REMEMBER GUYS, that PAUL is the one who sang BOTH "YESTERDAY" AND "HELTER SKELTER" NOW you can see how versatile Paul's vocals can be.

@daletwin1

5 ай бұрын

Exactly. Perhaps the most versatile singer in popular music history.

@user-ks1he8ip9s

5 ай бұрын

Wasn't helter skelter unofficially the first heavy metal song? Genius ehat these lads did. Some People think they were just a pop group

@QuanTumm1357

Ай бұрын

@@user-ks1he8ip9sthey made it in response to a Rolling Stones song after the stones claimed that they made the most disgusting, grimy, rock and roll song ever. The Beatles took this as a friendly challenge and created Helter Skelter haha.

@user-ks1he8ip9s

Ай бұрын

​@@QuanTumm1357you're right about all of that apart from the band McCartney was responding to lol. It was The Who, not Rolling Stones

Probably the most perfect song ever written! Love, heartbreak, regret and acceptance all in just TWO minutes. Brilliant!

@PFNel

5 ай бұрын

And he did it again, with "For No One".

@anthonyferris8912

5 ай бұрын

And ' I Will '.

I don't know if this still holds or nor, but at one time "Yesterday" had been covered/recorded by more artists than any other song.

@rogershore3128

Ай бұрын

Still holds....

Guys I literally had tears in my eyes for Yesterday...daaaaaamn

Ths is the most recorded song by other Artists in musical history.,over 3,200 other singers or Bands have sung this. Nic, if you like Elenore Rigby and Yesterday then you will love the lyrics of "In My Life" from Paul and "If I Fell" from John/, also, "Here, There and Everywhere" and "For No-One" and the beautiful, longer "She's Leaving Home". George Martin was their Engineer and their great supporter at Abbey Road Studios and other than songs written by George like "Here Comes The Sun" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Frank Sinatra called "SOMETHING" by George "The most beautiful love song of all time" and to be watched it WITH THE OFFICIAL video showing all 4 Beatles with the love of their lives..

@patticrichton1135

5 ай бұрын

@Isleofskye George Martin was their PRODUCER not their engineer. Geoff Emerick was their engineer. What Frank Sinatra REALLY said on the TV show where he was going to SING 'SOMETHING" he called it the "most beautiful song written by LENNON and McCARTNEY" !!! OOOOPS!!!!! Major FAUX PAS there, FRANK! That's what I thought when I heard him say that! I turned around to my parents and said, "OH boy, I hope GEORGE didn't HEAR that!" My mom said, "Why?" I told her, "Because GEORGE HARRISON wrote that song, by himself, and also sings lead on it." Well, that was embarrassing because it was on national prime time television in the U.S. I don't know if George ever heard about it. IF he did, I am sure he was NOT TOO HAPPY about that!

@philkaiser6025

5 ай бұрын

George Martin was their PRODUCER, not their engineer! Read people! They had several different engineers along the way like Ken Scott, Norman Smith, Geoff Emerick, Glyn Johns, hell, even a young Alan Parsons. Don't put out bad info, read and learn! PS: Ol' Frank actually called Something "My favorite Lennon and McCartney song," much to the chagrin of George Harrison, who actually wrote and sang the damned thing. Poor Frank.

@Isleofskye

5 ай бұрын

@@philkaiser6025 You are right but how unlucky am I to have my mistake seen by, probably, the only person on KZread who has never, accidentally, put out "bad info"..

@philkaiser6025

5 ай бұрын

If it comes to The Beatles, you got that correct! @@Isleofskye . If you want to put crap out there, be ready to get some crap back when your stuff is wrong, simple as that!

@Isleofskye

5 ай бұрын

@@philkaiser6025 It's not as simple as that, mate, at all. My impression of you is that you have natural intelligence but no empathy or emotional intelligence and your method of "correcting" someone is risible, totally ludicrous. I pray you are self-employed and do not have people working for you with that degree of arrogance. My guess is Early 30s by your attitude. Either you have not realized that it is not always "what you say but how you say it" or you are just ignorant or not bothered. I owned 2 Businesses in London, one medium-sized turning over £3,000,000 by 1998/99 and the other much smaller though still had nearly 200 clients, and, often, had to make staff aware of errors but I did it tactfully and in a friendly way, initially, at least. FYI. An honest mistake is not "crap" by any criteria or definition but keep on with that method Kaiser because Karma is a beautiful thing to behold because the only certainty is that if that is an idiosyncrasy of yours then sooner or later, in real life, you will speak like that to the wrong person. Toodle Pip,Old Fruit..

