to modern recordings. It's all about compression. There was very little if any compression on this compared to today's music, which means that it has a much greater dynamic range and therefore much more presence.
Did you notice the fake stereo? The Beatles I think were one of the very first to play around with this. So you had the lead vocal and mostly backing vocals plus a guitar way in the background in your right ear, and in the left is everything else plus the echo tail from John's lead and also a bit of the backing vocals mixed in on the left side. But there is no true stereo mix; it's just completely one-hundred-percent either left or right. They moved on from this pretty quickly but it was kind of groundbreaking at the time. And it led the way into the move from monaural to stereo recordings, which we have taken for granted for so long.
I still have some old mono records and I love the density of the sound, where anything that has a punch, it really emphasizes a solid thick punch, and dense saturation on thicker more compact textures.
Stereo gave us the ability to spread the soundstage completely from the left to the right and anywhere in between, and the ability to manipulate and place things exactly where we want them can create much better separation and clarity for individual instruments and voices.
One thing you might notice in the headphones is that the vocals are on one side and the music on the other side - this was caused by the limitations of the two track recording equipment - the band and producer George Martin regards the "mono" versions to be "the" versions - the mono versions are the ones that most listeners heard when they took the record home.
Those early records weren't in stereo, I prefer mono.
Chains is one of the great songs written by Carol King.. before the Beatles were a thing, my sister bought a version of this song by a group called the Cookies, so I already knew it when I got my first Beatles album and this cover version was on it... a great song with really cool lyrics.... and Anna is the type of song that used to be called a "torch" song, and was a great vehicle for John's voice, and showed the tremendous versatility of the Beatles compared to other rock acts at the time... and the first stirrings of a teenage George Harrison, who was probably 19 when this was recorded, who would go on to write Something and Here Comes the Sun
Records were mixed mono for the most part until the late 1950s when stereo playback equipment became widely available. Mono playback used one speaker or one earbud because Mono was mixed to a single channel. With stereo, you have two tracks which play back on two speakers and you can have different information, or signals, on each channel. You can listen to mono on stereo equipment, but it sends the same signal to both output channels. Modern mono mixes are two track, two channels that are identical. In the early 1960s most people still listened on mono systems so more effort was put into the mono mix. Stereo mixes were made for the market, but it was still kind of a novelty and limited recording tracks made stereo panning rather difficult. That’s why you may have the backing tracks on one channel and vocals on the other. It wasn’t until 8, 16 and 24 track recorders came into use that more “natural” sounding stereo mixes could be made because you could record instruments on individual tracks and place them wherever you wanted in the stereo panorama.
Gerry Goffin and Carole King (the married songwriters you mentioned) wrote lots of hit songs for other artists throughout the 60’s. In fact, John said in an early interview that he hoped the Lennon/McCartney songwriting duo would be as successful as Goffin/King. King and Goffin did divorce, and she continued to write as well as record albums and tour. Her album “Tapestry” sold millions, and won three Grammy awards.
Goffin-King were one of a number of married couple song writers in the Brill Building. Their 9 to 5 job was writing songs. They were written for others for the pop market.
Almost to 20k, I can't believe how long it takes for people who actually react to build subscribers
Still as fresh as when we recorded. I think you're getting how GOOD they were.
I hope you will do all their albums to see their evolution it's just amazing
Good comments about John's voice....yes, he had experiences. Lots of pain in his youth -- losing his Mom (twice), his Dad (abandoned him), his best friend (Stu Sutcliffe)...all before age 22. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys once said about John's vocal ( I think it may have been in reference to Strawberry Fields Forever?) that John had "pain" in his voice, which made him a very effective vocalist - especially on tunes about heartache! Emotionally, John hits many targets for me with his singing. Not a knock on Paul, but Lennon's ethereal and darker emotional vocals touch a chord deep inside that we can all relate to more. Paul was the optimist, the sunshine in his vocals, John was the reality and darkness. A great pairing!
Great fresh take on the Beatles. Thanks.
Yes, tube technology versus transistors! Big difference.
Syed, you should really be listening to MONO versions of these early Beatles records, if you have that option. That's the way everyone heard them then, because almost nobody had stereo equipment in the early 60s. George Martin and his engineers spent much more time perfecting the mono mixes than they did the stereo versions. It was how pop music was made at the time, and that's the sound that gave us Beatlemania.
