I love that piccolo trumpet ending the song at 5:21. That was the way I heard "Penny Lane" growing up in 1967. But on all stereo remakes, that little closing lick on the piccolo trumpet is absent. The song never seems to end right without it.
I love it as well, and agree that the ending doesn't seem right without it! Curiously, it only appeared on a U.S. "promotional" single - you were lucky if your local radio station kept playing that version in the ensuing months! It was missing from the end of even subsequent "regular" mono mixes, such as on the UK single, and the "main" U.S. single; that mono is all you ever actually heard in the U.S. until _Rarities_ in 1980 (which had the piccolo trumpet ending spliced onto the first-ever U.S. release of the song in stereo): The 1967 _Magical Mystery Tour_ album, even the "stereo" version, used a plain-ending mono mix of the song, presented in FAKE stereo. And the 1973 "Blue Album" in the U.S. just presented the song in mono (still "plain-ending"). Meanwhile, an early-70s version of the MMT album in West Germany used only true-stereo versions of songs, but, as you say, with a plain ending for "Penny Lane". Likewise, the UK version of the "Blue Album" used the plain-ending stereo version. Then when the MMT CD came out in '87, the plain-ending stereo was used 'round the world.
According to the book , "The Beatles Recording Sessions" by Mark Lewisohn, the Piccolo trumpet at the end of the song was an edit piece on the mono version. When the song was mixed for stereo, the engineers forgot about it. This apparently did not concern The Beatles, so it is missing from the stereo version.
@@alanr4447a Okay, but in the video from the cartoon: Was the "spliced" ending really used for the ending credits, or did somebody just add that to the video recently? It seems odd that the "plain ending" is there for the song, but the "spliced" ending is there for the closing credits.
@@KBOB-b0b The "spliced" ending was NOT used in the cartoon. I dubbed that in myself because I thought it would be a treat to hear the "trumpet coda"! (In fact I shortened it by editing out "There beneath the blue suburban skies".) BTW the trumpet coda may have been an "edit piece on the mono version" as Lewisohn said, but the only place it was USED in the 1960s was on the U.S. PROMOTIONAL single, and NOT on the main-release single (which was mono) in either U.S. or UK, nor in any mono mix appearing on the MMT album in the U.S. (which was not issued in the UK), either the mono or "stereo" version of that album (which used the NO-trumpet-end mono mix in FAKE stereo), nor even on the U.S. release of the "Blue" album in 1973, which again used the no-trumpet-end mono mix!
It’s so cool reading the comments of people who grew up with the Beatles while they were around. I grew up with the Beatles too, yet decades after the 60s, but still enjoy these classics!
Every evening after school I was maybe 8 or 9 yrs old, sitted in front of the TV and watch those cartoons with a little white ball jumping over the lyrics. That was the way TV teached latin kids to learn english. Eso pasaba en Puerto Rico en los 70's
I never understood the voice they gave George in these cartoons. What even IS that accent? It sounds like a Peter Lorre impression! Not even vaguely British, much less Liverpudlian.
@@TheMadcap919these cartoons were made in America, two guys voiced the Beatles, there was no effort to make anything close to "authentic" other than "make'em sound English" ...
Probably the BEST interpretation of Penny Lane I have ever heard by Howard Goodall...“By the time The Beatles discovered mid-song key changes, Classical music had long since abandoned them. McCartney in particular had become intrigued by modulation as a device. But he seemed instinctively to know that the best modulations occur by stealth, when mood and color change unperceptively, as if by magic. It may surprise you to learn for example that in the cheerful, happy-go-lucky song ‘Penny Lane’ he pulls off clever immensely satisfying key changes no less than 7 times. Almost without you noticing. This is the work of a composer who really knows what he’s doing. What effect then does this modulation have on a song? Well for one thing, it alters our perception of the chorus. Listen to what it sounds like without the modulation. (plays music). Its fine isn’t it? But it’s not very surprising. In the proper version, there’s much more of a shifting gear as we move into the chorus. (plays music). It is, of course, quite common in a pop song for the voice to rise up to a higher range for the chorus to sound more celebratory, more frenzied, more desperate, or more passionate. And McCartney’s voice does indeed rise predictively upward for the chorus. But here’s the clever bit…while the voice is rising upwards for the chorus, the modulation is actually a DOWNWARDS shift (plays music). Moving the key downwards has the subconscious effect of making us feel slightly wistful - as if the ‘joy’ isn’t a ‘total joy’ but a joy experienced that is slightly removed from the events it portrays. Since the song is about McCartney’s memories of growing up in suburban Liverpool, this makes perfect emotional sense to us as we listen. There’s one other by-product of this downward shift…at the end of the chorus we’re forced to move back UP a gear as the verse starts again. Because we’re now modulating upwards, the incoming verse greets us like a new day…full of optimism and youth. (plays music). A lesser writer than McCartney would have left it at that. But Penny Lane is about journeys…into the past, down a street, through suburban Liverpool. And so the harmony goes on a journey too… in the very final chorus, McCartney surprises us once more, and lets the harmony shift again - this time upwards into the chorus - and the result is gloriously celebratory!!! Penny Lane is one of the most magical, life-affirming songs in The Beatles repertoire. It also features a baroque piccolo trumpet solo inspired by Paul McCartney hearing one on a TV broadcast of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. McCartney’s thirst for knowledge and understanding of Classical music was extremely influential in The Beatles work. Divisions between Classical and Popular seemed to dissolve in their later recordings. In this respect, McCartney was way ahead of his time. Anticipating a future that didn’t recognize artificial barriers between musical styles.”
