“I owe a lot of what I do to Little Richard and his style,” “and he knew it. He would say, ‘I taught Paul everything he knows’. I had to admit he was right.” ....Paul McCartney
@@HarriBestReactions Little Richard used to say in interviews "I taught Paul McCartney how to go WOOOO!" McCartney confirmed. They were opening for Little Richard in Germany, and John and Paul asked him to teach them how to scream. John couldn;t do it but Paul could, so that was his signature.
I remember reading that the Beatles played "Long Tall Sally" live more times than any other song. It was in their show repertoire from the late 1950s until their final concert tour in 1966.
Nothing like a young Paul McCartney belting out Long Tall Sally! The Beatles have AMAZING rock and roll covers! Try listening to the album Live At The BBC Thanks for sharing your reactions as always Harri!!
There is no such thing as too many Beatles songs. We used to have a Sunday morning radio show "Breakfast with The Beatles", two hours of strictly Beatles/solo songs. What a great way to start your Sunday. Carry On!!
I have a personal story I saw Paul live in 1973 at the Empire Loerpool He did this as his last song. I came out feeling like I had been plaursbly knocked between the eyeballs The live version 1973 is on.You tube
PUNK Hard Rock Folk Rock...yea i see it ...Blue Rock...sure. when they played live in like 1962 they were rocking hard like punk rock all in leather....the influence for the Ramones.
Paul has a great R&R voice. That silky smooth voice can transform into an amazing ability to scream with the best of em. Harri I finally got to the patreon page by doing it from my laptop. The join button was not available on my phone which I use to link to my TV to watch your awesome videos!! 🥰
Paul was just getting started with this track. If you'd like to hear him go even *crazier* with the vocals, I reccomend his solo song "Monkberry Moon Delight". I remember being shocked the first time I heard it.
It's amazing that nearly all R&R tracks from their early Hamburg era were recorded in one take! Now listen to Lennon singing on the Beatles version of "Bad Boy"
I don’t think anyone will quite fully capture what Little Richard did. But they played it how they played it and did it real justice. Little Richard was good friends with them from when they all met on the scene in Hamburg before The Beatles were famous
This was the Beatles before they started writing there own songs. they were playing multiple sets a night and they became so tight as a band and there voices were young and strong. that is why when they went into the studio to record there first album they pretty much ran through all the songs live in one or two takes. I got to meet Paul McCarney and Linda when I was around 15 years old. Ringo is one of the best drummers of all time.
“Long Tall Sally”, written by Little Richard (Penniman) was captured in a SINGLE take! Paul’s aMAzing vocal, John had the first guitar solo, George, the second and Ringo’s drums in the final verse are masterful! Not to slight George Martin’s overdubbed piano accents. The Beatles, unequaled Pop giants were a kickass ROCK band! Mic drop!🎤
"Long tall Sally" was always a highlight of the Beatles concerts. See for example the "New Musical Express" concert in 1964. As already mentioned by someone else, there is an original composition by the Beatles, which, in my opinion, even surpasses "Long tall Sally": "I'm down" from 1965 (flipside from "Help"). Also a live standard, that the Beatles, surprisingly, never managed to play as powerfully as "Long tall Sally" on stage.
Elvis also covered this song on one of his really early RCA records when he was still young and fresh out of his Sun Records contract and still had that rockabilly feel to his music. There's also a live video of him performing on an outside stage at the State fair in 1956 in Tupelo, Mississippi. "Long Tall Sally" is one of the songs you can see him perform live in '56.
Paul McCartney's my favorite beatle and I got to see him live five times in my lifetime. If you like this song you should listen to I'm down which is an original song that Paul McCartney wrote when he was in The Beatles. There's another great vocal performance with a lot of energy in that song. Couple times when I saw Paul McCartney he was around 65 years old and he sounded amazing.
This song is Paul's Twist And Shout. TAS is regarded by many as one of the Beatles best "live" songs, because it was indeed recorded live, in just one take with the four of them playing and John singing with a raw and perfect voice. Long Tall Sally is also a ONE TAKE song. Just the four of them playing in sync, with Paul in one of his best efforts (and adding George Martin in piano). Whoever says that the Beatles couldn't play live, make them listen to Twist and Shout and Long Tall Sally (the first guitar solo is played by John! and the second one by George! The drums are incredible!)
