@@spongesomeone I saw a statistic thing about the Beatles. George, Paul, and John's most popular songs they wrote were about love or w/e. Ringo only wrote 2 songs, and iirc the more popular of the 2 was 'octopus's garden'
@@shipper-of-heart8898 Paul wrote the love songs, John wrote the Trippy nonsensical songs, George wrote a good mixture of both and threw in some Indian vibes. And Ringo wrote way more than 2 songs.
@@shipper-of-heart8898 Ringo actually didn't write Octopus' Garden as far as I know. It was written for him to sing by the others. They liked to give Ringo a song to sing on most records. Edit: Nevermind, seems he did write the words at least.
Ringo always seemed like the nicest of the bunch, never heard him say anything bad about his band mates either before or after they split up. Underrated by many as a drummer, and all around decent human being. I am not surprised to hear he received more fan mail than the others.
Very underrated as a drummer, some people don’t give him the respect he deserves because he wasn’t constantly trying to wow everyone with his technical abilities, he played his part perfectly and was happy to just make great music as a band
He walked out of studio when John was making "How can you sleep" or maybe it was "dead inside". Basically he said: no thanks, that isn't my kind of party.
I agree. Ringo's songwriting is a creative art form. The jokes in Family Guy are pretty derivative. It's only funny to people who think his only contribution to The Beatles was _Octopus's Garden._ If you imagine that the song pinned to the fridge is _Don't Pass Me By_ it isn't funny at all.
@@nagualdesign and even still, "OCtopus's Garden" is a great song and is better than anything I've seen/heard from Family Guy in at least the last decade
@@elijahmitchell195 tell me whats worse, a show making fun of a genuinely nice person that did his best to contribute to his band for writing a song that had a bit of a weird subject, or the people smart enough to understand why thats wrong. Edit: What the fuck was I thinking when I wrote this? Mr. Fucking king of comedy over here defending the honour of some guy who probably would have laughed at the joke
More specifically, in 1973 Lennon sent Ringo a congratulatory telegram upon the huge success of the "Ringo" album, jokingly asking Ringo to write him (Lennon) a hit song.
@@darwinblinks I heard about that, that was great :). But I was referring to a Lennon TV appearance of the era. I think John always had a soft spot for Ringo.
@@WinslowLeach1974 Ringo was the polite one. (i have heard some of his bandmates slept wit Maureen, no drama)... basically (I've heard) the whole "ah, Ringo is the new one. He isn't important./They can substitute him for someone better looking") was the actual vibe around them before they filmed A Hard Day's Night (that's why they added it as part of the plot, as a way of saying "yeah, we know what people say... but he's our friend and we care about him"
0000song0000 George Harrison slept with Maureen, Ringo's ex wife. Ringo might have not made any drama with George over it but it destroyed two marriages because Ringo divorced Maureen and Patty left George over it to go with Clapton, George's best friend.
it wasn't disney, it was katelyn kennedy, who george lucas himself put on charge of lucas films when disney bought it, nither Bob Iger nor lucas had any idea how badly she would damage the star wars franchise which is why Iger is making ammends by giving full creative control to Favreau in "the mandalorian" and it's upcoming sister shows "the book of boba fett" "ahsoka" and "rangers of the new republic".
Actually Ringo was more than happy taking a backseat and never considered himself a songwriter, what’s more the other bandmembers were as receptive to his feedback as the feedback of any other one of them and he did sometimes help with lyrics. The rest of them were happy to help him when he wrote don’t pass me by and octopus’s garden, and his steady and unique drumming style always perfectly catered to the song, never giving in to flashy playing over what the song needed, in fact he was so humble he had to practically be begged to do a drum solo in ‘the end’ because he just didn’t do them
@Lady Seashell Bikini Yes, proof. Just because you don't feel his songs are great doesn't mean others do not. What most people ever talk about is the Beatles in general--not their single hits after they disbanded--you need to show proof.
@Lady Seashell Bikini Yes--which you are not trying to show me. Plus it doesn't matter if he is one of the best drummers the argument addressing his songs--why are you so salty just because of a simple joke that is a fact?
