Yoko on Birthday

myfretless · Post by **myfretless** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:36 am

Does anyone know the story as to how Yoko got to be on "Birthday"? Her singing of "birthday" on the chorus cuts through like a Ginsu.

As this was Paul's song, did Paul ask Yoko to sing as an appeasement to John? Or did John insist on having Yoko on the song? Other than "Revolution #9" I cannot think of Yoko being on any other Beatles song. It just seems odd that she's on a Paul song.

karl_teten · Post by **karl_teten** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:57 pm

Yoko sings on Bungalow Bill.

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 2:50 pm

Yoko IS Bungalow Bill.

glass_onion · Post by **glass_onion** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:49 pm

shes on bungalo bill too

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 4:02 pm

Boys, I do believe she also sang on "Bungalow Bill" from The White Album!

simer4001 · Post by **simer4001** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 5:39 pm

I beleive that Yoko, Linda and Patti Harrison all sang on Birthday!

bosifis · Post by **bosifis** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:22 pm

Kids, I think that's enough discussion on Yoko

325_fan · Post by **325_fan** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:34 am

I know this dude that does sound effects for Yoko.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:59 am

So, which is the earliest Beatles' recording using non-Beatle voices? I vote for "I Am The Walrus"

mikestop · Post by **mikestop** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:52 am

My Vote - Mal Evans counting the measures at the end of "A Day in The Life" leading up to the BIG final chord!

myfretless · Post by **myfretless** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 10:40 am

That's right, I forgot about Bungalow Bill. How could I? Yeesh! Ok, so is it true that the wives were on Birthday? That makes more sense. Yoko just pierces above the rest.

winston · Post by **winston** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 11:13 am

"Yoko just pierces above the rest"

Linda's voice was a reasonable facsimile of what typifies a singing voice. Pattis' voice? Well who really knows? Has any one ever heard her sing solo? I haven't.

Yoko with her strange style of vocal gymnastics does a great imitation of a macaque that my wife and I encountered at a zoo in Ramat Gan Israel.

Perhaps she got her inspiration from listening to a group them at twilight. It is quite a sound to hear close up and from a distance it is quite eery.

We remarked at the time that John Lennon would love these guys because they sound like Yoko on some of his records.

Singer - No. Avant Garde artist - perhaps, performer - yes. John's soul mate - yes and that is really all that mattered to him.

helterskelter · Post by **helterskelter** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:40 pm

Has anyone heard Yoko singing on The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus with John playing along? forget the name of the song but then again its not a song to remember!!

revolver323 · Post by **revolver323** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:09 pm

Isn't it "Don't Worry Kyoko, Mummy's Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow?"