How The Beatles Made "Penny Lane"
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Thanks for watching everyone! What's your favorite song from my album? I'm looking into making a music video for some.
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Well there are many songs I like. But I'd rather you did a video on the song you like best. Or the one your wife likes best. Or the one you and your wife likes best. And, no offense to you, but being the hetero sexual that I am, I'd rather your wife play a more predominate role in the video than you. ;)
On a side note, I'd really appreciate it if at some point in the video there is some hat wearing on someones part. lol
Excellent work on this video!
I won't do iTunes, so I haven't a clue about your music...but drop the lame "hollyHobs"! I mean, what the Heck is up with that? That is really really really lame, dude.
With a dumb name like that, I'm not even going to check if you have a song on YT yet. Yikes!
Matthew Hamersly Whats your damage? Dude there’s this thing called Spotify. There’s also a TH-cam (you’re on it right now).
@@st.beatles7283 Damage?
What's your problem?
And you can Spotify my arse end!
Penny Lane is, in terms of its structure, a perfect pop song. Although it features clearly defined verses and choruses, the whole song is as melodically strong as its chorus. No dead spots, and uplifting all the way through.
Strawberry fields/Penny Lane - the best single yet released in history.
How about Hey Jude and Revolution? Or Paperback Writer and Rain?
I love all of them! The Beatles were the best.
That may be going a little too far. It may not even be The Beatles' best single. How about Something/Come Together?
We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper.
Another great one! This was the first double-sided A record. George Martin wanted We Can Work It Out as the A side. But John who wrote Day Tripper protested...hence, the double A side!!!
I concur.
James Taylor said Penny Lane was his favorite Beatle song. I love it,too. Like you mentioned, as the song played, you could envision all the images that were sung. Paul is incredible.
The greatest single, SINGLE release of all time... never to be bettered!
It's poetry. And they really had a gift to make the mundane seem magical and interesting. Add to that the timeless quality of the music and you have a masterpiece.
My favorite paul's song , one of the best of beatles songs and all time songs.
Penny Lane is like an impressionistic painting by a master.
My favourite song was When I'm 64. At an engagement party, with 2 friends, I had to have fun. One saw it coming, other didn't! I turned to the other lady and began singing. As soon as I sang "when I'm losing my hair", she replied, "that's not all we're losing". All 3 of us laughed. I was 63!
"Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" were originally intended for a concept album the Beatles wanted to do based on locations in Liverpool they had frequented as children. Instead they released those two songs as a single and reshaped the concept for the upcoming album to create "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." I also loved a "60 Minutes" episode in which James Corden walked with Paul McCartney through the streets of Liverpool. Of course they walked on Penny Lane, and Paul noticed the people who had signed the Penny Lane street sign. Paul signed his own name to the sign, then turned to Corden and said, "No one will believe that's really me."
To be called, "The Doll's House," I seem to remember.
The only reason the single failed to get to #1 was because of the somewhat suspect accounting by the UK charts. They counted the double A sides separately, this means that even though the one single sold 2,000,000 copies, those sales were split, where Englebert's single sold far fewer copies but he got the credit for all the sales.
Good old Macca
Billy's done a great job all these years
Im SOOOOO excited cause Paul McCartney’s coming to my city, Vancouver, BC and im gonna see him perform!!!!! In my own home town!! Guys, he just started a new tour, I HIGHLY suggest you see him!!
@@fifthbeatle I can't he's not visiting my country ):
Great way to start my day! Thanks HollyHobs, hope your day is swell!
I have always loved that picture
Always great to hear something I never knew about my favorite group of all time. Thanks.
If these two tracks had been included on Sgt. Pepper's it would have been a far greater album that it is now....
I live for my love of the Beatles. They were the most beautiful group of British men to capture the hearts and soul of the entire world.
Great thoughtful essays and have made me go back to relisten to the Beatles amd other classic pop I used to really enjoy
Beautiful video of two great, beautiful songs !
Day 6775: Still waiting for the next Hollyhobs album
Nicely done video - thanks!
Another masterpiece. Loved your video. #beatlefam
Well done, as always.
Glad to see you're still making these.
Terrific presentation....love the titles, too. Very slick.
Greatest overall band of all time
That naughty phrase “finger pie” was not unknown to American youth either. I don’t know if it made it into youth slang due to this song, or had drifted across the pond on it’s own. But you can see in the video, Paul can barely keep from laughing as the camera pans to him on the phrase. A fine moment when the adults have no idea that a hugely popular song is so filthy. I am sure Paul considers it a great triumph.
