Well, look whos back. Fifty years ago today The Beatles hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 with I Feel Fine. The following week the song went to No. 1, where it spent three weeks, only to be displaced by the hit it had displaced at No. 1, The Supremes Come See About Me. This was the Beatles sixth No. 1 hit in 1964, a record for any calendar year. The song is most famous for being the first to use feedback on record. The lads were about to stop rehearsing and listen to a take, and John leaned his guitar (an acoustic-electric Gibson J-160E) against an amp. Paul has said I can still see him doing it. . . it went, Nnnnnnwahhhhh! And we went, Whats that? Voodoo! No, its feedback. Wow, its a great sound! George Martin was there so we said, Can we have that on the record? Well, I suppose we could, we could edit it on the front. It was a found object, an accident caused by leaning the guitar against the amp. Lennon went and built the song around the feedback note (Paul insists they wrote it together). The distinctive riff is based on a 1961 song called Watch Your Step, written and performed by Bobby Parker, which The Beatles covered in concerts in 1961 and 1962. Ringos drums are inspired by the Latin-flavored drumming on Ray Charless Whatd I Say. Though this No. 1 was less than a year from I Want to Hold Your Hand and She Loves You, it feels like eons. https://youtube/watch?v=iXU5hzgxpUY
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 22:35:57 +0000
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