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Yoko on Birthday
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:36 am
by myfretless
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.
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:57 pm
by karl_teten
Yoko sings on Bungalow Bill.
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 2:50 pm
by brammy
Yoko IS Bungalow Bill.
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:49 pm
by glass_onion
shes on bungalo bill too
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 4:02 pm
by sloop_john_b
Boys, I do believe she also sang on "Bungalow Bill" from The White Album!
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 5:39 pm
by simer4001
I beleive that Yoko, Linda and Patti Harrison all sang on Birthday!
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:22 pm
by bosifis
Kids, I think that's enough discussion on Yoko
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:34 am
by 325_fan
I know this dude that does sound effects for Yoko.
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:59 am
by shamustwin
So, which is the earliest Beatles' recording using non-Beatle voices? I vote for "I Am The Walrus"
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:52 am
by mikestop
My Vote - Mal Evans counting the measures at the end of "A Day in The Life" leading up to the BIG final chord!
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 10:40 am
by myfretless
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.
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 11:13 am
by winston
"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.
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:40 pm
by helterskelter
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!!
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:09 pm
by revolver323
Isn't it "Don't Worry Kyoko, Mummy's Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow?"