@AirplayBeats reacts to Elton John - Bennie and the Jets Like comment and subscribe patreon.com/user?u=81569817 Airplay Beats 3609 Bradshaw Rd Ste H #337 Sacramento, CA 95827 Www.Airplaybeats.com
While I dearly love this album, I’d like to see them do something like Honky Chateau or Tumbleweed Connection. I think they’d really dig Tumbleweed Connection.
This song was a huge hit in Winnipeg, Manitoba,Canada. Winnipeg was awarded and NHL team. The owner was Benny Haskins and the team name was the Winnipeg Jets.
This is a song where Elton made Bernie Taupin's lyrics larger than what they were. This one has only two verses and a pre chorus and chorus. Elton does falsetto (pretending to be Franki Valli) and also stutters on the word Bennie and then draws out the S sound in Jets. Just brilliant. His piano playing is excellent and then Gus Dudgeon's brilliance in editing in live audience sound and also claps and whistles is superb. Elton's singing is so different you almost don't understand the song lyrics at all. [Verse 1] Hey kids, shake it loose together The spotlight's hitting something That's been known to change the weather We'll kill the fatted calf tonight so stick around You're gonna hear electric music, solid walls of sound [Pre-Chorus] Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet? Ooh, but they're so spaced out B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets Oh, but they're weird and they're wonderful Oh, Bennie, she's really keen [Chorus] She's got electric boots, a mohair suit You know I read it in a magazine, oh B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets [Verse 2] Hey kids, plug into the faithless Maybe they're blinded, but Bennie makes them ageless We shall survive, let us take ourselves along Where we fight our parents out in the streets To find who's right and who's wrong [Pre-Chorus] Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet? Ooh, but they're so spaced out B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets Oh, but they're weird and they're wonderful Oh, Bennie, she's really keen [Chorus] She's got electric boots, a mohair suit You know I read it in a magazine, oh B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets [Pre-Chorus] Oh, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet? Oh, but they're so spaced out B-B-B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets Oh, but they're weird and they're wonderful Oh, Bennie, she's really keen [Chorus] She's got electric boots, a mohair suit You know I read it in a magazine B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets [Outro] Bennie, Bennie and the Jets Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets, the Jets, the Jets Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets
Classic Albums documentary about this album has Gus Dudgeon, the amazing producer, talking about how they mixed this to sound live, including a purposeful dub of an English audience clapping on 1 & 3. And weirdly enough, it works.
“He’s got electric boots and a mohair (yes they were an item in the 60’s) suit” coupled with Sir Elton’s virtuosity on the piano, make this a fine tune all around. My fav is Saturday Night’s All Right for Fighting, but this is right😊 up there! You can understand how there are no “bad” songs on this album…great reaction per your standard of excellence!
Heavy compression pushes Eltons Piano forward. As it should. Benny and The Jets was a fictitious band kind of like Sgt Peppers which opens with crowd noises. Elton love The Beatles and wrote a song about his love for John Lennon after he was killed. Its a beautiful tribute. "Empty Garden". A must listen.
This album is a masterpiece. It was my transition from The Partridge Family to REAL music. I love that you love it, too, decades after it was released.
Hopefully you didn't get too upset when you found out Trump is gay. I mean Elton John. My siblings went bananas. Elton John was their favorite. I was always off fishing or playing sports, they were doing church activities. They couldn't handle Elton John's choices for himself. To this day they deny they were traumatized but their joining the Trump-Putin maga cult was proof they only liked Trump & Elton if they stay in the closet. Denying facts. It's weird how that actually was a segue to joining Trump's cult. Partridge Family by today's standards had a few good songs, actually. Back then, not so much because so many real bands being really great. But they weren't bad. Terrible TV show, but 75% of network TV shows then were terrible too!
@@Greg-io1ip It's 2023 Hopefully if we all respect Sir Elton's feelings and choice, we can respect your brothers feelings and choices too. #Equality for all. # Tolerance.
This album, Goodby Yellow Brick Road, and the Madman Across the Water album are classics and just killer. He was at the height of his powers back then. I was a teenager when they came out and was blown away being a rock/blues kid (Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Clapton etc.). Great stuff.
Elton always plays a Yamaha Disklavier grand piano, surrounded by microphones, for that huge sound. This is a studio version, with crowd sounds added. Thanks for your reaction.
I thought Elton was playing Steinway's back then, and didn't switch to Yamaha until Songs from the West Coast (although I am not an Elton expert so could be wrong)
Somebody starting singing this in bootcamp and it wouldn't die. We would just randomly start singing the last part throughout the whole 2 months. BENNIE!