Whether it's early, mid or later day Beatles, it's fun to watch you react to these as it reminds us how we reacted when these songs first came out. You've done many Beatles songs now, it's difficult to find ones you haven't heard yet Harri, so in researching your video list I came up with these early hits to do: "Can't Buy Me Love", "I Feel Fine", "A Hard Day's Night", "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You", "Tell Me Why", "She Loves You" and "If I Fell". The last five songs here are those they'll feature in the first Beatles movie "A Hard Day's Night" so I recommend you do those for sure before watching that movie. There are several others from the movie you've already done, but these 5 are ones I didn't find on your video page. It's going to be fun watching you react to their first movie, whether you show the movie to your audience while reacting, or just watch it on your own and talk about it later. Either way my friend, you're very close to watching that first, and very well made movie that will give you a sense of the "Beatlemania" phenomena back then. ✌️😎
I love the HDN album. Hadn't listened to it in a while and every song is a real keeper. But truthfully, every song on their albums, save a few, were great.
You're so right about Paul's vocal ability. He's amazing. You can really hear the soul ( yes! ) in his voice when you listen to these remastered tracks in headphones. More great Paul soul vocals for me are She's A Woman and I'm Down.
Fun Fact: Long Tall Sally, along with Slowdown (Larry Williams) and Matchbox (Carl Perkins) were 3 of the first 4 songs recorded by the Beatles after the bands triumphant return from America. Where their 3 straight Sunday night appearances on Ed Sullivan Show changed the cultural course of the free world. The 4th song recorded was John Lennon's 'I Call Your Name'. Which included George Harrisons first use of his newly acquired Rickenbacker 360-12 electric guitar. Hari, since you've been on a Mamas and the Papas binge, Cass Elliot does an amazing cover of I Call Your Name that you might like to check out. Cheers mate, RNB
The Ms and Ps cover is fantastic, isn't it - gorgeous John Phillips arrangement and those powerful vocals from Mama Cass. I really enjoyed their performance of it live at Monterey, despite all the technical difficulties they were having with their equipment. Maybe because it was an actual live concert, unlike their many TV show appearances we see on YT with pre-recorded backing tracks and/or lip-synching. I just a watched a funny YT video (of California Dreaming) the other day, where Michelle was refusing to play the lip-syching game and instead wandered around eating a banana, on Ed Sullivan, and pretending to sing into it...
The four songs were released on an ep in the UK, the only release until they were included on Past Masters. I practically wore it out playing them over and over. Four great songs.
Kind od ironic Lucie that it was the last song performed by the Beatles at Candlestick Park on Aug 29th 1966. The final stop on the Beatles last world tour. RNB
Harri, I think what you were trying to say is you thought they would sing it with more of a "white" sound. But The Beatles loved R&B and the high energy of the early black performers like Little Richard and Chuck Berry. They did the song justice, as with any song they sang.
I don't know how many times i've heard this one but i haven't really thought about how syncopated it!! Macca have many times credited Little Richard as a huge influence on not just performing but in music over all!!
Their was a documentary on the making of the Sgt. Pepper's lp where George Martin isolated Paul's vocal on the album's title track and it's very similar to "Sally".
Good man, like your spirit Harri. Nice to hear you standing up for Ringo, a lot of idiots have tried running him down over the past 20 yrs or so, usual sour grapes thing. Don't leave it to late to meet Paul.
Great reaction, Harri! This song really is a Barn Burner! Obviously, Paul's voice is the 1st thing you notice. Then the guitar lead is ripping, one of the best of the early songs! Then...Ringo Starr...wow! He destroys this song, especially in the outtro where he is playing that "round-the-kit" drum solo fill! Gregg Bissonnette, a World Class drummer in his own right, has a video where he breaks down that, practically, BLAST BEAT drum fill that Ringo does, and shows how it was pulled off. It is unbelievable to see it put together and rocked out. This is Keith Moon-playing a year before Keith Moon broke out with The Who! Ringo has/had the GOODS! By the way, have you done "Not A Second Time" (NAST) yet? It's from the With The Beatles album (last song on the Meet The Beatles U.S. release). It's an amazing song! Please do that one too! To me, songs like NAST and "Things We Said Today" were songs from their early years that really showed how ahead of their time The Beatles were! Check it out!
I'm imagining their Hamburg shows were pretty wild, with the English and American troops occupying Germany.... and they didn't get fired, they progressed.
Of course the Beatles were still on the radio constantly when I was in grade school in the late 60s and early 70s and I remember hearing this for the first time on the radio and it just drove me nuts. I love it so much. I'm a musician as well. When they were the house band at this club in Hamburg were they also lived upstairs, the owner of the club and their landlord at one point wrote it into their contract that they could no longer play this song, because when they did, the club patrons would go wild and throw stuff and chaos would ensue. But they would inevitably end up playing it as a finale anyway and all hell would break loose in the guy couldn't do anything because they were packing his club night after night. This is when they started to develop a speed habit because they hardly got any sleep. But their time in Hamburg was like being forged in a crucible and when they got back to Liverpool they were an extremely veteran and hardened band. Things just exploded from there. Their first trip to America followed not long after.
