They look too deliberately drawn to not have meaning, but the best I can do for the duck is “You Can’t See Me” which I don’t love and I’ve got nothing for the girl. Less well-remembered is Helen Kane, billed as the original “boop-boop-a-doop girl,” who inserted the phrase into such hit songs as “I Wanna Be Loved By You” from 1928. Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles Subject: LIST OF FAAB REFERENCES Date: Thu, 23 Nov 95 07:24:39 GMT. You can make new, silly-sounding words by playing with preexisting words, like rhyming expert with texpert, or melding crab and locker into crabalocker. “I Am the Walrus” was recorded in September 1967 and released on record that November. A contour, says Glickman, is a four-note melodic sequence categorized into a series of "ups," "downs" and "stays the same." This list of performances on Top of the Pops is a chronological account of popular songs performed by recording artists and musical ensembles on Top of the Pops, a weekly BBC One television programme that featured artists from the UK singles chart.. Sexy Sadie is the only reason I can think to have an S. The van/truck/thing might be I'll Follow The Sun. But it’s possible that this was a pseudonym for one Gertrude Saunders, who was referred to as “the original boop-boop-a-doop girl” in African American newspapers later in the 1930s. —Hunter Davies on “I Am the Walrus” in The Beatles Lyrics. But Gardner’s annotated version breaks out of the narrative walls with a flurry of commentary—24 numbered notes for “Jabberwocky” alone. Tap the head of the dick, duck, duck duck goose Head of the dick, duck, duck. Like the Jabberwock and the frumious Bandersnatch, the Walrus only appears in a text within Carroll’s text: a poem recited by Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The third syllable is unstressed, both in terms of the syncopated meter and the phonology of the nonsense words, so it’s not a full-fledged goo. The LP had lyrics for some of the songs in the gatefold, and I began studying them as the record played. The urge might be genetic, as I see it replayed now in my son Blake, who started up his own Beatles obsession around the age of 5. Talking about the song with the New York radio DJ Dennis Elsas, Lennon claimed he “never knew it was King Lear until years later” when someone told him. There’s also a lot of “heys” and “come on-come ons” in this song. Nonsense can contain its own historical sense, though the history may always be incomplete. I can’t help seeking that sense in nonsense. That must have made as much of an impression on a young John Lennon as it did on me. If you know please feel free to share. Robinson,” but the complete version with coo coo ca-choo in it didn’t come out until April of the following year, on the album Bookends. I ignored the laughter and grew up to be an expert-texpert anyway. I'm Only Sleeping/I'm So Tired/Don't Pass Me By/Mean Mr. Mustard (? ), Two people knocking into each other (You Won't See Me? ), For Rent sign with Bee (this one is killing me...), Girl stepping on boy's balloon next to Maxwell sign (You're Going to Lose That Girl? The LP had lyrics for some of the songs in the gatefold, and I began studying them as the record played. When Alice goes down the rabbit-hole in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, she suffers an identity crisis, wondering if she might have turned into her sister Mabel: “Besides, she’s she, and I’m I, and—oh dear, how puzzling it all is!”. I went over the video a few times in slow-motion, and armed with postings from rec.music.beatles as well as hints kindly emailed to me, found the following. Like Alice reading “Jabberwocky,” my head filled with half-formed ideas. Foreword by Rob Sheffield Filled with stunning full-color infographics, a unique, album-by-album visual history of the evolution of the Beatles that examines how their style, their sound, their instruments, their songs, their tours, and the world they inhabited transformed over the course of a decade.. It is endlessly analyzable, and yet somehow analysis-proof. I graduated from Dr. Seuss to The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear, a well-thumbed Dover paperback adorned with Lear’s own absurd pen-and-ink drawings, so you could see just what he meant by the dolomphious duck and her runcible spoon. Could Lennon have randomly plucked googoo goosth from the middle of Finnegans Wake and changed it to goo goo ga joob? In the book, Joyce’s protagonist Earwicker disturbs the sleep of Kate the cleaning woman, and when she awakes she wonders if she has seen “old Kong Gander O’Toole of the Mountains or his googoo goosth” (his goose/ghost). (Sidenote: If given the choice, no child loves the Monkees song “Hey Hey We’re the Monkees” as much as they love this Beatles song. My daughter calls this song “the come on come on” song for good reason. I know it seems liked I nicked the A Day In the Life idea from that forum as well, but I did honestly think that to … The BBC transmitted new installments of the programme weekly from January 1964 through July 2006, and later … 23 down, more to go!In every item, there are two songs. Man with bag in the right corner (Get Back?) Welcome to the Beatles Bible song list. