![]() ![]() The song also included Ringo Starr on drums and Paul McCartney on maracas and backing vocals, prodding Shirley to get wild with that accordion. The Beatles had made good use of outside classical musicians already, so they’d already set that precedent, though wouldn’t include guest guitarist Eric Clapton for several months. The Lennon-McCartney instrumental “Shirley’s Wild Accordion,” featured Shirley Evans on accordion and Reg Wale on percussion. “Flying” which comes off as a psychedelic 12-bar piece on the album, is actually an excerpt from a much longer, and much more intricate piece called “Aerial Tour Instrumental.” It soars, swoops and captures the oddest of sounds while staggering basic rhythms against unattainable time constraints. The incidental music was recorded after the Beatles completed the two weeks of filming, dividing their time recording, editing, and doing additional filming. “Blue Jay Way” ends the verses on 7/4 time as well. Except for “The Fool On The Hill” and “Your Mother Should Know,” all the songs for the EP were recorded before filming began on September 11, 1967, in a period that included the recordings of “All Together Now,” “You Know My Name (Look Up The Number),” “It’s All Too Much,” “Baby You’re A Rich Man” and the summer of love anthem broadcast live around the world “All You Need Is Love.” The non-romantic love song opens in alternating 3/4 and 4/4 time and if there is one thing prog fans love, it is seven. Ringo Starr played drums and an assortment of percussion. George Harrison played electric lead, slide and acoustic guitars organ and harmonica. Paul McCartney plucked acoustic and electric bass guitars and guitars, piano, mellotron and recorder. John Lennon played electric and acoustic guitars, acoustic and electric pianos mellotron, organ, clavioline, and the harmonica on the album. The Beatles were continually expanding their musical repertoire and play a vast array of instruments on the album. album set a record of the largest initial sales of any album in history. The six soundtrack songs plus five other songs released by The Beatles in 1967. The Capitol Records’ version of Magical Mystery Tour was a full-length LP. The EP came with a gatefold sleeve and a 28-page booklet. Disco two had Paul’s Maharishi parable “The Fool On The Hill” and the instrumental piece “Flying” on side one, and George Harrison’s fogged up “Blue Jay Way” on the flip. “Your Mother Should Know” might have benefitted from a snippet of a song within a song reminiscent of something someone’s mother should know, like “Honey Pie” on The White Album. The chords may be simple, the rhythms uncomplicated, but the production is as complicated as it gets. Disc one had “Magical Mystery Tour,” a rollicking horn-infused carnival bark with a polyrhythmic section when the backing goes to 3/4 and the horns stay in 2/4, and “Your Mother Should Know” on the A-side, backed with “I Am The Walrus.” “I Am The Walrus” is a masterwork. ![]() It had two 7-inch singles containing six songs. The core songs of the album were included on The Magical Mystery Tour EP. But most of the incidental music from the film was produced by the Beatles themselves using the wondrous engineering of Geoff Emerick, Ken Scott and John Timperley, who co-engineered “Your Mother Should Know.” Listen to The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour on Amazon Prime As a matter of fact, or rumor, 50 years ago the classic album was nicknamed Martin’s best because his deft fingers are all over that production. But a lot of that credit has to go to George Martin. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, largely considered their masterwork. The incidental music in that film was also unlike anything the band had put on vinyl. Magical Mystery Tour’s incidental music captured the band’s experimentation in ways never covered on their official releases.įilmmakers point to the one-hour movie Magical Mystery Tour as groundbreaking independent auteur celluloid. version of the Yellow Submarine soundtrack had the songs on one side and Sir George’s orchestral scores on the flip. George Martin scored and recorded the music for A Hard Day’s Night. The American album versions of A Hard Day’s Night and Help! included the incidental music from the movies. ![]() All they had to do was put the album out the way traditional film soundtracks were done at the time. The Beatles had everything on tape already to make that happen. They wouldn’t even have had to steal songs from their as-yet-and still undreamed of soundtrack for Yellow Submarine to do it. The album, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary today, set a completely different standard for prog music by the band who did more to advance rock artistry than virtually any other. Magical Mystery Tour, which some consider to be an extended EP serving as a soundtrack for The Beatles’ then-upcoming self-produced and directed holiday film, might have been the band’s greatest musical achievement. ![]()
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