This was a song on the Yellow Submarine album. They had to make a promotional film for their new single, "Lady Madonna," (not video back then). They decided that it was a waste of time being filmed just walking about so they were filmed while recording this in the studio. This film was then chopped about and used (without the sound) to promote Lady Madonna. It was recently restored with the proper soundtrack.
It was done in 1968 and was included on their Yellow Submarine EP. Such a great song. Paul’s bass playing on it is top tier. Massive Beatles fan from Luton, UK 🇬🇧
When I was a teenager, I loved this song. I haven't heard it in a long time either. I remember the news reporting they had officially broken up as a band. I loved McCartney's solo album and Ram album.
@Thor, do you know the DVD-album PURE McCARTNEY? This is a musician-collective's recreation of the RAM album (plus a few other Macca numbers). It's an EXCELLENT 'concert' DVD and gave me a whole new love for MONKBERRY because of the performance energy level. This, along with The Analogues' many re-creation videos makes me believe we'll see students of the Beatles perform drop-dead perfection concerts for decades to come.
@@Cbcw76 Thanks for the great info. I have seen the Analogues video's. They're very talented. I'll have to check out the Pure McCartney DVD. Monkberry Moon Delight is a great tune off of RAM. I listened to that album with the volume on loud in my room as a teenager. Drove my parents nuts. I loved them, but they didn't love my taste in music! Peace.
@@thorsden5562 MONKB was never my favorite tune off that album - BACK SEAT might get that vote... so would the weird descendnig chords on TOO MANY PEOPLE, but that song was tainted by the meaning. sigh... still... the PURE MCCARTNEY DVD is a total marvel. The audiences (I discover it was a 3 night performance) musta loved it. By the way, my email-s in my profile...
This song was originally titled "Hey Bullfrog", but in one of the first takes Lennon improvised "Hey Bulldog" followed by barking, and it immediately struck the band as better and stuck. The song was recorded in February 1968*, it was the last song that John Lennon and Paul McCartney collaborated 50/50 on, and the Beatles' last "truly happy recording session'. *and first became public in January 1969 being released on the Yellow Submarine (film soundtrack) album.
You should check out Mike McCartney and wings 1974. The album is called Mcgear. On a few tracks you will hear some familiar singers. I don't want to spoil it. And there are some videos from that album. for the song I Simply Love you and Leave it. Paul's younger brother has a great voice!
This song was on the Yellow Submarine album - it had a part in the original film -yet it was edited ou of the American version of the movie in 1969,...for some reason. When "Yellow Sub" was restored for cinema and DVD in 1999, the "Bulldog" segment was restored. The film of the Beatles in studio was dubbed for "Lady Madonna" which was the bigger song recorded that same week in 1968, and a 45 single. Years later, it was discovered they were really recording "Bulldog". The film was re-edited, and matched to the song. This is now considered a great Rock track for The Beatles, and recently included on a Greatest Hits.
It was also in the Beatles animated movie "YELLOW SUBMARINE" which is on DVD now and you might be able to find it online somewhere. "HEY BULLDOG" was recorded on Feb. 11, 1968 at ABBEY ROAD studios in London. Yes they DID have "videos" back then, in the '60s, but they were called "PROMO (Promotional) FILMS" The term "video" was not used. The Beatles have a lot of "Promo Films" (videos) for the following songs: HELP! ....TICKET TO RIDE.....WE CAN WORK IT OUT......DAYTRIPPER......HELLO GOODBYE...... STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER......PENNY LANE......RAIN....PAPERBACK WRITER....THIS BOY.....TWIST AND SHOUT.......HEY JUDE......REVOLUTION.......ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE...., I MAY have left some out, this is from the top of my head. Some of these had more than one version filmed for the same songs. There are more videos now that have been made for some of the songs that never had one, and of course, a lot of their SOLO songs that each had after the Beatles broke up, have a LOT Of videos. Many of which (including the Beatles ones) are here on You Tube.
