The Beatles "Hey Jude" REACTION Video | mom & daughter best reaction to classic soft rock 60s music 

These guys were a musical miracle.

Hey Jude is an all-time classic. It was #1 on the pop charts for 9 weeks in 1968. Paul wrote it for John's son, Julian. John and his first wife, Cynthia, were getting a divorce and Paul wrote it to brighten up Julian's day with an uplifting message.

"Take a sad song and make it better" is pretty much my approach to life.

At that time singles were never over 3-3:30 minutes long. Someone told John Lennon, radio stations won’t play a 7 minute single…to which he replied “they will if it’s us!” LOL.

I first saw the Beatles in the Cavern club, Liverpool in 1962, great memories for me and a wonderful time for U.K. music.

Can you imagine being lucky enough to be in that crowd singing along with the Beatles? That woman with the white top sitting or standing right next to Paul leaning against the piano singing along with him...wow!! That's something you take to your grave!!!!

I grew up with the Beatles music & had most of their records. They were part of the British Invasion. You can't go wrong with any of their music. They had so many great songs in the 60's-70's. "Hey Jude" is a great song written by Paul McCartney to comfort Julian Lennon when his parents separated.

This was the late 1960's, performing on David Frost's TV show, with the band breaking up at the end of that decade. You rightly picked up on the diversity of the audience which was key with The Beatles. This is the group who when they were touring the US for the first time were horrified when they found at one venue the audience was to be segregated. Coming from Liverpool, a very diverse city in the UK they were not used to that and refused to perform unless the segregation was dropped, which (as it was the Beatles dictating terms) it was - a quite historic moment. And then on top of that the song was an absolute banger still played constantly today. Literally they are unsurpassed in so many ways for their influence towards changing music and society.

5.20 is when Johns harmony kicks in. Paul looks up at him and smiles. The harmony is not obvious at all, it's underneath Paul then goes above. Genius beauty. That's the Beatles!

I love the Beatles. I remember exactly where I was when I heard John had been murdered. Later the same when George had passed away. Each time I was crushed. I miss them dearly. They gave so much to the world of music and we can never thank them enough.

This performance was from 1968. The Beatles broke up in early 1970, so they didn't do anything together after 1970. Yes, The Beatles were funny, they loved to play around, hense, the beginning.The Beatles were amazing. Greatest band of ALL Time. Will love them forever.

You can never go wrong with the Beatles

This was from The David Frost Show - September 1968. It was a huge selling single, number one for 9 weeks in America.

Hard to believe this was 1968.. I was 3, have heard this song hundreds of times, it never gets old.

The old guy was a street busker and a friend of The Beatles.

Paul keeps looking at John wondering what he's going to do next.

Just a note, Julian Lennon's newest album is simply titled "Jude". Sounds like he's finally making peace with his past.

I was in 7th Grade in 1968 when this was on the radio every hour for months. What a wonderful time.

Best musicians ever!!!!

So yeah, the Beatles *were* (are) telling you everything is going to be okay. It's why this song will still be a classic 100 years after this scene was filmed. They're an indelible part of my life, as they are hundreds of millions of others. That's pretty darn special when you think about it. I don't think anything quite like it will ever happen again.

I think you would both like Paul's solo work from the 70s. Truly a musical genius.

Think the best 45 rpm ever A side was Hey Jude and the B side was Revolution, but then again The Beatles has Something and Come Together on another one lol.

Yes a classic from 1968. Love u both 😘

One word... Gobsmacked at brilliance.

And Linda was the lucky woman to create new life with this fella. Between the two of them made some pretty good children to become even better adults. And they did a damn good job raising them. Paul and Linda made a damn good team. I'm not talking about the music end of it although that was great. Linda was so good for Paul especially right after the Beatles broke up. Legalities aside The Beatles broke up April 1970.

Hi ladies, such a wonderful song with a special meaning to end my day. Going to bed happy.😊. You brighten the day for so many.🥰

This video brightens my day!

