The Beatles - Hello, Goodbye (REACTION)

[@Mr05Chuck]

Every album the Beatles made any other band would be happy to have as a greatest hits collection.

[@scottchapin2323]

Well put

[@Malkil75]

Humanity is better because the Beatles.

[@ricardocima]

They're the new Homer, every child should grow with them.

[@Watchman70]

Whether they know it, or not! ❤

[@daveman15]

Paul McCartney is such a genius - taking the most simple musical elements, and crafting something memorable.

[@ziggy107]

agreed. paul came up with an excellent song. The beatles made it epic (including George Martin) :). IMO

[@grahamharley4895]

Another example of their extraordinary ability to take a simple structure and make it great.

[@neilmartin99]

Don’t forget to give some props to George Martin. The Beatles were the creative minds but George was a technical and creative genius behind the scenes.

[@mariaportengen2959]

The best band of all times. 🎶🎶👍

[@danmayberry1185]

The #1 song of 1967. (Look up 1967 and read that again.) Undisputed bosses.

[@michaelzzzzzzzzzzzz]

Seriously, though, are these 4 people sent from another universe? There are so many great songs, so so many

[@owenjoseph7648]

You took the words right off my keyboard. The four plus George Martin and Billy Preston. Unbelievable

[@ed2kou1]

They’re a miracle Gods gift to the world and our souls!

[@jthaw]

The great simulation blessed us all with The Beatles!!!

[@thejmf]

Some bands barely evolve their sound while the Beatles have Hello, Goodbye and I Am The Walrus on the same record. Classic songs from completely different universes.

[@darrenmaxwell1085]

Just great! And I love watching the Beatles with La & Chi, I’ve watched them all multiple times!

[@AirplayBeats]

We love having you as part of the Airplay Beats Family!!

[@CuriousGeorge1111]

Me too. I'm going on 10 viewings of their reaction to I Am The Walrus. 👍

[@wpollock1]

In any universe this would be a greatest hits album, but it is just another Beatle album with some of the best writing ever done with a rock band.

[@kathiek4239]

Seeing Che laugh with delight is one of my favorite things.

[@suesebree8670]

Agree!!!

[@Imagination-In-A-Box]

Magical Mystery Tour has some of Ringo’s best fills in my opinion.

[@joenaso1969]

Paul and Ringo were as good a rhythm section as it gets

[@ziggy107]

paul's bass on this is just so incredible, especially during the transitions

[@billc.5861]

Thanks for pointing out Ringo’s drumming He is so damn good Always playing for the song . Laying down unexpected, but brilliant beats

[@stevecass19]

Unadulterated joy

[@TeresaMount-t9o]

The great Beatles never disappoint thank you both!

[@JamieBuckingham369]

Dhem boys! Dhem boys! Dhem boys, is back with a banger! This tune here was a club success - the kids in '67 stompped this right number 1. I seen your Walrus reaction, next is Strawberry Fields but sandwhiched in between is this grooving foot kicking gem. How The Beatles could stretch the diversity of song writing and recording so vastly polar to the last song cant be matched. Put this tune on at a BBQ with family and friend and watch the folks smile, tap their toes, jiggle their hips! Great energy song! Nothing sounded like this in '67, very original

[@KennyCamaro2364]

Hello Laa and Chee! This is truly one of there underrated albums!!

[@AirplayBeats]

Hey Kenny!! We are enjoying this album!!

[@ed2kou1]

@@AirplayBeatsstrawberry fields!

[@kjisnot]

I haven't heard that in 30 years. It brought me back to the first 1000 times as I wore out the album.

[@MarkChappell1]

I think, overall, their best album. So many great songs, great melodies, creative and innovative.

[@Regulus863]

So happy you two see and hear what all of us Beatles fans have been seeing and hearing for decades. Great music from the lads

[@danstraley1126]

This song will be played at the end of my funeral

[@spacelemur7955]

Great idea.