I don't get why RINGO is underrated! He has an amazing voice and drums SO WELL and I (and many others obviously) believe that The Beatles wouldn't be complete without him!!
There are a billion encounters with Paul McCartney where people say what a lovely guy he is and how he not only entertained conversation, but took genuine interest in the person who approached him. Both men seem to be proper gentlemen.
Ringo was credited with writing only 2 Beatles songs by himself (Don't Pass Me By & Octopus's Garden) but he also got credit for What Goes On (Lennon/McCartney/Starkey) as well as Flying, Dig It, and Free As A Bird (Harrison/Lennon/McCartney/Starkey). All the songs he sang for The Beatles aside from the first 3 mentioned above were either covers or written specifically for him by John and Paul.
This spoof might be accurate for the early years of the Beatles. Even Ringo stated the other Beatles would laugh hysterically at the songs he'd bring in as it turned out he had simply re-written an old standard. Ringo did become a competent writer by the time the band members went on to solo careers (with lots of help from George in the beginning).
Watching him start to play around with octopus's garden, and George immediately locked in with him and started to help him "resolve it" is one of my favourite Beatles moments. George always took him seriously.
@@crankfastle8138 "George always took him seriously." really? because a few years later George had sex with Ringo's Wife and mother of his three children, Maureen, ending their marriage. So, idk if i agree with "always"
My dad and I quote this joke all the time. When I left for college, as a surprise to him, I wrote out the entirety of Octopus’ Garden, and left it right on the refrigerator.
Paul though is very obviously MacFarlane, he has only one English accent to his name and it's the usual snooty RP-ish. Didn't even /try/ to sound like a northeneh
Nelson676 But that song isn't bad actually. Ringo's saying he's tired of all the bullshit between John and Paul (and George) and he just wants to fuck off to the octopus's garden to get away from it all. If John wrote it people would probably call it genius.
@@JohnSmith-cy8hq He never said Octopus Garden was bad. It’s just compared to Strawberry Fields or In the Life, Octopus Garden is very light which isn’t a bad thing. It’s endearing.
btw, Ringo has since released twenty solo albums: Sentimental Journey (1970) Beaucoups of Blues (1970) Ringo (1973) Goodnight Vienna (1974) Ringo's Rotogravure (1976) Ringo the 4th (1977) Bad Boy (1978) Stop and Smell the Roses (1981) Old Wave (1983) Time Takes Time (1992) Vertical Man (1998) I Wanna Be Santa Claus (1999) Ringo Rama (2003) Choose Love (2005) Liverpool 8 (2008) Y Not (2010) Ringo 2012 (2012) Postcards from Paradise (2015) Give More Love (2017) What's My Name (2019)
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He's in his late seventies, looks great, is rich, is still touring and selling out venues and has a great wife...only one other Beatles has done better thus far...so I'm sure Ringo isn't too pissed at the jokes...he's the one laughing...still 😊👍🏻
Ringo wrote "Don't Pass Me By" and I think it was great. He doesn't even sing it at his concerts often. If I wrote a song that the Beatles recorded I would sing it everywhere I went.
I wish I felt the same way about it. I like almost every Beatles song ever recorded, and LOVE dozens of them, but I think that's a true stinker. A real anomaly in their career. Maybe he feels the same way and that's why he doesn't sing it. To each their own.
I'm assuming you realize that was a Beatles song, not a solo, but yeah I do like it a lot. Frankly don't know a whole lot about his solo career, I'm embarrassed to say.
@@frankfrank7921 I gotta agree, man. That song was _awful._ I'm not sure but I think it's the _only_ Beatles song I actually dislike. There are a dozen or so I could do without, but I won't turn 'em off. But that one I can happily skip.
Both he and George were limited by their contract. Hence, the issue both had with "Northern Songs", the company that actually owned all of their music. If you listen to George's song "Only a Northern Song", that becomes quickly obvious.
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What’s ironic is that Ringo wrote his first song “Don’t Pass Me By” as early as 1964, which seems to be when this cutaway takes place. It wasn’t until 1968 on the White Album when it was recorded and released.
