Ever notice when watching the Beatles motion pictures, (A Hard Day’s Night, Help! and Magical Mystery Tour), Ringo always loses out singing a solo number, but he obtains the biggest role? Why wouldn’t the major character sing a lead vocal in a musical? Before I try to answer a suitable reason, take a few moments and listen to Ringo’s three songs he wrote about himself in Liverpool and see for yourself he has no hard feelings.
Liverpool 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAi2gS9BpcQ&app=desktop
The Other Side of Liverpool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE5ltqM7tWg&app=desktop
In Liverpool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DApoBZnBk6o&app=desktop
My guess is Ringo would be the first to admit he had a limited and below average singing voice, therefore, to showcase his poor quality onto the giant screen only added to his self-doubt, and that’s why the film’s plots centered around him as a consolation. Good Lord, Mr. Starr never even tantalizes his empty tonsils cavern in the Let It Be movie, and that footage captured the other Beatles with some rather appalling renditions while rehearsing. However, Ringo wasn’t the lead character in Let It Be, so, let’s back-up to their third feature film, and dive into Magical Mystery Tour’s two love songs. The other tracks branch out from our chosen theme and drift off target, in fact, ‘All You Need Is Love’ is not about romance, but universal love, love for all brothers and sisters who share our world regardless of any differences. Therefore, that leaves just one song from the Beatles 9th album, and here it is. . .
9th LP – Magical Mystery Tour (Mutual Love / 0 vs. One-Sided love / 1 )
Track 7 – Hello Goodbye. An unreciprocated love song by Paul, based on the lyric portrayal the singer constantly gets feed the opposite of what he seeks from his girlfriend lover. Background Fun Facts: Written August 1967 inside Paul’s home on Cavendish Avenue after a bitter night with Jane Asher.
How many times have you heard from friends, casual acquaintances, and even complete strangers, “The book is way better than the movie.” Well, to put it bluntly, in the case of Magical Mystery Tour, the album is way better than the movie. Please don’t take offense, I love the Beatles and shall forever claim them as my all-time favorite band, but I have a very hard time sitting through their third movie written and directed by the Fab Four, but mostly, Paul McCartney. Did you know that almost ten hours of running time could fill all the scenes filmed during the two-week span set aside to provide a third movie supposedly for United Artists, and only fifty-two minutes ended up in the final release? That, my friends, is a lot of editing, or perhaps a lot of junk, yet, the music excels each time I hear it played.
Recorded on October 2, 1967, with the working title, Hello Hello. The rhythm track took fourteen attempts to get it right using Paul on piano, John on organ, Ringo on drums, and George kept time with a tambourine. On October 19, the fellows returned and began overdubbing additional arrangements to include two new guitar parts played by George. Paul sang his lead vocals and then double tracked another vocal bit while John and George added their vocals plus hand claps. Ringo included the maracas as Paul pounded on a Conga drum, and John slipped in another piano piece during the “Hala, Hey, hey, hey aloha tempo change. The next day two viola players performed Mr. Martin’s handwritten sheet music notes the producer copied from Paul’s piano guidance. Paul’s bass came into the mix on October 25.
On November 1, the song was renamed to, ‘Hello Goodbye’ and the tune received one more added bass guitar part from Paul, recorded on November 2, to complete the finished product. Click here to enjoy a piece of the process from the beginning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMMhLNGwGdQ
Next week join me for part 10a, as the White Album disc one uncovers unrequited love songs they composed while studying transcendental meditation in Rishikesh India.
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