[@joescott8877]

Cool Paul story I heard couple months ago on SiriusXM Beatles channel. Hardly verbatim, but: So Paul was talking with a friend or someone at his house in '66 or so, and they asked how he came up with so many great songs. He said "Well, I take one word, then look for the opposite word, try to find some tension between them, like "A hard day's night" or something, and maybe I get a story out of it." He began noodling on the piano. "So like I'll say "You say Yes, I say no, you say stop, I say go..." And off he went, writing this song!

[@deoppressoli-bear2600]

The Beatles were first and foremost hitmakers.

[@Blue-qr7qe]

I seriously love your love of the Beatles !!! Thank you, brothers -

[@davidrauh8118]

Bass drum was continuous and very nice snare work. Paul's bass work was pumping as well.

[@B.R.0101]

After this reaction you can also enjoy the official video wich was very fun to watch!

[@georgetaxi8179]

Paul's bass playing on this tune slaps. His walking bass fill before the chorus gives me goosebumps.

[@mattleppard1970]

Magical Mystery Tour is a masterwork 😊 Every song a winner. Like ALL their songs

[@davebrooks2385]

You guys kill it every single reaction! I really dig your honest feelings and insights. Thank you for recognizing real talent and giving props these geniuses deserve! Love!!!

[@daniellaforme9868]

One of my top 5 Beatles songs! Great reaction guys. Very nice

[@Kathmak]

There is nothing especially deep about this song, but I have always loved it. Quintessentially Beatles ❤

[@CuriousGeorge1111]

I happen find it deep, and respect you finding it not so.

[@jetsamperes5762]

2:13 Love the backing vocals telling a different story "You say 'yes'" I say yes, though sometime I may mean no, I can stay till its time to go."

[@johncrowe1427]

You gotta hear Rain

[@Iiridon]

They’ll love ringo’s performance on that one haha

[@edgarsnake2857]

Loved your reaction to this Beatles classic.

[@alrivers2297]

Wait until Strawberry Fields Forever. Arguably their best song

[@MichaelBrown-x1q]

So simple, to the point! The whole song is the hook!!!!! Guaranteed you walk into a store, and that is playing on the speakers? You will be humming this or singing it quietly to yourself back in your car! That is how effective their harmonies and hooks were! Brilliant!!!!

[@thomasmcgivney4519]

Pure Beatles Craft. Wait till "All you need is Love"

[@CuriousGeorge1111]

La and Che, you're right, this is an album of singles. Most of the tracks on the second side were actually recorded for Sgt Peppers, but because EMI was eager for releases, they released Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields, and Baby You're A Rich Man as singles, and EMI's British policy was that singles couldn't be on an album, so they were left of Sgt Pepper, but are on this American release of MMT. In fact, Penny Lane--IMO a McCartney masterpiece--was the first song recorded in the Sgt Pepper sessions. In their video for it, they are in full Sgt Pepper garb.

[@philippamalherbe4111]

As I understand it wasn't EMI policy to exclude singles from albums in the UK. The reason given by The Beatles and producer George Martin was that they themselves didn't want fans who bought the single to have to pay for those songs again on an album. Normally, during each album's recording sessions, the band recorded about 14 songs for an album, and two songs for a single. Capitol Records didn't follow this policy though and released, sometimes differently named, albums which included singles. This was especially true in the earlier half of the band's career.

[@CuriousGeorge1111]

@@philippamalherbe4111 Welcome, new member, this is a great place. I just checked, and the consensus is that Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields were recorded for Sergeant Pepper and left of because of EMI's singles policy. Some more trivia: British albums were generally 14 songs, American 12. So eventually there would be enough left over songs to make an extra American album. Which lead to "The Beatles Yesterday and Today", with it's notorious "butcher block" cover, showing the lads with chopped up dolls, a metaphor for their songs being chopped off albums. Good times!

[@kentnottingham9635]

They didn’t say much on this one but its presentation is SO GREAT!!!!

[@ricardocima]

Now that's a well recorded snare drum. A big slap.

[@garyherman7391]

Amagine listening to this in the 60s there was nothing like this then thats why we thought thay werw the best they started it all no one better

[@mikefannon6994]

Be positive! Say yes!