When my Granddaughter was 3 my son, her uncle, bought her a mp3. He didn't want her listening to inappropriate music so he put a lot of Beatles music on it. So we had a 3 yr old bopping around singing The Beatles loudly😂 She's 21 now and still loves them. And Led Zeppelin plus other greats.

How can you go wrong with the Beatles?! Good pick ladies.

The elderly fellow with the flowers behind his ears makes my day every time. And I've seen it a hundred times or more in my nearly 50 years.

Group had given up touring in August 1966, but didn't stop performing live.

Last Friday I took my mother to a Beatles tribute concert, the album Let It Be was performed note for note

And I was ONE of those girls that was in love with Paul (I was 21 when this performance was recorded, but I was 16/17 years old in 1964 when the Beatles first broke in the US.) The FIRST best photo of saw of them was the cover of their "MEET THE BEATLES" ALBUM, and how PAUL looked on that cover. YES it is his EYES that attracted me right off, I thought he was so handsome too, just like YOU said. I still love Paul to this day, he is still my favorite Beatle. YOU ARE THE VERY FIRST REACTOR I have seen in the last 3 years that has EVER made ANY COMMENT about PAUL'S LOOKS and how very handsome he is. FINALLY!!! LOVE your reaction!!'

I love The Beatles and this performance was fantastic.

One of the first 4 singles released on the Apple label, this song was 7:12 seconds long. That's completely unheard of for a single in the 1960's. It was the longest single to top the British charts up until that time and encouraged other bands to release longer singles.

I wonder how John felt playing this it is song for his son Julian, after all John left Cynthia and Julian for Yoko.

The song/video is almost 55 years old!!! I just had an emotional reaction to it and I can't explain why precisely. Maybe it's knowing that this was one of the last times The Beatles were a band working collaboratively and seemingly having a good time together. Seeing them playing and all the people around them - which was very odd but great - only adds to the visceral, emotional experience. I've always loved the tone of Paul's piano in Hey Jude. Ringo's little drum fills, as always, are spectacular but restrained. John and George's backing vocals are perfect. Just think about this too ladies and everybody: The Beatles were only 2 years away from breaking up and at this time they were only in their mid to late 20s!!!! Unbelievable what they accomplished in a relatively short period of time. It will never be duplicated let alone surpassed by any band.

The Beatles outsold every single group and person who has produced music and records in the history of recording!!!

For my 60th birthday I did a road trip to San Francisco to see Paul McCartney with one daughter with tickets from another daughter who couldn’t go !It was a long drive but well worth itIt was at what was A T & T Park at the time! 40 thousand plus people singing along for over 3 hours to everything from Beatles to Wings to solo career!

You aren’t the first women to say that. Saw him live in 1989… I get it

The diversity of the crowd is fantastic!

I was jamming to this song in a parking lot in the shade. I look to my right and this gorgeous college aged young blonde was dancing and singing along to na na na. Showed me again that the Beatles’ music is multi-generational.

Love you both. In Liverpool, where I'm from, a jude or judy was a girl, like chick or bird etc, The song was originally Hey Jules, for Julian Lennon, John's son, I imagine because of John's split from Julian's mum. Love watching your videos and your love and passion for all types of music. Love from Mellbourne, Australia.

The guy at 10:58 totally cracks me up every time. "Why am I here? What is this noise? Who are these people?" I wonder if he looks back now 55 years later and is embarrassed.

I wonder how many people caught the reference to "The Weight" by the Band near the end when Paul ad libbed "Take a load of, Fanny and put the load on me".

Although it’s not the most streamed Beatles song on services such as Spotify (that honor belongs to “Here Comes The Sun”), “Hey Jude” is the highest selling Beatles song of all time.

Hi Gaps! This is a fun one. Loved the Beatles my whole life. Have a wonderful evening.

Song was supposedly written by McCartney to cheer up Julian Lennon when his parents' marriage was ending, but the lyrics are encouragement to a timid lover to pursue the woman of his dreams. Julian was a young child at the time.

You should check out " Concert For George live Royal Albert Hall " . Everyone was playing that night from Eric Clapton , George Lynn , Tom Petty " and many more .🎸

Also, Paul has a very good sense of humor. And he still has that spark in his eyes, even as a old man.

