Good Morning/Good Afternoon/Good Evening. Song of The Day. Yellow Submarine is a 1966 song by the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney), with lead vocals by Ringo Starr. It was included on the Revolver album and issued as a single, coupled with Eleanor Rigby. The single went to number 1 on every major British chart, remained at number 1 for four weeks and charted for 13 weeks. It won an Ivor Novello Award for the highest certified sales of any single issued in the UK in 1966. In the US, the song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and became the most successful Beatles song to feature Ringo Starr as lead vocalist. It became the title song of the 1968 animated United Artists film, also called Yellow Submarine, and the soundtrack album to the film, released as part of the Beatles music catalogue. Although intended as a nonsense song for children, Yellow Submarine received various social and political interpretations at the time. McCartney was living in Jane Ashers parents house when he found the inspiration for the song: I was laying in bed in the Ashers garret ... I was thinking of it as a song for Ringo, which it eventually turned out to be, so I wrote it as not too rangey in the vocal, then started making a story, sort of an ancient mariner, telling the young kids where hed lived. It was pretty much my song as I recall ... I think John helped out. The lyrics got more and more obscure as it goes on, but the chorus, melody and verses are mine. The song began as being about different coloured submarines, but evolved to include only a yellow one. In 1980, Lennon talked about the song: Yellow Submarine is Pauls baby. Donovan helped with the lyrics. I helped with the lyrics too. We virtually made the track come alive in the studio, but based on Pauls inspiration. Pauls idea. Pauls title ... written for Ringo. Donovan added the words, Sky of blue and sea of green. McCartney also said: Its a happy place, thats all. You know, it was just ... We were trying to write a childrens song. That was the basic idea. And theres nothing more to be read into it than there is in the lyrics of any childrens song. Produced by George Martin and engineered by Geoff Emerick, Yellow Submarine was finished after five takes on 26 May, in Studio Two at Abbey Road Studios, with special effects being added on 1 June. George Martin drew on his experience as a producer of comedy records for Beyond the Fringe and The Goon Show, providing an array of zany sound effects to create the nautical atmosphere. On the second session the studio store cupboard was ransacked for special effects, which included chains, a ships bell, tap dancing mats, whistles, hooters, waves, a tin bath filled with water, wind and thunderstorm machines, as well as a cash register, which was later used on Pink Floyds song Money. Lennon blew through a straw into a pan of water to create a bubbling effect, McCartney and Lennon talked through tin cans to create the sound of the captains orders, at 1:38-40 in the song, Ringo stepped outside the doors of the recording room and yelled like a sailor acknowledging Cut the cable! Drop the cable!, which was looped into the song afterwards, and Abbey Road employees John Skinner and Terry Condon twirled chains in a tin bath to create water sounds. After the line, and the band begins to play, Emerick found a recording of a brass band and changed it slightly so it could not be identified, although it is thought to be a recording of Georges Krier and Charles Helmers 1906 composition, Le Rêve Passe. The original recording had a spoken intro by Starr, but the idea was abandoned on 3 June. When the overdubs were finished, Mal Evans strapped on a marching bass drum and led everybody in a line around the studio doing the conga dance whilst banging on the drum. Yellow Submarine was mixed on 2 and 3 June, and finished on 22 June. The Yellow Submarine single was the Beatles thirteenth single release in the United Kingdom. It was released in the UK on 5 August as a double A side with Eleanor Rigby, and in the United States on 8 August. In both countries, the album Revolver (which also featured both songs) was released the same day as the single. youtube/watch?v=bM5NIi8m_kQ
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