King and Goffin were writers for hire, part of the legendary Brill Building stable of writers cranking out hits. Carole’s solo career, after they divorced, began with the album Tapestry, which is in Rolling Stone’s top 25 of all time, and won a boatload of Grammys. She is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and is a Kennedy Honoree.
George Harrison is absolutely my favorite Beatle and such an underrated songwriter (not during these early albums). I can’t wait for you to explore more of his contributions to The Beatles!
Watch the Eliot Roberts ranking of George’s albums. I’m about halfway through and although I don’t completely agree, he makes good points.
Remember GH was youngest. His development in relation to his age and in light of George Martin concentrating on the nailed on money makers, was not much different from J & P
Yes, he WAS just as good back in the early years.
@@lisasmithline1386 he wasn’t writing songs, that was my point
Gerry Goffin and Carole King were a massively successful songwriting team, especially during the early 60s - but they weren't the recording artists. Carole King went on to a successful solo career in the singer-songwriter style, Gerry continued to pen lyrics for hit songs with other composers.
The Beatles are a rare band in that their covers are almost always better than the originals.
They were a rhythm & booze bar band playing for 8 hours a night 7 days a week in Hamburg. Just take the music for what it is, what it was at the time.
There's no "hidden meaning" to the song "Chains"; it's simply about a person in a relationship being tempted by someone else.
I know, that is one of the things that bothers me about the young reactors, it seems like they think that every song that a group or single vocalist does is ALWAYS autobiographical !
@@patticrichton1135Or that there is some "hidden meaning" to "figure out". Some of Dylan's "amazing" lyrics are put-ons -- strings of images that didn't necessarily have meaning or even continuity.
Gerry Goffin-Carol King were only one married couple of several in the Brill Building who made a living writing songs. It was about writing songs that would be hits.
Another good observation of McCartney's excellent bass, which I don't think gets the credit it deserves. It's melodic and nimble, accentuating the song without drawing attention. IMO it's particularly excellent on Sgt. Pepper.
And yeah, stereo was an innovation at the time--Beatles albums were released in mono by default, and often remixed for stereo as an afterthought. Fans argue about the mono vs stereo records, some claiming mono is the way the early Beatles were meant to be heard. Additionally, headphones were a rarity, so having all the music in one speaker wasn't as jarring, and often a lot of fun. On headphones it sounds like something's wrong. :)
Thanks for having me along.
John didn't like his voice, but he has my favorite voice ever!
Goffin and King (husband and wife) were part of "Tin Pan Alley" at the Brill Building during the early to middle 1960s.
I hope you will go through all of the Beatles albums
This LP was #1 for 30 weeks because they were ahead of the pack from the outset.
Listen to how good -- FELT -- the playing!
While driving to recording studio to start on *Time Out of Mind* Dylan was listening to old blues music in his old pick-up truck.
He said to the engineer "Why can't I have an album that sounds like that"?.
The engineer said "You can"!
He set up the equipment to get the sound of old analog recordings which Dylan always said suited his voice better than modern digital.
The interview w the engineer is on Utube but I can't recall his name.
Bob and the producer, Daniel Lanois, had a few "disagreements" - he wanted the album recorded his way and of course so did Dylan, lol.
Lanois refused to be a Yes Man which Bob was quite used to having around.
TOOM isn't a favorite of Dylan's vocals but he rarely writes bad lyrics.
Ha! Apologies for the Dylan tangent - don't know how that happened :)
ps: differences in the sound of old analog recordings compared to modern digital were being discussed...it brought back memory of the Dylan story.
Great reaction as always.
Studio musicians played on thousands of albums thru the decades including most of the Beatles.
Peace - God bless 🕯️
The number of hits penned by Goffin/King is astounding
Actually, Beatles used to record slow tracks after the fast ones, and vice versa. You wouldn't believe how different were the songs recorded in one session. It looks like slow track would enhance the rush in fast tracks, and vice versa.
Goffin and King wrote dozens of hits. They knew what would sell and be a hit. They were part of the hit songwriters in the famous Brill Building in NYC known as Tin Pan Alley. Not autobiographical.
