Queen - Polar Bear (Demo - Take 2) [Unreleased Song]

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  • @Marvin00000001
    @Marvin00000001 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +72

    I always wondered how it would sound with Freddie's voice. Now I know, now I know, now I know...

    • @whistleoutoftune4417
      @whistleoutoftune4417 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      same for me. i really love this song and its a delight to hear it from freddie.

    • @wumbomandlx
      @wumbomandlx 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Listen to the wise man sing.

    • @toes_on_toads8225
      @toes_on_toads8225 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Ok prophet

  • @mmanes100
    @mmanes100 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +27

    First time I listen Freddie sings the song, tks so much.

  • @nameissturdy1390
    @nameissturdy1390 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Still a huge fan 40 years on.

  • @antonioelle4894
    @antonioelle4894 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

    This track is a perfect example of how Mercury shaped his early voice on Tim's

  • @faddeybulgarin
    @faddeybulgarin 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    Шикарная песня❤ Впервые ее услышал исполнении Smile, но когда в 2000-х услышал ее в исполнении Фредди, то полюбил навсегда ❤❤❤ Топ 10 любимейших песен Queen

  • @skywipe1949
    @skywipe1949 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +42

    Downloaded this and the other ones before they go up in a puff of smoke.

    • @milesfernando
      @milesfernando 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      There's better sources than this TH-cam video. TH-cam compresses audio quite a bit.

    • @Александрэ-ы2ш
      @Александрэ-ы2ш 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ☝👍👍💪💪😊

    • @skywipe1949
      @skywipe1949 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      ​@@milesfernandoWhere is better audio available? I'll take what I can get for now, but if something better is accessible, I'd certainly be interested in having a look.

    • @ant2manbee931
      @ant2manbee931 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@skywipe1949 I've being trying to search for a good copy for quite sometime as well. If I find it, I'm going to post it myself. I would really be grateful if anyone could share a lossless copy of any of Queen's demos/unreleased songs.

    • @ant2manbee931
      @ant2manbee931 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@milesfernando Would you mind saying where to find a better source?

  • @dianecourtney2724
    @dianecourtney2724 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    Young beautiful ‘Freddie voice’ before he learned to keep his voice from doing its own thing … he took charge and reeled it in. Sad in a way BUT I love it both ways. Freddie is completely irreplaceable.

  • @saskiabaggen117
    @saskiabaggen117 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    I miss you Freddie and I love you singing it ❤

  • @jovipz0314
    @jovipz0314 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    Qué liiiindo!! ❤
    Los inicios de Freddie cuando Brian y Roger aceptaron la propuesta de cambiar el nombre a QUEEN, Su voz es fresca, como en Goin' Back, hermoso! 👑🧚‍♂️💛🌍⭐️🥰

  • @jimmiok
    @jimmiok 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

    Almost certainly Deaky on bass. I don’t believe Queen did any studio work before John joined.

    • @TieYourLaurenDown
      @TieYourLaurenDown 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Absolutely. The first time Queen did anything in the studio was at De Lane Lea and John had already been with them a while by then. The only time before that Freddie had been in a studio was doing the covers of Goin’ Back and I Can Hear Music, his voice is noticeably completely different here.

  • @jordantreyofficial
    @jordantreyofficial 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

    This is a Smile song, the demo was uploaded many years ago but this is the clearer version I've ever heard

    • @stumpusMaximus
      @stumpusMaximus 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Yeah and I have the Japanese import of the Smile album. If I remember, only one song was in stereo . The rest mono. I prefer Staffel’s voice on that album.

    • @jordantreyofficial
      @jordantreyofficial 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @stumpusMaximus yes, Tim Staffel has a very good voice there.

  • @frenkn.t.ninjabless
    @frenkn.t.ninjabless 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    Freddie ❤😂😊

  • @LilacHaze
    @LilacHaze 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Considering not even a flick of hope was giving about this piece appearance on Queen I Box Set l, probably is from Queen II or Sheer Heart Attack Session, although wonder is from that era was also Now That I'm Here/Silver Salmon...

  • @MarcoMelis-y1s
    @MarcoMelis-y1s 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

    This is a SMILE song!