This is my favourite song of the Beatles. I know it's only Paul singing, his voice is so beautiful and he sings it in such an emotional, heartfelt way.

The positions of their arms on the cover of this record are the semaphore signals for the letters HELP. The navy used flag signals to send messages from one ship to another.

@colinmcconnell827

5 ай бұрын

No they aren't. That was the original intention, but it didn't look right so they made something up.

Hallelujah! The brother saw the light!

Brings back memories. My head teacher was a massive beatles fan. We always had to sing Beatles songs in assembly at primary school.

In the 60’s the record companies only wanted short songs so bs de were limited to the length of songs. It was the Beatles who eventually broke this rule and started to produce longer songs.

Beatles are perfection ❤😊

One of the greatest "Soulfood" Songs from The Fab Four

I meant to say that other than songs, written and credited to George ,all songs are attributed to "Lennon and McCartney" irrespective of their individual input to any song.

One of the most beautiful songs ever written. Most covered song in history as well. The first Beatles song without any other members, just Paul, his guitar, and an orchestra. I also think it's the first Beatles song with a downtuned guitar, which is interesting. Also, Gabe, George Harrison was who you were talking about with Helter Skelter, but he wasn't the one who wrote that song, it was also Paul. George Harrison wrote While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Here Comes The Sun, but not Helter Skelter.

Songs had to be short back then so American radio stations could fit in more commercials.

Elvis, Sinatra and over 3 thousand over artists have recorded this song.

Good lawd Gabe, the early songs were short back for radio play back in the day. This song was all Paul. He dreamt the melody and came up with lyrics later. They credited all their songs to Lennon-McCartney (unless George or Ringo wrote it.) It’s the most covered song in history. And btw, Helter Skelter was also Paul.

Thank you for analysing the old Beatles songs, enabling me not only to relive my childhood, but also to appreciate how good they really were once again.😊

No John didn’t reject it. No George doesn’t play on it. No John wasn’t the problem. There were many problems that started after their manager died in 1967. This was 1965. Paul had this tune in his head. Everyone said it would sound better without them playing on it and with the string quartet. John made fun of it on his solo song How Do You Sleep? when he sand “The only thing you done was Yesterday, and since you’ve gone you’re just Another Day.” Another hard songs are I Want You (She’s So Heavy) and Revolution.

play him Come Together finally!

What about Golden Slumbers, 1 minute 32 seconds and absolutely beautiful. Another Beatles, McCartney solo voice masterpiece?

"Yesterday" is the most recorded song in the history of popular music. Its entry in Guinness World Records states that, by January 1986, 1,600 cover versions had been made.

The signs they are doing is semaphore - method of visual signaling, usually by means of flags or lights. Before the invention of the telegraph, semaphore signaling from high towers was used to transmit messages between distant points

great vid u guyg got good chemistry

This song is really good with a Orchestra , Lennon made reference to yesterday in his song 'How Do You Sleep From Album Imagine,

The hand positions are semaphore signals. They originally wanted to spell 'HELP' but I guess the photographer or some manager didn't like the aesthetic so they are actually spelling 'NUJV'

@johnbyrnes7912

5 ай бұрын

And elsewhere twas njuv (Europe I Think) 🤡

@grahamtravers4522

5 ай бұрын

RUJV

Im here because I love the song. Good trick.

Yesterday was a solo McCartney song, it was just him on an acoustic guitar backed by a string quartet.

I remember Paul saying in an interview years ago that the working title was scrambled eggs because he had the tune before the words and he used "Scrambled eggs, oh my darling how I love your legs." to remember it.

Two sublime minutes

George - "And for Paul McCartney of Liverpool, Opportunity knocks" This song was originally called Scrambled Eggs 🙂

you are listening the most popular song of all time

The first time it was played live was on Blackpool Night Out in Blackpool England in 1965 and the TV programme of it is available on KZread.

Early Beatles songs, and other songs from that era, were short because AM radio wouldn't play songs much longer than 2 minutes. In fact, it was the Beatles who broke the mould with Hey Jude, because it was so popular that radio had to play it even though it was 7 minutes long. Also, Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone was an early longer song that broke the 2-3 minute mould... and then FM became more popular and would play longer tracks.