In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer. We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim. Most lyrics say that the banker is waiting for a trend. He's in the barber shop waiting for a haircut or a trim, not a trend.
How could it be “trend” or “train”, when it has to be something more like “trim” if only just to rhyme with the following lyrics “then the fireman rushes in”. After that “rain” rhymes with “strange”. This of course is just another example of more pure McCartney magic at the top of his game!
Despite all of the cartoon's other flaws, the closing credits do include the second trumpet blast on the song, which was only released to radio stations back during the day.
I watched this cartoon in 1965 when I was 5 years old. At that time I remember seeing an image of that cartoon in my mind, that's the first time I realized I could see things in my imagination.
The ending of this reminds me of the end of "The New 3 Stooges" cartoons where Moe Larry and Curly Joe's shadows always run off into the sunset! Also, adding the 7 extra note "Penny Lane" is a nice touch! Thank You for sharing ;)
Very rare to see a full Beatles cartoon complete with the actual song not being cut out of it. Absolutely beautiful song. Loved these cartoons when I was a kid, watch them over and over, still remember seeing the cartoon with the song “Elenor Rigby” in it for the first time. I was probably 4 or 5 and I particularly remember I was haunted by the violins and cellos and also the “all the lonely people” part in the chorus back then.
thanks for uploading these. it inspired me to do the same with all 39 full length episodes. classic stuff. the music sound great in the 60's coming through the mono speaker of my console tv!
I watched these Beatles cartoons when I was in Kindergarten! I guess Ringo was the only one of the four who was easily impersonated vocally!! George sounds as if he's from India!
Wow! That was exactly 4 years before I was born. Also Paul McCartney was knighted on March 11 1997. Being that March 11 is my birthday, I think that's pretty cool!
Amazing. The Beatles were all over radio and TV at the time and their speaking voices had all been broadcast and recorded on American TV and radio. yet somehow the voice artist who did John and George made them sound like Leslie Phillips and Peter Lorre respectively ! They should have let the British actor who did John and Paul do all four of them.
The voices were purposefully altered from the Liverpudlian accents so that American audiences would be able to understand them. Apparently the creators of the show were worried about this hence the strange mismatch of accents, George being the worst. I’m sure the voices are the reason these shorts weren’t shown in England
hahahahahaha I love the stooges ending u put in here xD!! this carton is awesome. they should have done cartoons about other bands as well! anyone agree?
No, it's American Paul Frees doing John and George, and British Lance Percival doing Paul and Ringo. (He also did Old Fred in "Yellow Submarine" -- but NOT Paul or Ringo.) Paul Frees was a prolific voice artist for cartoons and voice-overs. His most famous voice work was as Boris Badinov in the Bullwinkle cartoons (which like-voice sometimes pops up in Beatles episodes). He also did The Thing in Hanna-Barbera's late-60s Fantastic Four ("It's clobberin' time!").
James Blonde and Cartoon Beatles... That's just about as awesome as the Brits can be represented in a cheesy cartoon series.. :D Agent oh-oh-heaven... and robbing Penny Lane (the Beatles' song, but also maybe Ms. MoneyPENNY?) LOL
Damn...i didnt like the beatles until my boyfriend and i watched Yellow Submarine on our first date...now I cant get enough of them o.o Penny Lane...what a great song!
