Too many na-na-na-nananana's on Hey Jude

[Trond Olav Berg]

Why did they have to repeat the na-na-na's so endlessly many
times on "Hey Jude"?
Anybody else who gets bored after 4 or 5 repetitions?

Trond Olav

[Kozinn]

Trond Olav -- If you really want a short version, you can try to find the
US "20 Greatest Hits" LP, which is truncated. But the point was that they
were repeating it sort of like a mantra. At the same time there were
classical/avant-garde composers doing similar things, except for hours at
a stretch (and usually with slight variations that added up to noticeable
changes over the long stretch but were generally imperceptible short
term). I think the extended ending is one of the things that makes Hey
Jude what it is.

Allan <kozinn@aol> or <a.ko...@genie.geis.com>

[Fred Gurzeler]

In article <paull.35...@unb.ca>, pa...@unb.ca (Paul Lenarczyk) wrote:

> In article <3j736p$a...@hermod.uio.no> t.o....@labmed.uio.no (Trond Olav

> Too many! You've GOT to be kidding. The Nananana's are the best part of the
> whole song. In fact they probably kept them going a lot longer, only the fade
> out came in early.
>
> It's a brilliant piece for singing in live shows to get people to sing along
> with you. Of course the Beatles never did it in concert, but Paul has done it
> many times and it's great.
>
> And, for those who do get bored of all the repetition, just get the edited
> version from some Greatest Hits album or something (I believe there are
> versions which only repeat it only a few times). Or else make your own edit,
> but I think that by cutting them out you are really missing the point of the
> song.
>
> Anyone else?
>
> Paul Lenarczyk
> pa...@unb.ca

I concur; "Hey Jude" isn't long enough!! The na-na-nas, the orchestral
build up, Paul screaming his lungs out--fabulous.

But, I also feel you have to be in the right mood when listening to this
or any song. Some days, for example, I can crank "Revolution" through my
headphones and bliss out while on other days it's just a noisy and
distorted song.

Fred

[Dani Barnard]

It's catchy, easy, and everyone knows it. So whatever they did, it worked!

[Brian Davidson Harper]

Not to mention that it's fun to play, too - the C going into the B flat is

just GREAT!!!

--
Brian Davidson Harper !"Time is an illusion; lunchtime
31318 Georgia Tech Station ! doubly so."
Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ! - Douglass Adams
gt1...@prism.gatech.edu !

[PATD...@delphi.com]

The nanananas are one of the highlights of the song, defintly need
them there. they are classic they are history. Heck they used to
have a sign in the London underground advertising a record store with the
nananananas. And singing it along with PAUL was great!!!! Love that
song and the nananas might by why I have 92 concert versions from
the 89/90 world tour of HEY JUDE! on tape.

pat

Media Queen

Rainbow V 1.11 for Delphi - Registered

[Peter Sullivan]

In article <3j736p$a...@hermod.uio.no>

I'm afraid that this is a bit like saying that ice-cream would be
great, if only it weren't so cold. Maybe that's what we like about
it! If you get bored, ignore the front vocals and listen to what
Paul's singing in the background.

Plus, only the Beatles could get away with doing a 4.5 minute fade-
out to a standard 3-minute pop song...

--
Peter Sullivan <pe...@manorcon.demon.co.uk>
"You Know My Domain Name, Look Up the IP Number."

[Shane Paterson]

On Sat, 4 Mar 1995, Peter Sullivan wrote:

> In article <3j736p$a...@hermod.uio.no>
> t.o....@labmed.uio.no "Trond Olav Berg" writes:
>
> > Why did they have to repeat the na-na-na's so endlessly many
> > times on "Hey Jude"?
> > Anybody else who gets bored after 4 or 5 repetitions?
>
> I'm afraid that this is a bit like saying that ice-cream would be
> great, if only it weren't so cold. Maybe that's what we like about
> it! If you get bored, ignore the front vocals and listen to what
> Paul's singing in the background.
>
> Plus, only the Beatles could get away with doing a 4.5 minute fade-
> out to a standard 3-minute pop song...