Something. While my guitar gently wheeps, Dr. Robert, Here comes the sun are the songs where George Harrison is on the vocals. He had one song on every album.
Also, the lyrics are heart-piercing.
Interesting take on Goffin and King!
Gerry Goffin-Carol King WROTE the song "Chains". Yes, that Carol King.
It was a hit by an R&B girl group.
It was the girl group THE COOKIES that had the hit with "Chains" I LOVE the Girl Groups ( well , I was a teen back then, so the '60s period was "my era" lol
@@patticrichton1135 I would have said it was "The Cookies" but wasn't certain -- "Devil in Her Heart" kept coming to mind.
I was 15 when "The Beatles" hit the US.
This is a really good way to learn about the Beatles. And going through the albums chronologically is a good way too. That way you see the growth process. "He should get a cold more often." Ha! Well said. This link is to Mick Jagger inducting the Beatles into the Rock 'n Roll hall of fame. It's fun and informative. And he paints a picture of what it was like back in those early days. th-cam.com/video/0rolz1VasS4/w-d-xo.html
The variety of songs was deliberate. They consciously stayed away from doing the covers everyone else was doing.
And that husband and wife team were responsible for "Natural Woman". Lyrics by the husband.
Paul's was a standard voice -- attractive. Lennon's has character.
McCartney's voice was more versatile than Lennon's, Think Yesterday, Gotta Get You Into My Life, Why Don't We Do it in the Road, Blackbird, etc etc etc.
@@acmegd His voice is also more conventional. Lennon's voice has more individual character.
Loving this Beatles journey. I still swoon at John's voice. I was wondering if I was the only one picking up on the symbolism of the 'chains', so when you mentioned the same thing, I just cracked up.....but hey, no judgement, right? BTW.....Syed, about to go over the 20K mark! Yeaaaa
The qualities of the various early pressings of Beatles albums is an enormous rabbit hole all on its own....!! You need to appreciate what George Martin had done as a producer prior to working with the Beatles...That will explain a lot and answer several of your questions....
If you hear different instruments and voices left and right it's not mono, it's early stereo before it was ironed out properly. Most of the Beatles records where released in mono and stereo mixes came first at a later point. If you only have two tracks there isn't much you can do but have some instruments and voices in one ear and the rest in the other.
Remember them coming to America..(Class of 71)
When listening to this era, you need to listen in MONO, it’s essential
It really was a much more innocent time back then, and Chains was really only about being chained to someone you love. Anna is a beautiful song and showed a lighter side to the band.
Carole King's "Tapestry" spent 318 weeks on the Billboard top 200. ALMOST SIX YEARS.
I'll never be able to listen to chains the same way again. lmao
I'm hoping you go through every album on your Beatles journey. So many changes, in less than eight years. The first four albums are what was known as Beatlemania.
SO DO I, and that he KEEPS going CHRONOLOGICALLY hearing them JUST LIKE WE DID back then, as they were released!
He sounds great in this song, but wait until you hear taghell last song of the album, “Twist and Shout”. It’s already a banger but with Johns cold and 10 hours of singing, his vocals are totally unmatched.
You gotta put Carole King's Tapestry on your play list. It is one of the most important LPs ever.
I agree. I prefer Lennon's voice - and Lennon either - in the first Beatles years. He is really really outstanding before 1966. But from then on, McCartney caught up like hell and at the end of the Beatles he clearly surpassed Lennon - also vocally 8examples: O darling, I've got a feeling...).
and Paul on "HELTER SKELTER," "LADY MADONNA," "LONG TALL SALLY," "I'M DOWN," "BACK IN THE U.S.S.R," Etc. Then there is Paul's SOLO works...WOW!
@@patticrichton1135 Sure.
Hilarious BDSM reference. I am so surprised that you haven't heard any George Harrison even on the later stuff. Like, Here Comes the Sun, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and Something? Hmm.
My favorite of his is off of Rubber Soul and it's called Think For Yourself and I love it to death. And Paul McCartney uses a fuzzbox on his bass guitar, which was a first.
But I strongly urge you to check out Roll Over Beethoven from their second album. It's a Chuck Berry cover and George Harrison takes lead vocal on that as well as of course lead guitar. His voice on that sounds fantastic and the song is a banger.
