Useless "whistling" question...
SourMilkSea
(as well as other things)
John, of course, whisted at the end of "Two Of Us", and as a solo-dude
during "Jealous guy". Are there any other Beatle/solo songs that any of
them whistled in? Just curious. I'll take my medication now.
--sour
paramucho
wrote:
George "mouths" some whistling in HELP! during "You've Got To Hide
Your Love Away".
There's the long "ffffffff" in "Girl"
The paper and combs in "Lovely Rita" comes close lots of mouth noises
in that).
The outro of "Bungalow Bill"?
ian
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paramucho
>John whistles in "Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out" on "Walls and
>Bridges."
Yep. And very prosaically.
Ian
MysteryTunes
>
>John, of course, whisted at the end of "Two Of Us"
For anyone, who may not have noticed, this whistled tune at the end of "Two of
Us" is the same tune that ends "Hello Goodbye".
Bigbonita
introduced other "mouth noises" to the thread, paul seems to be the master at
that as well, including performing the bass line to "i will" with his mouth,
the telephone ringing (from the caller's point of view) in "uncle albert", and
various sounds of people conversing in the backround of the song (ala yellow
submarine, another day, and peace in the neighbourhood).
paramucho
>paul mccartney whistles at the end of "c'mon people". as for the person who
You mean me, I guess. My name is "Ian".
>introduced other "mouth noises" to the thread, paul seems to be the master at
>that as well, including performing the bass line to "i will" with his mouth,
This sounds suspicously like a "John vs Paul" deal... what else was he
the master at? :-)
Paul imitates a jug bass in "I Will" and I think he also does the
great doo wop "mouth" bass in the last section of "Happiness" too, but
who knows who it is for sure.
>the telephone ringing (from the caller's point of view) in "uncle albert",
That's a brilliant imitation. It took me years to realise that that
was Macca.
> and
>various sounds of people conversing in the backround of the song (ala yellow
>submarine, another day, and peace in the neighbourhood).
I was trying to stick to "mouth noises" where "pursed lips" of some
sort were used. The general area of vocal noises is huge (Lennon's
work in the back of "Lovely Rita" is a favorite of mine). Lennon and
McCartney were both superb vocal imitators. I recall counting over a
dozen different imitations in a single interview of Lennon's many
years ago. The Christmas records were also full of this stuff where
George also got in the act.
Ian
Bigbonita
to your identity. As far as the thread is concerned,
i just thought of another possible example:Blackbird. Does anyone know if those
bird sounds are real or the work of one of the Fabs?
paramucho
And you have my apologies for a crude reply :-)
Lewisohn says that the sounds came from Volume Seven: Birds Of A
Feather, from the Abbey Road sound effects collection. Stuart Eltham
taped it in his back yard in 1965.
Ian
Strabbo
wrote:
> For anyone, who may not have noticed, this whistled tune at the end of "Two of
>Us" is the same tune that ends "Hello Goodbye".
I hadn't actually thought of that! Thanks!
I should also add the whistling done in the Real Love version from the
Imagine film soundtrack.
AppleCorp3
>Imagine film soundtrack.
Since we're getting away from strict studio recordings, I'll mention this one -
when McCartney was on Parkinson (?) last year he played a bit of Cohen the Wind
is Blowing where he whistled the entire melody - he did a very nice job too!
MysteryTunes
>
>>bigb...@aol.com (Bigbonita) wrote:
>
>>Blackbird. Does anyone know
>if those
>>bird sounds are real or the work of one of the Fabs?
>
>Feather, from the Abbey Road sound effects collection. Stuart Eltham
>taped it in his back yard in 1965.
I understood that it was Donovan who had provided the "Blackbird" sounds. On
the bootleg where Donovan and Paul appear, doesn't Donovan do the sounds? Is
this what has lead ne to believe it was Donovan?
paramucho
wrote:
I'm not sure when the Donovan tape was made: before or after?
Ian
Meagen AKA SailorM
>
> George "mouths" some whistling in HELP! during "You've Got To Hide
> Your Love Away".
