My favorite song of the Beatles is Here Comes the Sun. Thank you for giving me an understanding of how far from ordinary a song inspired by a garden and sunlight that also has brilliant sound, spiked with some Eastern musical properties.
George has the best two songs on Abbey Road, 'Here comes the Sun' brightens up any day and puts a smile on every face with its joyous beauty of hope 🙂🌞
They didn't run out of tape on 'I want you (she's so heavy)'. John told Geoff Emerick to just cut the tape, deliberately, to give it a sudden end. No accident.
At 4:16, it was actually Paul who said to George Martin that the band wanted to make one last album. It wasn’t George Martin who asked the band to make one last album.
Boy, lots of errors. Sorry guys. At 19:20 you mention they added George’s acoustic guitar to the rhythm track, but that’s not the case. George’s acoustic was PART of the rhythm track: George’s acoustic, Paul’s bass, and Ringo’s drums. George sang a scratch vocal while cutting the rhythm track, then erased that and rerecorded his lead vocal.
Paul's take was that before Allen Klein, the Beatles made decisions by consensus, and here were the other three making a decision that he dissented from. He felt at that moment the foundation of the Beatles was broken (my metaphor).
While John was becoming enamored with Alan Klein, Mick Jagger actually had reached the opinion that Klein was trouble and had sent a message to the band which they never received.
Another error. At 28:45 it is claimed that George’s “I Want To Tell You” had time signature changes. That simply isn’t true; the song is in common time from start to finish. It’s clear David Bennett knows his stuff and I respect his work on the internet. I’ve watched his channel many times, often over and over as there is much to gain, but the gentleman on the left keeps making musical and historical errors.
Advanced indeed. It all depends on how you want to count it in “Here Comes The Sun”. It could be three measures (bars) of 3/8 and one bar of 2/8, or ONE measure of 11/8! Also, the Moog tends to be a bit unwieldy (“unreliable” in this video) because the oscillators (the things that actually make the notes, before any filtering and such) are voltage-controlled. When the voltage inside the Moog would drift up or down, the pitches of the. notes produced would drift up or down in the same way.
An earlier use of the Moog in Pop music (& possibly the earliest?) was by The Monkees on the album Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. in 1967. Mickey encountered The Moog earlier in the year and bought one (possibly No.2). Used on the tracks "Daily Nightly" (played by Mickey) and Star Collector (played by Paul Beaver).
David Stark... @ 3:12 Peter Jackson's "re-enactment" or "his take" on it ??? It's a flippin' documentary dude! Have you even watched it? @ 4:15 It was actually Paul who contacted George Martin and promised that The Beatles wanted to record as they had earlier in their career... with Martin in complete production guidance for "Abbey Road". I'm not a negativist, but I've studied the history of The Beatles for decades. I'm just choosing, for myself, not to give much weight to this 'Richard Stark' gentleman's comments in this episode, recognizing that I also myself have no credentials to back my opinion.
@@andyfeldman2590 Agree... David Bennet is perhaps the most knowelegeble member here... both the host and thither guy really y shouldn't be speaking on things the they are ignorant of!
@@jeffwoollen1366 Agreed. This could have been a good channel but the amount of inaccuracies makes it unlistenable. David Bennett's personal channel is great. He can and should do better than this. I'm not one for just being negative, but when people are announced as Beatles historians (David Stark) and can't get 5 minutes into a discussion without showing how little he knows, it reflects on the channel and the other participants. It's nothing personal, but David Stark just makes too many wildly incorrect statements about musical points, and too many historical inaccuracies regarding the Beatles. When I first saw David Bennett was on the show I was excited to see him on a channel other than his strictly music theory one, which I greatly enjoy, but this was a disappointment.
l really like this song. Of course it's nowhere near being their biggest hit, they had so many, but as the presenters said, it is a breath of fresh air into the Beatles catalogue. The bridge with that odd meter line that gets ever more dramatically emphasised by the moog is just brilliant. Perhaps the only low point is that sloppy, uninspired bass performance by Paul, something rare for him.
@ric8248 Niether was Stairway to Heaven. It was still a massive radio and album hit and now they're streaming hits. It doesn't have to a single to be a hit.