@0:36 This is my favourite bit of the whole Penny Lane video, where Paul forgets he's left handed.
Silly Billy
He normally holds the neck of the guitar in his right hand, so he didn't forget anything.
I wad already thinking like: its been a time since you uploaded a beatles video haha thanks
What an excellent video.
Thnx much for posting..
how crazy i just started listening to this song and learned it on guitar and now this video comes out
"and though she feels as if she's in a play, she is anyway". Still my favourite line in a pop song.
Paul's mother was a nurse.........
A 24 year old wrote that line...
Especially with the modulation (I'm not a musician so I'm not sure if that's the right term) on the word 'play'.
I grew up in that part of Liverpool. Penny lane was at the end of my road. Weird to see my old stomping grounds on TH-cam.
Thank you for another good video.
Well done!
When I lived in Toronto, I was friends with a guitar player whose uncle played the piccolo trumpet solo and other trumpet parts in Penny Lane. I think he was the piccolo trumpet player in one of the London symphony orchestras. Outstanding work he did on that tune.
His name was David Mason.
@@campermandan At first I thought you were talking about former Traffic guitar player Dave Mason. Lol. Obviously not the same guy as I'm pretty sure Dave Mason from Traffic didn't play piccolo trumpet.
Awesome video! Could you do don’t let me down next maybe??
I had this 45. Penny lane on one side and strawberry fields forever on the other.
I’m pretty sure the Beatles already had a double A side in 1965 with Day Tripper/We can work it out
They had a plethora of Double A sides;-)
The "what ifs" seem endless when it comes to the Beatles.
I was wondering when he was gonna do this!
Tremendous piece of art... best songs by the beatles, and my favorite, Penny Lane...
that picture @ 1:10 is so unreal. to think they had to discuss everything, then SELL everything at that point in time. and it was such a brief point in time Paul had a mustache.
1:10 is that possibly The Monkees "Daydream Believer" video on the TV in the background? Looks like the Rainbow colored backdrop and it looks like them circled around the piano.
Are you working on another album? If not, when?
Great video!!!
Great video! Could you do some ELO / Jeff Lynne stuff please?
real love and free as a bird
Originaly they were gonna do an album of their roots but emi were waiting for a new single so they gave them these two songs and went onto do sgt pepper
Simply one of the best Beatle songs, if not the best. The single with Strawberry Fields was the absolute. No B-side.
I’ve still have all their early 45’s, and to me, they were all double A singles 4:54
I was hoping you would do a reaction or review of that new Danny Boyle Beatles movie, Yesterday. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it!
Hey it's been a while eh! Been waiting for another good video mang _lnnl
Sixty four is now behind me, but even at sixty five, I still appreciate these videos.
It was Forbisher's fish and finger pie, I believe. Like Forbisher's raspberry and ice lollie in Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's "Bedazzled". An English frozen food company. The double entendre still holds.
Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs, of ever head he had the pleasure to know. An all the people that come and go stop to say hello
Hmm...nothing about the actual music making? Maybe do a part 2 and focus on that. There are a lot of interesting things (beside the usual piccolo trumpet stories) like the many layers of piano, the way the bass part propels the song, and where the song sits in the context of late 66-early 67. Thanks for all you do!
Hey Jude and Revolution was a pretty good single too
The Something/Come Together double A side was not chopped liver.
This was uploaded same date as my birthday
Going abbey road on Saturday want me too Wright anything on the wall
Write “The HollyHobs” on it! And send me the picture!
The HollyHobs will do mate
The HollyHobs been a problem might have too wait a couple of weeks
No worries, let me know!
Beatles with pink floyd references
Hello HollyHobs. The picture @ 1:10 With Paul, John, and Mick Jagger. Where did you find it, and do you know whose
house it is? Thank you.
It was rare to get photos inside Paul's Cavendish Avenue House, but is one of them in the back sitting room which leads into the garden.....
To me, Penny Lane is the quintessential mid-to-late-60's flower-power song. Toward the end of the song where it changes octaves and Paul sings, "Penny Laaaane is in my ears and in my eyes", I am transported back to 1967. 'Just one reason why I love the Beatles.
Imagine Magic mystery , yellow submarine , pennlylane/strawberry feilds inside Sgt pepper album
It's not even close. "Strawberry Fields" is another good Lennon song, totally Lennon in character: heavy, weird, cryptic lyrics, smothered in weird Lennon production. "Penny Lane," on the other hand, is perhaps the most melodic and enjoyably sing-along song ever from that incredible era. I mean, come on... who doesn't like "Penny Lane"?