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Cover songs were included on five of the band's core albums: Please Please Me, With the Beatles (both 1963), Beatles for Sale (1964), Help! ), Soviet guys in the merry-go-round is Back In the USSR, Also the guy leaving and the other wanting to shake hands is Hello, Goodbye, Girl with bag on stick is She's Leaving Home, You Never Give Me Your Money (he has just a couple of coins), Looks like he(?) Or are they running? As it turns out, the performance of Lear just happened to be on a radio that was tuned to the BBC while they were mixing the song. What can combining first-, second-, and third-person pronouns in one song accomplish? Later, delving into the White Album, I found “Glass Onion” linking back to “I Am the Walrus”—among other Beatles songs—with that lovely bit of misdirection, The walrus was Paul. I would have loved to hear if Baby Esther’s boo-boo-boo / doo-doo-doo interpolations had the same syncopated pattern as goo goo ga joob, with that extra little unstressed syllable. (Marilyn Monroe’s cover in Some Like it Hot preserved that song for posterity. Finnegans Wake, after all, has many echoes of Carroll, and the eggman Humpty Dumpty figures in it as well, with his great fall paralleling the Fall of Man. It’s pretty implausible, especially since I know of no evidence that he ever read the book, or even riffled through its pages. My parents, enlightened children of the ’60s, also had John Lennon’s In His Own Write on the shelf, and though it didn’t make much of an impression at the time, I recognized a kindred spirit. The Beatles' songs lyrics listed in alphabetical order very easy to use click song go to lyrics. (1965) and Let It Be (1970). It was based on a British playground rhyme that went, Yellow matter custard, green slop pie, all mixed together with a dead dog’s eye. As promised, my revised list of references in the FAAB video. It was over in the record cabinet, on the raucously colorful Magical Mystery Tour LP: “I Am the Walrus,” the final track of side one. The studio engineer Geoff Emerick said it was Lennon’s idea to get some “random radio noise” from “twiddling the dial,” an injection of John Cage–style found audio. The man in the bottom left with the sign saying "Not Dead" might be I'm Only Sleeping. Maybe the song is just a put-on, or a kind of a dare. The Beatles face west towards the water, which means the sun will be behind the fab 4 until the afternoon. In 1932, Helen Kane actually sued the makers of the Betty Boop cartoons for $250,000 in damages, claiming that they had stolen the phrase from her act. So Paul Simon might have been nodding at Lennon, but not vice versa. I Love You,” “From Me to You,” and “Thank You Girl.” But a shift began to occur in the summer of 1963, he said, when they collaborated on “She Loves You.” “We hit on the idea of doing a kind of a reported conversation: ‘I saw her yesterday, she told me what to say, she said she loves you.’ It just gave us another little dimension, really.”. People looked for all sorts of hidden meanings. It claimed that “walrus” is Greek for “corpse,” among other bogus factoids. Pepper’s LP!) George appears to have dipped into John’s arsenal by adding an extra measure here and there for effect in “Taxman” as was Lennon’s habit (see the verses of “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away” for example, not to mention his erratic measure/half-measure additions in the later Beatles catalog). The Beatles. The Ballad of John and Yoko Lyrics: Standing in the dock at Southampton / Trying to get to Holland or France / The man in the mac said, "You've got … Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— The closest you’ll find to those words in Finnegans Wake, however, are googoo goosth, in a passage that has nothing to do with Humpty’s fall. This page gives links to all of the Beatles songs covered on the 'Behind the Beatles Lyrics' site. And whether pigs have wings.”, A walrus expounding on the flying potential of pigs? Tenniel picked the carpenter. On my American playground, we had a gross-out song like that too, but it started off with Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts. 2 Unfortunately, that film was not preserved, and there are no other sound recordings of her. I didn’t much care to hear about how “the Eggman” supposedly came from a nickname for Eric Burdon of The Animals, thanks to his penchant for breaking eggs on his sexual conquests (or, as Burdon later clarified, having eggs broken on him). And the men on the merry-go-round look vaguely like stereotypical Russians, possibly Back in the USSR? The bit about flying like Lucy in the sky linked back to “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” obviously enough. Like Alice reading “Jabberwocky,” my head filled with half-formed ideas. Those are Baby You're a Rich Man and Baby's In Black. See how they run makes yet another link backwards to childhood, to the three blind mice running from the farmer’s wife. Then fuse all of the above into an inclusive first-person plural we. So if you follow the note for uffish you can read what Carroll himself said about the word in a letter to a young friend: “It seemed to suggest a state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish.”