Actually, according to internet: “Yes, the winter of 1968-1969 was considered a harsh winter in England, with significant snowfall reported across the country, particularly in the Midlands, and is often remembered for a cold and snowy Christmas Eve in many areas; making it one of the more notable cold winters in recent British history. “
@@cynthiaforsythe8989 man, every winter in the 60's and 70's was harsh, and we didn't have quilts either, or heating upstairs, ice on the inside of the window, i used to write my name on it then lick my finger for a drink, hard times
Don't seem to know too much about the Beatles if you call this their biggest hit. It couldn't be a hit because it was n't released as a single (only an album track - even if a brilliant one).
Well, it's their most streamed song on Spotify, having twice as many as the second most, Come Together, and the only one with over a billion streams, so by modern metrics, in this current day and age, it is their biggest song Also, Led Zeppelin never released singles, at least in the UK, but it'd be ridiculous to say none of their songs were hits, likewise with the Beatles and their non single popular songs
Biggest hit? R you kidding me? The point that for now it’s their most streamed song on spotify doesn’t mean at all that it’s their biggest hit 😅 it became viral because in times of covid people used it in tiktok videos so much, that’s it. It’s a great song, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not their biggest hit at all
It’s consider their biggest hit exactly because of the billions of streams that the song has. I also don’t consider their best work, but it’s inevitable the biggest hit for the Beatles. Imagine after 50 years a song that you wrote still has the popularity that had when it came out, that’s what makes the song their biggest hit
@ no no and no, if you ask average person who’s not a beatle fan - they all know yesterday or let it be or smth else, but not here comes the sun. I tell you once again - this song wasn’t considered even one of their best works till 2020 or so, when tiktokers started to use it. It’s not even best george’s song, because Something (in my humble opinion) is way better). But if we’re talking about what hit songs the Beatles really had , how can we put here comes the sun above yesterday, let it be, hey jude or come together to say the least
@ and , viral is not the same as a hit song, i mean so many dumb songs have counts better then beatles songs just because they went viral due to their use on social media platforms,BUT, who would care about these songs 5 years after?
Just a very relevant point. I am 74 year old and do not qualify for anything. i am £ 1.50 a week over the limit to get pension credits. I get nothing. Worked out I miss out on £2000 a year. And no fuel allowance. Shocking😂
Love R.E.M but no, must disagree as the BEATLES had a much bigger influence on other artists and changed the course of popular music. Both fabulous bands
Their biggest Hit? Are you crazy? No one was very interested in that song in 69! Or in 79! Or in 89! Or in 99! You have to research before say something like that. Your Youth is not a excuse.
Correction: They approached George Martin to produce Abbey Road, GM didn't approach them and he might have been reluctant at first stating that he wanted to do it like the old days,...with discipline and no messing about.
Sorry. Just one correction. The world’s biggest and best band is R.E.M.. The Beatles come in a good second. Please, don’t leave a mean reply, as I am unable to interact with non-R.E.M. zealots. It is against my religion, R.E.M.-ism.
My favorite song of the Beatles is Here Comes the Sun. Thank you for giving me an understanding of how far from ordinary a song inspired by a garden and sunlight that also has brilliant sound, spiked with some Eastern musical properties.
Like it!
George has the best two songs on Abbey Road, 'Here comes the Sun' brightens up any day and puts a smile on every face with its joyous beauty of hope 🙂🌞
respect your taste(beautiful songs indeed)
for me Oh darling and Golden slumbers
I'm really enjoying these videos, guys. Keep up the stellar work. And thanks!
They didn't run out of tape on 'I want you (she's so heavy)'. John told Geoff Emerick to just cut the tape, deliberately, to give it a sudden end. No accident.
Oh wow! The Badge rift! I never realized that. This is a great episode. Subscribed ✅
Thanks Cynthia. It’s going to a Long and Winding Road through all these songs. Enjoy!
Did you mean “rift” (a difference of opinion) or “riff” (a brief musical passage)?
Nice to think of this song now, at the end of November, when the sun comes up so late and sets so early.
@@Doc_Tar it’s funny, it is the opposite here . Enjoying the longer warmer days of summer here in SA🇿🇦
This is Cool!
A New Channel!
I Love it😊
At 4:16, it was actually Paul who said to George Martin that the band wanted to make one last album. It wasn’t George Martin who asked the band to make one last album.