I actually managed to find and buy a shirt for my son with the cartoon Beatles on it- and at the time I just thought it was cool, never having seen the cartoon for myself. Now I'm glad I've come across it; I'll be watching a bit more of this now (: IDK about the voices of the four, but i love that the songs are still legit!
LOL!! That's so funny! I must admit that the part at the end of the episode was a really shocking expierience, and that's the truth. Thanks so very much for posting this episode.
On this day in 1967 {March 11th} a video of the Beatles performing "Penny Lane" and the b/w, "Strawberry Fields Forever", was aired on late Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand'... One month earlier on February 25th the record entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; with "Penny Lane" peaking at #1 {for 1 week} on March 18th and "Strawberry Fields Forever" reaching #8... The Beatles, along with Elvis, never appeared live on 'Bandstand'... R.I.P. to The King, John, George, and Mr. Clark {1929 - 2012}
Both the voice of John and George are being done by voice veteran, Paul Frees, he was the greatest cartoon voice actor of all time. He did the voice of the talking rings in the movie The Time Machine in 1961.
Star with Keith,Reece,Brielle and Briley my dream family in The Music Department sang the :)! with The Beatles in 1977 Penny Lane The Sun came out. 11/3/2024,1:18 pm...=smile bright to life...
@remmaps123321 Well remember that although Magical Mystery Tour came out AS an album several months after Sgt. Pepper, the songs Penny Lane and SFF came out as a SINGLE several months BEFORE Pepper, and that's how those 2 songs became the last ones made into episodes.
@xthestarchildx That was "PRICE of popularity". And to provide further info on what was probably even harder to make out because it is largely drowned out by a "whoosh" sound effect, the last word of Ringo's line here is (my emphasis), "Who wants to be a handsome hero? I'd rather stay as I am, heh heh, a handsome COWARD!"
i am agree with Paul. The band did a lot of things to become one of the greatest bands and James Blond gets all the glory. I think James Blond didn´t play a guitar in all his life
See under "About this video": "I added an alternate song ending to the credits." Me, that is. Yes, it is the altenate ending like on the "Rarities" album (1980, actually) more or less - actually adapted from "Beatles Anthology 2" CD. The actual origin of that additional horn ending was promotional copies of the single in the U.S. - Much better than the "standard" ending, I think! Thanks!
@WeirdCandycain Gear means is cool, fab, awesome ect. It's used by Ringo in the movie A Hard Day's Night. He says: "Gear, I've been dying to do some work" It's a 60's slang like bird, fab or groovy. I hope that answered your question :)
Anyone noticed the change of the lip moving in the line "And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen"? At "And in his pocket is a" Paul is singing, but the rest of the line John is singing but the voice isn't changing.
Cartoon exec Al Brodax did do a bunch of these back then, this from 1967...the Beatles themselves were not involved, except in allowing their song recordings to be used in the cartoons. I did dub the song ending over the credits on this one. Also - I did 'fan-make' a few of the episodes I've posted (by assembling clips of the old cartoons and augmenting them slightly): I Am the Walrus, Youngblood, and Back in the U.S.S.R. (plus a 're-edit' of the original 1966 "I'm Looking Through You").
Thanks! I've always preferred that myself! I had always thought the "normal" ending seemed a little 'flat', and when I first heard the 'trumpet coda', I thought, "THAT'S what it needed!" :) (I actually first heard it on station WMMS in Cleveland in 1979, during a "Buzzard Beatles Blitz". Of course I bought the U.S. "Rarities" when it came out the next year!) What I put here was actually from the Anthology 2 CD, with most of the other 'extra sounds' taken out.
David Mason, a classical musician who played the trumpet solo in the Penny Lane song in this cartoon, died April 29, 2011 at age 85. According to a Newsday obituary Paul McCartney saw Mason playing the trumpet on tv in a Bach concert and George Martin producer recruited Mason to record with the Beatles. R.I.P. David Mason.
Well, not actually as such, because the end-music here is the result of MY editing (replacing the standard cartoon closing theme)...BUT, the origin of the song ending with the extra horn is U.S. promotional copies of the "Penny Lane" single, so some Americans did hear that ending back in '67! Personally, I think the song ending is much better WITH the horn than without it!
Instead of all the shitty cartoons that are out now, and that will be out in the future, I'm showing these cartoons to my future children. Long live The Beatles
Well, except HE didn't do Ringo -- that was British performer Lance Percival (who also does Paul McCartney). Frees did John and George (and both of them did other voices as well).