[@brandonboucher7090]

One of my favorite chord progressions of all time

[@jerrypost9651]

I absolutely love your reaction to Beatles tunes. Keep on keepin' on. 😁

[@spitfirenutspitfirenut4835]

Another sound. Another direction.

[@KekeElBecko]

My recollection of this song doesn't do justice to the reality of listening to it, which is ludicrous, because I have fond memories of kneeling on the floor as a kid playing this single on my mum's record player. The other side was I am the Walrus, might have been a double-A side. It was on the old Parlophone label. My mum also had another double-A single of Hey Jude/Revolution which was the first to be put out on The Beatles' new Apple label in 1968, which was a visually strikingly record. La and Chi, you are human barometers for amazing moments in music. There are people out there who have no fibre of musical appreciation in their entire being. I bet it would be enlightening for them to watch some of your videos and marry up head-bobbing, eye-rolling, glances with the audio experience; cues for when things get really good! Also, I love seeing your connection as brothers. That's how family should be.

[@daletwin1]

Hello Goodbye has always been one of my all time favorite Beatles' songs. And it was the very first song I saw Paul McCartney perform the first time I ever saw him live. He opened his concert with it. And he sounded great at that time in his career. it was a great show.

[@demzer]

You guys are smart and adorable. I love watching your reactions; thanks for all the joy.

[@davidhattman7649]

Hello Goodbye originates from a demonstration by Paul to Alistair Taylor (one of Brian Epstein’s assistants) on how Paul went about writing songs. Paul asked Taylor to shout the opposite of whatever he sang as he played a chord on the piano. Weeks later, Paul brought the demo into the studio to record.

[@damonhines8187]

A perfectly assembled pop masterpiece. Paul's facility with nursery-rhyme accessible melodies and couplets that belie their simplicity with a moment's examination hints at the growing disconnect and distance between he and John, maybe. 🤔 Aloha, gents. 👋🏼😉🎶❤️✨️🕊

[@JamesJohnson-ig6of]

Don't forget Beatle Paul McCartney and his band "Wings"! ("We're so sorry, Uncle Albert....") And, "Band On The Run".

[@francobao3320]

Love to see your appreciating reactions. Cannot wait to see when you hear A DAY IN THE LIFE

[@membysteph64]

Another great reaction fellas. What can you say the Beatles are one of 🐐 period. Absolutely total musical perfection. Production thank you George Martin. Musicians and song writing. The world was truly blessed by these 4 lads from Liverpool. Keep up the fantastic work La/Che.

[@AirplayBeats]

George is The Man!!!

[@renecuellar3078]

Yeah I thoroughly enjoy the Beatles rabbit hole you guys are going on. Love Love Love it. Keep going. I'm here for the ride. I could just pull my vinyl out but you guys groove to it is like rediscovering it all over again. CHEERS

[@vicprovost2561]

With a band the likes of this, full a album reactions are the way to go.

[@Reddogg57-w5k]

There say ALOHA AT THE END

[@ReJoyce456]

✨🫶🏼 One of The Few Great Songs Out There That Have an Itty~Bitty Homage, Shout Out, For Che❕✨💖✨

[@vicprovost2561]

Yet another awesome song!

[@stevemd6488]

This was released as a single, the B side being I Am the Walrus, and Lennon was furious. Kind of the beginning of the end of the Beatles.

[@dandare42]

He was getting outvoted for the A-side a lot by that point. For the Beatles' UK singles releases (US duplicating them but also issuing singles off prior released LPs which was not commonly done in the UK industry and even rarer was putting prior singles on studio LPs to "rip off" the public), "Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out" in December 1965 had been the first true double A side. A collaborative effort for the latter while "Day Tripper" was mostly written by John even though Paul sang leads on the recording. But "Paperback Writer" was the A-side winner for the next one and John's more brilliant "Rain" was the B-side because, for the first time, his work was notably less melodic and commercial than Paul's. Then Paul had the more successful commercial side of "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever" early in '67, acquiesced to John for "All You Need Is Love" but then took over again with "Hello Goodbye," "Lady Madonna," "Hey Jude" and "Get Back" before John made a comeback in 1969 with "Ballad Of John and Yoko" and "Come Together" before it was Paul again on "Let It Be" and "The Long And Winding Road."