Elvis' "Suspicious Minds" is similar - it even begins to fade and
then comes back before finally fading in the mix released in 1969. I
always wondered if this was a "tribute" to "Hey Jude" but conventional
wisdom has it that it was released like that to be more like his live
version which, at the time, ran eight minutes or more.

Shane

[c0...@lehigh.edu]

In article <3j736p$a...@hermod.uio.no>, t.o....@labmed.uio.no (Trond Olav Berg)

writes:
>Why did they have to repeat the na-na-na's so endlessly many
>times on "Hey Jude"?
>Anybody else who gets bored after 4 or 5 repetitions?
>

>Trond Olav
>

Too bad if that's all you hear at the end of the song. I hear one of
McCartney's most stunning vocals ever.

Spine tingling.

See you later,
David

--==< David J. Beedle >==--
--==< c0...@lehigh.edu >==--

[Larry Micohn]

>In article <3j736p$a...@hermod.uio.no>
> t.o....@labmed.uio.no "Trond Olav Berg" writes:

>> Why did they have to repeat the na-na-na's so endlessly many
>> times on "Hey Jude"?

TOP 10 REASONS THEY HAD TO REPEAT THE NA-NA-NA'S:

1. Because it's two...two...two songs in one!

2. They took a sad song and made it better.

3. They didn't know the words.

4. The record's stuck...the record's stuck...the record's stuck...

5. Needed to get more royalties out of a single play.

6. Deja vu.

7. John liked to make tape loops.

8. In case some people had short-term memory.

9. Going for the Guinness Book Of World Records: greatest number of "N"s and
"A"s in a single song.

10. Would sound the same if played backwards.

LarryM

[Paul Lenarczyk]

Too many! You've GOT to be kidding. The Nananana's are the best part of the

[Bob Stahley]

Peter Sullivan (pe...@manorcon.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: t.o....@labmed.uio.no "Trond Olav Berg" writes:
: > Why did they have to repeat the na-na-na's so endlessly many
: > times on "Hey Jude"?
: > Anybody else who gets bored after 4 or 5 repetitions?
: I'm afraid that this is a bit like saying that ice-cream would be
: great, if only it weren't so cold. Maybe that's what we like about it!

Hmm, looks like Olav and I are the only two Beatles fans on the planet who
think "Hey Jude" is interminably long. Yes, I agree that Paul's scat is
one of his best, but, IMHO, not enough to support almost five minutes of
repeating the same simple melody in a tempo best suited for a dirge. The
only place it really works is in a bar, really drunk with a bunch of other
drunks all hoisting beer mugs in unision.

Which was the point, weren't it?

<ducking from the expected incoming>

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[David Roy Clark]

Cullen Christophe Donnelly (cdo...@tiger2.ocs.lsu.edu) wrote:
: Whatever loser wrote that there were too many na nanaaa's in Hey Jude
: should be drug out into the street and shot. That is arguabely the
: greatest Beatles' song and should never be criticized!
: CD
There are 208 na nanaaa's in 'Hey Jude'. Yes I counted them.
dave
: Lennon Lives

[CHRIS LESHER]

This naa naa talk reminds me of a conversation I had with someone after
seeing the Macca concert in Memphis in 1993. I asked her what she thought
of the concert, and she said "I thought it was great...but what was that '
naa naa' song that everyone was singing along with at the end?"

Chris Lesher

[Harriet Perry]

Trond Olav Berg <t.o....@labmed.uio.no> writes:

>Anybody else who gets bored after 4 or 5 repetitions?

Nah.

:-)

[DUMMITT STEPHEN P]

Cullen Christophe Donnelly (cdo...@tiger2.ocs.lsu.edu) wrote:

>Whatever loser wrote that there were too many na nanaaa's in Hey Jude
>should be drug out into the street and shot. That is arguabely the
>greatest Beatles' song and should never be criticized!
>CD

Well said!
--

[Cullen Christophe Donnelly]

Whatever loser wrote that there were too many na nanaaa's in Hey Jude
should be drug out into the street and shot. That is arguabely the
greatest Beatles' song and should never be criticized!
CD

Lennon Lives

[Laura J Valentine]

How can you say something is arguable and then say it shouldn't be
criticized? And if everyone just sheepishly accepts things as they
are (this is in general, btw), then no one thinks for themselves and
society sucks even more.