This was one of the Beatles songs that slipped under the radar a bit for a long time but has become better known and covered by other musicians in recent years. I was always fond of it, though, even half a century back. Oddly, I'm still 'rediscovering' great Beatles tracks that I didn't pay much attention to first time round, such as 'Rain' and 'Only a Northern Song' .
this was slated as their first single for 1968 but was replaced with "lady madonna" (b-side, george's "the inner light.") and "hey bulldog" was relegated to "throw-away" status that they put in the "yellow submarine" film soundrack. the soundtrack album for "yellow submarine" is really only half a beatles' album as side 2 is all george martin's orchestrations for the film. side 1 has 2 beatles' rereleases of "yellow submarine" and "all you need is love" combined with 4 original, never before released songs. one, "only a northern song," is a fairly good george psychedelic song but the remaining 3 songs are among my favorite beatles' songs. "its all too much" is a great, underrated george song that's part psychedelic and part hard rock. at 6:30 minutes its their 4th longest song. "all togethger now" is a catchy kids' song that ends the film with beatles only live-action appearance in the film. and "hey bulldog" is just a great rocker full of lennon's word play and an excellent, repeated guitar riff. thanks for the video.
@@grandparentsreact ... you're welcome. such a weird album. in the states united artists movie studio, who produced the first 2 beatles films, had control over the soundtrack albums of those films. in both cases of "a hard days night" and "help!," since they had the rights only to the songs used in the films, they interspersed the albums with "incidental" music from the films to fill out the albums. in britain EMI retained the rights to the soundtrack albums and made them true beatles albums by putting the movie's songs on one side and new unreleased beatles songs on side 2. (that's how the song "yesterday" wound up on the "help!" album.) i guess there weren't enough unreleased beatles songs to do that for the "yellow submarine" soundtrack which makes that album very strange indeed.
No, this was never slated for release as a single. Lady Madonna was chosen as the A side against John's 'Across the Universe' which he was not happy with. As noted by others, they were filming the promo clip for the Lady Madonna single and rather than wasting the time in a studio they chose to record a new song on that day.
@@HelenAtkinson-c2t .... what i've discovered in my long life is that a lot of people think they know things they don't really know. and with the beatles there's so much contradictory information out there no one actually knows anything. i stand by my comment.
Amazing time to live through. I remember going to see Yellow Submarine in the movies - Hey Bulldog and the othersongs (try listening to 1234 or Northern lights') Sydney, NSW
im 48 & got into the beatles at age 17 into turning 18 in 1994...& i didnt really know of this song, truly, until about 2004 or so...i think its because it wasnt on a proper album but it was on The Yellow Submarine Movie Soundtrack album, so, i prob didnt take that album as seriously...so, just because its not on one of their "usual" beatles albums, u may have missed it that way...& thats pretty understandable:) anyway, great reation:)
It was a song on the Yellow Submarine album as well as being in the movie....but, it was cut from the movie because the sequence seemed to slow the pacing. It was later reestablished in more modern versions of the film. Just a good song John had laying around that doesn't mean anything and they just needed another song to fill out the album.
It is one of the most powerful and fun songs - guitar vs. piano with bass and drums steamrolling along. I suspect Radio Stations said, "NO! We are not going to have Beatles take over the Top 5 spots again like 1964!! You have LADY MADONNA (backed with George's THE INNER LIGHT) and that's it! You had yer choice - either LADY or BULLDOG on our airwaves - we won't fill them up again!" I think the Beatles were KIND by not putting BULLDOG on the A/B side of the LADY MADONNA single because they ended up with SOMETHING / COME TOGETHER eventually... and they'd already done that Two-Hit-Single a year or more earlier with DAY TRIPPER and WE CAN WORK IT OUT. "No more!! STOP IT!!" I think Radio Stations buried that song intentionally... it's just too good to be 'lost' accidentally.
