@@jimoncken6936 There's a bluegrass version on RU-vid using the banjo to replace the piano. Very innovative, and I've used that idea because piano CAN have the chopped-off notes/tones of a banjo.
I want to comment on something but it's difficult to find a suitable adjective to describe a composition like this. What can I say about a genius of this magnitude !!
Exactly the genius of Paul which some people still play down or attribute his talent to others. Silly people, it seems, oh well we are individuals with different tastes. Thanks great video.
Can you hear Paul starting on the guitar, bridge pickup; the hard downstrokes ( "Taxman" edgy style) & George Harrison smooth melodic playing of the tune....with headphone bleed? Hendrix played in London in early 1967... According to Beatles biographers Ian MacDonald and Mark Lewisohn, "Martha My Dear" is one of the few songs by the band in which McCartney played all the instruments (except orchestral instruments played by session musicians) Source: Wikipedia Its a joy to hear them play & record regardless, thanks for uploading with bonus photos!
Atleast George played on it as there are photos from the session showing him there. Also according to the 2018 Deluxe booklet an early track line up was Paul's overdubbed claps and vocal on track 5, George's guitar and possibly Ringo's drums on track 6, and piano on track 7. I think this is what was released on the 2018 box set titled "Martha My Dear (Without Brass and Strings)". When I was isolating the guitar from that take I heard some mic bleed from the brass. This leads me to think that George possibly played live with the brass overdubs. From the session photos we can see George with his Les Paul and Paul on the piano. So that also makes me think Ringo recorded the drums as the guitar and drums were recorded on the same track. Also Mal Evans did place him there. So George definitely played on it with Ringo 90% playing on it. I think the guitar (recording wise) flows too nicely for Paul to have played some of it. It seems like one take from Harrison rather than two different takes played back to back. The tone is also too consistent for guitars to be swapped as Paul most likely wouldn't have used the same right handed guitar as George.
@magicmusic8 Hate to be the one to tell you: "Expert" MacDonald literally just made shit up all the time. And Lewisohn has been wrong over and over. I love the work of the scholarly Lewisohn. But Macdonald is worthless as a source of info.
I think Paul played guitar during the instrumental. You can hear a very quiet guitar play the vocal melody. You can hear it best at the beginning of the section where "Martha my dear, you have" would be sung. The lyric sheet shows that Paul initially wanted a solo on the song, and that guitar might have been intended as a solo before Paul felt that the trumpets were enough. I do wonder why it was kept in the mix then when it's so quiet that it's inaudible without separation?
The guitar was recorded on the same track as the drums, so if they wanted to raise the guitar volume they'd have to also raise the drum volume. The guitar bleeding into the vocal track can be chalked down to the ai letting some guitar come through. As we do have session photos showing George it was most likely George.
I'm going off of the 2018 White Album booklet which lists Ringo, and provides the Mal Evans quote provided in the description along with a track breakdown of who played on the track before the orchestra overdubs. With Paul's vocals and hand claps on track 5, George's guitar and possibly Ringo's drums on track 6 and Paul's piano on track 7. Although it is possible Ringo was absent the Mal Evans quote makes me really think he recorded the drum part. Although that may not be the case.
@@timreedy IMO Pau hits harder and more consistently no matter what the song where Ringo "plays the song". Don't get me wrong I am a big fan of Macca's drumming - big reason I like McCartney I, II and III>
Des sources historiques contradictoires indiquent que seul Paul McCartney joue sur les pistes de "Martha My Dear". Ni George Harrisson ni Ringo Starr n'auraient participé à l'enregistrement aux studios Olympic, Paul se chargeant de toutes les pistes à l'exception des instruments classiques. Il faudrait quand même lui demander ce qu'il en est, avant qu'il ne soit trop tard... Anyway, thanks for the magnificent naked tracks!
