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Topic: Please Please Me |
b0b
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Posted 14 Feb 2012 9:41 am |
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I recently bought the 2009 stereo remaster of The Beatles' first album, "Please Please Me". One can only imagine the astonishment in the studio when these guys showed up. Their vocal harmonies are spot-on, with serious doo-wop roots. John in particular had a range and precision that you don't hear on the later albums. I always thought of Paul as the better singer, but I imagine they pushed to out-perform each other quite a bit in the early years.
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Mike Neer
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Posted 14 Feb 2012 9:46 am
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If you watch the clips of them on the Ed Sullivan shows you will see this action. Not only is the pitch dead on, but also the microphone technique is perfection.
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b0b
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Posted 14 Feb 2012 10:09 am
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And the songwriting! Check out Alan Pollack's analysis of "Ask Me Why", and listen to it on YouTube.
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Some Final Thoughts
- The quaint arrangement and corny backbeat of this song have a nostalgic power of sufficient magnitude to seriously get in the way of an objective assessment of its craft. On some level, the legitimacy of such first impressions is neither to be denied nor argued with.
- Granted, this was a rather fledgling compositional effort of theirs. We know, for example, that they had it in hand at least as early as the June 1962 EMI audition for George Martin and as such, it's very easy to be condescending about it. But I'd dare to suggest that our analysis above clearly demonstrates that the music here is nowhere nearly as derivative as it may seem at first glance.
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Tony Prior
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Charlotte NC
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Posted 14 Feb 2012 10:29 am Re: Please Please Me
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| b0b wrote: |
| I always thought of Paul as the better singer .... |
Me too, but as I revisit the Beatles today I am more and more impressed with John's voice, talents and abilities, not taking anything away from Paul, George or Ringo...Paul is an amazing singer and writer, that's understood.
By the time the Beatles had reached the Ed Sullivan Show I think they had most of the "10,000 hour " rule accounted for, if not all of it... they were already experts at live shows. Remember they spent easily 2 years playing as many as 30 shows a month, when they played gigs and especially Germany, we probably understood it as a regular gig,in reality they played 3 months at a clip sometimes 8 hours a day. Unheard of....
One thing never discussed, (I am an amp history fanatic) the Beatles in their early shows didn't have the gear required for the venues, that made them even better musicians as they had to really pay attention to each other many times not even being able to hear each other over the crowds screaming.
The big amps didn't arrive until mid 60's and even at that they were not enough for the "even bigger venues" . The Beatles playing those huge venues before large sound systems were even invented gave them yet another experience of working as a unit.
I now think the Beatles started out as a very ragged garage band but within 2 years or so , they tuned into the best band in the world.
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Joachim Kettner
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Posted 14 Feb 2012 11:12 am
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I always liked "Ask Me Why"! It was on the flipside of "Misery" here. Not as in England (don't know about the US) where it's been been on the backside of "Please Please Me".
There's a book about John Lennon by John Robertson, in which he says about the song:
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| Like many of his pre- 1964 originals, it boasted a rather uncomfortable melodic structure, hooked to a Latin rhythm no doubt inspired by the band's cheery rendition of the Coasters single, "Besame Mucho". The lyrics were contrived as ever, though it's hard not to believe that Lennon took some sly pleasure from singing "I can't conceive" to audiences of pubescent Cavern-goers... |
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