Yes ! The Beatles were magical but so are your reactions. I love to watch them. Please keep up the good (no, excellent) work.

If you get emotional when you see footage of John Lennon and what could have been, you should watch the movie Yesterday. There's one scene that will make you cry your eyes out.

My local pub back in 1968 had a juke box (those were the days). This must have been played a dozen times a night!

Even now, play this in a pub, at a wedding, anything, the whole place will be on its feet joining in with the Na-Nas The Beatles are the best ever

Saw Paul,Linda and babd sing this in front of a 120,000 crowd,who joined on chorus,in 1990❤️👍🎩

One of the original four singles released on the group's new Apple label in August 1968. Singles and albums were still separate for the group.

That’s the thing about the time, what you said about the diversity. I was around (I’m 71) back then, and to me, that’s what the 60’s were about, and I found it so inspiring. I have tried to live my life in an accepting, inclusive way. It makes me sad to see a lot of what’s going on today; seems like it’s gone backwards. Thank you for your reaction; I really enjoyed it.

All right Ladies,.....you just did the performance video of "Hey Jude", next you need to do the B Side!!!! The performance video of "Revolution"!!!!! You will LOVE it!!!!!!!! Cheers!!!!!!!🤩

Thanks, I haven’t seen this in years and Paul will always be my favorite!

John did makes lots of fantastic music in the 70s! He accomplished so much!

John keeps trying to make Paul laugh 😊

Can you imagine telling your grandkids that's me in this video.

Hello from France, The Beatles marked my youth, they were true geniuses, Paul is my favourite, with john they were complementary and so talented, they could have composed so many masterpieces so!!! I will never get tired of listening to their music they were the best and they were inventive. I saw Paul in concert several times in Paris and London. I would give everything to relive that again.

How much talent does it take to make "Na Na Na Na Na", a song? It took the Beatles.

If you want more indepth Beatles; and a lot more Paul, check out Carpool Karaoke with Paul McCartney. A lot of the Beatles song history is covered and a tour with Paul; and an amazing finale. Well worth checking out.

I was just a youngster when this aired, but even at about 9 years old I knew I had just witnessed something special. Even more special memories were when my mom would be walking through my room and sit down on my bed and listen to this song with me. She even liked Paul's screams, lol.

The young Paul was just incredible.

I remember seeing this on TV in the 60's, unforgettable forever...

Very good analysis. The change when it goes to the na na na part sends shivers down my spine. Wonderful song.

Just a really great review.Everyone felt the same way about this song as you two.Are you sure I didn't meet you two in the coffee shop in 69.

At the precipice of my teen years with innocence still about and this song playing on the way to the YMCA to play ball. Glad ya'll did this.

My dad is the chap in the tie at 11:11. He said Ringo gave him a drumstick during a break, but he swapped it for a “favor” from the girl in the yellow.

@Generation Gap- I am a huge Beatles fan and they are hands down the Greatest group ever. Paul was always my fav Beatle and Hey Jude is one of the greatest songs ever. This perforcmance here had to be in the late 60's. They broke up toward the end of 69.

This song, like most of their singles, was never on a Beatles album. It was released with Revolution as the b-side. They have an official live performance video for that song as well. It would be an interesting reaction as even with a two song single their music is sooo very different. And great!

The Beatles are second to none.

Exhilarating! This has been my favorite Beatles song for nearly half a century. This was surely around 1967 or 1968 going by the way the Beatles look, and the fashion trends in the audience.

This was taped in August of 1968, song became a #1 in Fall of 1968. I was 12 years old then. They were singing here with an instrumental version of the record, with Paul's voice doubled with the record in spots, and the back up vocal sboth recorded and live, the instruments also. it was difficult to get a good sound with limited technology back in 1968, and you couldn't hire an orchestra , too expensive, to make the big sound on the 2nd half. We saw this video from the David Frost show in England, in America, on the Smother's Brothers TV show[you should check them out, they were hilarious musical comedians]. This was their biggest selling single Number 1 at 9 weeks in a row in he USA. The Beatles brought the world together for few moments with this TV appearance, you don't see this anymore...all you see are phony brutal reality shows drama shows, and stupid game shows and school shootings. The world was not perfect in 1968 either, but at least we had some hope.