Paul had two main musical mentors-Little Richard for vocals (self explanatory with this cover; who else could have done this song like this?) and the bass guitarist James Jamerson from Motown, who played a melodic style of bass that Paul incorporated into his bass playing style.
Guess what ... Little Richard, himself taught Paul how to sing that way back in the Hamburg, Germany days. They hung out together and Little Richard explained to Paul that "you just have to let it explode out of the top of your head!!!" Paul is my favorite for so many reasons. For a completely different vibe from Paul you should try "Till There was You" from "The Music Man." Its a beautiful love song that also puts Paul's amazing voice center stage. Great, great stuff, Harri. Cheers.
I used to listen to music with a wild bird, who roosted in my rooftop heater box. It listened to me via the heater ducts that connected to each room in the house and it would supervise me all day and evening until after I got settled in bed at night. And greet me in the morning, to get me out of bed and on with the playing of the days music. We listened to music full time for 7 months. It would listen to a piece of music I put on from You Tube, and after about 8 to 15 bars, typically, it would tweet with the tweet intoned to mean, "I understand what is happening with this music." It had the intonation of someone saying, "Okay". But with the Beatles, it would tweet excitedly upon the 1st or 2nd bar. And by it's tweets, it liked Paul's voice better than John's. It learn some things about music if anyone is interested. Also, it figured out my billiards practice after a few months of listening to my daily practice. It knew when I was fixing to leave the house. It first heard music on a TV commercial and tweeted excitedly for it. Then I started playing music for it, and it became a music junky.
Ringo's fill ins during the song are precise and energetic and the energy on the triplets at the end blow my mind. Nobody [except jazz drummers in the studio] were doing that in pop/rock music at the time in a self contained group. A subtle way Ringo contributed to the Beatles kicking down the door for others to follow. Had it been their original drummer, Pete Best, the Beatles knew they would have failed to make it. Check a the live video on Long Tall Sally and catch Ringo working his ass off on the drums, exciting as hell: th-cam.com/video/TRyrVWCifus/w-d-xo.html There is no doubt in my mind, having been a little boy of 8 in 1964 and later learning of the history of early rock and roll later, how they tried to sanitize it by drafting Elvis into the Army [his number came up? How convenient, HAHAHAHA], with squeaky clean image pop singers like Bobby Rydell, Frankie Avalon, Paul Anka etc., the Beatles saved rock and roll from dying on the vine at the hands of the some adults, and a control freak paranoid government spreading the lie that rock and roll was a communist plot to overthrow the United States...freedom of speech and expression, "be careful what you ask for, you might get it" so better control it. Like the communists do...oh...wait....uh.....a nation of innuendo always trying to stick it innuendo.....
This may very well be the most important song of the entire Beatles career -- apparently when he heard this for the first time, John Lennon was stunned and declared it better than Elvis. Later, Paul's perfect rendition was one of the things that impressed John about Paul. They performed it consistently through their entire career, in every incarnation of the Beatles, it was included in every world tour setlist, and it was the last song performed at their final official concert at Candlestick Park in 1966.
Harry, I'd recommend you read Tune In by Mark Lewisohn, the greatest Beatles biography. He writes a lot about how they were very into little richard in the late fifties when they were starting out.
I second praise for Tune In. It is an excellent book. I've been reading about, listening to everything Beatles related for 50 years and Tune In is second only to the Anthology.
This is a decent recording, but it's live on the stage where this song really pops. You need to check out their performance at the 1964 NME Awards or the Washington Coliseum.
The Beatles always ended their concerts with either "LONG TALL SALLY" OR "I'M DOWN" BOTH sung by PAUL screaming it out, TOTAL ROCKERS!!! Oh NO they opened for Little Richard in their earlier days and they LEARNED the "WOO's " from Little Richard which they used so often in their early songs. THEY IDOLIZED Little Richard. I AGREE with you Harry that PAUL is INDEED the BEST singer in the Beatles cos he had such a RANGE and he could sound like a different man.....for example, sweet, soft, mellow voice during "Here, There and Everywhere" and then Paul's voice in "HELTER SKELTER" TOTALLY different!