(Side note: I believe Paul wrote the haunting meletron intro to "Strawberry Fields.")
NY Post 2020: The UK street that inspired The Beatles hit “Penny Lane” may be forced to change its name - over fears it was a tribute to a notorious slave trader, local officials admitted. Now local authorities are considering permanently renaming the street which inspired Paul McCartney and John Lennon to write their 1967 hit about their childhoods in the northern English city.
The Beatles were the greatest MERSY BEAT/British Invasion band of all time. When Mersy Beat finally played out in 1965, the Beatles could have retired from music, moved to Las Vegas and BEEN BIGGER THAN ELVIS!!! LIVE FROM THE SANDS...THE BAND YOU CAME HERE TO HEAR,,,THE BEATLES!!! INSTEAD, they walked to the edge of the Universe and Jumped Off!!! REVOLVER? When I heard Elenor Rigby, I turned to by Best Friend & Said "This aint Rock & ROLL---this is the future!!! When Strawberry Fields Forever came out in DEC 1966, Nothing even remotely sounded like that (FYI, The Beatles released YESTERDAY in DEC 1965 and Strawberry Fields in 1966!!! WTF?!!!) . What can I say...SGT Pepper did not disappoint!!!
Look closely people - that is not Paul McCartney - it's William Campbell Sheers. George's wife always called him Billy.
0:38 that music was so familiar...whats the name of the song?
"The pretty nurse is selling poppies full a tray"
There are few better experiences in my life than when I get the bus to Penny Lane and listen to the song purely for the sake of doing so. The only downside is that Penny Lane is named after a slave trader...
Turns out it's actually known as penny Lane because there is a bridge near it that people had to pay a penny to cross.
No, it isn't.
Whats Your Top 5 Beatles song?
It's a bit difficult to answer but I will tell you "Long, Long, Long" is absolutely in my top 5 songs by anyone.
@@JamesMaharajOfficial Good choice Dude! Here's mine in no order : In my life, Tomorrow never knows, Day in the life, Something, and.....??? MMM i'll get back to You about that hehe. Great content as always
Dan Gulino I agree with the 3 you listed but it’s impossible for me to list a top 5. I AM The Walrus Something Here Comes The Sun Tomorrow Never Knows Strawberry Fields A Day in The Life
@@LRayWilliams Good choices, seems like We are on the same Wavelength.
1. A Day In The Life
2. Strawberry Fields Forever
3. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
4. Here, There And Everywhere
5. I'm Only Sleeping.
I run around penny lane all the time
Lennon McCartney duo changed music forever!
Who ran the cement truck?
Doesn't Paul still tour with this Psychedelic Piano? Or maybe its a copy?
Penny Lane is the epitome of a Beetles classic.
Beatles !!!!!
I notice that you didn't tell anyone exactly what finger pies are. Now you have people knowing it's a bit smuty, but they don't know why. So I'll do it for you. lol
Finger pie is a Liverpudlian slang term for female genitalia. Or at least it was one when Paul was a youngster.
“Finger pie” would also be a term used when the teenies would sneak in somewhere to.. well, touch each other. It was a pretty common thing among amongst the young, as was the four of fish that you could get at your local chippy.
Fingerings the fanny
It’s not that hard for Americans to figure out either..... of the many kind of raunchy things we call vaginas and pussies in America is pie, as in giving her a cream pie would mean fucking her and cumming inside. Could also mean her own cream as she gets turned on. Finger pie? Of course that’s fingering a girl. And the fish part may be more derogatory in America than the UK..... if a girl doesn’t use feminine hygiene products enough, well, you get the picture.
It may be exactly the same in Britain and America after thinking about it.
I do remover hearing Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever on the radio before Sgt. Peppers came out.
Before my time but i like their music and people i know are misinformed about this song as they believe this song is about a blind girl sellings flowers? How off is that? Peace no color lines an soothe the best "within"
I had never tried a fish and finger pie until I heard this song. They're delicious!
Lets not forget the "Pretty Nurse."
No! I can’t watch this right now! This is agony!
Strawberry Fields and Some Scenes of Penny Lame were filmed behind my house in Sevenoaks Kent. Filmed in Knole Park
@beatle pete Very with me 1 being a Beatles Fan & 2 a Guitar Player. The tree ( though shorter ) from Strawberry Fields is stiil there. The Arch, walls and ponds from Penny Lane are Still there too
@beatle pete Hello its Not by back yard But is indeed behind my house. Its a place called Knole Park in Sevenoaks google The Beatles Knole Park Photographs.