>
BUT notice there's no whistling sounds in the song at that point!
Elswhere in the
film, (Bahamas segment, after footprint tracking, while rescuing Ringo
from the
mad scientist's car) George also makes whistling motions but again, this
has
no support in the sound. Could it be that the film George _cannot_
whistle?
Meagen
--
I think ah, no, I mean, ah, yes, but it's all wrong.
That is, I think I disagree. - "Strawberry Fields Forever" by the
Beatles
brilton
Meagen AKA SailorM wrote:
> paramucho wrote:
> >
> > George "mouths" some whistling in HELP! during "You've Got To Hide
> > Your Love Away".
> >
>
> BUT notice there's no whistling sounds in the song at that point!
> Elswhere in the
> film, (Bahamas segment, after footprint tracking, while rescuing Ringo
> from the
> mad scientist's car) George also makes whistling motions but again, this
> has
> no support in the sound. Could it be that the film George _cannot_
> whistle?
No, it's not that. George is in fact an "ultrasonic" whistler. This is a
little known fact. It is actually him whistling on the runout groove at the
end of Pepper, and not some oscillator.
J. Juls
Julie
Meagen AKA SailorM
That's the _real_ George Harrison. What I mean is, maybe George's
_character_
in Help! can't whistle. You know, Like John's character questions
everyone's
competence and stares at them to make them uneasy, and Paul's character
is always chasing girls.
brilton
Meagen AKA SailorM wrote:
> brilton wrote:
> >
> > Meagen AKA SailorM wrote:
> >
> > > paramucho wrote:
> > > >
> > > > George "mouths" some whistling in HELP! during "You've Got To Hide
> > > > Your Love Away".
> > > >
> > >
> > > BUT notice there's no whistling sounds in the song at that point! Elswhere
> > > in the film, (Bahamas segment, after footprint tracking, while rescuing Ringo
> > > from the mad scientist's car) George also makes whistling motions but again,
> > > this has no support in the sound. Could it be that the film George _cannot_
> > > whistle?
> >
> > No, it's not that. George is in fact an "ultrasonic" whistler. This is a
> > little known fact. It is actually him whistling on the runout groove at the
> > end of Pepper, and not some oscillator.
>
> That's the _real_ George Harrison. What I mean is, maybe George's
> _character_
> in Help! can't whistle. You know, Like John's character questions
> everyone's
> competence and stares at them to make them uneasy, and Paul's character
> is always chasing girls.
>
> Meagen
> --
I was only joking. Heaven forbid that I should attempt to pass off some wildly
inaccurate untruth as fact in a Beatles newsgroup.
Meagen AKA SailorM
>
> I was only joking. Heaven forbid that I should attempt to pass off some wildly
> inaccurate untruth as fact in a Beatles newsgroup.
Yeah, that's Chewie's schtick. By the way, note how not being an
expert,
I fell for something which must have been obvious to anyone with a shred
of Beatle knowledge...
brilton
Meagen AKA SailorM wrote:
> brilton napisa3(a):
> >
> > I was only joking. Heaven forbid that I should attempt to pass off some wildly
> > inaccurate untruth as fact in a Beatles newsgroup.
>
> Yeah, that's Chewie's schtick
Yes, that was the subtle point of that remark!
> By the way, note how not being an
> expert,
> I fell for something which must have been obvious to anyone with a shred
> of Beatle knowledge...
>
I think the only mammals that can make ultrasonic noises are bats!
Meagen AKA SailorM
>
>
> I think the only mammals that can make ultrasonic noises are bats!
>
Dolphins, too - but how should I know that "ultrasonic whistling" isn't
some highly specific music term? I mean, there's all those high G's
going
on E's and VIIs progressing to IVs and whatnot, so why not ultrasonic
whistling?
(Although the "Sgt. Pepper runout groove" bit should have probably
alerted me - AFAIU, *no-one* knows what that is, little known fact
or not.)
Meagen, feeling very silly