@@grandparentsreact I've also guessed this was John Guitar Tune then a jam session broke out. I don't know when Paul bought the Scottish farm but we know he had Martha the sheepdog before writing that White Album song (so, early '68? Late '67?). John didn't seem to compose songs on piano (in the '60s), but we know he converted some from guitar to piano, and those were all featuring some kind of "walking bass line/guitar line)" like WALRUS, SHE'S SO HEAVY. But not all - AND YOUR BIRD CAN SEE and I FEEL FINE have 'walking' note patterns but obviously no piano parts. I suspect John's piano interest was in response to Paul's far better skill, and the gauntlet was thrown and John said, Sure, I'll try this... But the Beatles had several Piano vs. Lead Guitar songs at that point - it was almost a signature sound. So it's tough to say the Music Author - that's why I think it may start with one and the other joined in and they had a jam session. (George's Jam LP on ALL THINGS is a good indicator of he, Paul and John working out jams, although he only used John, Eric and everyone BUT Paul there.) But look at the BULLDOG lyrics.... those seem John-ish. Paul already had a beautiful ode to Martha, so him bringing up a "sheepdog in the rain" observation seems remote. It's the final line in each verse that seems most Lennon-esque: What makes you think you're something special when you smile? You don't know what it's like to listen to your fears... You think you know me, but you haven't got a clue... Those (and their preceding set-up lines) are almost certainly John. Now, if George had written this song with those lyrics, I know he'd have been directing snarkiness towards John & Paul (as he frequently did). But John? Who knows who he was thinking of! He had so many publicized relationships (art dealers who were anti-him/anti-Yoko; lawyers; he always thought George Martin favored Paul (yeah? Then why do John songs have so many more 'effects' than Paul's? LUCY, GOOD MORNING chickens, trains at the end of STRAWBERRY, DAY IN LIFE orchestration, on and on - John really needed several slaps in his face - HE was the one who acted like HE was oh-so special... which yeah... ha ha) For me, my fave John lyrics are in BABY YOU'RE A RICH MAN and ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE - which were coincidentally timed. Or were they? NORWEGIAN WOOD had some pretty odd lyrics too - "I had a girl or should I say she once had me"? Paul would NEVER write that. And much earlier I DON'T WANT TO SPOIL THE PARTY 'so I'll go - I'd hate my disappointment..." Pretty confessional, John-!! But kinda typical - HELP is one long confession. So, I have no idea what BULLDOG really means except it's SUCH a fun song to play, fun tune to jam out on, and I can't believe those guys didn't have many many of those times together. "Let's just play - !"
It wasn't a single, and it wasn't on one of their full-blown albums. It was on the Yellow Submarine songtrack, half of which wasn't even the Beatles, but orchestral music (good stuff, arranged by George Martin, but not the Beatles). Of the handful of actual Beatles songs, some had already been released before, and some were second tier stuff. "Hey Bulldog" is the only killer track on that album that was new. And that's why you and many others overlooked it!
For most bands and artists this would be their biggest hit, but for Beatles it was filler (according to John) for the Yellow Submarine album. It's just the nature of being arguably the best band of all time.
It's because this was a "throwaway" song on a compilation album that *used* to be considered a *minor* release from the group (Yellow Submarine). Buuuut, guys, this song has been a "thing" for about the last 8 years, so you lose a few points for just now hearing it. With love.
This song has gone a little under the radar because it ended up on the "Yellow Submarine" album. Even old, very big Beatles fans tend to forget this song because it ended up on what I think is the guys' worst album... Greetings from Europe
That bass! Paul is a genius.
Yes, so good
This was a song on the Yellow Submarine album. They had to make a promotional film for their new single, "Lady Madonna," (not video back then). They decided that it was a waste of time being filmed just walking about so they were filmed while recording this in the studio. This film was then chopped about and used (without the sound) to promote Lady Madonna. It was recently restored with the proper soundtrack.
