Yellow Submarine (song)
August 5, 1966
Yellow Submarine ( German: ' Yellow Submarine ') is a published on the album Revolver in 1966 Beatles song. In 1968 there was namesake and title song of the animated film Yellow Submarine and appeared on the accompanying soundtrack of the same name.
Formation
Paul McCartney, who wrote Yellow Submarine, in essence, the song wrote in the parents' home his girlfriend Jane Asher, where he lived at that time. From the outset he intended to write a children's song that was supposed to sing the Beatles drummer Ringo Starr. Because of small vocal scope the vocal melody also has only a small range.
McCartney, who was born in the port city of Liverpool, and grew up, wrote the song from the perspective of a sailor children his life describes ("In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed to sea [ ... ]"). John Lennon helped in some places in the text, and also Donovan contributed a line at. McCartney later protested against any deeper interpretation of the song and insisted that it was merely a meaningless children's song.
Recording
Yellow Submarine was recorded in two days at Abbey Road Studios in London on a four - track machine. Producer was George Martin and Geoff Emerick served as a sound engineer. The main instruments were played on 26 May 1966 by all four Beatles:
- John Lennon: Acoustic Guitar
- Paul McCartney: Acoustic Guitar
- George Harrison: Bass
- Ringo Starr: Drums
On June 1, 1966, many effects have been added, taken from a cupboard in the studio: chains, ship's bells, whistles, or even a cash register. Lennon was blowing air through a straw into a glass of water, and he and McCartney called Maritime Command.
For the recordings on June 1, 1966, the Beatles invited friends, who participated in the recording, including Marianne Faithfull, Donovan and Brian Jones. Also, the close associates of the Beatles - inter alia her chauffeur - contributed vocals and effects.
After the line " and the band begins to play ... " added Geoff Emerick, the recording of a brass band added. Because it here on copyright issues could have been, he cut the recording and added the Tonschnipsel indiscriminately together again to make the source of the recording unrecognizable.
Originally Yellow Submarine had a voice of Ringo Starr introduction which has been discarded in the final mixes of the song. Only in 1994 the Yellow Submarine was released including the introduction in the Anthology series. This version contains a number of sound effects that were out mixed with the original version.
Publication
The Single Yellow Submarine was the thirteenth single by the Beatles in the UK and was released on August 5, 1966, one day before the Beatles album Revolver, on which the song was also released. The single was a so-called " double A - side," on the other side of the single, the song Eleanor Rigby has been published.
The song sold more than in the U.S. in the UK. The single reached number one in the UK single charts, and was represented for 13 weeks. It became the biggest selling single of the year in the UK. In the United States missed the single number one - one reason may have been a 1966 statement controversial discussion about John Lennon that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus.
On the other hand, especially in the U.S., the Beatles album Yesterday and Today was released, the four Beatles abbildete decorated in Fleischer clothing and disassembled toy dolls and pieces of meat on the front, which was also criticized publicly. Nevertheless, the single sold in the United States over a million copies and secured the band's 21st gold record. So the Beatles Elvis Presley had overtaken. In Germany, Yellow Submarine also placed number one on the German singles chart and stayed 13 weeks in the top 10
Cover versions
As with many Beatles songs of this song also appeared in the following years numerous cover versions in different languages. In 1966 a French version of Maurice Chevalier, entitled Le sous- marin vert Bill Ramsey published a German version entitled Yellow, yellow, yellow is the Yellow Submarine. Also in the children's program Sesame Street was Yellow Submarine collection. While there, the English text being sung in the U.S. version, Volker Ludwig translated the text for the German broadcasting with " In the green - yellow submarine we live."
Football chant
The catchy and easy to sing chorus of Yellow Submarine led to the melody of singing fans were taken at football matches. The text, however, varies - depending on the teams involved. As the most widely considered the text "Put on the Bavarian lederhosen out! ", Is considered the author of the Kaiserslautern stadium announcer Udo Scholz.
In the tourism
Sometimes tourists submarines are painted yellow and baptized in the name Yellow Submarine. Often such an underwater excursion is then accompanied them musically with the original song or a cover version in the local language.