I love it. I have noticed it is one of the most irresistible songs by The Beatles. Whenever you play it to people, ranging from very young to very old, most of them find it nearly impossible to not move, smile, and sing along.

one of McCartney's most original pieces. He was an excellent story writer. Lennon would paint visuals with his words, Paul would tell stories. Not many could compare.

@petercolledge2236

Жыл бұрын

And that bass riff...genius.

What's not to like about this song. I really like it. Great music. Makes you feel happy. I grew up with the Beatles. Enjoy it!!

According to Paul, in an interview with Howard Stern, it was John, who came up with the peppy piano opening of this song.

@grendog02

3 жыл бұрын

The 3 Beatles were stuck for a beginning. John walked in from nowhere did the piano bit and the rest is Beatles history

Any group that records a song to help you relax has done a great thing.

I’m as much of a Beatle freak as any other person on this planet and I love this song!!!🎼👍🎶👌🎵👍✌️😎

This song is so full of joy. What's wrong with joy - nothing.

I like it fine...it's catchy and it's Paul showing how "diverse" his musical repertoire is. It's not a favorite of mine by any stretch, but I bounce my head around to it.

I've liked it for over 50 years. The diversity of their material is what makes them special (that and the brotherhood which comes through). If all their songs were done just John's way or George's way or Paul's way you'd have their solo records. Their different approaches and ideas complimented each perfectly...a harmonious balance.

I am a huge Beatles fan, and i feel this song is a fantastic pop song, with a killer chorus (especially when the harmonies drop in). Love your reactions. I would love to see your reaction to "Dear Prudence", which i think is such an underrated but top-tier Beatles track. Keep up the great work!

@jnagarya519

3 жыл бұрын

It isn't underrated.

@dreambrother80

3 жыл бұрын

@@jnagarya519 It is just my opinion. I feel most casual music fans who know a decent amount of Beatles songs have never even heard of this song...Rolling Stone magazine rated it as the 63rd greatest Beatles song ever; i feel it is at least a top 30 Beatles song ever. I feel it is the best song on the "White Album", while most critics and Beatles fans would say "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is, which to me is "overrated" (but still a good song). Just a few reasons of why i think Dear Prudence is underrated. 😊

@hw343434

2 жыл бұрын

“Dear Prudence” is most definitely underrated. It’s easily a top 3-5 song in the White Album

I went often to a cafe with my mom,and every time I would ask her for 25 cents for the Juke Box,and this great song was always one of the 3 songs I would pick>my mom knew this haha.By the way,she loved the song too:-)

One aspect that make The Beatles so great is their abundant & wonderful variety!

@jnagarya519

3 жыл бұрын

And EXUBERANT HUMOR!

One of the happiest, most memorable songs ever written. Thanks so much for your reaction. Love it!❤️

It’s a great song, maybe a little silly, and cutesy, but that is what made The Beatles, the diversity of their songs, and everybody adding their part. I love the song.

'Cheesy' my goodness, everything in this song is to be admired, the great feeling of joy at the very beginning, the clapping, the roar of laughs. They were having fun with their song and that's what has been transmitted to us all.

Always a delight to hear this song 🤩

The White Album came out just in time for Christmas when I was 13. This was initially my fav song. The album is a masterpiece.

@jnagarya519

3 жыл бұрын

The LP was released November 22, 1968.

I think I'm a purist Beatles fan and I love this song, and all others. I even like Revolution 9! I know it's weird, and when I first heard it in '68 I wasn't impressed by it, but after a short while I couldn't imagine The White Album without it. Does liking "Revolution 9" make me a purist, Harri? I think it does!! Therefore I Love Ob La Di... LOL! ✌️😎

One of my favorite Beatle songs and one of my favorite songs period.

The song was a massive number one single for another band after the Beatles record it

@surfjukie421

3 жыл бұрын

Marmalade was the band Reflections of my Life was their biggest hit

@teknikel

3 жыл бұрын

I believe they recorded and released it before the Beatles.

@garylee3685

3 жыл бұрын

Not a number one in America. England maybe.

@garylee3685

3 жыл бұрын

@@teknikel no Beatles version was first. Since the Beatles passed on releasing it as single, Marmalade covered it.