Boy, lots of errors. Sorry guys. At 19:20 you mention they added George’s acoustic guitar to the rhythm track, but that’s not the case. George’s acoustic was PART of the rhythm track: George’s acoustic, Paul’s bass, and Ringo’s drums. George sang a scratch vocal while cutting the rhythm track, then erased that and rerecorded his lead vocal.
Paul's take was that before Allen Klein, the Beatles made decisions by consensus, and here were the other three making a decision that he dissented from. He felt at that moment the foundation of the Beatles was broken (my metaphor).
Sudden end of side 1 she’s so heavy was on purpose, John instructing “cut there!” To bewilderment of engineer.
(i speak spanish , try some english)
nice to hear you guys , so glad you love The Beatles
but the biggest hit is Hey Jude ( maybe you mean in Spotify)
While John was becoming enamored with Alan Klein, Mick Jagger actually had reached the opinion that Klein was trouble and had sent a message to the band which they never received.
Another error. At 28:45 it is claimed that George’s “I Want To Tell You” had time signature changes. That simply isn’t true; the song is in common time from start to finish. It’s clear David Bennett knows his stuff and I respect his work on the internet. I’ve watched his channel many times, often over and over as there is much to gain, but the gentleman on the left keeps making musical and historical errors.
Advanced indeed. It all depends on how you want to count it in “Here Comes The Sun”. It could be three measures (bars) of 3/8 and one bar of 2/8, or ONE measure of 11/8! Also, the Moog tends to be a bit unwieldy (“unreliable” in this video) because the oscillators (the things that actually make the notes, before any filtering and such) are voltage-controlled. When the voltage inside the Moog would drift up or down, the pitches of the. notes produced would drift up or down in the same way.
An earlier use of the Moog in Pop music (& possibly the earliest?) was by The Monkees on the album Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. in 1967. Mickey encountered The Moog earlier in the year and bought one (possibly No.2). Used on the tracks "Daily Nightly" (played by Mickey) and Star Collector (played by Paul Beaver).
I actually did a video on that a few years ago! th-cam.com/video/NlbUPXlOYSo/w-d-xo.html 😁😁
Biggest hit? That’s a bizarre assertion. (Discussion is fascinating though!)
It’s incredibly misleading, and fundamentally misunderstands what “hit” means.
Maybe "hit" is the wrong word, but it's had the most sustained success based on streams.
CURRRNTLY it is. Everyone seems to miss that in their zeal to comment. They state this in the video. Pay attention.
I think that they miss the point of the driving force of Paul !
Do I’m only Sleeping
LOL who edited in the graphic showing the name and year of the song 40:00 what is this FOR LMAO
David Stark... @ 3:12 Peter Jackson's "re-enactment" or "his take" on it ??? It's a flippin' documentary dude! Have you even watched it? @ 4:15 It was actually Paul who contacted George Martin and promised that The Beatles wanted to record as they had earlier in their career... with Martin in complete production guidance for "Abbey Road". I'm not a negativist, but I've studied the history of The Beatles for decades. I'm just choosing, for myself, not to give much weight to this 'Richard Stark' gentleman's comments in this episode,
recognizing that I also myself have no credentials to back my opinion.
Stark makes numerous musical and historic errors that are embarrassingly obvious. On the other hand David Bennett is fantastic and knows his stuff.
@@andyfeldman2590 Agree... David Bennet is perhaps the most knowelegeble member here... both the host and thither guy really y shouldn't be speaking on things the they are ignorant of!
@@jeffwoollen1366 Agreed. This could have been a good channel but the amount of inaccuracies makes it unlistenable. David Bennett's personal channel is great. He can and should do better than this. I'm not one for just being negative, but when people are announced as Beatles historians (David Stark) and can't get 5 minutes into a discussion without showing how little he knows, it reflects on the channel and the other participants. It's nothing personal, but David Stark just makes too many wildly incorrect statements about musical points, and too many historical inaccuracies regarding the Beatles. When I first saw David Bennett was on the show I was excited to see him on a channel other than his strictly music theory one, which I greatly enjoy, but this was a disappointment.
l really like this song. Of course it's nowhere near being their biggest hit, they had so many, but as the presenters said, it is a breath of fresh air into the Beatles catalogue. The bridge with that odd meter line that gets ever more dramatically emphasised by the moog is just brilliant. Perhaps the only low point is that sloppy, uninspired bass performance by Paul, something rare for him.