[@jamesmichael3607]

Sammy Davis Jr. once said that Ringo had the best ‘white soul” drum beat he heard, Boom pop bom bom pop, like on Day tripper, sgt pepper, magical mystery tour, and for a bit on here

[@johnthegreek5836]

Thanks guys it actually cool to listen to their music with headphones

[@jenniferfoster1692]

Love this song!!! They just have sooooo many great songs.

[@cspringer333]

Great reactions! Strawberry Fields video is fantastic!

[@johndrx165]

One I never get tired of. Great bass.

[@itsmadfar]

Always love your reactions guys! You do the Beatles justice!

[@JoeandAngie]

George Martin is very responsible what we hear in Beatles songs

[@ginapurpura1182]

Such a fun song!! Terrific reaction, thanks so much guys! ❤️

[@brentbeardsley655]

1967. The year I was born. They gave us Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour that year. Think about that. Any band would love to have either one of those albums on their resume. These guys did them back to back and then followed them with the White Album, Abbey Road and Let It Be! Jezzus.

[@lorilxn1597]

I can't say what my favorite Beatles song is because they all are, been listening for decades, over 4.

[@ziggy107]

bag, zone ... definitely. the songs on this release represent the most creative, epic period of their careers (in my opinion) :)

[@mike70282]

Paul the melody Goat

[@dcg4mn]

I respectfully disagree 😉 great writer, great melodies, but John’s just a tad more haunting, pure beauty, deeper, make you want to sing along even the very first hearing …

[@deoppressoli-bear2600]

If this was any other band it would be their "greatest hits album."

[@CuriousGeorge1111]

La and Che, thanks for doing MMT, I'm enjoying your enthusiasm and insights. Another great Paul track--wordplay, harmony, bass, etc.. I hope you remember who suggested skipping this album, and don't take their advice in the future. 🤣🤣🤣

[@AirplayBeats]

@@CuriousGeorge1111 😂😂😂

[@CuriousGeorge1111]

@@AirplayBeats 😁

[@CuriousGeorge1111]

La and Che, you're right, this is an album of singles. Most of the tracks on the second side were actually recorded for Sgt Peppers, but because EMI was eager for releases, they released Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields, and Baby You're A Rich Man, and by EMI British policy was that singles couldn't be on an album, so they were left of Sgt Pepper, but are on this American release of MMT. In fact, Penny Lane--IMO a McCartney masterpiece--was the first song recorded in the Sgt Pepper sessions.

[@markbarnwell942]

another great tune.

[@stewartlwhincup7080]

Ringos drumming amazing !!!

[@dougsusie2319]

Another one of many Beatles #1 hits. Dude, how did you not hear Ringo's drums. 😂😂😂 Remember guy's, from "Hello Goodbye" thru "All You Need Is Love" on this Lp were A and B- sides from singles released earlier in 67. There was no MMT Lp, Capital made it up but I'll give them credit on this one, it's a great listen. In the UK, MMT was released as a double EP. The 6 tracks on side one of the Lp were what was released on the UK Ep. Peace ❤

[@JohnWhite-xc3md]

Always wondered how Ringo got his snare sound. He'd put a towel or a sheet over it! Listen. His snare sounds different from everyone else. Such a simple, but cool idea!

[@stevecass19]

The video is great too

[@kacemkafi1455]

THERE S THE BEATLES, AN THEN YOU HAVE REST...

[@dianel222]

Always loved the ending. 💜💜💜

[@1230QAZWSX]

Happy to see you guys felt this. Often passed on as sort of a silly but good song. To me this song is as colorful and vibrant as any of the other songs of this abstract period. Just top tier ringo fills, pauls base. They have the ability to just create this sound that boggles my mind. Also this song epitomizes the beatles for me. You can give them an inch and they'll take it a mile due to their vast musical catalog knowledge, work ethic, and ability to just have fun, all while having the necessary talent.

[@ML-un1oi]

Great start to the week, fellas!!

