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Yesterday
Topic Started: Aug 26 2017, 01:28 PM (122 Views)
Catseye3
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All day I've had a "Yesterday" earworm. Normally this would drive me crazy after awhile, but I think I appreciate it more than I did before. I looked up the song on the Internetz and found some interesting trivia.

- This is the most covered pop song of all time, with over 3,000 versions recorded according to The Guinness Book Of World Records.

- It was the first time a Beatle recorded without the others, and marked a shift to more independent accomplishments among the group.

- A string quartet was brought in to play on this track. In addition to the strings, this is notable as one of the first pop songs to use elements of classical music.

- This was the first Beatles song to capture a mass adult market.

- McCartney says that when he performed it on Sullivan, just before the curtain opened a stagehand asked him, "Are you nervous?" "No," Paul lied, to which the man responded, "You should be. There's 73 million people watching."

- This song caused a rift between McCartney and Yoko Ono. I gather it is not difficult to have a rift with Yoko Ono, who if she is not the all-time winner of the "Person Who Should Never Sing Anything Ever" contest, should be.

- This was featured in the 1997 movie Bean, when the title character (played by Rowan Atkinson) sings it with David Langley (played by Peter MacNicol) as they trot home one night. Imagine that!

For more, goto http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=82



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I love that song. I've heard it cited as proof of McCartney's songwriting talent. Not that proof is needed with that huge body of work, but apparently, that song alone proves it. I'm not sure why, since I don't know anything about songwriting, but its combination of simplicity and beauty is striking.
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Aug 26 2017, 01:44 PM
I love that song. I've heard it cited as proof of McCartney's songwriting talent. Not that proof is needed with that huge body of work, but apparently, that song alone proves it. I'm not sure why, since I don't know anything about songwriting, but its combination of simplicity and beauty is striking.

I agree, and in fact you said it: it's the simplicity and the smooth-flowingness.

I have the same feeling about Elvis' 'Love Me Tender'. I heard it one late night on the radio, no other sounds around anywhere in the universe. Just him and the guitar. I stopped what I was doing and listened. I'd heard it any number of times before, but it just took my breath away.

You could hear his fingertips squeaking on the guitar strings. :)
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Aug 26 2017, 01:51 PM
I have the same feeling about Elvis' 'Love Me Tender'. I heard it one late night on the radio, no other sounds around anywhere in the universe. Just him and the guitar.
Yeah, but Elvis didn't write that song.

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The 1956 song "Love Me Tender" puts new words to a new musical adaptation of the Civil War song "Aura Lee," published in 1861. "Aura Lee" had music by George R. Poulton and words by W. W. Fosdick. It later became popular with college glee clubs and barbershop quartets. It was also sung at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.

The principal writer of the lyrics was Ken Darby, who also adapted Poulton's Civil War tune, which was in the public domain. The song was published by Elvis Presley Music.[2] and credited to Presley and Darby's wife Vera Matson. Presley received co-songwriting credit due to his Hill & Range publishing deal which demanded songwriters concede 50 percent of the credit of their song if they wanted Presley to record it; Presley had songwriting input on only a very small number of the many songs he recorded. When asked why he credited his wife as co-songwriter along with Presley, Darby responded, "Because she didn't write it either."

As with nearly all his early RCA recordings, Presley took control in the studio despite not being credited as producer. He would regularly change arrangements and lyrics to the point that the original song was barely recognizable.[citation needed] Ken Darby described Elvis Presley's role in the creation of the song: "He adjusted the music and the lyrics to his own particular presentation. Elvis has the most terrific ear of anyone I have ever met. He does not read music, but he does not need to. All I had to do was play the song for him once, and he made it his own! He has perfect judgment of what is right for him. He exercised that judgment when he chose 'Love Me Tender' as his theme song."
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The Ken Darby Trio provided the musical backing with Red Robinson on drums, Charles Prescott on bass, Vita Mumolo on guitar, and Jon Dodson on background vocals, with Presley providing only lead vocals.
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Melody. It has a real melody, which is so untrue of so much popular music.
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The best version of "Yesterday" was performed by a 14 year old filipina on Australia's X Factor in her initial audition. On the strength of that performance, she went on to become a fairly successful recording artist.



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Can't stand the song. I want to drive an icepick through my head whenever I hear it.
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