The Beatles knew the song so well that they recorded it in a single take without overdubs on 1 March 1964. Two guitar solos, first played by John, second George. Myself I prefer John more as a singer than Paul, especially when it comes to covers. Paul does a great Little Richard, but it's Paul doing Little Richard. John somehow inhabits the songs far better. John lives a lyric while Paul performs it. Just remarkable that we ended up with probably the two greatest English rock singers in the same band.
i grew up with the beatles.....they came along when i was 13. perfect age. you can say any one of the four is your fave. however, IMHO, it's silly to argue who was the best. they all added something that created their unique sound and song writing. subtract any one of them and it's hard to make the argument they would've been as successful. mccartney had the most range. lennon the most soulful and haunting. harrison sung well enough to carry the many songs he wrote and were written for him the early days. starr was lead singer on several songs and acquitted himself very well.
I love Paul is your favourite Beatle because it ‘s mine too. But you once said George had the best voice, uhmm 😂. Remember, when you have time, do “for no one “
I love your enthusiasm, Harri. This is a great performance, but it was never one of my favorite Beatles songs because I prefer the ones they wrote themselves. Hearing it from your perspective has given me a new appreciation for this Little Richard cover. Thank you! Here is one of many live performances available on TH-cam. th-cam.com/video/TRyrVWCifus/w-d-xo.html
The live version is fantastic. Paul can sing anything. The Beatles are simply one-of-a-kind. They were all musical geniuses.
Little known fact with this song is that the first guitar solo is by John, the second one is George. This was the first take!
And they did it in ONE take! Check out a live performance of this song and watch Ringo near the end. Unbelievable!
oh yes
“I owe a lot of what I do to Little Richard and his style,” “and he knew it. He would say, ‘I taught Paul everything he knows’. I had to admit he was right.” ....Paul McCartney
Wow
@@HarriBestReactions - If nobody's mentioned it, they also covered Little Richard's "Kansas City / Hey Hey Hey Hey". And guess who sings lead...
@@HarriBestReactions Little Richard used to say in interviews "I taught Paul McCartney how to go WOOOO!" McCartney confirmed. They were opening for Little Richard in Germany, and John and Paul asked him to teach them how to scream. John couldn;t do it but Paul could, so that was his signature.
You definitely need to listen to “I’m Down.” A song he wrote very much with Little Richard in mind. Also “She’s a Woman.”
Yes obviosly! You said this, I thought it as I heard his reaction.
Absolutely! “I,m down “ it’s one of my favourites.
Yep - I'm Down for sure. Same vibe except it was their own and not a cover.
Yes, I'm down is Paul's Answer to Little Richard's long tall Sally.❤️✌️☮️
Also, “Oh, Darling!”, for that full throttle 🤩
I remember reading that the Beatles played "Long Tall Sally" live more times than any other song. It was in their show repertoire from the late 1950s until their final concert tour in 1966.
Usually at the end of the show.
I had never noticed Ringo's drum fill that continued for several measures.
Nothing like a young Paul McCartney belting out Long Tall Sally!
The Beatles have AMAZING rock and roll covers! Try listening to the album Live At The BBC
Thanks for sharing your reactions as always Harri!!
There is no such thing as too many Beatles songs. We used to have a Sunday morning radio show "Breakfast with The Beatles", two hours of strictly Beatles/solo songs. What a great way to start your Sunday.
Carry On!!
Thats something! 😀
I have a personal story I saw Paul live in 1973 at the Empire Loerpool
He did this as his last song. I came out feeling like I had been plaursbly knocked between the eyeballs
The live version 1973 is on.You tube
Lucky you
Paul loved Little Richard growing up. He was one of his heroes. So you can imagine how much he wanted to do this song. Great cover by The Beatles.
Kansas City is another Paul McCartney rocker.
She's a Woman is a great Beatles B-side.
Love it!
Harri, i highly recommend you give a listen to Paul's flat out vocal performance on Run Devil Run. Stupendous!!
Some people will tell you that every rock subgenre was forecasted in the Beatles music library.
PUNK Hard Rock Folk Rock...yea i see it ...Blue Rock...sure. when they played live in like 1962 they were rocking hard like punk rock all in leather....the influence for the Ramones.
Little Richard "Good Golly Miss Molly" one of my favorites...........
The stereo version is mind blowing. Great, great song by one of the masters of course. Paul does it more than justice
Paul has a great R&R voice. That silky smooth voice can transform into an amazing ability to scream with the best of em. Harri I finally got to the patreon page by doing it from my laptop. The join button was not available on my phone which I use to link to my TV to watch your awesome videos!! 🥰
Beautiful..glad to hear that Miss D..Thanx a bunch!
Paul had the most versatile voice in rock. He could sing sweet like the angels and down and dirty like the devil.
Ringo brought the BEAT to the BEATLES...
Paul loved Little Richard. Paul's own "I'm Down" incorporated that sound.