@stephenqualtrough7322

3 жыл бұрын

@@garylee3685 it was number 1 UK sometimes early 1969 I think it was

I love it! So lighthearted and fun! Loved it at the time the album came out and love it still!

I like it. The first reggae. :-) And I'm a Beatles 'purist' for 45 years.

@PINE_333

3 жыл бұрын

You can’t be serious. I adore The Beatles, but this is definitely not the first reggae 🙄 Sorry if I took a joke as a serious statement, just never heard that claim before! lol

@technodroog

3 жыл бұрын

first reggae where or by whom? Desmond Dekker, who the song references, had a #1 hit right around the same time with "Israelites" - also a bright, upbeat song that's much better. And i'm a lifelong Beatles fan.

@PeterBuwen

3 жыл бұрын

@@technodroog O yes you are right. As a reggae fan I know Desmond Dekker. :-) I should have said: it's (maybe) the first western adaption of reggae.

@captaincarl8230

3 жыл бұрын

@@PeterBuwen The "Desmond" in the song is a reference to Desmond Dekker. He had recently just completed a tour of the UK before the Beatles took off for India.

@PeterBuwen

3 жыл бұрын

@@PINE_333 A claim with a smiley as you see ;-)

The other Beatles Hated this song. They had to do it over and over... Finally John banged on the piano, thus giving us that opening. Personally... I love it. Love Paul's bass.

I love this song! It makes me happy whenever I hear it and I always sing along 🎶🎵

This is one of the most catchy tunes. Once you hear it, it sticks, typical of many Paul's songs....a melody you can't forget with words that don't mean much of anything.

@danielvolk237

2 жыл бұрын

At least the story has some meaning, unlike Come Together, I am the Walrus, and #9 Revolution. You cannot make a bit of sense out of any lyric on any of them.

@hw343434

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielvolk237 dude no, “I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together”-that line ALONE in the Walrus is pure GOLD. Get your head around it… “got to be good looking cause he’s so hard to see”~it’s called BRILLIANT word play. And I can’t believe you mentioned Revolution 9 😂 it’s a SOUND COLLAGE with no lyrics meant to convey the soundtrack of a Revolution, in all its chaos, madness and glory. The world is divided between people who make an effort to “get” an abstract piece like Revolution 9, and those who just give up cause it sounds nothing like the immediate easy gratification of a “Hello, Goodbye”

@danielvolk237

2 жыл бұрын

@@hw343434 You my friend are delusional. I am the Walrus is a song I am sure John wrote in under an hour. It is word salad perfection. As is Come Together and Tomorrow never Knows. But the music critics like yourself who like lyrics that can only be translated by someone on some kind of mind altering drug. By the way, What are you on man? I am not a fan of Hello Goodbye either but do prefer it multiple times over the above three " Word Turds".

@wtatefan1395

2 жыл бұрын

@@hw343434 John literally said he wrote I am the walrus as a response to hearing that kids would dissect Beatles lyrics in school and thought it would be fun to make a nonsense song

Everyone I know Happily sings along with this song, every time, including my kids who are now adults.

It is so freaking fun watching you enjoy this song. Great rhythm, story, humor, musicality, and vocals. Just a fun fun song! If you'd like to explore a little more Reggie follow Jimmy Cliff. Thanks for sharing this song. Lot more great tunes on the White Album! Great day all!!!

I don’t think any of them hated the song, they just didn’t like how Paul was never happy with the takes and made them work on it for ages. They were frustrated, so John played the piano intro in a fit of anger and Paul loved it. And because John was in one of his Paul dissing moods in an interview in the early 70s, the fawning music journos jumped all over it and it became cool to not like the song. But it must have been pretty popular because it was a number 1 fit for Marmalade!