The Long and Winding road is my fave song by them , not the naked version though

GABE might have heard it sung by someone else, because YESTERDAY has been covered by over by over 3,200 other artists. Paul DREAMED the melody while he was asleep. Let PAUL TELL YOU HIMSELF here... kzread.info/dash/bejne/X4Rnt9Kud9G_e6Q.html REACT to this short about 2 and a half minute video with Paul telling how the song came to him. The white haired gentleman you will see is GEORGE MARTIN, the Beatles PRODUCER. You will hear Mr. Martin mention the name "BRIAN" which refers to BRIAN EPSTEIN, the Beatles' MANAGER. So, in the end it was recorded with Paul singing and playing acoustic guitar along with a string quartet, which is usually 2 violins, 1 viola (which is slightly larger than a violin in size and producers a little lower sound, and one cello. BEAUTIFUL

Help is also a film/ movie.

I came to say you should watch the film 'yesterday' about a guy who has an accident and then when he wakes up, he's the only one who remembers the Beatles and re-creates it. Very fun film

They had an agreement that no matter who wrote the song it would the song writing credit would be listed as being Lennon/McCartney

You guys should do a reaction to the movie "Yesterday"! A lot of people do reactions to movies on KZread, and it would be cool to see you guys react to that movie, which I think is really good! And I don't know if it's true, but I heard Paul based the lyrical theme for this song on the loss of his mother at a young age. Peace

When John and Paul first got together and started writing songs, they helped each other, making little changes where songs needed it. They decided then, as young teens, to always credit their songs as a collaborative effort. Later, when George joined the band, he was not brought into the writing credit mainly because he wasn't writing yet, and later it was too late. Even Ringo wrote a couple songs (including "Octopus's Garden") but, like George, was credited just for himself. Paul is very charming and pretty, but Paul was also all business. You can't call Paul 'a victim' or some kind of pushover; he was NOT that. There are a number of books out that set blame in various places. Also, in real time gossip pieces were written by people on the outside, many of whom did not know either the Beatles personally or the facts specifically. All through the run of the Beatles as a band there were a number of forces pressuring them. Seven years as a band, through their early to later twenties, world tours, 13 albums, occasional scandals (mostly stupid ones). At the end, there were money problems from the sudden death of their manager Brian Epstein in 1967 to their attempts to set up their own over-generous and naïve music company (managed by people who embezzled from them). And on top of it was how they had grown into individuals but were still strapped together as The Beatles like a 4-person conjoined entity. It wasn't Yoko, it wasn't John, it wasn't the difference in musical tastes, it wasn't the difficulty in showcasing George's songs. It was that it was time to move on; the 'marriage' was over. Even Ringo felt it; he quit the band for a couple of weeks during the recording of the White Album. When you add it all together, it wasn't any one thing specifically, it was all of it. It was just time. It was time to break free and handle life personally.

Paul played acoustic guitar and sang YESTERDAY accompanied by a string quartet. Can't you hear the strings? George Harrison did not play on this recording.

John and Paul made an agreement before the Beatles to share all writing credits even if a song was solely written by one or the other

It was not John Lennon saying it was" too sappy"...it was the whole group that voted not to release it as a single in Great Britain, but Capitol Records ( their U. S. affiliate) decided to release it & it went to #1 in America ( and many other countries & stayed #1 for 3 weeks. It was just Paul singing & playing acoustic guitar accompanied by a classical string quartet masterfully arranged by their producer, George Martin.

The arms were going to spell Help in Semephor, but they kept messing about, so the photographer said what the hell.. do what you want and go with the best shot

Paul is the only Beatle on the recording. It's him and a string quartet. He also wrote it alone, although it is credited to Lennon/McCartney, because they agreed, right from the start, that their songs would be published that way. Paul always claimed that he literally dreamed the song, and the tune was fully formed in his head when he woke up. He didn't have all the words, though, and the working title of the song was "Scrambled Eggs". Paul was so astonished that such a perfect melody could just pop into his head that he feared it might be something he'd heard elsewhere, so he went around playing it to everybody, but of course no one knew it. It was original.