Sir paul us my favorite Beatles too.. tnx harribest.. we're same ..
Paul was just getting started with this track.
If you'd like to hear him go even *crazier* with the vocals, I reccomend his solo song "Monkberry Moon Delight". I remember being shocked the first time I heard it.
I agree with you. Paul had the most versatile vocals.
And it’s straight out from start to finish max vocals . No breaks .
Pleaseee react to this one
None could scream like him.
Their producer George Martin used to call these kinds of songs "potboilers." Paul was a master at ripping 'em up!
Thanks for going deep, it's probably been literally decades since I've heard this.
Don't forget Twist and Shout (John) and Roll Over Beethoven (George), more covers.
The title was the most : thats why it is just Paul
Now that is Rock and Roll ....
Paul McCartney voice is amazing and great on the 1971 song monkbery moon delight
It's amazing that nearly all R&R tracks from their early Hamburg era were recorded in one take!
Now listen to Lennon singing on the Beatles version of "Bad Boy"
Very true to the original. The boys paying homage to their roots! ❤️
Nothing like early Beatles for fun and energy ... the first album in particular just pops off the disc and makes you smile. Great review Harri!
The 'LIVE' version is spectacular as well. Paul can really belt a song. "I'm Down" is another Paul screamer.
If you like Pauls screaming voice from that era, try "I'm Down" for your next reaction.
YESSSSS..... And "She's A Woman".......
John played first guitar solo,George the second.
one of my fav beatles tunes
I don’t think anyone will quite fully capture what Little Richard did. But they played it how they played it and did it real justice.
Little Richard was good friends with them from when they all met on the scene in Hamburg before The Beatles were famous
this was a great one to watch them perform live!
This was the Beatles before they started writing there own songs. they were playing multiple sets a night and they became so tight as a band and there voices were young and strong. that is why when they went into the studio to record there first album they pretty much ran through all the songs live in one or two takes. I got to meet Paul McCarney and Linda when I was around 15 years old. Ringo is one of the best drummers of all time.
“Long Tall Sally”, written by Little Richard (Penniman) was captured in a SINGLE take! Paul’s aMAzing vocal, John had the first guitar solo, George, the second and Ringo’s drums in the final verse are masterful! Not to slight George Martin’s overdubbed piano accents. The Beatles, unequaled Pop giants were a kickass ROCK band! Mic drop!🎤
"Long tall Sally" was always a highlight of the Beatles concerts. See for example the "New Musical Express" concert in 1964. As already mentioned by someone else, there is an original composition by the Beatles, which, in my opinion, even surpasses "Long tall Sally": "I'm down" from 1965 (flipside from "Help"). Also a live standard, that the Beatles, surprisingly, never managed to play as powerfully as "Long tall Sally" on stage.
Harri, i highly recommend you have a listen to Paul's flat out vocal performance on "Run Devil Run". Stupendous!!
Elvis also covered this song on one of his really early RCA records when he was still young and fresh out of his Sun Records contract and still had that rockabilly feel to his music. There's also a live video of him performing on an outside stage at the State fair in 1956 in Tupelo, Mississippi. "Long Tall Sally" is one of the songs you can see him perform live in '56.
Yes Paul killed this song and so did Ringo on the drums . The most underrated drummers in the world.
Paul McCartney's my favorite beatle and I got to see him live five times in my lifetime. If you like this song you should listen to I'm down which is an original song that Paul McCartney wrote when he was in The Beatles. There's another great vocal performance with a lot of energy in that song. Couple times when I saw Paul McCartney he was around 65 years old and he sounded amazing.
Little Richard met the Beatles a bit before they were famous, and he said later he knew Paul would make it big.
This song is Paul's Twist And Shout. TAS is regarded by many as one of the Beatles best "live" songs, because it was indeed recorded live, in just one take with the four of them playing and John singing with a raw and perfect voice. Long Tall Sally is also a ONE TAKE song. Just the four of them playing in sync, with Paul in one of his best efforts (and adding George Martin in piano). Whoever says that the Beatles couldn't play live, make them listen to Twist and Shout and Long Tall Sally (the first guitar solo is played by John! and the second one by George! The drums are incredible!)
No one in the Brit invasion could sing like this but Paul.
I didn’t know that 1st solo was John!
There’s a brilliant live performance from their last tour of Hamburg where they take it at a real lick. Totally brilliant!
Paul's voice sounds like a bebop trumpet.
