Day Tripper
December 1965
Day Tripper was the twelfth single by the Beatles, released as the first double A - sided single, along with We Can Work It Out in December 1965.
Genesis
Day Tripper was formed in October 1965 in John Lennon's house in Kenwood ( St George 's Hill ), Weybridge / Surrey. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were working here, as usual, together but McCartney writes the greatest idea shares in the creation of the songs his colleagues. The song was written under the pressure of having to release a new single, because the last single Help! the last time on August 19, 1965, listed on the first rank in the UK in mid-September and had fallen out of the top ten. The two composers came up with the idea for the ambiguous title Day Tripper. On one hand, persons are hereby described that do not have great practice for a given activity, just colloquially a "Sunday driver" (Sunday driver) are or even day-trippers can be a "one way ticket" ( single ticket without return). On the other hand, this is also the name given to someone who has the hippie lifestyle is not made completely his own, especially not daily drug or drug taking. Fellow composer John Lennon, according to which it was a drug song.
Recording
Recorded on October 16, 1965 in Studio 2 at Abbey Road Studios during the recording sessions for the album Rubber Soul, the music tracks were first recorded with bass guitar and drums, then Lennon's rhythm guitar playing, mixed on the left channel, the right provided with Hall votes. In the intro rhythm guitar has been recorded twice and plays with the bass guitar. John Lennon and Paul McCartney took over the lead and backing vocals together. Of the three takes the last one for the record pressing was used, produced by George Martin, Norman Smith as engineer.
The song is dominated by Paul McCartney kompressioniertem, syncopated bass ostinato, whose notes from eleven existing motif is repeated continuously during the piece in different keys and maintained on the basis of a 12 - bar blues in E major (not minor admixture ) is. Only the intro is repeated five times, which is an alarmist treatment of the harmonic rhythm. The dominance of the bass makes Day Tripper become one of the most riff- driven songs of pop music. Model was Robert Whites Gitarrenostinato in My Girl by the Temptations ( December 1964 ). The following instruments were used during recording: McCartney's bass guitar was a Hofner 500/1 ( 1961 ), Harrison's lead guitar, a Gibson ES- 345 and Lennon's rhythm guitar, a Rickenbacker 325 from 1964.
After the recording of We Can Work It Out on 20 October 1965, met for the first time in the world Popsektor the decision for a single with a double A-side. That made it the radio stations not easy to choose whether to airplay for one of the two sides. In the standard A and B pagination the A-side for radio station should serve as an indication to prefer this side also at airplay. The practice of a double A-side was repeated by the Beatles a few times and adopted by other performers of popular music.
Publication and success
The single with the two A- sides was released in England on December 3, 1965, the same day as the album Rubber Soul; the single sold 1.387 million copies (one million until 20 December 1965), was also in the U.S. over a million copies over the counter, worldwide more than three million copies. Following the publication on December 6, 1965 in the U.S. however, was We Can Work It Out favored by the radio stations that was able to penetrate up to the first place. Billboard listed - as usual - both sides separately and listed Day Tripper only at rank five. In the UK, there was no separation in the pops, so Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out ( Parlophone # R5389 ) could be registered as the tenth consecutive Topnotiz for the Beatles.
Statistics and cover versions
Day Tripper won a BMI Award and was, according to the cover info gecovert 51 times already in 1965 by Booker T. & the MG's and 1966 by the Ramsey Lewis Trio. Otis Redding took a year later on October 15, 1966 Day Tripper in the studio and played perhaps the soulähnlichsten Beatles song live during his European tour 1967 ( March 17, 1967 at the Astoria Theatre in London and on March 21 at the Paris Olympia). Jimi Hendrix coverte the title also. The British progressive rock group Yes, used in 1969 in their cover version of the Beatles song Every Little Thing the above bass ostinato as a reconciliation to singing part of the title.