@hw343434

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, the other Beatles hated it. You can hear that it doesn’t fit in with the vibe of the white album which is all over the place but this seems a bit off and they were pissed to be spending time on a song like that

This was one of my daughter’s favorite song when she was young. At 7 She said it was happy and she’d instantly start dancing

The Beatles released the "Hey Jude" single on August 28th, 1968. The White Album was released on November 22, 1968. They did not release a single when the album cane out in the U.S. or in the U.K. But in lots of other countries "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" was released as a Beatles single when the White Album came out. It was a huge hit in those countries and went to #1 in Australia, Austria, Germany, Japan, New Zealand and Switzerland. A group called Marmalade released the song in the U.K and it shot right to the top of the charts. In Austria... the Marmalade version went to #1 and then The Beatles version (which was released after Marmalade's version in that country) replaced it at the top of the chart. In Switzerland... The Beatles version was at #1 and Marmalade's version was at #2 - at the same time. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" was the most requested song on radio play in the U.S. off the White Album. It was a HUGE hit song..... deservedly so. It's detractor's are just a bunch of silly Willies (with the Philly band). And it is also silly that some of the other Beatles "hated" it because they spent too much time working on it. The group had way more takes on some of John's songs than on "Ob-La-Di" (and some of George's songs as well). So that argument really doesn't hold any weight.

I love that you called out the little piano fill near the end. That part has always made the song for me.

oh...1967....out the back of the electricians shop, keeping my best friend company on a Saturday morning at her work, dancing around the office to this song. We loved it so much and it always takes me back....ob la di ob la da,lalalala..lol...

@beatlebrian4404

3 жыл бұрын

67? the white album didn't come out till 1968.

This is another great, fun Beatles song. Disregard the critics! It’s wonderful! I dare anyone to argue that they were anything short of geniuses! Music that lends itself to feeling good. How can that be bad? I would imagine John liking this song.

Liking is entirely subjective. Everyone is free to like and dislike what they want. For the purposes of this video, though, let's assume that when we use the word "like" to mean, "appreciate" "understand" and "rate highly". "Beatles Purists" don't like the song? "Beatles Pretentious Snobs" is the term you're looking for. The same people don't like Yellow Submarine and Octopuses Garden because they think they are simple, childish songs. I okay in a Beatles cover band and I can tell you that all three are more challenging than they first seem. If you can't appreciate the complexity and difficulty of making a song sound easy and simple, it's best not to comment until you do.

This is just a fun song! I really like it. People who "hate" it, I don't get them. This song was even voted as worst song ever in some poll (which shows that people don't know much about music, there are lots of "worse" songs I can think of). Besides, as we all know, taste is subjective! Just enjoy it, it's fun fun fun! (It is true the other Beatles didn't like it. Paul made them record it time and time again until everybody was fed up with it. In fact, its distinctive piano intro was played by John, who returned to the studio after having stormed out and yelling "I'm stoned out of my mind and this is how this song should sound", and proceeded to play the intro we all know).

@captaincarl8230

3 жыл бұрын

This song was one of the more popular songs at that time and was #1 on the singles chart in five different countries. It was released here in the US in 1976 but did not crack the top 40, only going as high as #49 on the hot 100 Billboard singles chart.

One of my very favorite Beatles tunes. It's perfectly crafted.

I went to a concert in NYC back in the 70's and we wound up taking a bus into the city because it was snowing pretty hard. After the concert, we ducked into a bar because our bus wouldn't be leaving for hours and it was freezing. We wound up at the Metropole, bar that used to be a jazz club and was now a strip club. We had no idea, it was the only thing open close to the Port Authority. The dancers were so lethargic until this song came on. I'll never forget it. They began to smile and laugh and had the best time dancing to this song.

When my daughter was little (7) this was her favorite song, she’d get all happy and sing along. Made me realize the magic of this song: it’s about being happy regardless of age

i don’t think you’ve reacted to “dear prudence” yet. i love that song

@DavidLS1

3 жыл бұрын

Dear Prudence and Fool on the Hill.

It's a Paul song... drove the other 3 lads crazy. John actually walked out and got high. When he came back, proclaiming he was stoned beyond the bejesusbelt. Sat at the piano and said this is what it should sound like.....banging out the beginning intro, Paul obviously loved it enough to "Let it be." This was a great song. Good reaction Harri. ❤👊

@HarriBestReactions

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahhaha..My genius friend..to Let it be 😂🤣

I'm with you Harri. I love this song. It's happy catchy, and great sing along song. From the first time I heard it, I have loved this song. Oh well, you can't please everybody all the time.

It's one of the happiest songs of all time in Reggae no less. John came up with the opening piano into.