. T-Pain, Lil Yachty. In late 1991, a long silenced frequency rekindled on Philippine television sets with the plaintive chant, "Love, love me do. He never said, though he did tell Playboy that he wrote the first line of “I Am the Walrus” on an acid trip one weekend in 1967, and the second on an acid trip the next weekend. When the judge was presented with a sound film of Baby Esther, that was enough for him to decide against Miss Kane. You Never Give Me Your Money You only give me your paper And in the middle of negotiations you break down I never give you my number I only give my situation I guess you could say this is a little Beatles twist on the classic “money can’t buy you happiness” line. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. The student said that his literature class was analyzing lyrics to Beatles songs, which Lennon found utterly ridiculous. Beatles Adult T-Shirt: Beatles Song Lyric Edition "A Day in the Life" $24.99 Features the song title 'A Day in the Life' which was the final track on The Beatle's 8th studio album 'Sgt Pepper'. Released 50 years ago, “I Am the Walrus” is endlessly analyzable, and yet somehow analysis-proof. There was a rumor in the Soviet Union that The Beatles had secretly visited the U.S.S.R. and given a private concert for the children of top Communist party members. Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite? How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’. Pink girl with "S" A-Z. This article has been adapted from In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs. “I Am The Walrus” is also one of my favorite tracks—because I did it, of course, but also because it’s one of those that has enough little bitties going to keep you interested even a hundred years later. Well, what can I say? “It seems very pretty,” she said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand!” (You see she didn’t like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn’t make it out at all.) But Wait, There’s More Beatles… Let that serve as an antidote, Gardner advised, to “the tendency to find too much intended symbolism in the Alice books.”. We've also written about the Anthology tracks, live radio-only recordings from Live … In the early ’60s, back in the Cavern Club in Liverpool, one of the Beatles’ fans was a girl called Pat Hodgett who had a compulsive need to eat cling-film (Saran Wrap) and shopping bags. “None of it has to make sense and if it seems funny then that’s enough.”, But if we allow ourselves to get serious and scholarly, there’s another way to think about that first line: as a play of pronouns and shifting perspective that expressed the culmination of lyrical trends the Beatles had been exploring since their early days. It’s unforgettable gibberish, though it often gets mixed up in people’s memories with coo coo ca-choo from Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs. That bit of goo-goo talk has more to do with the words goose and ghost, as the passage alludes to an Irish fairytale about King O’Toole, whose old goose is miraculously made young again by Saint Kevin. [21] What a thing to do. As part of his demonstration of how pronouns and other function words serve as “keys to the soul,” Pennebaker plumbs Beatles lyrics and finds that over time they grew “more complex, more psychologically distant and far less positive.” Their pronoun use shifted, with first-person singular pronouns—I and me—dropping from a rate of 14 percent in the Beatles’ first years to 7 percent in their final three years. While nicely alliterative and referencing the ’60s vogue for plasticated clothing, the name isn’t a total fabrication on John Lennon’s part. But his greatest work of nonsense was not on our bookshelves, of course. A Canadian proponent of the “Paul is dead” school of thought takes the cake: “In Inuit it means ‘Living is easy with eyes closed’ and was used to establish a connection to the Inuit. Who was really responsible for the nonsense phrase? I did enjoy the recollection of Pete Shotton, Lennon’s school chum and fellow Quarryman, who explained the origins of the “yellow matter custard” that disgustingly drips from a dead dog’s eye. The Graduate hit movie theaters in December, featuring an early partial rendition of “Mrs. It certainly sounds Joycean, and it would be nice to think of “I Am the Walrus,” Finnegans Wake, and Carroll’s Alice stories forming a kind of wordplay-laden intertextual triangle. Of course the walrus was John, and wait a minute, wasn’t there a walrus in Through the Looking-Glass? Lennon sneers at the overanalyzing expert-texperts like that Quarry Bank literature teacher who would kick Edgar Allan Poe if given half a chance. This hadn’t occurred to me until I read The Secret Life of Pronouns by the social psychologist James Pennebaker. The Beagle Boys become the latest music sensation in Duckburg, much to Scrooge's chagrin. He’s 11 now, and is skilled in a kind of information-gathering that I could only have dreamt of at his age. And why the sea is boiling hot— The “expert-texpert” is  advised that “the joker” just might be laughing at him. This is a sew-on woven patch, made