Gabe, the arms, that's semaphore, it translates to "Yes This IS A Jingle But Relax Bro, It's a GOOD Jingle! Trust Us!" :D

If you haven’t heard John Farnham do the Beatles’ Help you haven’t lived. Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Farnham had number one hits in 6 decades and is Australia’s all time biggest selling single artist. He was approached by Queen to be their lead singer, he’s also sung with Tom Jones, Ray Charles, Celine Dion and Sammy Davis Jr and his vocal range is unbelievable. If you react to this song I can absolutely guarantee you thousands of views within a day - just look at any reaction to this performance it’s often a reactors biggest video. You’ll thank me later. Have followed you guys since you first discovered cricket!! ❤

Clue to help - check out semaphore!!

There was a point at which Lennon criticized McCartney for still writing "silly love songs" after the Beatles broke up and Paul formed "Wings". He thought Paul's talents would be better used singing songs about bigger world issues. That said, listen to Paul's answer to Lennon. "Silly Love Songs" - by Wings.

This is the most covered song of all time.

You should react to “I want you (she’s so heavy”

The most covered song of all time

The only way we can talk your friend and to like in the Beatles and appreciating their older music is a know as a musician some of the innovative strums or thumb pics or finger pics that they were utilizing yesterday includes a very unique acoustic guitar style that isn't played very often by anybody it's because Paul McCartney's left-handed and he's using a fingers from inside to carry a baseline and nobody was playing that style back then everybody was taking a lesson so you got to understand these guys were teaching us how to put more I guess you could say music with rock and with blues they did a very good job of it too that's why people listen and the notes that they used or the notes that they actually tied together or sequenced we're beautiful notes they know how to put together a song. I don'tcare how long a song is I like long ones and short ones but these guys taught everyone how to do it anyone played a longer song all you're doing is just playing off the key notes and doing something different it's really not that big a deal I don't put it as a top-notch song if it's longer who cares I like to play music I played three instruments and I'll tell you what the Beatles make the best music even the guy that made the song YMCA was listening to the Beatles my God.

Oh, child; you need to hear what was contemporary to the Beatles. ALL popular music was short, due to the 3 minute requirement to get airplay on AM radio. Until "Hey Jude" forced the breaking of that requirement, ALL songs were 'jingle'-short. If you tried to get a longer song on the radio, you had to edit it down to a radio-play version. Billy Joel references song editing to get airplay in his 1974 song "The Entertainer", where he sings about having to edit down "Piano Man" from to get it played. "I am the entertainer I come to do my show You heard my latest record It's been on the radio Ah, it took me years to write it They were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05" "Piano Man" was available in 3 different length: 5:40 (album version) 4:30 (single version) 3:05 (SP radio edit version).

Please let Gabe know that Yesterday is the most covered song. I myself like motown/R&B covers, with my favorite being Marvin Gaye's cover. I bet if he heard some of the covers of the song would, it move up to among his favorites, even if it is a "short" song!

Yeah, but in all the movies etc this is probably one if not the most covered song of all

You could only get so much time on a single 45 record.

Never heard Before!!! On wich planet do you live?

Semaphore signalling , it was used for communication before radio.

Yesterday is the MOST COVERED song in music history.

McCartney is one of the ABSOLUTE GREATEST SINGERS OF ALL TIME!

Too bad you didn't have the video when Paul did it live.

Wrong, John loves that song from the beginning,, and he was not the problem, actually he is the reason of the band existence

I much prefer the Sinatra version. It just carries way more weight for me to hear it sung by someone with more days behind him than ahead of him.

More than 3000 covers, come on.

Hey guys! Pls react to Twice! They are a popular girl group currently touring stadiums around the world. 😊 I recommend Alcohol Free open mic performance and Hare Hare stadium performance.

That dude in the Yankees jersey is a clown

Paul was the victim??? George was John and Paul’s victim, if anything. John was the band’s leader, but Paul was acting like he was everyone’s boss so much that Ringo and George both left The Beatles in 1968 and 1969, respectively, because of him. He even said it, when John discussed their treatment of George, that “You (John) are the boss and zi am only secondary boss.” LOL

First time breathing 🙄

IT'S NOT THE BEATLES! The Beatles were four guys and this is ONLY PAUL, singing and playing acoustic guitar alongside a string quartet. No other Beatles were even present. The Beatles producer wrote the score and produced the track. That is all. It is NOT a Beatles song in the least. You kids need to read more, and not this tripe online. Real books. They're still out there. The Beatles Recording Sessions covers this tune nicely, and it's all made up of the actual studio logs.