Whether it's early, mid or later day Beatles, it's fun to watch you react to these as it reminds us how we reacted when these songs first came out. You've done many Beatles songs now, it's difficult to find ones you haven't heard yet Harri, so in researching your video list I came up with these early hits to do: "Can't Buy Me Love", "I Feel Fine", "A Hard Day's Night", "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You", "Tell Me Why", "She Loves You" and "If I Fell". The last five songs here are those they'll feature in the first Beatles movie "A Hard Day's Night" so I recommend you do those for sure before watching that movie. There are several others from the movie you've already done, but these 5 are ones I didn't find on your video page. It's going to be fun watching you react to their first movie, whether you show the movie to your audience while reacting, or just watch it on your own and talk about it later. Either way my friend, you're very close to watching that first, and very well made movie that will give you a sense of the "Beatlemania" phenomena back then. ✌️😎
Thanx Marx
I love the HDN album. Hadn't listened to it in a while and every song is a real keeper. But truthfully, every song on their albums, save a few, were great.
You gotta see them do this Live!
They nailed this one on the first take.
The public is focused on the Beatles later catalog for too long now it’s time to rediscover their earlier music and realize how freaking rocking it is
You're so right about Paul's vocal ability. He's amazing. You can really hear the soul ( yes! ) in his voice when you listen to these remastered tracks in headphones. More great Paul soul vocals for me are She's A Woman and I'm Down.
There is so much more by them out there.......
Fun Fact: Long Tall Sally, along with Slowdown (Larry Williams) and Matchbox (Carl Perkins) were 3 of the first 4 songs recorded by the Beatles after the bands triumphant return from America. Where their 3 straight Sunday night appearances on Ed Sullivan Show changed the cultural course of the free world. The 4th song recorded was John Lennon's 'I Call Your Name'. Which included George Harrisons first use of his newly acquired Rickenbacker 360-12 electric guitar. Hari, since you've been on a Mamas and the Papas binge, Cass Elliot does an amazing cover of I Call Your Name that you might like to check out. Cheers mate, RNB
The Ms and Ps cover is fantastic, isn't it - gorgeous John Phillips arrangement and those powerful vocals from Mama Cass. I really enjoyed their performance of it live at Monterey, despite all the technical difficulties they were having with their equipment. Maybe because it was an actual live concert, unlike their many TV show appearances we see on YT with pre-recorded backing tracks and/or lip-synching.
I just a watched a funny YT video (of California Dreaming) the other day, where Michelle was refusing to play the lip-syching game and instead wandered around eating a banana, on Ed Sullivan, and pretending to sing into it...
The four songs were released on an ep in the UK, the only release until they were included on Past Masters. I practically wore it out playing them over and over. Four great songs.
Paul said Long Tall Sally was the first song he ever sang in public. I believe his brother Mike confirmed it in his book.
Kind od ironic Lucie that it was the last song performed by the Beatles at Candlestick Park on Aug 29th 1966. The final stop on the Beatles last world tour. RNB
Harri, I think what you were trying to say is you thought they would sing it with more of a "white" sound. But The Beatles loved R&B and the high energy of the early black performers like Little Richard and Chuck Berry. They did the song justice, as with any song they sang.
I don't know how many times i've heard this one but i haven't really thought about how syncopated it!! Macca have many times credited Little Richard as a huge influence on not just performing but in music over all!!
Hi Harri, Now that's what I call a reaction! - Brooklyn Mike
you need to find a video of them doing this live over seas and Ringo is rocking out on drums at the end
I agree completely with your reaction. You should check out the "isolated vocals" version of Oh Darling, it will blow your mind. ✌️❤️ my friend.
She's A Woman. I'm Down, Helter Skelter, Oh Darling to Blackbird and Yesterday, His vocal versatility is unsurpassed
Their was a documentary on the making of the Sgt. Pepper's lp where George Martin isolated Paul's vocal on the album's title track and it's very similar to "Sally".
Good man, like your spirit Harri. Nice to hear you standing up for Ringo, a lot of idiots have tried running him down over the past 20 yrs or so, usual sour grapes thing. Don't leave it to late to meet Paul.
This is why we wasn't suprised when they recorded Helter Skelter
There's little doubt that Little Richard is the inspiration for the Beatles' famous falsetto "Oooooooh!".
