Question for everyone - my friend and I, who are both big fans, were
sitting around listening to I Am the Walrus one sunny day. But we got inot
a bit of an arguement at the end of the song, where the vocaists are
"singing" their little bit over and over and over... you know, right at
the end. Well, he told me that they were saying "Everybody smokes pot" -
that really high sounding voice in particular. I disagreed - I don;t
think that is waht it says and I have never heard or read anything to make
me think differently. So, can someone help me out???
Male voices:
Oompah, Oompah, stick it up your jumper
Female:
Everybody's got one, Everybody's got one.
Hope this helps.
-Frank
Allison Dawn Kolody <adko...@acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote in article
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>Question for everyone - my friend and I, who are both big fans, were
>sitting around listening to I Am the Walrus one sunny day. But we got
inot
>a bit of an arguement at the end of the song, where the vocaists are
>"singing" their little bit over and over and over... you know, right at
>the end. Well, he told me that they were saying "Everybody smokes pot" -
> that really high sounding voice in particular. I disagreed - I don;t
>think that is waht it says and I have never heard or read anything to
make
>me think differently. So, can someone help me out???
Okay, here's the deal with that. There are two looping sounds that are
played over each other. One is of people saying "Oompa oompa, stick it to
your jumper" and another saying "Got one, got one, everybody's got one."
Your friend is right in that is does SOUND like they're saying, "Smoke
pot, Smoke pot, everybody smokes pot." The actual intention of the Beatles
is not really known. These two sounds could be played to create the
other..the Beatles never actually SAID that's what they were trying to
do...
William Barefoot
William Barefoot
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I beg to differ. I haven't read anything about it, but I suspect they
put that in as a bit of a joke to see if they would play it on the
radio. It says, "Smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot."
They couldn't come right out and say it plainly.
I've heard the "Oompah, oompah, stick it up your joompah." story. I
think that was part of the effect of saying it with out saying it. John
told someone to sing this, and someone else to sing that, and when it
gets all put together, you get the hidden message.
Just my own personal theory.
Oh dear.
>...but I suspect they
>put that in as a bit of a joke to see if they would play it on the
>radio. It says, "Smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot."
>They couldn't come right out and say it plainly.
They didn't even come out and say it obliquely.
That's not what it says.
Read Lewisohn's "Recording Sessions" for details, if you dare. :-)
You can learn from books....
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Otherwise, you get the 'Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper' and
mumbling from the rest.
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-Eric
Page 127.
Happy reading!
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Wincom <wgo...@wincom.net> wrote in article
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: dl...@midway.uchicago.edu (saki) wrote:
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: >You can learn from books....
: What part??
The pages, usually. Sometimes there's information on the cover, but not
enough to get by on.
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Chris <CWI...@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> wrote in article
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: "Rigby" <sout...@dreamscape.com> writes:
: >Wincom <wgo...@wincom.net> wrote in article
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: >: dl...@midway.uchicago.edu (saki) wrote:
: >:
: >: >You can learn from books....
: >
: >: What part??
: >
: >The pages, usually. Sometimes there's information on the cover, but not
: >enough to get by on.
:
: Yes, but can you really believe all that you read?
No, but usually the pages are the most reliable part. The cover tends to
have all sorts of controversial statements to get you to open the book in
the first place.
Rigby
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Nope. :-)
But you can believe some of it.
It's up to you to decide which part!
>Say Lennon did mix in 'everybodys' fucked up' at the end of IATW, which
>was a big enough public supposition at the time the song came out that
>the Beatles had to deny it to the press. Would any of the Beatles,
>especially Lennon, admit it? No, because then the song would be
>censored, or have to be remixed and reissued, etc. I think the Beatles,
>in their heyday, were arrogant and talented enough to try and slip a lot
>of stuff by their unsuspecting, dim witted public with a wink and a nod,
>and did! And I think it's great!!
Yeah, but it was banned anyway, and John pr'bly figured it would be.
HOWEVER, and this is not taken into account by many, John had a
devious mind. If you asked him what, say, "I Am The Walrus" really
meant, or if "Lucy In The Sky..." really stood for LSD, and he'd tell
you the truth, *more or less*. LITSWD was inspired by Julian's sketch,
a well known fact, but whose to say John didn't latch hold of the
L-S-D initials? And, even if the freak-out at the end of IATW was
spontaneous, whose to say he didn't, later, realize what it sounded
like? John loved messing with people's minds, and the best way, as any
good politician will tell you, is not put too much effort into it, so
it looks deliberate.
Just curious. Can you cite any such denial? I've never heard this one
before and would like to know where the denial was printed, just for
future reference.
Many people take this for "Everybody smoke pot", which is also not
what it says.
>>Would any of the Beatles, especially Lennon, admit it?
Well, what you're saying then is that whether they confirm or deny it,
it makes no difference to the accuracy of the lyrical transcription.
:-)
So how do you find out for sure? Consult one of the Mike Sammes
Singers, perhaps, who sang this passage in the song?
>>No, because then the song would be
>>censored, or have to be remixed and reissued, etc.
But the song already mentioned "knickers", which got Auntie Beeb's own
knickers in a twist. :-) The Beeb was pretty overwrought about things
they thought were lyrically salacious or inappropriate. They didn't
like "A Day In The Life" because Paul sang about going upstairs to
have a smoke...which the BBC assumed, in its wisdom, was about pot
smoking (again, it was not). Yet the line "I'd love to turn you on"
was apparently not the cause of the BBC's banning of the song...go
figure!
>>I think the Beatles,
>>in their heyday, were arrogant and talented enough to try and slip a lot
>>of stuff by their unsuspecting, dim witted public with a wink and a nod,
>>and did! And I think it's great!!
They did less than you think. It appears the Fabs thought more highly
of their art than to use it constantly as a massive in-joke. Most of
the time they were trying to communicate to us feelings and
philosophies on quite a higher plane. If you're missing that aspect of
their music, you may want to listen again. You can never hear the
Beatles too many times, IMHO. :-)
Exactly.
I actually imagine Lennon, for instance, after IATW was completed,
adding to the mix or distorting it enough to sound like what he wanted.
Sure we know technically what the words were, but distort them, slow
them down, etc. and what do they sound like?
He was a clever one, as they all were in their way, and capable of
virtually anything.
-Eric
This may be off base or entirely wrong, but answer my question in
regards to the discussion above...doesn't the end have something to do
with JFK's death? I thought I read that somewhere a while ago.
>This may be off base or entirely wrong, but answer my question in
>regards to the discussion above...doesn't the end have something to do
>with JFK's death? I thought I read that somewhere a while ago.
It had to do with death and destruction in "King Lear", the Shakespeare
play; the radio program captured during this sequence of the song was a
BBC production that John thought sounded interesting for inclusion in the
song's final cacophony.
Perhaps there's an analogy with JFK's death, but only peripherally.
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