Lots could be said about Paul McCartney and his voice, but even in this early time, if you want your socks blown off, listen to their Little Richard cover of Long Tall Sally, I think that's also on their second album. That's the one that they tried to prevent The Beatles from playing when they were the house band at a club in Hamburg, because the crowd would go nuts and brawl and break things. But they always ended up playing it anyway at the end, and the guy couldn't break the contract because they were just too much of a draw, laugh. At one point he even nailed the wooden bar stools into the wooden floor so people couldn't throw them around!
Also, McCartney was a great bass player, for sure. You can learn a lot about bass playing by studying his various bass parts. And of course Ringo is doing that stuttering tango beat in conjunction with Paul's bass and that just adds to the whole effect.
It's probably hard to appreciate how cutting-edge this was in a way, even though it kind of sounds like other music of the time, they were already trying all kinds of things that were different. And the critics were raving about their use of Aolean cadences for example, and John would just laugh about it and say, we have no idea what that is, lol.
The only way to really appreciate it would be to listen to what came before that and then you would understand. That's what it took for me. I mean I was listening to this stuff in the late 60s and 70s as a kid, so admittedly that was much closer to the early sixties when this was their sound, but still, music had changed dramatically in less than a decade, which you can clearly hear even just in the Beatles catalog.
@ Steve Dahlberg---- WELL SAID!! Totally agree with EVERY THING you just said!
@@patticrichton1135 Thanks, sistah! These are topics near and dear to my heart. I have been a musician and a songwriter and composer and have played in bands for years. I really appreciate the Beatles not just for the nostalgia and the wonderful experience of getting to know them as a kid and a young adult along with all the music that was more modern for the time, and I bought all of their albums by the time I was in high school, but I also love to appreciate them from a musician standpoint. There is all kinds of subtle stuff going on in these early ones that is wonderful. And let's not forget, it doesn't always have to seem groundbreaking; if it is really compelling and makes people want to move their bodies and sing along, then the biggest part of the challenge has already been met!
Check out Ask Me Why from their first album
Goffin and King did not sing Chains, they wrote it. It was recorded by a girl group called The Cookies. Carole King went on to have a very successful singing career in her own write.
You hit it on the nail. The mixed on genres continues every album! After the “boy band” period of the first 2 albums, look out!
(Also they did not put any singles released prior to album on the album (except the 1st!). So you need to check those also. Love you different perspective.
Please don't call the Beatles a "boy band" that term did NOT exist back then, and when it DID come into being, it referred to a bunch of boys that sang while doing choreographed dance routines and didn't PLAY ANY INSTRUMENTS. The Beatles NEVER did choreographed DANCE routines but they DID PLAY INSTRUMENTS.
@@patticrichton1135 I understand. That’s why it’s in “”. A few refer it that way…..
“Although generally described as a rock band, the highest-selling band in history the Beatles have been described by some journalists as "the first" or "the original" boyband, "before anyone had thought of the term", exclusively due to the enthusiastic response they received from their young female audience.”
McCartney made the bass a lead instrument.
John and Paul were the two best vocalists in the band, but if you listen to the stuff the Beatles did before they wound up with George Martin, or some of the stuff they did on radio later on, George sang a lot more songs that never made the album, and the different contrasts between the voice of the four lads, including Ringo, is one of the reasons why listening to The Beatles never gets old. Compare them to the Rolling Stones (whom I also love), you've got Mick Jagger and once in a blue moon here and there Keith Richard. So for most of the time in the Stones years, you are listening mostly to Jagger. (Don't get me wrong, though - I could listen to the Stones just about any day)
Early Beatles are huge fans of R&B (especially girl groups) and they incorporated into their sound.
McCartney influenced as many musicians and his singing and songwriting did.
Plus he had the widest vocal range, which gave his vocals a lot of diversity. He could sound like different guys depending on the song he was singing.
Mono is one channel only, and was the main format until the end of the 60s, simply because Hi-Fi with two speakers was a niche thing. So, Stereo was just a by-product of Mono work. That's why they didn't care too much in mixing properly or with modern standards - there were no modern standards, at all! However, the stereo channel location was also forced by recording technology: first Beatles works were recorderd on 2-Track only, generally vocals on one track, rhythm base on the other. That meant you were forced to have that kind of stereo spectrum.