--laura
(who really really wants to pretend she's a member of the church of
the flaming superburger combo...oh, what the hell)

or kill me
or i'll blow your head off

"Twinkle's a nice word. So's viridian." --Delirium

[BEAUVALLET]

Hey Jude is of course THE classic Beatles song, but without the na-na's --
it's just interesting. When the Fox network broadcast Macca's show live
from Charlotte, NC, at the end they started rolling the credits through
the na-na's and then ended the program long before the song ended. Eight
people in need of closure stood up in my living room, sang the na-na's for
another 3-4 minutes, while waving our arms over our heads. Yet another
terrific memory courtesy of Macca!

[Graeme Lemin]

In article <xm74NvT.ha...@delphi.com> Harriet Perry <harrie...@delphi.com> writes:
>From: Harriet Perry <harrie...@delphi.com>
>Subject: Re: Too many na-na-na-nananana's on Hey Jude
>Date: Mon, 6 Mar 95 23:09:15 -0500

nah nah na-na-na nah

(sorry, I couldn't resist it!!)

graeme

[Bryan D. Woolley]

In article <3j736p$a...@hermod.uio.no> t.o....@labmed.uio.no (Trond Olav Berg) writes:

>Anybody else who gets bored after 4 or 5 repetitions?

NO! Paul's screams are so good on this track!

Bryan
no e-mail please

[Shane Paterson]

"Hey Jude" (I imagine that's the song she was referring to.....:-) ) is
great and is especially so in concert, but I really did like the way the
"Get Back/Flowers In The Dirt" tour ended with the "Abbey Road" medley
much more. Pretty hard to beat that as an ending - then again the two
tours had very different atmospheres at the shows, with the second being
Paul as a more "accessible" performer, so maybe finishing with "Hey Jude"
instead of the medley contributed to that intimacy somehow.

Shane

[Marietta Lawson]

Bob Stahley (bo...@primenet.com) wrote:

: Peter Sullivan (pe...@manorcon.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: : t.o....@labmed.uio.no "Trond Olav Berg" writes:
: : > Why did they have to repeat the na-na-na's so endlessly many
: : > times on "Hey Jude"?

: repeating the same simple melody in a tempo best suited for a dirge. The

: only place it really works is in a bar, really drunk with a bunch of other
: drunks all hoisting beer mugs in unision.

Oh, please. When I first spied the original post late Friday, I thought
it was surely a (bad) joke. But he MEANT it! And he actually received
advice on how to obtain a shortened version! Blech.

[Steve Veldheer]

Dude, it's the only 3 1/2 minute song with a 4 minute fade, that I know of

[gutierr...@yahoo.com]

Wow, I find it crazy to believe that this entire conversation was from 1995. I'm glad to be a part of history. I'm thirteen years old, and my favorite band is The Beatles. It is incredible to think that their music has lived on to this day and will live on for possibly centuries to come. It's so much better than all the rap crap that we have nowadays, and I sometimes wish I had grown up during Beatlemania, #1 hit after hit. Some might say that it's all about their music, not the lyrics, but there are some song that are beautiful for its lyrics, such as "A Day in the Life", "All You Need is Love", and, hell, a song that is mostly about it lyrics, "The Ballad of John and Yoko"! This all happened because I searched up on Google "How many nananananananas are in hey jude, and i found this. It is so interesting looking back in the past, and seeing things like this. Also, I highly prefer this calmer, more civilized forum than the stupid, meaningless, and sometimes toxic comments section on YouTube. We gotta take some notes, lol. Anyways, I'll be back to doing my science hw while listening to "I am the Walrus" on Spotify. At least I know how acid feels like.

Pavel Gutierrez, 1/15/19 (holy balls, 24 years after! Time flies lol)

[cuppajoe2go]

c0...@lehigh.edu gets it right :)