    • @MRCIVN
      @MRCIVN 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      And?

    • @supertitan86
      @supertitan86 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@MRCIVNcopyright, this song is from Smile not queen band.

    • @Alfonso162008
      @Alfonso162008 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Yes, and this is Queen covering that song. What's your point?

    • @yosh9433
      @yosh9433 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      ​@@supertitan86 2/3 members of Smile are playing here, so, is valid.

    • @shootingstar7793
      @shootingstar7793 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Fuck the copyright anyway, they don't want this song to be heard after all.

  • @MaxPower2719
    @MaxPower2719 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Always thought the first part of this (“the banter”) was from the NOTW sessions…

  • @dpm103151
    @dpm103151 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Hearing Freddie sing this for the first time several years ago sent me reeling! I always wondered if it was intentional that he changed the lyric from "makes my eyes light up when I would see him there" to " makes HIS eyes light up when I would see him there." Seems so Freddie. Lol. But maybe just an error. I wish I could understand all the lyrics. I have this on a demo CD compilation of several songs from '72-'74, that includes Silver Salmon and Misfire. ❤

    • @TieYourLaurenDown
      @TieYourLaurenDown 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It’s probably not intentional. Freddie gets quite a few of the lyrics wrong here. And I should point out that Silver Salmon is actually from ‘77 in the News of the World sessions.

    • @dpm103151
      @dpm103151 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@TieYourLaurenDown hard to tell as Freddie sometimes made errors and other times made changes. Tim Staffell wrote Silver Salmon, so it goes back to the Smile days and Queen recorded it in '72. It was an unreleased track from the first Queen album. I never saw any reference to NOTW sessions other than the Queenvault site, which has some errors in it, but maybe it was.

    • @TieYourLaurenDown
      @TieYourLaurenDown วันที่ผ่านมา

      @ it’s definitely from “News of the World”, it was recorded back to back with “Feelings/Now that I’m Here” (which was also erroneously rumoured to be from the “Queen” sessions). Roger’s got China symbols and rototomes on those tracks, which he didn’t get until 1976. If you listen to it after the speed has been corrected, Freddie’s voice is unmistakably too developed to be that early in their career. We also know that Queen were revisiting older songs at the point with “Now That I’m Here” developing into “Feelings, Feelings” and the finished version of “Sheer Heart Attack”.
      Edit: add “We are the Champions” to that list too, Freddie wrote an early version of it in 1975.

    • @dpm103151
      @dpm103151 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Well, the forums going back and forth on this, and there are many, all end the same way. No one really knows for sure. Lol. Anyway, I have what I think might be a boot of the Queen sessions that states they're from '72-'74. The first listed is labeled Queen l sessions and includes KYA, Liar, S & D, Silver Salmon & Polar Bear. Makes sense really. It's a single CD and also has Q 2 sessions 1973 and SHA 1974 as well. All grouped to to the year. People also can't seem to agree whether it's an early 70s Freddie voice or the mid to late 70s voice. To me his speaking and singing voice on this track sound like a young Freddie but I guess we could go on about it forever. I'm just glad we have it to listen to and we're all here because we love Queen. Thanks.

    • @TieYourLaurenDown
      @TieYourLaurenDown วันที่ผ่านมา

      @ Freddie has a diaphonic voice crack on “Silver Salmon” which isn’t possible unless you have a physical abnormality of the vocal cords. Freddie didn’t develop nodules on his vocal cords until early 1975 during the “Sheer Heart Attack” tour. Also, the “Queen 1” physical box set has photos of tape reels and recording times for songs. “Silver Salmon” definitely can’t be from 1971 because the whole session at De Lane Lea is documented and it is incredibly unlikely for it to have come from the ‘72 Trident sessions. There is no evidence whatsoever that it comes from that point in time, there is a mountain of evidence saying it’s from 1977.

  • @Mcqlfc
    @Mcqlfc 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Brian was playing through a Fender Twin

  • @dpm103151
    @dpm103151 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I know you really want to have the last word here but Freddie's voice cracked due to him reaching another register and not necessarily from throat nodules from using a diaphonic technique. SS was reputed to be from 1972 not 1971. I haven't as yet seen the evidence that satisfies me that it's from 1977. I won't resist it when I see it..the only evidence I see from 1972 is the actual cd liner info that claims it is.