I was 11 when this came out...couldn't believe it was the same guy that sang "Your Song"! 2 of my all-time favorite songs. In my humble opinion, as far as reaction channels go, you guys are the best. I was not surprised to your reaction to this record. I believed you described it as "Incredible!" I agree. Elton John is a GIANT....enjoy the album.
@@yourebusted5786, Elton and Bernie started writing together again on his last few albums, that’s my understanding, actually my favorite albums are all the early one up to and including Captain Fantastic and definitely some other songs since those albums
I just listened to Uncle Salty, and Sweet Emotion. These guys need to venture into the Aerosmith library more. They've only hit four songs. I do like how they are exploring the bands albums.
@@amrak5028 I like seeing these guys do their reactions to songs we grew up with. Almost every comment I leave includes more AEROSMITH! Hasn’t worked. 😁🤷♂️🤦♂️
I am having such a good time watching these 2 discover Elton John. This was one of the biggest songs on the radio when I was in 6th grade. How cool was our music?
This was played in the studio, but it was live in the studio, with the band playing together, writing the song as they were recording it. They even left in the mistakes (like the goof at the beginning where Elton started in the wrong key). It just worked.
Despite sounding as though recorded live, the song was actually recorded in studio, with live sound effects added in later. Producer Gus Dudgeon explained: For some weird reason, Elton happened to have hit the opening piano chord of the song exactly one bar before the song actually started.
If you wanna live version. Pull up Elton John : Benny and the Jets (Central Park, New York City 1980) he’s a beast on that piano you’re gonna love it 🩵🩵🩵
Elton John is one of the few and maybe the only artists who you can recognize by his piano playing alone. Before he ever sings a word. Elton is a classically trained pianist. I went to my first rock concert at age 14, with my sister who was 15. Yes, my mother let us go by ourselves. My dad had passed by then or it would never have happened. Elton John and the band were in full regalia costume and he was doing handstands on his piano keyboard. Guitarist Dee Murray, with his long blonde beautiful hair, was wearing his sparkly platform shoes and kicking yellow wrapped brick sponges out into the audience. Not bad for a first rock concert!
Just another thing to admire Elton for, all these years and he still has some of his original musicians with him. I was blessed to see him in 2022 and it was amazing, and so heartwarming to see the familiar musicians I’ve loved since 1971.
My first Elton john show was 1980 at MSG. A guy was standing on the first escalator platform selling loose joints from a giant bag.price was $1 ea. 5 for $3..I'll never forget it cause I had to sleep out on the street all night to get tickets at msg box office. I was on 8th Ave side staring at the post office across the street. Was the longest night of my life! Surrounded by angel dusted freaks and all of NY cities Night time vermin. Still what a show
@edwardcapobianco2975 Love how descriptive your story is! Put me right there & made me smile. And made me remember some of my own concert tales... ...getting a taste of tear gas at my 3rd Zeppelin concert... Hendrix reaching down to hand me his guitar pick & a big guy jostling me aside to grab it instead.. ...my friend getting hit with food poisoning on the way to an out-of-town T. Rex concert, having to take her to the ER but still by gosh getting there in time to see most of the show (Bolan was a blast)... ....getting a good close look at how beautiful Elvis(!) was in person as he introduced little Lisa Marie & his dad to the audience... Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane, both yours & mine.💙💫
@@deborahcornell171 Wow Deborah! Talk about legends! Jimi, Marc Bolan and Elvis! That's quite a lineup!!! I never got to see any of those guys. I'm 59 yrs old so I was born early enough to still be a huge fan of all the great 60s and 70s performers. 60s and 70s in my opinion are the 2 greatest decades for quality music by far. Nothing can touch it! Lyrical content, stellar musicianship,3,4 5 part harmonies,front men like Freddie Mercury, jagger, plant, Elton John, David Lee Roth,etc. Masterpiece albums like, Abbey Road, Zeppelin 1, Hotel California, Let it Bleed, Steely Dan Aja or Cant Buy a Thrill, Dark side of the Moon,The Wall!! We had it all,everything one could want. Not to mention all the variety, including all the black performers like Earth ,Wind,Fire, Motown, Stevie Wonder, Ike and Tina Turner,etc,etc,etc. Sorry for rambling but as far as im concerned, those 2 decades will never be equalled!!! Thanks for responding!!!
@@dickcnormis1444 were you with me and Blackie when we stood in line from 6pm until 10a.m. the next morning when the tickets went on sale? We were on the 8 th Ave side of MSG across the street from the post office. All those jerkoffs in front of us were smoking angel dust and the giant rats 🐀 were ripping open the garbage bags on the street. I thought it was just me and Blackie who slept out for the tickets? I know after the show we went to hang out on the deuce.