For another fun singalong try Maxwells Silver Hammer. You WILL be singing along !

love love love reggae. Marley, Cliff, Alton and Hortense Ellis etc. and first time I heard a Beatles reggae song it was amazing.

Throwing in Beach Boys styles to BACK IN THE USSR... enjoy raggae when they were in the Bahamas during HELP filming... enjoying Dad's music for 20 years before recording WHEN I'M SIXTY FOUR... it's just a natural Paul McCartney 'fun' song. Throw in ROCKY RACCOON, but then consider I WILL and MARTHA... MOTHER NATURE'S SON... he was all over the Style Map. Anything he wanted, he tried. I won't even mentioned WHY DON'T WE...

@Ottonio

3 жыл бұрын

John wrote GOODNIGHT.

@stephenqualtrough7322

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ottonio Vera Lynn covered Goodnight. It would have been a shock if she had recorded Helter Skelter ! Lol

@mazasan

3 жыл бұрын

Ebony and ivory 😜

@BuffaloC305

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ottonio Good point - I was thinking MARTHA MY DEAR but my fingers were typing Mary Hopkins' references! haha... thanks for this note. I've thought John put out a few least-favorites for me, but WHY DON'T WE lets John off that hook every time. And then again, YOU KNOW MY NAME LOOK UP THE NUMBER always makes me remember Paul could take novelty songs to a depth I'd never considered past HELLO MUDDAH. I must confess, though, that when LET IT BE was first released, LOOK UP THE NUMBER was originally included on vinyl and it was sooo out-of-place that it was routinely cut-short instead of getting the studies that it might actually deserve. I believe this song kicked open the door for the fun relationship with at least some of the Monty Pythons.

With you on that one, mate! This was the song that made me listen to all the Beatles songs and realise that they are the true GOATs

It IS a masterpiece. It's fun, it rollicks along and it's got cute lyrics about "how life goes on". Why not have a lighter look at life sometimes. It also reflects Paul's working class roots, which is nice to see.

This song makes me smile. What a happy tune.

Its certainly a bit different from any other track they did- but i still really like it.

This was always a dance popular song. A group called the "Marmalade" took this song to No 1 in the British Charts. You should also check out Marmalades "Reflections of my Life". A stupendous ballad by this very underrated group from Scotland.

@KW-ro5ow

3 жыл бұрын

I love Reflections Of My Life ♡

@catscan2022

Жыл бұрын

Theyre still touring. Went to see them last year and going back to see them in october. Sharing the stage with Herman's hermits and the tremeloes in a show called sixties gold. I'd forgotten how many hits the tremeloes had until we saw them last year Ps despite all the good songs the marmalade sang of their own, the only song that had people on their feet was ob la di. Must be galling 😅

It's a good, fun song. Some people genuinely don't like it but others are just up themselves lol. Always gets me singing along anyway.

I love it. Catchy tune. I don't care if some of the lyrics are nonsensical. nice!

An aspect of this song that I enjoy are some things that are kind of "buried in the mix": After Paul first sings "lend a hand", you can hear (2:51) others chime in with "arm...leg!" Then after the second "home sweet home" (would be 3:23) there is, although you really can't hear it here, "Home: H-O-M-E"; and after "lend a hand" again (3:42) would be "foot".

I love the song and I must confess to being a purest. I really like the silly side of the boys. They make me laugh and laughter is a good thing. While you're on the White Album check out Rocky Raccoon - it's so much fun. Keep up the great work I love your reactions 🥰

Who can't like this song? Introducing different rhythms, great playing, and a playful arrangement and vocals. Guess some people just don't like fun 😛

One of my many favorite songs of theirs. Not cheesy, has a message for everyone

WHO Said they Don't like This Song!??🎼 This Tune is AWESOME!! I've used it as my Ring Tone before!!

The clue is in the coda - "and if you want some fun..." Not all music has to be about some doomy experience to make it artistically valid (unless you are a boring hardcore muso). Sometimes we just want to have a laugh and a sing-song. This is exactly how to do just that!..: )

This song is typical McCartney! It paints an idyllic English country life in a typical English family. It's infectious! But for the BEST McCartney bass line ever, it'll always be Silly Love Songs! I heard it LIVE in the 1990s and it was SO STRONG that every bass lick felt like a thump directly to the chest! It freaked us out at first! 😆 👍 Thanks again buddy! ❤

Ha ha! Court proceedings! Ah, you've done it again, Harri :-) Perfect tone for upbraiding those "too cool for school" ppl who like to diss Ob-La-Di. For the record, I love this song and have always loved it. When you watch the movie "Yesterday" you will particularly appreciate the ending, I know.

