This was Lennon at his peak during the peak of Beatlemania, one of my all time personal favorites as well!!! I'll Be Back is another little masterpiece of songwriting from Lennon that never became a big favorite, but is still great, It's Only Love as well from around that era.
6 years of output really. "Let It Be" was released in 1970, yes, but it was actually recorded in February of 1969 and sat on the shelf for a year. So their titanic output took place within 6 years, from 1963 - 1969. "Abbey Road," their last-recorded album was released in August 1969.
@@classicalethics2053 Their first recording "Love Me Do" was recorded in September 1962 and Abbey Road was released in September 1969: that's exactly 7 years. (If one doesn't count "I Me Mine", recorded in January 1970, which makes it 7 and 1/3 years.)
@@wonder6789 I was going by albums. Their first album was 1963. Their last two albums were both from 1969. But you're right: "Love me Do," as a one-off single was released in October of 1962. Their first album wouldn't be released until 5 months later in March of 1963.
I have always loved If I Fell, but I had never heard of it dressed up as what could pass as a Jazz Standard. An amazing revelation from someone understands how music works and enlightens us all with a new appreciation of what outstanding songwriters and performers these four lads were. Thank you! A wonderful treat!
"If I fell" might not be my absolute favorite Beatles song, but whenever I sit down for a session on my acoustic, this song will eventually come out. Beautiful chord structure and melody, with lyrics that show a heart wanting to move on but fearing just more heartbreak. I think of this one as a beautifully devastating song and I felt that first at the age of seven.
Now you've done it! After stumbling across this video I've watched a good half dozen others about the same subject, watched 3 different Beatles performances of it, and downloaded the sheet music for piano!
Agreed! Now I am reminded of the time I was at a late seventies (maybe early 80s) Beatlefest and the late great Buzzy Linhart performed a slooooow bluesy version of 'If I Fell,' that just blew me away and it was probably then that I learned that The Beatles music was so universal and flexible! Cheers!
A Hard Days Night is just an incredible album and I would put it in my top three Beatles albums. Also ‘This Boy’ was left off the album, only the Beatles could do that.
It is a great song but was probably written by Lennon/McCartney together (as many early Beatles songs were), though likely to have been Lennon’s original idea as he sang lead. It was written for A Hard Day’s Night and the story goes that they were confined to a room in a Paris Hotel with a piano and told to get on with it by Brian Epstein. If I fell was one of the songs that came out of this.
Paul actually said at the time it was one of his favourite songs knowing full well it was written by John. Couldn't have a better commendation. It's a classic.
@@AllThePiecesMatter_ yeah I love that one, there’s a place Was very melancholy for that early period, thanks for the comment .. follow me on Spotify for more content :) cheers
Very nice, and a top-drawer Lennon-McCartney classic indeed. I hoped you were going to explore the beautiful key change in the bridge, which i think is one of the glories of this song. As a matter of interest, John told David Sheff that Paul came up with the middle eight. Actually he said "Paul gave me the middle-eight on the F" which confused me at first, as it comes in with the C, not F. But then I discovered the song was originally written on piano in the George V Hotel, Paris, when they were doing the Olympia Theatre concerts, so given their fairly rudimentary piano skills ion 1964 it would fit if it was started in G, which i think would indeed put the bridge chord into an F. It's also possible that John just misremembered, but i think this explanation makes sense. What do you think?
The early Beatles could write the Book on Love. If you analyze “If I Fall” you will see how insightful the lyrics are on Love and the psychological twists and turns of the mind trying to protect itself. John had a great depth of observation on love when it came to rejection, acceptance, pain, and revenge. He points to his own song “I Want to Hold Your Hand” to say love is not that simple. “I'm a Loser” is also another great song from John that touches on the complexity of love and psychology that can play itself out. Great insights from a young man.
@@chriswest8389 it’s always been a. Favourite… just think it deserves to be known as much as yesterday and let it be .. thanks for the comment… I’m on Spotify if you’re interested in my own music :) thanks 🙏
@@willpowellmusic while, melodically , I prefer yesterday, it’s a bit smaltzy. I’m sure Frankie boy covered it. John , in his so called fat Elvis period wrote his best melodys. My fave ballad of his is’ I should have known better’😃
Before "If I Fell" (in the movie and album, ""A Hard Day's Night") there was this masterpiece that John recorded on the Mar. 1963 "Please Please Me" album: "Ask Me Why." HERE: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2ttGjtfQ7EA.html Both "If I Fell" and "Ask Me Why" show John at the top of his singing and emotional connection with the audience, unlike anyone else I've ever heard! Same for Karen Carpenter for the female singers.
The D9 chord beginning the bridge was amongst the most ingenious chord change in pop music history and for some odd reason you made NO mention of it at all--unless you have a part II of this video in the works
“I’ll Cry Instead” is another great early Lennon song. It’s so honest about the chip on his shoulder and the show he puts on to cover up the fears he had (and that we all have). It shows a vulnerability that wasn’t common then. Written when Lennon was 23.
@@ARichardP yeah I love nearly every song on a hard days night … Lennon was on fire at that point for sure … for more of my music check me out on Spotify … Will Powell
Great musical analysis. The Beatles, bless them, just did not have the blues in their English blood. They were dance hall, 'trad jazz', samba and skiffle. Add that with one bona fide musical Titan (Paul) and a couple others who weren't too shabby either, and there you go, a band in the rarest of ethers.
Well ................. there are seven notes in all......Major notes and of course Minor, Sharp Flat and adding a seventh etc ... but, to stretch a nice chord change melody into JAZZ .... just is reading into the perspective. I loved the Beatles - my early playing was largely based on their creative skills even when they were naive as composers ... still great, of course !
Isn’t George singing with a harmony too? I believe this song could be parsed out much further. The "middle eight” is brilliant....the outdo superb. This song will last....like so many other of John’s songs.
@@I_Am_Become_Light I haven’t done anything other than try to help you with your vocabulary. If you want to sound illiterate, continue using words incorrectly. I was pointing out that you didn’t have an understanding of a word. Sorry if I upset you. I actually am already in my room listening to the underrated “If I Fell.”
Most overrated word on RU-vid is calling the biggest, best, most talented band in history underrated!!! Reminder, the integrity is in knowing music but being humble and grounded instead of those Nugents and others who tell you they are greater than they are like a certain former president!!
Do you understand the definition of "underrated?" If a song is underrated, then it has to be rated poorly by people to start with. Since this is not the case, then you just look like a fool by using that lazy word.
The biggest sad fact is, that John Lennon, WAS A CHRISTIAN IN WORD, NOT IN ACTION, BEHAVIOR, OR IN 1:33 LIVING PROOF HE LOVED JESUS CHRIST, then John turns around after becoming wealthy, that their Band will outlive and be more important than JESUS CHRIST, landed him (John Lennon) in Hell, where he awaits his final Judgement at the White Throne Judgement of Christ, where he will hear these words from Jesus Christ Himself, “…depart from ME, I never knew you John Lennon…”. These are going to be the most fearful words anyone can hear from JESUS CHRIST. REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, BEFORE ITS TOO LATE - REMEMBER HELL IS AROUND THE CORNER…
Their melodies and lyrics showed sophistication by the time they created the soundtrack for “A Hard Days Night.” Definitely by the creation of “Beatles For Sale.”