But even after they switched to 4 or 8 tracks, you may still find the voice, bass and drums on one channel only: just because Stereo was also a way of experimenting and make things to look different from Mono. It's a shame, but it's part of the deal with 60s music.
Also, Mono and Stereo version sometimes differ in some details, since were done in different times, with different people - generally, The Beatles only supervised the Mono production. So, if you want to listen to the "real" Beatles catalogue, it must be mono.
P.S.: in the early songs, Harrison's voice can be sometimes confused with Lennon's. For instance in "Don't you want to know a secret?"
on Anna, listen to Ringo's drum work, especially hitting the high hat. nobody was really doing that then....total inventive style for each song. In the pocket of the song and a human metronome.
Goffen and King are LEGENDARY songwriters. Do a wiki search Syed and prepare to be impressed.
I bought "The Love Below" albums. Freakin love "Hey Ya". Loved both albums actually. Was the other "Loveboxx"? Something like it. I feel inspired to play it now, It's been a minute since I last heard it.
I got Stankonia when it came out. Loved Ms. Jackson, especially with the video. A friend of mine had The Love Below. I could not believe they released Roses as the follow-up hit to Hey Ya. It was a big hit too though! I love the song, the "your s*&t don't stink" and "your roses smell like poo poo" lines and all.
@@debjorgo Absolutely! Such a smooth groove and then you hear the lyrics . My daughter and me played it a couple times just to be sure thats what he was saying.
IMHO "Hey Ya" was the noughties equivalent to "Come on Eileen" in that everyone gets up at wedding receptions etc, to dance to it.
@@DawnSuttonfabfour Sorry about my previous post. I think my filter needs replacing. But yeah, the Hey Ya video is excellent!
@@debjorgo I like folks with leaky filters personally. My filter is not entirely intact either!
"Mono," which was where the production focus was on all of these early recordings for all of these bands, is where the same signal is being sent to both speakers. In other words, you'll hear the same sounds at the same levels in each speaker. When done well, and George Martin was a master, a mono recording will convey the same sense of space and location as a very good stereo recording will do. Also, early mono mixes hit extremely hard, as opposed to the "softer" impact of their stereo counterparts, especially on early Rolling Stones' singles. A great Beatles example, however, is to listen to the "Revolution" stereo single, and then follow that up with the "Revolution" mono single. You will immediately understand why John Lennon declared the stereo single complete shit.
From what I can tell, you're probably listening to the stereo mix, which was an after-thought primarily targeted to the American audience, where stereo equipment was more common. Early Beatles stereo generally sucked, as the instruments were panned hard to one side, and the vocals were panned hard to the opposite side. Horrible.
John Lennon rightly said that Paul was an "inspired" bass player.
You check out Goffin and King’s catalogue. Unbelievable amount of hits for a wide range of artists. Btw nobody comes close to The Beatles.
They were referred to as the sound alike because people didn't know who was singing at the time 😅😅😅
You should invest in Ian McDonald's masterful book : revolution in the head
Gives detailed notes on the writing, performing and production of their tracks
The story behind twist and shout is worth it alone.
You will love it
You’re listening in stereo, the mono versions are completely different, the sound all comes through one speaker. Up unto revolver it’s essential that you listen in mono, thank me later
I think is monorecording
Hence a clean sound
Until you get to Hard Day’s Night album please listen in mono. 😂
Should be interesting when these early albums have a remix!
Actually I hope they DON'T . I prefer the early albums they way they were....it was how we heard them, and they are fantastic the way they are.
Carole King is one of the boggest names of the 1970's, her debut album sold so many copies it may be on the Billboard top 100 TODAY. SHE WAS HUGE.
If you get as far as Twist & shout and There’s a place ~ that’s your payoff
Lennon's vocals are a very little bit sharp all the way through "Anna." But a very youthful (and infatuated) me forgave him for it, because he was so dadgum sexy!
These are probably my two least favorite songs. However, all The Beatles songs are so tuneful that I can't help myself but sing along with them anyway, so thank you! 🎉❤