Hello our fab Harri! Yaasss! You are so right about how Paul sang the f**k out of this! Keep listening my soul friend! 🙏🏼💕
Great reaction, Harri! This song really is a Barn Burner! Obviously, Paul's voice is the 1st thing you notice. Then the guitar lead is ripping, one of the best of the early songs! Then...Ringo Starr...wow! He destroys this song, especially in the outtro where he is playing that "round-the-kit" drum solo fill! Gregg Bissonnette, a World Class drummer in his own right, has a video where he breaks down that, practically, BLAST BEAT drum fill that Ringo does, and shows how it was pulled off. It is unbelievable to see it put together and rocked out. This is Keith Moon-playing a year before Keith Moon broke out with The Who! Ringo has/had the GOODS! By the way, have you done "Not A Second Time" (NAST) yet? It's from the With The Beatles album (last song on the Meet The Beatles U.S. release). It's an amazing song! Please do that one too! To me, songs like NAST and "Things We Said Today" were songs from their early years that really showed how ahead of their time The Beatles were! Check it out!
I'm imagining their Hamburg shows were pretty wild, with the English and American troops occupying Germany.... and they didn't get fired, they progressed.
Little Richard is Mr. Energy.
Of course the Beatles were still on the radio constantly when I was in grade school in the late 60s and early 70s and I remember hearing this for the first time on the radio and it just drove me nuts. I love it so much. I'm a musician as well.
When they were the house band at this club in Hamburg were they also lived upstairs, the owner of the club and their landlord at one point wrote it into their contract that they could no longer play this song, because when they did, the club patrons would go wild and throw stuff and chaos would ensue. But they would inevitably end up playing it as a finale anyway and all hell would break loose in the guy couldn't do anything because they were packing his club night after night. This is when they started to develop a speed habit because they hardly got any sleep. But their time in Hamburg was like being forged in a crucible and when they got back to Liverpool they were an extremely veteran and hardened band. Things just exploded from there. Their first trip to America followed not long after.
Another Beatles one-take wonder 🙂
They also covered Little Richard's "Kansas City / Hey Hey Hey Hey".
Another great cover is "Bad Boy" where John just rips the vocals.
They are two of the best screamers in rock and roll, but with different styles. What a band!
Just think of all the songwriter royalties Chuck and Richard received as a result of the Beatles’ covers. And other songwriters they covered.
Paul was proud that he was able to sing this song well into middle age.
Paul had two main musical mentors-Little Richard for vocals (self explanatory with this cover; who else could have done this song like this?) and the bass guitarist James Jamerson from Motown, who played a melodic style of bass that Paul incorporated into his bass playing style.
Guess what ... Little Richard, himself taught Paul how to sing that way back in the Hamburg, Germany days. They hung out together and Little Richard explained to Paul that "you just have to let it explode out of the top of your head!!!" Paul is my favorite for so many reasons. For a completely different vibe from Paul you should try "Till There was You" from "The Music Man." Its a beautiful love song that also puts Paul's amazing voice center stage. Great, great stuff, Harri. Cheers.
Also; listen to ccr's Traveling Band. You know that John Fogarty listened to Little Richard!
In case you didn't know, the piano is being played by producer George Martin. And this song was done in only one take.
I used to listen to music with a wild bird, who roosted in my rooftop heater box. It listened to me via the
heater ducts that connected to each room in the house and it would supervise me all day and evening until
after I got settled in bed at night. And greet me in the morning, to get me out of bed and on with the playing
of the days music. We listened to music full time for 7 months. It would listen to a piece of music I put on
from You Tube, and after about 8 to 15 bars, typically, it would tweet with the tweet intoned to mean, "I understand
what is happening with this music." It had the intonation of someone saying, "Okay". But with the Beatles,
it would tweet excitedly upon the 1st or 2nd bar. And by it's tweets, it liked Paul's voice better than John's.
It learn some things about music if anyone is interested. Also, it figured out my billiards practice after a few
months of listening to my daily practice. It knew when I was fixing to leave the house. It first heard music on
a TV commercial and tweeted excitedly for it. Then I started playing music for it, and it became a music junky.
I totally agree, McCartney was the best singer in the Beatles!
Ringo's fill ins during the song are precise and energetic and the energy on the triplets at the end blow my mind. Nobody [except jazz drummers in the studio] were doing that in pop/rock music at the time in a self contained group. A subtle way Ringo contributed to the Beatles kicking down the door for others to follow. Had it been their original drummer, Pete Best, the Beatles knew they would have failed to make it. Check a the live video on Long Tall Sally and catch Ringo working his ass off on the drums, exciting as hell: th-cam.com/video/TRyrVWCifus/w-d-xo.html There is no doubt in my mind, having been a little boy of 8 in 1964 and later learning of the history of early rock and roll later, how they tried to sanitize it by drafting Elvis into the Army [his number came up? How convenient, HAHAHAHA], with squeaky clean image pop singers like Bobby Rydell, Frankie Avalon, Paul Anka etc., the Beatles saved rock and roll from dying on the vine at the hands of the some adults, and a control freak paranoid government spreading the lie that rock and roll was a communist plot to overthrow the United States...freedom of speech and expression, "be careful what you ask for, you might get it" so better control it. Like the communists do...oh...wait....uh.....a nation of innuendo always trying to stick it innuendo.....