Interesting how at the end the fireman sticks his head out of the sewer with the sewer cover still on his head, much like the spy in the "You've got to hide your love away" scene from "Help"
Yes! The first year they produced the show, 1965, they needed to create a "full season" of episodes (50+ segments), and they called upon several different animation crews to create product, and many of them churned out pretty crappy results. The following years, they only needed "supplememtal" episodes, so only the best crew was used, and at the same time the Beatles music itself was becoming more innovative. The same animation team went on to create "Yellow Submarine"!
Sorry, there aren't episodes for either one (they weren't still making the cartoons when "I Am the Walrus" came out)...there could conceivably have been a "sing-along" for Till There Was You, but there wasn't one, in fact. The latest Beatle-songs to have cartoon episodes were Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields. Somebody did post that one... search TH-cam for "Strawberry Fields Animates".
wait... I thought the songs in beatles cartoons are only from please please me to revolver? is there any other episode from magical mystery tour aside from SFF? and is there any episode from the sgt peppers album?
The piccolo trumpet player featured in the recording (whose work substantially added to the ambiance) was a highly skilled musician, to the point where some people questioned the authenticity.
When the Beatles are standing around Penny Lane, the spired church building that pops up in the background here and there looks just like the actual church that stands near the actual roundabout in the actual Penny Lane.
oh, my! This episode is just HILARIOUS! I was smiling from the very start! At the voice acting, the cartoon representations of the Fabs, the slapstick humor, how Paul is actually portrayed as a leftie, how Ringo's voice should've been switched with George's (even though George's cartoon voice doesn't fit for any of them). Thanks a bunch for uploading. :) is the cartoon series actually on dvd?
This is wonderful, as a child in 1964 this was a show I did not miss.
this one is just so great. i love when ringo says "Why be a handsome hero? I'd rather stay as I am, handsome."
I love that piccolo trumpet ending the song at 5:21. That was the way I heard "Penny Lane" growing up in 1967. But on all stereo remakes, that little closing lick on the piccolo trumpet is absent. The song never seems to end right without it.
I love it as well, and agree that the ending doesn't seem right without it! Curiously, it only appeared on a U.S. "promotional" single - you were lucky if your local radio station kept playing that version in the ensuing months! It was missing from the end of even subsequent "regular" mono mixes, such as on the UK single, and the "main" U.S. single; that mono is all you ever actually heard in the U.S. until _Rarities_ in 1980 (which had the piccolo trumpet ending spliced onto the first-ever U.S. release of the song in stereo): The 1967 _Magical Mystery Tour_ album, even the "stereo" version, used a plain-ending mono mix of the song, presented in FAKE stereo. And the 1973 "Blue Album" in the U.S. just presented the song in mono (still "plain-ending"). Meanwhile, an early-70s version of the MMT album in West Germany used only true-stereo versions of songs, but, as you say, with a plain ending for "Penny Lane". Likewise, the UK version of the "Blue Album" used the plain-ending stereo version. Then when the MMT CD came out in '87, the plain-ending stereo was used 'round the world.
@@alanr4447a Thanks, really great info!
According to the book , "The Beatles Recording Sessions" by Mark Lewisohn, the Piccolo trumpet at the end of the song was an edit piece on the mono version. When the song was mixed for stereo, the engineers forgot about it. This apparently did not concern The Beatles, so it is missing from the stereo version.
@@alanr4447a Okay, but in the video from the cartoon: Was the "spliced" ending really used for the ending credits, or did somebody just add that to the video recently? It seems odd that the "plain ending" is there for the song, but the "spliced" ending is there for the closing credits.
@@KBOB-b0b The "spliced" ending was NOT used in the cartoon. I dubbed that in myself because I thought it would be a treat to hear the "trumpet coda"! (In fact I shortened it by editing out "There beneath the blue suburban skies".) BTW the trumpet coda may have been an "edit piece on the mono version" as Lewisohn said, but the only place it was USED in the 1960s was on the U.S. PROMOTIONAL single, and NOT on the main-release single (which was mono) in either U.S. or UK, nor in any mono mix appearing on the MMT album in the U.S. (which was not issued in the UK), either the mono or "stereo" version of that album (which used the NO-trumpet-end mono mix in FAKE stereo), nor even on the U.S. release of the "Blue" album in 1973, which again used the no-trumpet-end mono mix!
It’s so cool reading the comments of people who grew up with the Beatles while they were around. I grew up with the Beatles too, yet decades after the 60s, but still enjoy these classics!