Yes.i love it and as a band called Marmalde got a 1969 number1 with an competent but not as brilliant cover vesion the public loved it too. A nod to Desmond Dekker (Desmond iis named after him n the song ) who had scored with "007 " This is quickfire response to an initial reggae hit that many of us could not make head nor tail of at the time . As such t is AWESOME. I always thought it was a happy vision of people setting down to a positive and happy life. And as Paul said in Silly Love Songs " What's wrong with that I'd like to know !?" I love the way Paul says Market in this. It is so ethnic sounding bit also very Liverpool. Bet he had been to Scotty Road Market a few times when in Liverpool lol

Sometimes you have to be a little bit silly. I've been in numerous taverns and this song comes on and it beomes a huge sing-a-long.

I'm so enjoying your travel through the Beatles repertoire. It's been awhile since I've heard many of them. This one, however, I still sing when I'm really enjoying myself. Check out Rocky Raccoon another fun one. Great fun hearing them through your ears!

This is the 1st time I've heard that song. I love it. Thanks Harri!

@HarriBestReactions

3 жыл бұрын

Wow!

How can you have a song written, sung, played and recorded by the Beatles and it not be “pure” Beatles?

I know I am late to the game commenting now, but I agree with you 100%. I first heard the song as a young child myself and didn't have that inner music critic in me yet. All I knew was that it made me SO HAPPY every time it came on the radio!

Apparently, McCartney got the idea for the lyrics of the song, from a West Indian friend, who actually used to say, obla di obla da, life goes on! and of course been a genius, came up with this fantastic song.

@papercup2517

3 жыл бұрын

Oh really? I never knew that! Thanks for the information, beatle brian - good to know! And, it makes sense of the reggae beat...

@beatlebrian4404

3 жыл бұрын

@@papercup2517 hi there first I got it wrong his friend wasn't West Indian but African, so sorry for that! here's McCartney talking about it kzread.info/dash/bejne/qK2clbmFhLKeYqg.html

@papercup2517

3 жыл бұрын

@@beatlebrian4404 That's OK, I often misremember things slightly... thanks for the link. Actually I thought when Paul imitated his African friend saying what he said, he did do it in what sounded like a kind of West Indian accent. Maybe that's why you remembered him as being from the West Indies. My YT recommendations then offered me the story (from the same Howard Stern interview), about when Paul met Jesus, which was completely hilarious. I think I may have heard it before, but had forgotten, or maybe Paul just told it better this time. :-)

it's a great song.... it is joyful from start to finish, with lots going on... the other Beatles helped rescue Paul from his tendency to schmaltz, and this is a perfect example of that... like the elephant noises that seem to come straight from Max Fleischer Popeye cartoons

Are you kidding? Ob-la-da is great! It's a masterpiece and it is so generous! The little piano parts by Lennon, the minimal horns by Martin, and Paul's voice is so great!!! The performance itself is tight tight tight!!!

When I was growing up in the 70s there were certain songs which were called standards - it was as though they had been around for 100s of years. This was one of them, along with When I'm 64 and Here Comes the Sun. You couldn't have convinced me that they were only a few years old because familiarity with them was both ancient and modern at the same time. The Beatles tapped into something much greater than all of us.

I love you more and more each day. I'm one of those people who like this song and you said the arguments I use to say. I also respect people who don't like it, but as for me, this song makes me feel so happy!! It's a part of my life as well, heard It for the first time when a was about 12.

A gem from Paul. By the way, Scottish band The Marmalade had the hit single with this, reaching no.1 in the UK in 1968. Since Beatles never released it as a single it was up for grabs and a whole lot of bands and artists recorded it but it was The Marmalade who had the hit single version!

One of my earliest memories is running across a field near my home singing obladi oblada lalalala, maybe around 5 years old.

One of my favorites And this is Paul, and I love him for that.

I love this song!!!!