  • @guardu1705
    @guardu1705 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +37

    Why wasn't it included in the Queen I box set? 😢

    • @Rehashh
      @Rehashh 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      probably song writing credit stuff, nothing smile related has ever been released except doin alright

    • @guardu1705
      @guardu1705 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      @Rehashh Yoooo guys I love your band! I loved your cover of April Lady, keep it up 💪

    • @ivanschickendantz
      @ivanschickendantz 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

      I think Polar Bear was recorded at Sheer Heart Attack sessions instead Queen I. To be omitted in the box set makes that theory more probable

    • @supertitan86
      @supertitan86 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Copyright friend, this song is from Smile not Queen band. 😕

    • @Iainrankingtheobscure
      @Iainrankingtheobscure 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Because its crap

  • @mrpositronia
    @mrpositronia 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    It would have been okay as a b-side. But I can see why they chose not to put it on an album.

  • @jimilove7773
    @jimilove7773 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks!

  • @bnjmnwst
    @bnjmnwst 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Roger is such a diva.

  • @ちっちぽ
    @ちっちぽ 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Roger is cute because he talks a lot.

  • @rodolfovargas3504
    @rodolfovargas3504 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Polar Beer !!!

  • @KIM-fz1cm
    @KIM-fz1cm 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    its like led zeppelin 😮

  • @edgardominguez8318
    @edgardominguez8318 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    No mames que chingon wey Escucho a un ángel alaverga

  • @gbclab
    @gbclab 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

  • @miguelmartins27
    @miguelmartins27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Queria que essa fosse lançada no Queen I

  • @ant2manbee931
    @ant2manbee931 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Do you have a lossless file of this song and Silver Salmon to share? Thanks!

  • @katiehill7552
    @katiehill7552 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    love this song, amazing to see that they did a version with Freddie! anyone know if they did a version of Step On Me with him?

    • @LilacHaze
      @LilacHaze 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Perhaps they tried all Smile songs in 1970 but probably dropped them except for Doing Alright, Polar Bear and Silver Salmon "for later" and the only released at the time was Doing All Right

    • @wumbomandlx
      @wumbomandlx 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@LilacHaze Blag was repurposed into Brighton Rock and the Night Comes Down in terms of guitar work. Lyrically, I find Blag to be absent. Although, Brighton Rock was not in production around this time, in early takes of Liar and Great King Rat, you can hear bits of Blag's wonderful solo.

    • @LilacHaze
      @LilacHaze 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@wumbomandlx Perhaps, considering that supposedly Blag was a Roger piece, is true that Brian ideas were also there, considering the lack of info about the early Queen concerts & the lack the rest of the Imperial College Gig probably Son & Daughter already made the inclusion of the Brighton Rock, to be honest it would be interest to know if they get to rehearsal all the Smile pieces

    • @wumbomandlx
      @wumbomandlx 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@LilacHaze In an interview, Brian said he wrote Blag.

  • @charlesbronson4282
    @charlesbronson4282 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    This would have fit on Queen 2...instead of How Funny How Love Is

    • @Marvin00000001
      @Marvin00000001 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      "Funny how love is" is a never ending song

    • @charlesbronson4282
      @charlesbronson4282 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @Marvin00000001 YUP...

    • @Marvin00000001
      @Marvin00000001 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@charlesbronson4282 It glues in your head like a mantra and you spend all day with ir going out and coming in out of the blue. I admit I love this feeling.

  • @paulmcleod8370
    @paulmcleod8370 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I wonder if Freddie ever sang April Lady ?

    • @TieYourLaurenDown
      @TieYourLaurenDown 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Almost definitely not. April Lady was a song given to Smile by Mercury Records. It was written by Stanley Lucas, not by any member of the band. Queen prides themselves on only recording original material so the odds of them even thinking about doing that song are next to none. I wouldn’t be surprised if Freddie didn’t even know it existed.

