#YELLOW SUBMARINE SONG BEATLES HOW TO#
It would be fantastic if someone could figure out how to replicate the effect, a capella, then we can all truly live a life of ease, and every one of us will have all we need. I know this site is visited by a lot of music recording aficionados (is it ok to call you “geeks”?).
From our position, we heard it as a boisterous guy-chant being chased by an angelic echo. In case it isn’t obvious, the “chilling” part of it was that because we were closer to the boys’ camp, than the girls’ side, the sound of the female “choir” was just a beat later.īoth populations were hearing their radios at the same moment, but the singing reached us at slightly different moments. Summer camp in Maine in late August of 1966… I’m a 16 yr old counselor-in-training… Every cabin has a couple of transistor radios… We only listen to WBZ from Boston… I’m out in the middle of the lake teaching a ten year old how to sail a sunfish… The BZ jockey spins the new Beatles single … In a rousing rush of joy, our buddies back on land are belting out the chorus, “We all live in a yellow submarine” … It bounds out of the woods from our camp, crossing our bow… The kid and I, in the doldrums, sail limp, dangling our feet, we laugh and sing too… Then, an amazing audio wave washes us from the stern… In a group response, an ethereal echo, also singing the chorus, is wafting out to greet us… It is flowing from the girls’ camp on the other shore… Chilling and warming to remember this…natural stereo…with the speakers separated by a mile of open water… Radio, and the Beatles, were the uniting glue for us all… -– I hope you appreciate the above recollection. Heard are George swirling water in a metal bathtub (beginning at 0:18) Rolling Stones Brian Jones clinking glasses, supplying party chatter and playing the ocarina John blowing bubbles in a bucket through a straw and shouting off-mike in the echo chamber studio staff rattling chains in a metal tub and ship’s bells and a manic John mocking Ringo’s every measure the second time through in to a hand-held mike plugged into a Vox guitar amp.Īll who were not working the controls, including the Beatles, George Martin, Geoff Emerick, Mal, Neil, Alf Bicknell, Brian Jones, Patti Harrison and Marianne Faithfull joined in the final chorus. A raid of the Studio Two trap room allowed for two additional and separately taped tracks – sometimes combined together and sometimes split. Tape reduction made room for the “Goon” type sound effects. The instruments were recorded a half-step higher and vocals a half-step lower than now heard. Ringo’s vocal and all four Beatles singing backing vocals are all heard right. The basic tracks contain John’s Jumbo, George’s tambourine, Ringo’s drums and Paul’s bass – all heard left. Lennon: Always thinking of him, you see, at times like this. McCartney: Yeah, the bit… ‘Dut-ta-da, da-dut-ta-da.’ Lennon: And it made sense to make it into… Lennon: And wasn’t the other bit something that I had already going, and we put them together? I seem to remember, like, the submarine, the chorus bit, you coming in with it. Matthew: John, earlier before we started recording, you said it was in effect written as two separate songs.
I heard a funny sort of story that you used to perform this to your nephews. And the only way to do that would be to have it so kids could understand it, and anyone could take it on any level. McCartney: We just sort of thought, we have to have a song. What were you setting out to write? I mean, did you think of a song for Ringo in the first place, or what? I suppose I thought of the idea and then John and I wrote it. McCartney: No, it’s the old patty, you know. Brian Matthew: Who was principally responsible, Paul or John?
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