This may very well be the most important song of the entire Beatles career -- apparently when he heard this for the first time, John Lennon was stunned and declared it better than Elvis. Later, Paul's perfect rendition was one of the things that impressed John about Paul. They performed it consistently through their entire career, in every incarnation of the Beatles, it was included in every world tour setlist, and it was the last song performed at their final official concert at Candlestick Park in 1966.
THey liked doing it as the closing number. That's how much John loved it. John WISHED he could sing like that but couldn't.
Wait until you seen the live performance
The Beatles met Little Richard in the early days. LR taught Paul the rock scream. John's still my fav though.
Harry, I'd recommend you read Tune In by Mark Lewisohn, the greatest Beatles biography. He writes a lot about how they were very into little richard in the late fifties when they were starting out.
@@davidroberts4769 have you read Tune In, Vol 1? It's the best researched biography I have ever read. And it still is years from being completed.
I second praise for Tune In. It is an excellent book. I've been reading about, listening to everything Beatles related for 50 years and Tune In is second only to the Anthology.
This and Kansas City are Pauls best early rockers
Yes! Listen to Kansas City!! You'll love it!
Do "Rock and roll music" covered by the Beatles and sung by John Lennon.
This is a decent recording, but it's live on the stage where this song really pops. You need to check out their performance at the 1964 NME Awards or the Washington Coliseum.
That performance at NME is INSANE.
The Beatles always ended their concerts with either "LONG TALL SALLY" OR "I'M DOWN" BOTH sung by PAUL screaming it out, TOTAL ROCKERS!!! Oh NO they opened for Little Richard in their earlier days and they LEARNED the "WOO's " from Little Richard which they used so often in their early songs. THEY IDOLIZED Little Richard. I AGREE with you Harry that PAUL is INDEED the BEST singer in the Beatles cos he had such a RANGE and he could sound like a different man.....for example, sweet, soft, mellow voice during "Here, There and Everywhere" and then Paul's voice in "HELTER SKELTER" TOTALLY different!
Don't apologise for more Beatles!
The Beatles knew the song so well that they recorded it in a single take without overdubs on 1 March 1964. Two guitar solos, first played by John, second George.
Myself I prefer John more as a singer than Paul, especially when it comes to covers. Paul does a great Little Richard, but it's Paul doing Little Richard. John somehow inhabits the songs far better. John lives a lyric while Paul performs it.
Just remarkable that we ended up with probably the two greatest English rock singers in the same band.
This recording was take 1 of the session.
Paul said Little Richard taught him how to do that scream. still dont know how Paul did it for so many years and not ruined his voice
All other tracks on the EP John's I Call Your Name Slow down and Matchbocx. I think you would have a good time to any of these Harri
i grew up with the beatles.....they came along when i was 13. perfect age. you can say any one of the four is your fave. however, IMHO, it's silly to argue who was the best. they all added something that created their unique sound and song writing. subtract any one of them and it's hard to make the argument they would've been as successful. mccartney had the most range. lennon the most soulful and haunting. harrison sung well enough to carry the many songs he wrote and were written for him the early days. starr was lead singer on several songs and acquitted himself very well.
1964...
I love Paul is your favourite Beatle because it ‘s mine too. But you once said George had the best voice, uhmm 😂. Remember, when you have time, do “for no one “
I said George has the best voice while Paul was the best singer😀
Listen again and you'll see thats what i said✌🏾
You should check out "Oh Darling" from Abbey Road, if you haven't already. Paul has amazing qualities to his voice, which add so much to the songs!
There is an isolated vocals version of Oh Darling that is fantastic. It gives me goosebumps it's so powerful.
If you like Paul's rock voice, you should listen to: Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey (on the album Beatles for sale).
I love your enthusiasm, Harri. This is a great performance, but it was never one of my favorite Beatles songs because I prefer the ones they wrote themselves. Hearing it from your perspective has given me a new appreciation for this Little Richard cover. Thank you! Here is one of many live performances available on TH-cam. th-cam.com/video/TRyrVWCifus/w-d-xo.html
"The Beatles" were a KICK-ASS band.
Early club Beatles , Nearly unknown..Playing covers,
The same style but by Lennon: DIZZI MISS LIZZI ☯️✌
I hope you get around to I’m Down and She’s a Woman. Paul kill’s those songs.
You should listen to Wings’ liver version from 1972, Paul’s vocals are much more extreme.