  • @The-OC
    @The-OC 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Not keen on this if I'm honest. I can understand why it didn't get released.

  • @JismIsm-en4kz
    @JismIsm-en4kz 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    XCELLENT pic! The tunes 'not that great' (in my humble opinion) Signed ~ An Early Queen fan

    • @TieYourLaurenDown
      @TieYourLaurenDown 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The lyrics definitely needed some work but the melody is lovely. The instrumentation sounds essentially good on the Smile version because there are more guitar tracks for Brian to really show off with.

  • @jeffcorpse
    @jeffcorpse 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Where is this available?

  • @misery.machine15
    @misery.machine15 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    The people saying they prefer Tim’s version is only saying that because it’s the one they heard first and know it better. Tim’s is very forgettable compared to Freddie’s.

    • @TieYourLaurenDown
      @TieYourLaurenDown 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      No? Believe it or not people are actually allowed to have their own opinions. The harmonies on the Smile version are amazing, the instrumentation is more developed and Time and Brian’s duet gives it a lot of rich variety. Obviously Freddie is amazing but you don’t have to pretend he’s literally the only singer with any talent.

    • @misery.machine15
      @misery.machine15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @ I see my comment from weeks ago bothered you. Let’s see if I can push it further. If it wasn’t for Freddie Mercury, you wouldn’t even know who Tim Staffell is.

  • @JC-td9gj
    @JC-td9gj 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    and the idiots didn't put it in the queen I box

    • @TieYourLaurenDown
      @TieYourLaurenDown 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      We don’t actually know when it was recorded. It could very well be from the Queen II sessions, maybe even from Sheer Heart Attack

  • @Azzronika
    @Azzronika 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Freddie is my all time fave forever..BUT i prefer Tims vocal and the Smile version

    • @akm20-lx8jk
      @akm20-lx8jk 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      yeah, freddie is the best ever but i think tim is somewhat underrated, he could have been a legendary vocalist on his own imo

    • @josesegundobarroeta6752
      @josesegundobarroeta6752 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Agree.

  • @michavandam
    @michavandam 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I prefer the Smile recording.

  • @perhaden6184
    @perhaden6184 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Yea the history books say that Freddie sound like a cheap. 😊

  • @ricknorris1466
    @ricknorris1466 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    HORRIBLE application of noise reduction. Complete amateurish application. Sounds like it’s coming out of Darth Vaders mouth.

    • @monitor4208
      @monitor4208 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Perhaps autotuned as well

    • @silasaraujo2849
      @silasaraujo2849 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@monitor4208There is no autotune here, this is not an official production. Read the description.

  • @Iainrankingtheobscure
    @Iainrankingtheobscure 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    There is a reason this was lost because it's terrible it never made an album for that reason

    • @ConstableHandsy
      @ConstableHandsy 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      Your opinion. Even if it is wrong.

    • @Iainrankingtheobscure
      @Iainrankingtheobscure 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @ConstableHandsy come just because it's Queen not everyone likes every track if this song was good it would of appeared on an album this is definitely belongs on the cuting room floor .

    • @dianecourtney2724
      @dianecourtney2724 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@Iainrankingtheobscureit’s young Freddie. We love him and try to hear every remarkable and unremarkable thing he did 😂🥰

    • @Iainrankingtheobscure
      @Iainrankingtheobscure 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@dianecourtney2724 Yes I know I was At His last ever performance but I don't like everything he did nor Queen. Hot Space is a waste of Space except Under Pressure and Mr Bad Guy is shockingly shite The Last great Queen Album Was Jazz in my book the others are ok

    • @Alfonso162008
      @Alfonso162008 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@Iainrankingtheobscure that is certainly your opinion. I also don't like every single song Queen made (though mostly I do, in varying degrees of course lol), but I think it's too much to be so categorical and say it's "terrible", as if it should be so obvious to everyone else. I personally kinda like this version more than the Smile one, but it's just a preference thing. Remember that this is only take 2, who knows how it could've improved with more work on it. Perhaps they did try to get better takes, but then decided it wasn't worth it and got discarded. But it is far from terrible in my opinion.