The fall of 68, i remember!

Paul had it all for sure! 🥰👌

When Paul first wrote this song it was called Hey Jules after John's first son, Julien, to help him adjust to his fathers breakup with his mother Cynthia. It was the period seen as the start of the big breakup of the Beatles. With the Double White Album under production, there were many arguments between the Band Members. Ringo left the band for a few months in this time. But, in my opinion, this song was their greatest.

Ladies You know those young audience members near Beatles will never forget once in a lifetime event in their lives.

as a kid in the early 70's I remember this was truly a great Beatles song averyone listened to no matter race or whatnot everyone loved the Beatles❤❤❤❤

Watching both of you reinforces my belief that the Universe is Female. Thank yo both 💝

The movement you need is on your shoulder.

This is recorded live at trident studios London! We're david bowie was made famous along with aray of other stars Elton John also were Queen Freddie played the piano at the start of bohemian rhapsody. Some real world class musicians hit these studios ad well as abbey Road.

I love how the mother has like a thousand times better taste than her daughter. It's interesting to see how talent isn't passed down to children.

This song from The Beatles called "Hey Jude"the band started writing the lyrics in 1966 but it took 2 years to get this song right to sing the son for which was done in 1968 because of the rewriting the lyrics to the song,so the song came out in 1968.

It's a turn up the radio in the car and sing along song.

This used to be my ringtone on my mobile phone. I chose it cos my name is Judy but I get called Jude a lot. I got sick of hearing it all the time. So, I changed my ringtone to ‘Who Can it Be Now’ by Men at Work 😁👍❤️🇦🇺

Paul originally wrote it as Hey Jules,for John’s son,Julian.

Wasn't Jude John's son, who was trying to sing, and compose, and Paul was trying to say -- go ahead, the "movement" (musical movement) is right upon your shoulder.

GOAT’s for a reason. The Beatles>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>everyone else.

Fantastic reaction. Just 1 correction: the Beatles aren't 1 of the most famous bands in the world, they're the most famous band in the world.

Well. Peace and Love was the spirit of the age and The Beatles exemplified it. How times have changed.

Paul was driving out to see John and Cynthia and was thinking about John's son Juliun and how he wasn't taking their divorce very well. So the song actually started coming to him on the ride out to see them. It started out as Hey Jules Hey Jules but he changed it to Jude because in his mind it sounded better. But was this song was written specifically John's first son Julian.

imagine writing songs that are still relevant and popular sixty years later

Truly magical in every which way! The Beatles are next level greatness!!

the last sing-along portion of this video always tears me up. "hey jude" was the beatles biggest selling single out selling "i want to hold your hand" from 5 years before. it was the SECOND biggest seller of the 60s topped only by the archies "sugar sugar" of all things. with all the great counter-culture, mind expanding music of the 60s pop still reigned supreme in the 60s as it always does. go figure. but remember the beatles were NOT a ballad band. i would hardly even classify "hey jude" as a proper ballad. the beatles were a r&r band right down to their dna. and they experimented, quite successfully, with many musical genres and styles. with most rock bands of the late 60s and 70s their best music could be found on their albums. but the beatles' singles were just as good as their albums. the beatles didn't put their singles on their british albums. but, in the u.s., capitol records did up until 1967. but "hey jude" only appeared on an album in 1970 with capitol's release of the "hey jude" compilation album which wasn't released in britain. the beatles were so much fun. and so interesting to study. their history is just as much fun as their music. but without the music you'd have no history. THE BEATLES WERE JUST MAGICAL! there's no other way to describe them.

Thanks for taking the time to review Hey Jude. Spot on with your feelings; the song envelopes with warmth and simplicity, it is sung directly to each individual listener. More please :)

To me, this is like a Hippie / Love Generation sing-along song where everyone stands shoulder to shoulder while waving sparkles or cigarettes lighters