Members GY Posted May 9, 2008 Members Share Posted May 9, 2008 Jeez what a song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mudcat007 Posted May 9, 2008 Members Share Posted May 9, 2008 Great tune. "No Reply" and "I'll Be Back" are rarely mentioned among the best of Lennon & McCartney's output but they are two of my favorites. There is a demo of "No Reply" on one of the Anthology CDs that is quite a hoot. I think the boys were singing it in the style of Tommy Quickly as they were thinking of pitching it to him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted May 9, 2008 Members Share Posted May 9, 2008 It sure is a great song. If you're a guy who loves to sing harmony, this song is TOO-OO much fun. Especially that "If I were you" break...:phil::phil::phil: Three Phils! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lee Flier Posted May 9, 2008 Members Share Posted May 9, 2008 My band has covered it. Awesome tune. :phil: :phil: :phil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted May 9, 2008 Members Share Posted May 9, 2008 My band has covered it. Awesome tune. :phil: :phil: :phil: Excellent tune I'l see your three Phils, Lee, and raise you the Official SSS Synchronised Waving Team (props to F-Holes) :wave::wave::wave: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cooterbrown Posted May 10, 2008 Members Share Posted May 10, 2008 Great tune. "No Reply" and "I'll Be Back" are rarely mentioned among the best of Lennon & McCartney's output but they are two of my favorites. A Hard Day's Night is pure pefection, IMO. It always irks me when it doesn't get listed in a Beatles "top five albums" comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted May 10, 2008 Members Share Posted May 10, 2008 A Hard Day's Night is pure pefection, IMO.It always irks me when it doesn't get listed in a Beatles "top five albums" comment. Indeed 'If I Fell' is a sublime piece of songwriting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted May 10, 2008 Members Share Posted May 10, 2008 Never covered "No Reply" but my old band did The Beatles "Ahnold ze guffahnatah" song. (I'll Be Back). Geez...it was harmony festival time on a lot of those tunes. We also covered "Nowhere Man" and "Paperback Writer". Kinda funny because I read that even the Beatles didn't like performing "Paperback" live, because of the tricky harmonies. I guess they released it just before they quit touring in '66. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Magpel Posted May 10, 2008 Members Share Posted May 10, 2008 Great tune. My group was considering it as our token Beatles cover but I think we've settled on "Things We Said Today." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted May 10, 2008 Members Share Posted May 10, 2008 Great tune. My group was considering it as our token Beatles cover but I think we've settled on "Things We Said Today." Do 'Helter Skelter', you coward! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lancaster Posted May 10, 2008 Members Share Posted May 10, 2008 Kinda funny because I read that even the Beatles didn't like performing "Paperback" live, because of the tricky harmonies. I guess they released it just before they quit touring in '66. Must have been tough to do with all that screaming from the audience and no monitors. I think I saw a good performance of it on the Japan '66 DVD though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Magpel Posted May 11, 2008 Members Share Posted May 11, 2008 Do 'Helter Skelter', you coward! Done it! It Sucked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted May 11, 2008 Members Share Posted May 11, 2008 A Hard Day's Night is pure pefection, IMO.. It's great, just great. As a small kid I loved "A Hard Day's Night", "I Should've Known Better".... but my favorite on that album was "Tell Me Why". I still dig it. :phil::phil::phil: I didn't understand till many years later that George Martin had done those very chic orchestral versions of "A Hard Day's Night" and "And I Love Her". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dparr Posted May 11, 2008 Members Share Posted May 11, 2008 - NO REPLY - JOHN 1972: "I remember (Beatles music publisher) Dick James coming up to me after we did this one and saying, 'You're getting better now-- that was a complete story.' Apparently, before that, he thought my songs wandered off." JOHN 1980: "That's my song. That's the one where Dick James the publisher said, 'That's the first complete song you've written that resloves itself,' you know, with a complete story. It was sort of my version of 'Silhouettes.' (sings) 'Silhouettes, silhouettes, silhouettes...' I had that image of walking down the street and seeing her silhouetted in the window and not answering the phone, although I never called a girl on the phone in my life. Because phones weren't part of the English child's life." PAUL circa-1994: "We wrote 'No Reply' together but from a strong original idea of his. I think he pretty much had that one, but as usual, if he didn't have a third verse and the middle-eight, then he'd play it to me pretty much formed. Then we'd shove a bit in the middle or I'd throw in an idea." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cooterbrown Posted May 12, 2008 Members Share Posted May 12, 2008 I've always dug the duplicity of the line, "I saw the light..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GY Posted May 13, 2008 Author Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 It's great to read the replies. Moments before I posted, I had turned on a portable radio by this Internet computer and No Reply immediately started on the FM station. Despite the countless times I've heard this song, it never ceases to amaze. Apparently many others feel the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dparr Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 Originally John Lennon had intended to sing the higher harmony part of the chorus, as this was the original melody. However, his voice had deteriorated due to excessive use and Paul McCartney had to take this part, relegating Lennon to the lower harmony line. Lennon said he got the influence for this song from "Silhouettes," a hit for a group known as the Rays in 1957. Twenty years later, many people used parts of this song for their answering machine messages. It was recorded on September 30, 1964. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dparr Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 It's great to read the replies. Much better than "No Reply". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mudcat007 Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 ...but my favorite on that album was "Tell Me Why". I still dig it. :phil::phil::phil:... SWINGIN' BABY! :phil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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