I like it!. I think its like one of my earliest Beatles songs i can remember from childhood. Recently , i decided to listen to the White album and when this came on i turned it up and thoroughly enjoyed it. John Lennon didnt like it, but i read somewhere he kinda "saved" it cuz he sped up the tempo of the song and thus it sounded better.

I'd rather listen to this a hundred times in a row rather than happiness is a warm gun once!

I love this song so much! I also fell in love with the name Desmond for my son who is now 13.

Hey, Their are some Beatle songs I don't care for. I like this one though.

@TangoEliott

3 жыл бұрын

There are always gonna be filler songs

I love everything The Beatles did. They played around. They experimented. They had fun and we still have fun listening to them. Anyone who singles out this as a bad song, just take themselves too seriously.

I love this song!!

John and George obviously had fun with this song. Listen at the 2:50 mark-- Paul sings "children lend a hand" and then you can here George shout "arm!" and John shouts "leg!" its one of the few songs on this album that everyone played together on.

Great review. Hooray for joy and silliness!

Amusing (well, maybe) story: Back when the IMDB site had message boards, a group of us on the _Star Trek Original Series_ board would sometimes post song parodies based on various _Star Trek_ episodes. I did a parody of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" for the episode "Whom Gods Destroy" with the refrain _"Queen to queen's level three, take your pawn, BRAH!"_

I am a Beatles fan of over 50 years from my early childhood. I have always loved this song. Its just sooo Paul the family man. Contrary to common belief John DID like the song and even came up with the very first little piano into. You must do other Paul songs from The White Album like "Rocky Raccoon," "I Will" (a 100 second long thousand carrot diamond) and definitely "MARTHA MY DEAR." It is such a sweet and nice song about Martha. Do the song and I will tell you who Martha was ... Its wonderful! Cheers, Harri and Thanks.

This is a bit cheeky but a great reggae bit in the middle on Paul McCartney and Wings Live and Let Die. Yes I am dying to get your reaction to this one with its twists and turns. Live and Let Die-ing in fact lol

Huge Beatle Fan! This is one of my favorite songs! Masterpiece!

This is a very happy and up key song. It's bloody dynamite ! If you dislike this it's because you're miserable. Being happy is not cheesy, it's great. This is one of the Beatles masterpieces. Youre right, Harry . I guess to those people, She Loves You is a cheesy song, huh ? Watch this, I just found it : "PAUL MCCARTNEY ON OBLADI OBLADA' . He's talking to Howard Stern . You'll love it.

I'm with You every time I hear the intro piano it makes my heart happy and always want to just turn up the sound

The White album has always been my favorite. It's the Disneyland of music, taking you on a wide, diverse array of genres and sounds. There really was nothing like it then or since. Even though some have come close (maybe Physical Graffiti by Zep), the diversity of the White Album is off the charts. I knew each lyric, note, and sound on it having listened to the album a hundred times or more.

@catscan2022

Жыл бұрын

And with a Disney like song in good night plus johns tribute to his mother julia and ringos first solo composition dont pass me by. My fave album though is still abbey Road if only for the final medley

In the anthology it says John was getting high and was tired of Paul trying to make it a ballad when he finally got fed up and forced them to speed it up, hence the opening on piano. This is so widely know that the movie that thing you do did it when the drummer shades did it to jimmy at the talent show.

This is a freaking great little song. So happy and lively. We had a kid's TV show called Fat Cat, here in Oz. This song was the theme music 😅

This is the first Beatles song I remember hearing for the first time, I believe in 1985 when I was 6 years of age. My second grade teacher played the guitar and he played this song to our class multiple times.

One of the most spontaneous sounding songs on the album, this was McCartney's rather approximate tribute to the Jamaican ska idiom, and amongst the instrumentation contains three uncredited saxes!

Great song...great reaction thank You.

Such a happy song! It always puts me in a good mood!

An acquaintance - perhaps a friend - of the Beatles often used the phrase "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da," and Paul decided to write a song with it.

Agree! It's a classic Topped the charts in Australia in 1968-9 Great summer party song jiving on the beaches thanks for the reaction

I’m obsessed by the Beatles and I love this song

And as always dear Harri, much love and thank you! 🙏🏼

@HarriBestReactions

3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome