"This Boy" was released as a single by The George Martin Orchestra and became a hit. I found the 45 a few years later at a garage sale after not hearing it on the radio for years. I bought it for a nickel.
Amazing that these songs still live and breath long after they were written. I was in Venice Italy in St Mark's Square back in 2017, walking thru the cafes in Late August with hundreds of tourists drinking and relaxing. One of the full orchestra bands started playing this version of Hard Day's Night. It was fantastic to hear live on such a beautiful summer day in a beautiful city.
I got the Hard Days Night album when I was 8 years old in 1964. Yes I was 8. My sister bought DC5 Glad All Over the same day. She was 9. Anyway, I took the album home to play and I was like what the heck? A little disappointed at first and then I thought about all the parts in the movie that played these instrumentals. Day by day I loved the album, instrumentals and all more and more every day. What a great movie and album.
This was the album that introduced me to the Beatles in the summer of 1974. I went through my parent’s record collection and found my mom’s copy of this album. It was the only Beatles record that she owned. I was instantly hooked on the music of the Beatles and never looked back. I always held the George Martin Orchestra cuts on this album and those on the other stand alone albums released in high regard. Some of it has to do with the emotional attachment to this album, but I’ve always enjoyed listening to jazzy/lush orchestral interpretations of Beatles songs. The George Martin Orchestra cuts are as good as the Hollyridge Strings or any of the others that followed. So many people dismiss this album because of the inclusion of these tracks, but I think they add to the overall charm of it.
A few years ago, I saw a boy about 10 at the counter of our large record store here xin Portland. He was just in front of me purchasing a huge stack of Beatle CDs. (birthday money) He had recently seen the movie Yesterday and now wanted the real thing. It goes on and on and on .....
"And I love her" Was one of my late mother's favorites. She loved the instrumental versions as well the beatles version, I was born in 1977 so I grew up listening to all this beautiful music :) I miss my mother so much. We used to talk about all this music a lot. I used to play this melodies for her on my PC (our bedrooms were besides each other and the house wasn't too big so it was easy for her to listen to the music). Sadly she passed away on December 27, 2023 at 80 years old. She wasn't sick, it was simply that her time on this earth was up. She died peacefully on her sleep and that gives me some comfort, yet there's no day I won't miss her, our talks, our jokes, I miss her hugs and her kisses so much. Rest in peace mom. I'll love you forever, please watch for me as well my sister and her family. We miss you a lot. 🙏❤
I bought this on 8 track. In the summer of 1978. 11 years old. Born too late to remember Beatlemania, couldn’t appreciate The Bee Gees. This album is wonderful. This Boy instrumental captured the nuances of my first crush so well. Still does. 🎉
This is SO beautiful and evocative of the times! It brings to mind Woolworth's lunch counter...all of those bins with all of that merchandise...made in America...all of it. I remember at the ripe age of 6 (HELP! had come out the year before) in '66 I bugged my dad that I wanted the hat that John wore in "HELP!" They were available but I could not have one. Then, In 1970, I found one in SEARS and bought it with Xmas money. I never took it off! 15 cent bottles of Coke out of a machine...these tunes bring this 59 year old kid right back. Thanks for posting!
I was 5 when beatlemania hit, but it was soooo everywhere that I solidly remember it. The entire family (except dad) was into it. Such excitement! Excitement like that is exceedingly rare today.
@@davebinnie4257 Dave---We were/are privileged, aren't we Dave? Those memories like a warm blanket for me as the cold, peeled winds of 2021 wax destructive "out there..." PEACE!!
It’s not possible to find the original album here or My streaming service, so the opportunity to hear this boy once again was wonderful. Thank you for posting
This is what I grew up with being a Beatles fan in the 60s. It's too bad. You can't find this album This is my memory from that movie in the decade of the Beatles.
Martin's arrangements really capture the heart and soul of 1964, families, a slower, different lifestyle in the wake of the assassination of John F Kennedy and before Vietnam was ramped up, even though the battle for Civil Rights was raging at the same time. And I Love Her make me want to slow dance underneath the stars to an orchestra at a big party. Martin's arrangements are so beautiful, especially and I Love Her, and Ringo's Theme [This Boy]. Yes I had this album. I became a music teacher in large part because of the Beatles. if people would a top and listen to this and get over the soulless garbage they listen to now just they and their peers were weaned on it by the media, we'd all be better off.
There probably were a lot of unhappy Beatles fans in America when they discovered that these tracks were on the album. It was better off for them to be left behind. However it’s nice to hear them separately on this TH-cam video
This is so beautiful! It makes me want to travel abroad and walk in the streets of a grand city. Does anyone know where I can find the jazzy piano cover of “I’m so happy just to dance with you” that plays when they walk in on the dancing ladies?
As far as ive been able to uncover, these four tracks in this video are the only instrumental versions that got an official release. Maybe by digging very deep through bootlegs and stuff you could find it but idk
"And I Love Her"---this is singularly tasty! This next is going to sound like a jab but it is actually high praise...you just had to BE there is all; You would hear this exact version over A.M radio in barbershops, in dad's car coming out of that cheap Philco radio...department stores. "This Boy"...holy mackerel, (heh, we used to say things like that along with "Jeezle PETE!!") I could float on these sound waves and it would weave me safely through a wormhole just for Beatle People and I could, like Marty McFly, get a bottle of Coke (NOT a Pepsi) out of a beautiful vending machine and...and...and...
"I Should Have Known Better" has a distinct Henry Mancini sound...like it could've have been background in a Blake Edwards film, maybe "THE PARTY" (even though that was 1968, 4 years later than this).
The performance of Ringo's Theme (This Boy) isn't the same as the recording used in the film. On Vic Flick's website he writes that George Martin hired him for the original session because that spy guitar sound was required. Vic says he used his 1962 Fender Stratocaster and 1962 Fender Vibrolux amplifier. It could be that the version posted could be a different take but I'd say it's from a totally different session and I've not read confimation that Vic plays on it too. However Wikipedia records that Jimmy Page plays guitar on it.
With Phil Spector, I see why. But this? I don't think these instrumentals are that bad. Especially "And I Love Her", "This Boy", and "A Hard Day's Night".
"This Boy" was released as a single by The George Martin Orchestra and became a hit. I found the 45 a few years later at a garage sale after not hearing it on the radio for years. I bought it for a nickel.
It was released as "Ringo's Theme" (This Boy) and the guitarist playing was the late great Vic Flick who just passed In November 2024 at 87.
Amazing that these songs still live and breath long after they were written. I was in Venice Italy in St Mark's Square back in 2017, walking thru the cafes in Late August with hundreds of tourists drinking and relaxing. One of the full orchestra bands started playing this version of Hard Day's Night. It was fantastic to hear live on such a beautiful summer day in a beautiful city.
Venice is awesome! And to hear this song while there...I'm getting goosebumps thinking of that.
I got the Hard Days Night album when I was 8 years old in 1964. Yes I was 8. My sister bought DC5 Glad All Over the same day. She was 9.
Anyway, I took the album home to play and I was like what the heck? A little disappointed at first and then I thought about all the parts in the movie that played these instrumentals. Day by day I loved the album, instrumentals and all more and more every day. What a great movie and album.
This was the album that introduced me to the Beatles in the summer of 1974. I went through my parent’s record collection and found my mom’s copy of this album. It was the only Beatles record that she owned. I was instantly hooked on the music of the Beatles and never looked back. I always held the George Martin Orchestra cuts on this album and those on the other stand alone albums released in high regard. Some of it has to do with the emotional attachment to this album, but I’ve always enjoyed listening to jazzy/lush orchestral interpretations of Beatles songs. The George Martin Orchestra cuts are as good as the Hollyridge Strings or any of the others that followed. So many people dismiss this album because of the inclusion of these tracks, but I think they add to the overall charm of it.
A few years ago, I saw a boy about 10 at the counter of our large record store here xin Portland. He was just in front of me purchasing a huge stack of Beatle CDs. (birthday money) He had recently seen the movie Yesterday and now wanted the real thing. It goes on and on and on .....
George Martin's arrangement of "A Hard Day's Night" owes something to Vince Guaraldi.
and the intro owes something to Brubeck
I agree. I think that’s where George Martin was heading
Little Birdies.
Owes everything to Time Out ala Paul Desmond/Dave Brubeck. And it is Wonderful! 10:15
I absolutely love the "Take Five" intro on Hard days night!
"And I love her" Was one of my late mother's favorites. She loved the instrumental versions as well the beatles version, I was born in 1977 so I grew up listening to all this beautiful music :)
I miss my mother so much. We used to talk about all this music a lot. I used to play this melodies for her on my PC (our bedrooms were besides each other and the house wasn't too big so it was easy for her to listen to the music). Sadly she passed away on December 27, 2023 at 80 years old. She wasn't sick, it was simply that her time on this earth was up. She died peacefully on her sleep and that gives me some comfort, yet there's no day I won't miss her, our talks, our jokes, I miss her hugs and her kisses so much.
Rest in peace mom. I'll love you forever, please watch for me as well my sister and her family. We miss you a lot. 🙏❤
Dude, keep it light.
These four tracks magnificently display Sir George's artistry as an arranger and conductor.
I was in the German seaport of Hamburg in 1974, right on the docks you could buy a "Beatle cap," I got one, also known as a German sailors hat
I bought this on 8 track. In the summer of 1978. 11 years old. Born too late to remember Beatlemania, couldn’t appreciate The Bee Gees. This album is wonderful. This Boy instrumental captured the nuances of my first crush so well. Still does. 🎉
This is SO beautiful and evocative of the times! It brings to mind Woolworth's lunch counter...all of those bins with all of that merchandise...made in America...all of it. I remember at the ripe age of 6 (HELP! had come out the year before) in '66 I bugged my dad that I wanted the hat that John wore in "HELP!" They were available but I could not have one. Then, In 1970, I found one in SEARS and bought it with Xmas money. I never took it off! 15 cent bottles of Coke out of a machine...these tunes bring this 59 year old kid right back. Thanks for posting!
Wow, sounds just like my experiences during beatlemania ! Amazing times
I was 5 when beatlemania hit, but it was soooo everywhere that I solidly remember it. The entire family (except dad) was into it. Such excitement! Excitement like that is exceedingly rare today.
@@davebinnie4257 Dave---We were/are privileged, aren't we Dave? Those memories like a warm blanket for me as the cold, peeled winds of 2021 wax destructive "out there..."
PEACE!!
The This Boy instrumental makes shed a small tear. I know exactly where I was at the time.
0:00 i should have known better
2:11 and i love her
5:57 Ringo’s theme (this boy)
9:11 a hard day’s night
It’s not possible to find the original album here or My streaming service, so the opportunity to hear this boy once again was wonderful. Thank you for posting
Increible album!! Pure Genius!! Made me love The Beatles even more, and takes me to when I was 10yrs old.
This song, along with the And I Love Her instrumental on the same album, are the unsung heroes of that record!
1981, got this one, as I painted, I grew with them Beatles.
Wow. Thank you so much. Summer of ‘64. I was only 15 then but was enthralled by the instrumental versions on this album!
This is what I grew up with being a Beatles fan in the 60s. It's too bad. You can't find this album This is my memory from that movie in the decade of the Beatles.
I enjoy these. I was able to purchase this CD individually.
George Martin orchestra. ♥️🖤
A hard days night is best!
thanks!!! I had this lp; loved the instrumentals...
Martin's arrangements really capture the heart and soul of 1964, families, a slower, different lifestyle in the wake of the assassination of John F Kennedy and before Vietnam was ramped up, even though the battle for Civil Rights was raging at the same time. And I Love Her make me want to slow dance underneath the stars to an orchestra at a big party. Martin's arrangements are so beautiful, especially and I Love Her, and Ringo's Theme [This Boy]. Yes I had this album. I became a music teacher in large part because of the Beatles. if people would a top and listen to this and get over the soulless garbage they listen to now just they and their peers were weaned on it by the media, we'd all be better off.
There probably were a lot of unhappy Beatles fans in America when they discovered that these tracks were on the album. It was better off for them to be left behind. However it’s nice to hear them separately on this TH-cam video
There is one thing that stands out from all those comments below: These people are all knowledgeable and educated unlike today's😃
This is so beautiful! It makes me want to travel abroad and walk in the streets of a grand city.
Does anyone know where I can find the jazzy piano cover of “I’m so happy just to dance with you” that plays when they walk in on the dancing ladies?
As far as ive been able to uncover, these four tracks in this video are the only instrumental versions that got an official release. Maybe by digging very deep through bootlegs and stuff you could find it but idk
"And I Love Her"---this is singularly tasty! This next is going to sound like a jab but it is actually high praise...you just had to BE there is all; You would hear this exact version over A.M radio in barbershops, in dad's car coming out of that cheap Philco radio...department stores.
"This Boy"...holy mackerel, (heh, we used to say things like that along with "Jeezle PETE!!") I could float on these sound waves and it would weave me safely through a wormhole just for Beatle People and I could, like Marty McFly, get a bottle of Coke (NOT a Pepsi) out of a beautiful vending machine and...and...and...
"I Should Have Known Better" has a distinct Henry Mancini sound...like it could've have been background in a Blake Edwards film, maybe "THE PARTY" (even though that was 1968, 4 years later than this).
100% right. It sounds like some funk like the pink panther theme
All the songs were treated like Henry Mancini. Sounded like Summer Place to me.
Hahaha, this so 60s Soviet Estonia as possible!
The performance of Ringo's Theme (This Boy) isn't the same as the recording used in the film. On Vic Flick's website he writes that George Martin hired him for the original session because that spy guitar sound was required. Vic says he used his 1962 Fender Stratocaster and 1962 Fender Vibrolux amplifier.
It could be that the version posted could be a different take but I'd say it's from a totally different session and I've not read confimation that Vic plays on it too.
However Wikipedia records that Jimmy Page plays guitar on it.
gives the Beatles a California beach Dick Dale vibe...........................
The opening track sounds so Austin Powers.
Can definitely see Austin bopping along to it!
The Beatles complained about Phil Specter's job with the Let it be Album.....not a peep about this....
With Phil Spector, I see why. But this? I don't think these instrumentals are that bad. Especially "And I Love Her", "This Boy", and "A Hard Day's Night".
Because these weren't made for the album, they were made for the movie
@@Ms_Semi The album featured their name...
Probably because its mostly seen as a seperate thing and not something from the actual (correct/canon) UK hard days night
same with Yellow Submarine. They complained on Let It Be but not on that lame Yellow Submarine Soundtrack.
Finally I've searched every where😂