[@DJ-bj8ku]

Paul singing about the stylistic differences between himself and John which is also captured in the song Getting Better off Sgt Pepper.

[@501625abc]

The conversations you were hearing are from a radio play of King Lear that I believe slipped into the recording panel. Here is what they are saying. King Lear lines from the ending of "I Am The Walrus" he dramatic reading in the mix towards the end of the song is a few lines of Shakespeare's King Lear (Act IV, Scene VI), which were added to the song direct from an AM radio receiving the broadcast of the play on the BBC Third Programme.[11] As it happens, Lear IV.6. is the only scene in all of Shakespeare (out of more than a thousand) that features both English homonyms for "Beatle." Lennon said in a 29 September 1974 radio interview with disc jockey Dennis Elsas that he "didn't even know it was Lear" until someone brought it up to him much later. The bulk of the audible dialogue, heard in the fade, is the death scene of the character Oswald (including the words, "O untimely Death! Death!"). Two other lines from the play are at the beginning of the third chorus, 2:25 into the song. Oswald: (3:52) Slave, thou hast slain me. Villain, take my purse. If ever thou wilt thrive, (4:02) bury my body, And give the (4:05) letters which thou find'st about me To (4:08) Edmund, Earl of Gloucester; (4:10) seek him out Upon the British party. O, (4:14) untimely Death! Edgar: (4:23) I know thee well: a (4:25) serviceable villain; As duteous to the (4:27) vices of thy mistress As badness would desire. Gloucester: What, is he dead? Edgar: (4:31) Sit you down father, rest you.

[@keithdixon6595]

I believe this is the track where one of the Beatles' crew asked McCartney how he wrote a song. McCartney asked the guy to say something and he said, "Hello and Goodbye" and McCartney wrote the song in 10 minutes.

[@tzcomp]

What a followup album to Sgt Peppers. It came up a little short of the masterpiece and didn't get the recognition it deserved until this century.

[@DocRock71]

Thi8s was the very 1st record (a 45 rpm) that I ever bought with my own allowance money when I was about 9 or 10 years old in the late 60s. The B side was I Am The Walrus!! If I still had that record today it would be worth a pretty penny.

[@urbangardener66]

Lot of folks dismiss this album bc the American version is filled out with singles...amazing singles. MMT was just 6 songs from a TV show...some very memorable songs...it was issued as a double EP, a 45 usually with 2 songs to a side. I think the US version far superior and easier to play! More fun to come before you finish this album. Thanks for sharing your Beatle reactions, you never disappoint. Cheers guys!

[@Friend_Of_The_Muse]

I dig the fiddle which is the base of the song. I suspect Paul is playing it since it sounds like he wrote most of the song and the song sounds like it is based on the fiddle riff.

[@FairHaven-h8s]

This Beatles album was different. In addition to getting the mini-soundtrack to Magical Mystery Tour (the TV special), this album became home to a side full of unrelated singles released after Sgt. Peppers. It was was getting two Beatles records in one.

[@nikolozsuladze7446]

hello goodbye starwberry fields penny lane are top tier songs fool on the hill is also super beautiful

[@VereinPlatzhirschamHirschenpla]

The only critic I have about this album is the cover 😂

[@dcg4mn]

It’s TERRIBLE. So are most of the videos for these songs: the video for the GREAT track Walrus should be never seen again. 😆 Their BBC “TV movie” Magical Mystery Tour was an unmitigated disaster: whoever was in charge of their projects and visuals for this period should have been banned from the business for life … ✊🏽😁

[@peterburrell007]

This was Paul and John, one + (Paul), one - (John), and that's how they worked.

[@markpowleson9720]

Gotta be one of their best ones 😃

[@Lwize]

The Beatle Boys turn a throw away pop tune into a classic.

[@michaeldezego340]

Hey Gents, the Beatles made a video of this song that’s really fun. You should check it out.

[@davidl9771]

Always look forward to your beatles reactions. Cant wait for the next one.

[@stumblinharris2219]

Oh,when you hear the next two songs!

[@tedsmith7814]

Good ears! Ringo played some sorta trip-hop beats in there