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"recently restored" LOL. It was 25 years ago in 1999 when the YS Movie was re-released. But it seems like yesterday.
@@trusso11783 I think they meant the Hey Bulldog film, not YS
It was done in 1968 and was included on their Yellow Submarine EP. Such a great song. Paul’s bass playing on it is top tier. Massive Beatles fan from Luton, UK 🇬🇧
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This has been my ringtone for around a decade now. Just the irony of John saying we can talk to him made it a "have to"
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When I was a teenager, I loved this song. I haven't heard it in a long time either. I remember the news reporting they had officially broken up as a band. I loved McCartney's solo album and Ram album.
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@Thor, do you know the DVD-album PURE McCARTNEY? This is a musician-collective's recreation of the RAM album (plus a few other Macca numbers). It's an EXCELLENT 'concert' DVD and gave me a whole new love for MONKBERRY because of the performance energy level. This, along with The Analogues' many re-creation videos makes me believe we'll see students of the Beatles perform drop-dead perfection concerts for decades to come.
@@Cbcw76 Thanks for the great info. I have seen the Analogues video's. They're very talented. I'll have to check out the Pure McCartney DVD. Monkberry Moon Delight is a great tune off of RAM. I listened to that album with the volume on loud in my room as a teenager. Drove my parents nuts. I loved them, but they didn't love my taste in music! Peace.
@@thorsden5562 MONKB was never my favorite tune off that album - BACK SEAT might get that vote... so would the weird descendnig chords on TOO MANY PEOPLE, but that song was tainted by the meaning. sigh... still... the PURE MCCARTNEY DVD is a total marvel. The audiences (I discover it was a 3 night performance) musta loved it. By the way, my email-s in my profile...
This song was originally titled "Hey Bullfrog", but in one of the first takes Lennon improvised "Hey Bulldog" followed by barking, and it immediately struck the band as better and stuck. The song was recorded in February 1968*, it was the last song that John Lennon and Paul McCartney collaborated 50/50 on, and the Beatles' last "truly happy recording session'.
*and first became public in January 1969 being released on the Yellow Submarine (film soundtrack) album.
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Ooh that bass line! Love this one! How about “Blue Jay Way” from “Magical Mystery Tour”?
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You should check out Mike McCartney and wings 1974. The album is called Mcgear. On a few tracks you will hear some familiar singers. I don't want to spoil it. And there are some videos from that album. for the song I Simply Love you and Leave it. Paul's younger brother has a great voice!
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This song was on the Yellow Submarine album - it had a part in the original film -yet it was edited ou of the American version of the movie in 1969,...for some reason. When "Yellow Sub" was restored for cinema and DVD in 1999, the "Bulldog" segment was restored. The film of the Beatles in studio was dubbed for "Lady Madonna" which was the bigger song recorded that same week in 1968, and a 45 single. Years later, it was discovered they were really recording "Bulldog". The film was re-edited, and matched to the song. This is now considered a great Rock track for The Beatles, and recently included on a Greatest Hits.
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It was also in the Beatles animated movie "YELLOW SUBMARINE" which is on DVD now and you might be able to find it online somewhere. "HEY BULLDOG" was recorded on Feb. 11, 1968 at ABBEY ROAD studios in London. Yes they DID have "videos" back then, in the '60s, but they were called "PROMO (Promotional) FILMS" The term "video" was not used. The Beatles have a lot of "Promo Films" (videos) for the following songs: HELP! ....TICKET TO RIDE.....WE CAN WORK IT OUT......DAYTRIPPER......HELLO GOODBYE...... STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER......PENNY LANE......RAIN....PAPERBACK WRITER....THIS BOY.....TWIST AND SHOUT.......HEY JUDE......REVOLUTION.......ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE...., I MAY have left some out, this is from the top of my head. Some of these had more than one version filmed for the same songs. There are more videos now that have been made for some of the songs that never had one, and of course, a lot of their SOLO songs that each had after the Beatles broke up, have a LOT Of videos. Many of which (including the Beatles ones) are here on You Tube.