BUT Yes you can go play guitar there anytime
@beatle pete www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/image_galleries/beetles_sevenoaks_gallery.shtml%3F5&ved=2ahUKEwitkfHBxf7gAhV7SxUIHQ_VAggQFjABegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw2q2dH8LN6SUAbcr0ezC5hJ
@@MarkFerrari308GTB wow! That also means John got his circus poster in your local area too... as he got his "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" poster in an antique shop in Sevenoaks. I had the luck of seeing said poster in the Liverpool museum on the mersey in 2019.
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE.........
In my life pleeease
Please bring back the old style of thumbnails, The Beatles bunch, cosplay and those short filmy dramatic stuff you did before. The format these days kinda seems so similar to Lie Likes Music. The old format was more fun.
YES!
Then again, its probably easier to do it this way. This way he doesnt have to edit clips, make skits and outfits for the Beatle Bunch lol. He is making music and probably wants to devote more time to that. Have you heard the 'Hollyhobs' album on spotify?
@@gloriboigaming7583 Yeah it was fantastic
Bill looks like a giant compared to the other 3.
Does anybody know what a “finger pie” is?
When you stick some fingers in the coochie
@@Vanderstein950 I kind of figured that but wasn’t sure. Strange to put that in a song
Strawberry Fields was composed before any Pepper track.
In England, fish fingers are what Americans call fish sticks. Nothing 'smutty" about that.
Well, who is listening to Englebert Humperdink anyway?!
Some important issues to mention; In The Penny Lane film, you see shots of Penny Lane in Liverpool yet you Do Not see The Beatles in Penny Lane! ... The same situation with Strawberry Fields, why didn't they film it In the Strawberry Fields Children's Home complex in Liverpool ... they DiD NoT
Ghostwriters, studio muscians, producers, text writers ect. Beatles was a boy band and only sang.
Penny Lane/Strawberry fields - both masterpieces.
Nothing about David Mason and his piccolo trumpet solo? Wow and guau. Is this the level of professionalism that you are used to?
Re release Sgt peppers with SF Pl on it. Massive tunes from the greatest band ever
Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were slated for a nostalgic album, but this project was abandoned.
There's still a " barber shop" there .
I would hope so or the residents would have terribly sloppy hair.
@@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306 😉 as in " lockdowns"
This is only about lyrics and business and intellectual babble, not about making the MUSIC.
So, nothing about the pretty nurse ? lane!
It was the other way around: Lennon followed McCartney's call. McCartney wrote "Penny Lane" and only then did Lennon follow the call by writing "Strawberry Fields."
actually, it was SFF first. Strawberry Fields Forever came first, then it was "When I'm 64", then Penny Lane...
The stones might claim to be the greatest rock band but the Beatles had 4 singers and could rock hard soft even Tin Pan Alley music!!! Plus they were the trailblazers back then the stones and others were followers!!!!!!!
Absolutely hate that among all the great naked singles without albums to attach to that the double A side of Strawberry/ Penny Lane is a crime against humanity for not being on Sgt.Peppers😥
An interesting debate can be had in a pub over an evening discussing: a) What should have been on the alternative single, b) What tracks should have been replaced to include those two and finally c) What would have been the running order on the album with those two included? The Main Rule: no album tracks on singles and vice versa as the fans shouldn't pay for a song twice......
@@SuperNevile yea, very interesting what two you drop and the people who say you don’t drop any are not aware of the times and recording and recording time for a single album. Maybe Lovely Rita but I can’t pick another without compromising the album further. Great reply you had.
@@SuperNevile running order is a bigger headache. Wherever Penny Lane goes I think it should be bookended with When I’m 64 or Fixing a hole.
@@littlewing6231 In truth, I think the problem was that they had already recorded PL and SFF and maybe When I'm 64, and Brian was determined to have a Christmas/New Year single out for some reason. I guess that it would have been more prudent to have waited until they had more recorded before issuing a single. After all a "Lovely Rita/When I'm 64" single would have got to No. 1 (Like Yellow Submarine) because they were THE BEATLES. The original concept of Sgt Peppers was childhood memories or something like that......
@@SuperNevile I have to remind myself of the times. Back then some groups would release 3 albums in a year. The smarter ones like the Beatles to my chagrin in terms of the number of lost albums the singles never went on were like you said Epstein saying to George Martin “ it’s been 4 months give me something. Today groups go years between projects even before Napster started the death of CDs/ album sales. To think of the pressures the boys were under in that 7 year window and the volume of music they put out having to navigate the insanity of Beatlemania it’s any wonder they stayed together that long.