from polyester, with standard backing and an overlocked edge. —Alice, upon first reading “Jabberwocky” in Through the Looking-Glass. Good luck!Check out more quizzes like this! No wonder I felt like it was resisting me. Press J to jump to the feed. Any interpretive effort runs aground on the limits of interpretation. I asked Blake where he would look if he wanted to understand the lyrics to “I Am the Walrus,” and his answer said it all: “Goo goo ga Google.” But even with the never-ending electronic stream of information and interpretation that can be served up instantaneously through a search engine, the song stubbornly stands on its own, perplexing new generations of listeners with its delightful opacity. [20] Lead vocals were also shared by the group, with Starr usually contributing vocals to one song per album. Hold your head up you silly girl look what you ve done If you don't know the song, search for the lyrics ... You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo. Lennon fills out the chorus with the purest of nonsense. And I dove deep into The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner’s illuminating exposition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, its margins bursting with side notes that made the curious main text even curiouser. If you want to find a precursor in Carroll, you could, as Walter Everett does in The Beatles as Musicians. —John Lennon to Dennis Elsas on WNEW-FM, Sept. 28, 1974. Others point to “Marching to Pretoria,” a song dating back to British soldiers in the Second Boer War. The strings enter forebodingly. “The Walrus and the Carpenter” isn’t as nonsense-heavy as “Jabberwocky,” but one verse is beautifully meaningless: “The time has come,” the Walrus said, The construction worker with the yellow hardhat looks like he's "Fixing a Hole". The image of a “Quarry Bank literature master pontificating about the symbolism of Lennon-McCartney” inspired him to come up with “yellow matter custard” and similarly cockeyed lines. "Beaglemania" is the eighty-seventh episode of DuckTales. Well, here’s a rather wordy song. I'm going through a serious Fab Four phase at the moment, I think because of the eminent release of The Beatles: Rock Band (09.09.09, people, it's just around the corner!!). The song "Boogie Beagle Blues" appeared on the Disney … They believed the song "Back In The U.S.S.R." was written because of … Two people knocking into each other (You Won't See Me?) A musical childhood memory: The turntable on our Heathkit stereo spins, and I hear Lennon’s electric piano wobbling between two notes. Ringo’s drums kick in. Growing up in a house full of books, I spent the most time with the ones that were seriously silly. Lennon’s “Nowhere Man,” from 1965, is a bit too on-the-nose in this department: Isn’t he a bit like you and me? Misheard song lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. Fine then. Song Structure and Style. (Paul got in on the act in “Lady Madonna,” quoting See how they run to make a joke about how both children and stockings run.). Online, the story has been obscured even further by false identifications of Baby Esther in photos and sound clips. is wearing a skirt, based on the makeshift bag and the tear I think it's She's Leaving Home. All together now. Maybe visit the Beatles Story or Liverpool Museum before heading across to the statue. “It’s true, but it’s still a joke. Inspired nonsense has held me in its spell for as long as I can remember. The phrase shares the syncopated cadence and childlike frivolity of boop-boop-a-doop, made famous in the 1930s as the catchphrase of everyone’s favorite cartoon pin-up, Betty Boop. My wished-for lyrical annotations and textual linkages are now commonplace online, thanks to sites like Wikipedia and Genius. One press account of the 1934 trial gave her full name as Esther Jones. In the lyrics, pigs are flying, or things are flying like pigs, just like Lucy in the sky. There were no annotations for the “I am the Walrus” lyrics, but it soon dawned on me that Lennon had playfully built in his own kind of side notes, embedding links between the song and other works. Robinson,” as the two songs came out around the same time. Combining data, colorful artwork, interactive charts, graphs, and timelines, … “There are bound to be thickheads who will wonder why some of it doesn’t make sense, and others who will search for hidden meanings,” McCartney wrote. Once again, interpretation has its limits. I can’t prove this of course, but I suspect it’s true. ), Joyce and the Inuit notwithstanding, I eventually zeroed in on a more likely source of inspiration for goo goo ga joob (and Simon’s coo coo ca-choo) in popular music. As Shotton tells it, after Lennon wrote down the line about “semolina pilchard” unaccountably scaling the Eiffel Tower, he smiled and said, “Let the fuckers work that one out, Pete!”. But two years and who knows how many acid trips later, Lennon could find new profundity (pseudo- or no) in the string of pronoun equations that opens “I Am the Walrus.” First-person I equals third-person he, second-person you equals third-person he, second-person you equals first-person me.
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