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This was one of the Beatles songs that slipped under the radar a bit for a long time but has become better known and covered by other musicians in recent years. I was always fond of it, though, even half a century back. Oddly, I'm still 'rediscovering' great Beatles tracks that I didn't pay much attention to first time round, such as 'Rain' and 'Only a Northern Song' .
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Yeah I remember that deep cut now
Haven’t heard it since then or a little after too. First time I heard them I was 11 in 63
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this was slated as their first single for 1968 but was replaced with "lady madonna" (b-side, george's "the inner light.") and "hey bulldog" was relegated to "throw-away" status that they put in the "yellow submarine" film soundrack. the soundtrack album for "yellow submarine" is really only half a beatles' album as side 2 is all george martin's orchestrations for the film. side 1 has 2 beatles' rereleases of "yellow submarine" and "all you need is love" combined with 4 original, never before released songs. one, "only a northern song," is a fairly good george psychedelic song but the remaining 3 songs are among my favorite beatles' songs. "its all too much" is a great, underrated george song that's part psychedelic and part hard rock. at 6:30 minutes its their 4th longest song. "all togethger now" is a catchy kids' song that ends the film with beatles only live-action appearance in the film. and "hey bulldog" is just a great rocker full of lennon's word play and an excellent, repeated guitar riff. thanks for the video.
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@@grandparentsreact ... you're welcome. such a weird album. in the states united artists movie studio, who produced the first 2 beatles films, had control over the soundtrack albums of those films. in both cases of "a hard days night" and "help!," since they had the rights only to the songs used in the films, they interspersed the albums with "incidental" music from the films to fill out the albums. in britain EMI retained the rights to the soundtrack albums and made them true beatles albums by putting the movie's songs on one side and new unreleased beatles songs on side 2. (that's how the song "yesterday" wound up on the "help!" album.) i guess there weren't enough unreleased beatles songs to do that for the "yellow submarine" soundtrack which makes that album very strange indeed.
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No, this was never slated for release as a single. Lady Madonna was chosen as the A side against John's 'Across the Universe' which he was not happy with.
As noted by others, they were filming the promo clip for the Lady Madonna single and rather than wasting the time in a studio they chose to record a new song on that day.
@@HelenAtkinson-c2t .... what i've discovered in my long life is that a lot of people think they know things they don't really know. and with the beatles there's so much contradictory information out there no one actually knows anything. i stand by my comment.
Big Beatles fan checking in from Ely in Cambridgeshire, UK Always loved this song 🤩
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Amazing time to live through. I remember going to see Yellow Submarine in the movies - Hey Bulldog and the othersongs (try listening to 1234 or Northern lights') Sydney, NSW
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This was recorded in Feb 1968, just before they went to India.
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im 48 & got into the beatles at age 17 into turning 18 in 1994...& i didnt really know of this song, truly, until about 2004 or so...i think its because it wasnt on a proper album but it was on The Yellow Submarine Movie Soundtrack album, so, i prob didnt take that album as seriously...so, just because its not on one of their "usual" beatles albums, u may have missed it that way...& thats pretty understandable:) anyway, great reation:)
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From the soundtrack of the cartoon movie.
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It was a song on the Yellow Submarine album as well as being in the movie....but, it was cut from the movie because the sequence seemed to slow the pacing. It was later reestablished in more modern versions of the film. Just a good song John had laying around that doesn't mean anything and they just needed another song to fill out the album.
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It is one of the most powerful and fun songs - guitar vs. piano with bass and drums steamrolling along. I suspect Radio Stations said, "NO! We are not going to have Beatles take over the Top 5 spots again like 1964!! You have LADY MADONNA (backed with George's THE INNER LIGHT) and that's it! You had yer choice - either LADY or BULLDOG on our airwaves - we won't fill them up again!" I think the Beatles were KIND by not putting BULLDOG on the A/B side of the LADY MADONNA single because they ended up with SOMETHING / COME TOGETHER eventually... and they'd already done that Two-Hit-Single a year or more earlier with DAY TRIPPER and WE CAN WORK IT OUT. "No more!! STOP IT!!" I think Radio Stations buried that song intentionally... it's just too good to be 'lost' accidentally.