Okay but seriously, if you guys wanna listen to some good post-Beatles Ringo songs, you should definitely listen to "Photograph", "Never Without You", and "Imagine Me There". Also, keep in mind that the Beatles always gave Ringo a song to sing and besides "Yellow Submarine" (Paul McCartney actually wrote that) and "Octopus' Garden", he also sang: -Boys -I Wanna Be Your Man -Matchbox -Honey Don’t -Act Naturally -What Goes On -With a Little Help From My Friends - Don’t Pass Me By - Good Night So even if he wasn't writing songs with the Beatles, he sure was singing
But Ringo wrote pretty much all of Yellow Submarine and Octopuses Garden. He wrote the fun stuff. Paul wrote about love. John wrote about the troubles of the world and Harrison just wrote about how sad he was. Love them all
Paul wrote Yellow Submarine and you're simplifying things too much. Paul wrote about other stuff besides love like Eleanor Rigby, just as John wrote many love songs.
Thanks to this scene, it's all I can think about when I hear the Beatles lol. Of course, to me Ringo will always be the guy who narrated Thomas the Tank Engine tapes, since that was where I was first introduced to him. (Same with George Carlin)
Fact: The first post-Beatles song by an ex-Beatle was Ringo's "It Don't Come Easy." 9 April 1971. From wikipedia: "The single beat the sales of Starr's fellow former-Beatles' singles at the time: John Lennon's "Power to the People", Paul McCartney's "Another Day" and Harrison's "Bangla Desh". Author Peter Doggett writes that with Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" easily outselling any of the former bandmates' singles in the year after their break-up, Starr's success with "It Don't Come Easy" was similarly part of a "decisive shift in power" and encouraged speculation that competition between the four solo artists could inspire "the quartet to new creative heights"."
_That's_ the one I was trying to recall; thank you! I knew there was another Ringo song that I LOVED besides "Photograph." I didn't realize "It Don't Come Easy" outsold those ex-bandmates' singles of the day, but in my opinion it's better than all the ones you named. That's saying something because I really like "Bangla Desh," and "Another Day."
Ringo actually only wrote 2 Beatles songs. Although he did sing lead vocal on many songs. Usually one per album. « With a Little From My Friends» and « Yellow Submarine » are probably the most well known.
@@PerfectSense77 yeah, I guess your right. He probably helped with lyrics on many songs. As George did as well (besides his own songs). Ringo certainly contributed greatly to the success of the band. The way he chose to play on this track or that track really helped define the sound and feel. In fact, he was the « missing link » they needed to break through in 1962. He was arguably the most popular Beatles during Beatlemania (at least in the US). And everyone loves Ringo. He’s still going strong at 83. (Note : I hadn’t seen the « Get Back » movie yet when I wrote my original comment. I have to say it was very enlightening. I have to watch it again.)
😄 Yeah, but it seems a lot of people see this clip from the viewpoint of making fun of him, while it could just as well be in _defense_ of him. After all it doesn't suggest the song he just submitted is bad; just that it's not given its _due._
They all played whatever they had to, to some extent... I forget which the two songs are but there is ONE song that Ringo is playing ORGAN, and there is only ONE guitar, and the big mystery is who is playing DRUMS, because it was NOT Ringo, but the studio records and witnesses say only the four of them, and couple of techs were in the studio that day, and there is a another were it is argued if it is Ringo or George playing Organ, and one story is it is George, but McCartney on guitar, meaning Lennon was on Bass, but the other is it was Ringo, and again no one knows who was drumming...... or so the stories go. And YES, Ringo and Paul had both commented on it in the past.. those stories.... but the thing is, they tell different stories. So we still do not know who played drums in the first instance, or who played bass, or possibly who played drums, in the second. Well, actually we kind of do..... it was one of the four of them. So evidently, it was not unheard of. John playing bass is actually documented I believe.
@Sonny the Duck He played drums on a couple of songs. The studio version of Get Back? Maybe? But he once said it wasn't him the songs I'm speaking of above. So evidently it had to be one of them, maybe John. But yeah, they all played whatever they had to.
