All for the Beatles

1964

All for the Beatles is a rock ' n' roll song of 1964, wrote the Harry Nilsson with John Marascalco. With the alternative title Stand Up and Holler, the piece was published under a pseudonym Nilsson's " photo -Fi Four" on single and was distributed with a synchronous 8mm video film of the Beatles arriving in America as a magazine addition. The piece leans rhythmically Not Fade Away, a Buddy Holly cover of the Rolling Stones, and so on Bo Diddley's self-titled song Bo Diddley on. A cover version was released as All for the Beatles ( Stand Up and Holler ) from the original. The piece, which anticipated the later close friendship and cooperation Nilsson with the Beatles, missed any commercial success, but the single became a coveted collector's item.

Formation

In February 1964, the Beatles first came to the United States to promote its planned for August of the year American tour with an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show and two concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Washington Coliseum. The arrival at the airport, various press events and the performances were filmed. As early as 1962, the young Harry Nilsson had at a demo session for Scott Turner several songs of songwriter John Marascalco recorded and 1963 written with this some pieces, with which the first single releases were equipped with Nilsson's pseudonym Bo -Pete. Nilsson and Marascalco used the start of the August tour of the Beatles to jump with one of his own compositions on the Beatlemania - train. The studio, the exact date and the band used recording are unknown. The four-part main song was completely sung by Nilsson in several tracks. For this, the Beatlemania -like screech of a background group was in another track recorded in which the Nilsson 's biographer Alyn Shipton with the Beach Girls suspected the same girl group that had already supported the Bo -Pete recording Baa Baa Black Sheep.

Musical structure

All for the Beatles ( Stand Up and Holler ) with respect to the structure of a pure 12 - bar blues, whose schema is repeated five times. As an intro, there are two measures of the tonic in E Major, as a few measures outro guitar solo on the tonic until the fadeout. The first and last two 12-bar characters are each divided into verse and chorus, with the first eight bars on the tonic and subdominant the stanza to dominant, subdominant and tonic form four following bars the chorus. While Nilsson presents the verses unanimously, he presents in a four-part chorus sentence he has received by overdubbing technique. On the middle of the five schemes solos Blue electric guitar.

A striking element is the Bo - Diddley beat, which is underlying the entire song. This one-bar rhythmic figure was present for the time of origin of All for the Beatles just by the American debut single, the Rolling Stones Not Fade Away, a cover of the Buddy Holly classic, on the radio. The beat was introduced in 1955 by Bo Diddley in the self-titled song Bo Diddley and since then many came in consequence of recordings used.

Publication

Marascalco took over the composition on its own BMI music publishing Robin Hood Music under the title All for the Beatles. A copyright entry at the Library of Congress is not to be found. The publication under the alternative titles Stand Up and Holler was only as a promo edition, which was settled a magazine. The single envelope was attached a eingschweißter in film 8mm film showing excerpts from the February - Scenes of the Beatles. A manual on the single and according to the envelope can be song and film synchronously play with each other. Marascalco created for the output of a photo -Fi Records, a record label, which brought forth only this single single under the number 107. Nilsson got as a performer, the new pseudonym of " photo -Fi Four". The B-side contained the same recording, but without the backing calls the Beach - Girls.

Cover versions

The Originals participated in the same year on the piece for the label Associated Artists. To this end, the title in the form of All for the Beatles ( Stand Up and Holler ) was used. Under the number 1464, the piece appeared with Will You Come Back My Love? on the B-side.

Marascalco adapted rhythm and melody of 1965 All for the Beatles for the song Mary Mary of the band The Electras produced by him. The item has been added a new text and a bridge. In case of publication Marascalcos own label Lola Records and Ruby -Doo Records the Electras members Gary Pipkin, Chester Pipkin and Brice Coefield were expressed as authors instead Nilsson and Marascalco.

Importance, success and criticism

Alyn Shipton finds it ironic that All for the Beatles Beatlemania approaches on the adaptation of a Rolling Stones' hit "The shameless bond was calculated to anyone who heard them calling one another British invasion into memory." Although Nilsson sang the verses in " Americanized approach to John Lennon", but the penetrating central guitar solo correspond directly to that Keith Richards. Shipton keeps the song but for the first true example of Nilsson's preference for the perfected during his career overdubbing technique with which he harmony of the Close of the Beatles emulated.

Neither the original nor the cover version was also placed in the charts. Shipton judges, the song was " by itself is not particularly remarkable, but a harbinger for the following Nilsson's love for all concerned, the Beatles things." Meanwhile, the single is a film with rare collector's object, were offered for the 2006 Rates from $ 200. The filmmaker John Scheinfeld put the song in 2006 in his documentary Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin ' About Him )? When first mention of the Beatles one.