From the Beatles Cartoon series that began in 1965; this episode was made in 1967. I taped the rerun off MTV about 20 years ago.
Every evening after school I was maybe 8 or 9 yrs old, sitted in front of the TV and watch those cartoons with a little white ball jumping over the lyrics. That was the way TV teached latin kids to learn english. Eso pasaba en Puerto Rico en los 70's
E aqui no Brasil nos anos80
What a great blast from the past. Each Saturday morning, at the height of Beatlemania, I'd watch these classics!
I never understood the voice they gave George in these cartoons. What even IS that accent? It sounds like a Peter Lorre impression! Not even vaguely British, much less Liverpudlian.
To me it sounds like he’s Chinese or something.
John Lennon's high pitched voice is very inaccurate.
That’s what I was thinking when I first heard George’s accent in the cartoon. I think
“What the fuck is this accent?!”.
Sounds Irish to me
@@TheMadcap919these cartoons were made in America, two guys voiced the Beatles, there was no effort to make anything close to "authentic" other than "make'em sound English" ...
Probably the BEST interpretation of Penny Lane I have ever heard by Howard Goodall...“By the time The Beatles discovered mid-song key changes, Classical music had long since abandoned them. McCartney in particular had become intrigued by modulation as a device. But he seemed instinctively to know that the best modulations occur by stealth, when mood and color change unperceptively, as if by magic. It may surprise you to learn for example that in the cheerful, happy-go-lucky song ‘Penny Lane’ he pulls off clever immensely satisfying key changes no less than 7 times. Almost without you noticing. This is the work of a composer who really knows what he’s doing. What effect then does this modulation have on a song? Well for one thing, it alters our perception of the chorus. Listen to what it sounds like without the modulation. (plays music). Its fine isn’t it? But it’s not very surprising. In the proper version, there’s much more of a shifting gear as we move into the chorus. (plays music). It is, of course, quite common in a pop song for the voice to rise up to a higher range for the chorus to sound more celebratory, more frenzied, more desperate, or more passionate. And McCartney’s voice does indeed rise predictively upward for the chorus. But here’s the clever bit…while the voice is rising upwards for the chorus, the modulation is actually a DOWNWARDS shift (plays music). Moving the key downwards has the subconscious effect of making us feel slightly wistful - as if the ‘joy’ isn’t a ‘total joy’ but a joy experienced that is slightly removed from the events it portrays. Since the song is about McCartney’s memories of growing up in suburban Liverpool, this makes perfect emotional sense to us as we listen. There’s one other by-product of this downward shift…at the end of the chorus we’re forced to move back UP a gear as the verse starts again. Because we’re now modulating upwards, the incoming verse greets us like a new day…full of optimism and youth. (plays music). A lesser writer than McCartney would have left it at that. But Penny Lane is about journeys…into the past, down a street, through suburban Liverpool. And so the harmony goes on a journey too… in the very final chorus, McCartney surprises us once more, and lets the harmony shift again - this time upwards into the chorus - and the result is gloriously celebratory!!! Penny Lane is one of the most magical, life-affirming songs in The Beatles repertoire. It also features a baroque piccolo trumpet solo inspired by Paul McCartney hearing one on a TV broadcast of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. McCartney’s thirst for knowledge and understanding of Classical music was extremely influential in The Beatles work. Divisions between Classical and Popular seemed to dissolve in their later recordings. In this respect, McCartney was way ahead of his time. Anticipating a future that didn’t recognize artificial barriers between musical styles.”
Great educative comment! Thank you! I love all the details. 😊
The facial portrayal is good, too. Paul's heavy eye-lids, John's boyish-native-wit look.....😊
musicology gets up my nose
Paul McCartney un mito musicale vivente
I love this song. It always puts me in a good mood when I listen to it!
Took me back to my early childhood. Thank you so very much for posting.
very good, Great quality, I never knew they had such a big selection of Beatles cartoons. Great!!
In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer.
We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim.
Most lyrics say that the banker is waiting for a trend.
He's in the barber shop waiting for a haircut or a trim, not a trend.
I always thought he was waiting for a train.
How could it be “trend” or “train”, when it has to be something more like “trim” if only just to rhyme with the following lyrics “then the fireman rushes in”.
After that “rain” rhymes with “strange”. This of course is just another example of more pure McCartney magic at the top of his game!
Despite all of the cartoon's other flaws, the closing credits do include the second trumpet blast on the song, which was only released to radio stations back during the day.
I watched this cartoon in 1965 when I was 5 years old. At that time I remember seeing an image of that cartoon in my mind, that's the first time I realized I could see things in my imagination.
Wow that's genuinely cool! Love this stupid little show lol
The single eS released in 1967 when you were 7.
It's great that you added the trumpet part from the promotional 45. Nice job !
Yep, it was a Saturday morning cartoon series on ABC, beginning in 1965, with a few new episodes produced through 1967 (which year this was one of).
The ending of this reminds me of the end of "The New 3 Stooges" cartoons where Moe Larry and Curly Joe's shadows always run off into the sunset! Also, adding the 7 extra note "Penny Lane" is a nice touch! Thank You for sharing ;)
There is a special MAGIC in the Beatles , mono recordings. They are beautiful !
Very good episode 👍🏻, that the Beatles not only sing the song but we’re actually at the place.
Very rare to see a full Beatles cartoon complete with the actual song not being cut out of it. Absolutely beautiful song.
Loved these cartoons when I was a kid, watch them over and over, still remember seeing the cartoon with the song “Elenor Rigby” in it for the first time. I was probably 4 or 5 and I particularly remember I was haunted by the violins and cellos and also the “all the lonely people” part in the chorus back then.
"James Blond, no. 00"
"00 what?"
"That's all, when the girls see him, they say "oh oh, heavan" "
LOL . I'm so glad I found these cartoons :)
The voices are way off but this is hysterical! I love John's face when he's talkin about the thieves
thanks for uploading these. it inspired me to do the same with all 39 full length episodes. classic stuff. the music sound great in the 60's coming through the mono speaker of my console tv!
I'm addicted to rewatching this cartoon
Gracias por subir este dibujo sobre The Bealtes con uno de mis temas preferidos!!
I watched these Beatles cartoons when I was in Kindergarten! I guess Ringo was the only one of the four who was easily impersonated vocally!! George sounds as if he's from India!
I'm old. I remember being a pre-schooler and watching these in the late 60's. And I thought they were SO COOL!
Good times.... :o)
Wow! That was exactly 4 years before I was born. Also Paul McCartney was knighted on March 11 1997. Being that March 11 is my birthday, I think that's pretty cool!
Amazing. The Beatles were all over radio and TV at the time and their speaking voices had all been broadcast and recorded on American TV and radio. yet somehow the voice artist who did John and George made them sound like Leslie Phillips and Peter Lorre respectively ! They should have let the British actor who did John and Paul do all four of them.
I was a kid in the 60s. I so wanted to see this cartoon, but it didn't play in our area.
LOL!! Wow! I just love this cartoon! It's so funny I can hardly help but laugh! I'm so glad you posted this! Thanks again!
Why does George sound like Peter Lorre?
None of the voices sound like the Beatles - they are not even close.
The voices were purposefully altered from the Liverpudlian accents so that American audiences would be able to understand them. Apparently the creators of the show were worried about this hence the strange mismatch of accents, George being the worst. I’m sure the voices are the reason these shorts weren’t shown in England
Uhhhh the Beatles were too busy writing and making albums and playing live. Not much money in cartoons. Smh
He was also the voice of Santa Claus in the TV Special Frosty The Snowman, he did two other voices in that special.
Oh i wish it was part of my childhood too
watched this several days ago but the trumpet blasts are still haunting me, ringing in my ears, as it were.
@jazzbo13 what is a finger pie?is it a snack cake?it sounds yummie!i think i want one!
hahahahahaha I love the stooges ending u put in here xD!! this carton is awesome. they should have done cartoons about other bands as well! anyone agree?
No, it's American Paul Frees doing John and George, and British Lance Percival doing Paul and Ringo. (He also did Old Fred in "Yellow Submarine" -- but NOT Paul or Ringo.) Paul Frees was a prolific voice artist for cartoons and voice-overs. His most famous voice work was as Boris Badinov in the Bullwinkle cartoons (which like-voice sometimes pops up in Beatles episodes). He also did The Thing in Hanna-Barbera's late-60s Fantastic Four ("It's clobberin' time!").
Oh god, they're so adorable even as cartoons! I love how Ringo talks, lol -3
This is so dumb I love it
James Blonde and Cartoon Beatles...
That's just about as awesome as the Brits can be represented in a cheesy cartoon series.. :D
Agent oh-oh-heaven... and robbing
Penny Lane (the Beatles' song, but also maybe Ms. MoneyPENNY?)
LOL
The Beatles, maior banda de música do mundo de todos os tempos . Você concorda ?
Absolutamente!
this clip is so good, much better than them riding a horse through the street
Damn...i didnt like the beatles until my boyfriend and i watched Yellow Submarine on our first date...now I cant get enough of them o.o
Penny Lane...what a great song!
"Did you hear that?"
*extra extra close up zoom in of John's face*
"some thieves are planning to rob Penny Lane!"
i cracked up at that lol
4:47 excellent mix of irish and pakistani there.
cool, never knew there is a Beatles Cartoon with their music, coz i'm too young, awesome :)
I actually managed to find and buy a shirt for my son with the cartoon Beatles on it- and at the time I just thought it was cool, never having seen the cartoon for myself. Now I'm glad I've come across it; I'll be watching a bit more of this now (:
IDK about the voices of the four, but i love that the songs are still legit!
i love how paul wears the fireman's helmet like a turtle's shell.
LOL!! That's so funny! I must admit that the part at the end of the episode was a really shocking expierience, and that's the truth. Thanks so very much for posting this episode.
On this day in 1967 {March 11th} a video of the Beatles performing "Penny Lane" and the b/w, "Strawberry Fields Forever", was aired on late Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand'...
One month earlier on February 25th the record entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; with "Penny Lane" peaking at #1 {for 1 week} on March 18th and "Strawberry Fields Forever" reaching #8...
The Beatles, along with Elvis, never appeared live on 'Bandstand'...
R.I.P. to The King, John, George, and Mr. Clark {1929 - 2012}
Penny Lane was such a fine hit single. Making a cartoon out of it was a good move. 😂😂
Both the voice of John and George are being done by voice veteran, Paul Frees, he was the greatest cartoon voice actor of all time. He did the voice of the talking rings in the movie The Time Machine in 1961.
loving the struggling musician . The drain cover was a stroke of genius
Star with Keith,Reece,Brielle and Briley my dream family in The Music Department sang the :)! with The Beatles in 1977 Penny Lane The Sun came out. 11/3/2024,1:18 pm...=smile bright to life...
I like the sentation in stereo of everyone songs of the Beatles into this classics cartoons
@remmaps123321
Well remember that although Magical Mystery Tour came out AS an album several months after Sgt. Pepper, the songs Penny Lane and SFF came out as a SINGLE several months BEFORE Pepper, and that's how those 2 songs became the last ones made into episodes.
@xthestarchildx
That was "PRICE of popularity". And to provide further info on what was probably even harder to make out because it is largely drowned out by a "whoosh" sound effect, the last word of Ringo's line here is (my emphasis), "Who wants to be a handsome hero? I'd rather stay as I am, heh heh, a handsome COWARD!"
This was a great video I think whoever made it should make a lot more of the videos.
i am agree with Paul. The band did a lot of things to become one of the greatest bands and James Blond gets all the glory. I think James Blond didn´t play a guitar in all his life
George sounds Irish, Paul sounds Australian, John sounds cultured American, and Ringo alone sound Liverpudlian! A real mixed bag.
See under "About this video": "I added an alternate song ending to the credits." Me, that is. Yes, it is the altenate ending like on the "Rarities" album (1980, actually) more or less - actually adapted from "Beatles Anthology 2" CD. The actual origin of that additional horn ending was promotional copies of the single in the U.S. - Much better than the "standard" ending, I think!
Thanks!
@WeirdCandycain Gear means is cool, fab, awesome ect. It's used by Ringo in the movie A Hard Day's Night. He says: "Gear, I've been dying to do some work" It's a 60's slang like bird, fab or groovy. I hope that answered your question :)
Can belive that people actually have beef with this cartoon
Hahah I love how cartoony they look. Love the Beatles!
Anyone noticed the change of the lip moving in the line "And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen"?
At "And in his pocket is a" Paul is singing, but the rest of the line John is singing but the voice isn't changing.
I can't believe this. The girls are going crazy for that detective guy and yet not the Beatles. I find that stupid
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Blonde. James Blonde 😎 That was a big genre back then, a lot of actors had their own spy movies! 😁
Cartoon exec Al Brodax did do a bunch of these back then, this from 1967...the Beatles themselves were not involved, except in allowing their song recordings to be used in the cartoons. I did dub the song ending over the credits on this one. Also - I did 'fan-make' a few of the episodes I've posted (by assembling clips of the old cartoons and augmenting them slightly): I Am the Walrus, Youngblood, and Back in the U.S.S.R. (plus a 're-edit' of the original 1966 "I'm Looking Through You").
Thanks! I've always preferred that myself! I had always thought the "normal" ending seemed a little 'flat', and when I first heard the 'trumpet coda', I thought, "THAT'S what it needed!" :) (I actually first heard it on station WMMS in Cleveland in 1979, during a "Buzzard Beatles Blitz". Of course I bought the U.S. "Rarities" when it came out the next year!) What I put here was actually from the Anthology 2 CD, with most of the other 'extra sounds' taken out.
dude the beatles rock thank you for posting these alan4447a
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It's not mac, it's a matt, and it is a type of hat that basically mirrors a beret.
How the fuck did I get here?
I don't know
David Mason, a classical musician who played the trumpet solo in the Penny Lane song in this cartoon, died April 29, 2011 at age 85. According to a Newsday obituary Paul McCartney saw Mason playing the trumpet on tv in a Bach concert and George Martin producer recruited Mason to record with the Beatles. R.I.P. David Mason.
nice to know they not not singing this song in their 'Sgt.Pepper' appearance they look like their 1964 Hard Day's Night counterpart!
Well, not actually as such, because the end-music here is the result of MY editing (replacing the standard cartoon closing theme)...BUT, the origin of the song ending with the extra horn is U.S. promotional copies of the "Penny Lane" single, so some Americans did hear that ending back in '67!
Personally, I think the song ending is much better WITH the horn than without it!
I LOVE YOU FOR PUTTING THIS VIDEOO LOOVEEE IT
Instead of all the shitty cartoons that are out now, and that will be out in the future, I'm showing these cartoons to my future children. Long live The Beatles
Well, except HE didn't do Ringo -- that was British performer Lance Percival (who also does Paul McCartney). Frees did John and George (and both of them did other voices as well).
@7fire7ice7 there was a jackson 5 cartoon??
The animated series was my intro to the Beatles. It was also one of my earliest memories.
Interesting how at the end the fireman sticks his head out of the sewer with the sewer cover still on his head, much like the spy in the "You've got to hide your love away" scene from "Help"
Man, this brings back memories!!!
Yes! The first year they produced the show, 1965, they needed to create a "full season" of episodes (50+ segments), and they called upon several different animation crews to create product, and many of them churned out pretty crappy results. The following years, they only needed "supplememtal" episodes, so only the best crew was used, and at the same time the Beatles music itself was becoming more innovative. The same animation team went on to create "Yellow Submarine"!
Sorry, there aren't episodes for either one (they weren't still making the cartoons when "I Am the Walrus" came out)...there could conceivably have been a "sing-along" for Till There Was You, but there wasn't one, in fact. The latest Beatle-songs to have cartoon episodes were Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields. Somebody did post that one... search TH-cam for "Strawberry Fields Animates".
The Penny Lane Cartoon/Song at the credit roll plays the Rarities ending of the song with the Picolo Trumpet.
are these now on dvd?? i want it!! i watched it in the late 60's here in toronto.
wait... I thought the songs in beatles cartoons are only from please please me to revolver? is there any other episode from magical mystery tour aside from SFF? and is there any episode from the sgt peppers album?
@Heroteen16 Does it sound like their voices? x]
The piccolo trumpet player featured in the recording (whose work substantially added to the ambiance) was a highly skilled musician, to the point where some people questioned the authenticity.
these are wuderbare cartons,
the music of the beatles,
is still the best there was.
thank you for `s video - lg gitte
didn't give a damn about the cartoon,waited for the song,every week loved it,still do
this is one of my favorite Beatles songs ^_^
Nice song and nice work on that vid, man.
Wow! Does this video bring back memories of wasting Saturday mornings watching cartoons in early 1967!
@MJLwiistation360
No, he said, jokingly, "He's overcome!"
When the Beatles are standing around Penny Lane, the spired church building that pops up in the background here and there looks just like the actual church that stands near the actual roundabout in the actual Penny Lane.
i love this song i love the beatles ive listened to them since i waz 3 or 4 it brings tender memories
oh, my! This episode is just HILARIOUS! I was smiling from the very start! At the voice acting, the cartoon representations of the Fabs, the slapstick humor, how Paul is actually portrayed as a leftie, how Ringo's voice should've been switched with George's (even though George's cartoon voice doesn't fit for any of them). Thanks a bunch for uploading. :) is the cartoon series actually on dvd?