The audience effects was also added to the song called Rock n Roll Madonna which was done before the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album but was perfected in Bennie And The Jets.
Funny, I also thought the audience sounds were orchestrated - and I heard Bennie and the Jets alot. The way the clapping lays back behind the beat, weighing the rhythm down, makes for such a uniquely compelling sound. The whistling and cheers, all of it feels like an integral part of the recording. I can't imagine the song without it.
As others have said, this was recorded in a studio with crowd effects added. They added reverb and other effects to make it appear live. My friend claims that this song makes his balls itch. We were at a semi- formal in Trenton. He was standing next to me. By the time the stuttered opening ended, he was gone. I went outsider. He was half a block away and wouldn't return until it was over. His date married him anyway, 25 years ago.
Elton John had so many fantastic hits in the 70's, saw him twice then saw him in 1996 in Indianapolis touring with Bill Joel. Couldn't imagin my young teen years without Elton! Elton could play and sound the same anywhere, it didn't matter.
I remember back in the day when I was probably 6, they played this on the local R&B radio station. My Aunties were teens back then & listened to the radio all the time. I spent alot of time with them at my Grammy's house & that's why I love 70's music so much today. Elton John also sang this on Soul Train.
Back in the early 70s - one of the only semi-cool bands my mom had an album or two of was Elton John. This was on Greatest Hits Pt 1 - the man already had a greatest hits in like 1974 or 75! - and we had one of those BIG stereos that was also a piece of furniture with sliding cabinet door on the top. One side where you put all the records and the other contained the turntable - the front and sides were speakers encased in the furniture to make it look nice. This record has such a distinctive sound with that big plunky piano sound. Everytime I hear it just takes me right back. I LOVED to run around the house and sing but I always got the lyrics messed up. Little curly-haired 5 year old singing "she got electric boobs" instead of "boots" in front of my parent's company. LOL!!! Thank you for taking me back with this one. You should hear The Border Song - its an overlooked gem --gospel inspired and very very relevant today. I came across the title last year, and just couldn't place the tune - so I played it and moved me to tears. Great reaction!!!! I always learn a little listening to you talk about production or drums.
I was in the 7th or 8th grade when this song came out. Everybody was jamming to this song @ the skool dance. And the black radio station kept playing it along with Boz Skags AWB AND Wild Cherry we didn't know they were white bands KC -n- Sunshine band. We didn't care bc it was a bop. All the white bands had flavor in the 70's. We heard bennies were the little white speed pills "they were called Bennie's. The black speed was black beauties and it probably was a song for that too. Angel dust was another banger by Gil Scott. Here we are 50yrs later the songs are still bopping and ppl are still popping pills and using (Angel dust) now called water. Please do reaction to the song "ANGEL DUST"! ITS A BEAUTIFUL SONG
Probably my favorite song of his. And I like all his songs! His piano playing is just incredible. This is the version that played on radios. I'm not aware of another version. I hope he's doing better after a spill he took while touring. One artist I wish I could have seen in concert.
I love the song... Elton John had a great group of people either writing or producing and it shows. Even his drummer was so famous he had His own name on the kick...Nigel Olsson.. Not that you can believe Wikipedia 100% but they claim the song was recorded in a studio with live crowd sound effects added. """ Despite sounding as though recorded live, the song was actually recorded in studio, with live sound effects added in later. Producer Gus Dudgeon explained:[9] For some weird reason, Elton happened to have hit the opening piano chord of the song exactly one bar before the song actually started. So I was doing the mix and this chord kept coming on which you normally wouldn't expect to hear. I turned to engineer [David Hentschel] and I said, 'What does that remind you of? … It's the sort of thing that people do on stage just before they're going to start a song.' Just to kind of get everybody, 'Okay, here we go, ready?' For some reason that chord being there made me think, 'Maybe we should fake-live this.' Dudgeon mixed in sounds from a 1972 performance of John in Royal Festival Hall and a 1970 Jimi Hendrix concert at the Isle of Wight.[10] He included a series of whistles from a live concert in Vancouver, and added hand claps and various shouts.'''"" Whatever process they used the song is fantastic as is the entire album..... Tumbleweed Connection may have been a better album to some but Elton produced SO much fantastic work that it just doesn't matter which album you choose, it's going to be great. Great choice guys... thanks as always
Saw him live a few times and wow it was awesome. 17 min benny and the jets version that killed it with him TRYING to break his seat for memorabilia at the end. Thanks guys