CURRRNTLY it is. Everyone seems to miss that in their zeal to comment. They state this in the video. Pay attention.
@@MotorRoseMusic that's not the definition of a hit
@@ric8248 by today's standards, whether crappy or not, it is.
@@MotorRoseMusic it wasn't even issued as a single
@ric8248 Niether was Stairway to Heaven. It was still a massive radio and album hit and now they're streaming hits. It doesn't have to a single to be a hit.
lol 'here comes the Sun' isn't about a hard winter
Actually, according to internet:
“Yes, the winter of 1968-1969 was considered a harsh winter in England, with significant snowfall reported across the country, particularly in the Midlands, and is often remembered for a cold and snowy Christmas Eve in many areas; making it one of the more notable cold winters in recent British history. “
@@cynthiaforsythe8989 man, every winter in the 60's and 70's was harsh, and we didn't have quilts either, or heating upstairs, ice on the inside of the window, i used to write my name on it then lick my finger for a drink, hard times
Don't seem to know too much about the Beatles if you call this their biggest hit. It couldn't be a hit because it was n't released as a single (only an album track - even if a brilliant one).
Well, it's their most streamed song on Spotify, having twice as many as the second most, Come Together, and the only one with over a billion streams, so by modern metrics, in this current day and age, it is their biggest song
Also, Led Zeppelin never released singles, at least in the UK, but it'd be ridiculous to say none of their songs were hits, likewise with the Beatles and their non single popular songs
CURRRNTLY it is. Everyone seems to miss that in their zeal to comment. They state this in the video. Pay attention.
Biggest hit? R you kidding me? The point that for now it’s their most streamed song on spotify doesn’t mean at all that it’s their biggest hit 😅 it became viral because in times of covid people used it in tiktok videos so much, that’s it. It’s a great song, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not their biggest hit at all
It already was their biggest song on Spotify way before COVID.
It's been their most streamed song for a very long time
It’s consider their biggest hit exactly because of the billions of streams that the song has. I also don’t consider their best work, but it’s inevitable the biggest hit for the Beatles. Imagine after 50 years a song that you wrote still has the popularity that had when it came out, that’s what makes the song their biggest hit
@ no no and no, if you ask average person who’s not a beatle fan - they all know yesterday or let it be or smth else, but not here comes the sun. I tell you once again - this song wasn’t considered even one of their best works till 2020 or so, when tiktokers started to use it. It’s not even best george’s song, because Something (in my humble opinion) is way better). But if we’re talking about what hit songs the Beatles really had , how can we put here comes the sun above yesterday, let it be, hey jude or come together to say the least
@ and , viral is not the same as a hit song, i mean so many dumb songs have counts better then beatles songs just because they went viral due to their use on social media platforms,BUT, who would care about these songs 5 years after?
Just a very relevant point. I am 74 year old and do not qualify for anything. i am £ 1.50 a week over the limit to get pension credits. I get nothing. Worked out I miss out on £2000 a year. And no fuel allowance. Shocking😂
Love R.E.M but no, must disagree as the BEATLES had a much bigger influence on other artists and changed the course of popular music.
Both fabulous bands
@@Brightangel55 All the 90s alternative bands publicly declared that R.E.M. were they're biggest influence
Their biggest Hit? Are you crazy? No one was very interested in that song in 69! Or in 79! Or in 89! Or in 99! You have to research before say something like that. Your Youth is not a excuse.
Correction: They approached George Martin to produce Abbey Road, GM didn't approach them and he might have been reluctant at first stating that he wanted to do it like the old days,...with discipline and no messing about.
Sorry. Just one correction.
The world’s biggest and best band is R.E.M..
The Beatles come in a good second.
Please, don’t leave a mean reply, as I am unable to interact with non-R.E.M. zealots. It is against my religion, R.E.M.-ism.
Sorry but REM isn’t even on the same page as The Beatles
I would reply, but I’m speechless…
Really? :)
I’ve now lost my religion 😮
@@RobRudmanYeah, R.E.M. is better 👀