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@@grandparentsreact I've also guessed this was John Guitar Tune then a jam session broke out. I don't know when Paul bought the Scottish farm but we know he had Martha the sheepdog before writing that White Album song (so, early '68? Late '67?). John didn't seem to compose songs on piano (in the '60s), but we know he converted some from guitar to piano, and those were all featuring some kind of "walking bass line/guitar line)" like WALRUS, SHE'S SO HEAVY. But not all - AND YOUR BIRD CAN SEE and I FEEL FINE have 'walking' note patterns but obviously no piano parts. I suspect John's piano interest was in response to Paul's far better skill, and the gauntlet was thrown and John said, Sure, I'll try this...
But the Beatles had several Piano vs. Lead Guitar songs at that point - it was almost a signature sound.
So it's tough to say the Music Author - that's why I think it may start with one and the other joined in and they had a jam session. (George's Jam LP on ALL THINGS is a good indicator of he, Paul and John working out jams, although he only used John, Eric and everyone BUT Paul there.)
But look at the BULLDOG lyrics.... those seem John-ish. Paul already had a beautiful ode to Martha, so him bringing up a "sheepdog in the rain" observation seems remote. It's the final line in each verse that seems most Lennon-esque:
What makes you think you're something special when you smile?
You don't know what it's like to listen to your fears...
You think you know me, but you haven't got a clue...
Those (and their preceding set-up lines) are almost certainly John.
Now, if George had written this song with those lyrics, I know he'd have been directing snarkiness towards John & Paul (as he frequently did). But John? Who knows who he was thinking of!
He had so many publicized relationships (art dealers who were anti-him/anti-Yoko; lawyers; he always thought George Martin favored Paul (yeah? Then why do John songs have so many more 'effects' than Paul's? LUCY, GOOD MORNING chickens, trains at the end of STRAWBERRY, DAY IN LIFE orchestration, on and on - John really needed several slaps in his face - HE was the one who acted like HE was oh-so special... which yeah... ha ha)
For me, my fave John lyrics are in BABY YOU'RE A RICH MAN and ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE - which were coincidentally timed. Or were they? NORWEGIAN WOOD had some pretty odd lyrics too - "I had a girl or should I say she once had me"? Paul would NEVER write that. And much earlier I DON'T WANT TO SPOIL THE PARTY 'so I'll go - I'd hate my disappointment..." Pretty confessional, John-!! But kinda typical - HELP is one long confession.
So, I have no idea what BULLDOG really means except it's SUCH a fun song to play, fun tune to jam out on, and I can't believe those guys didn't have many many of those times together. "Let's just play - !"
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It wasn't a single, and it wasn't on one of their full-blown albums. It was on the Yellow Submarine songtrack, half of which wasn't even the Beatles, but orchestral music (good stuff, arranged by George Martin, but not the Beatles). Of the handful of actual Beatles songs, some had already been released before, and some were second tier stuff. "Hey Bulldog" is the only killer track on that album that was new. And that's why you and many others overlooked it!
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For most bands and artists this would be their biggest hit, but for Beatles it was filler (according to John) for the Yellow Submarine album. It's just the nature of being arguably the best band of all time.
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It's because this was a "throwaway" song on a compilation album that *used* to be considered a *minor* release from the group (Yellow Submarine). Buuuut, guys, this song has been a "thing" for about the last 8 years, so you lose a few points for just now hearing it. With love.
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This song has gone a little under the radar because it ended up on the "Yellow Submarine" album. Even old, very big Beatles fans tend to forget this song because it ended up on what I think is the guys' worst album... Greetings from Europe
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