American Reacts to The Amazing Recording History of "Here Comes The Sun"!

[@sc3pt1c4L]

I am too young to have experienced The Beatles, but I am enthralled due to JJLA's content. Having his expert input as an audio engineer also adds so much to these videos. I hope the remaining Beatles get in touch with him one day, just to acknowledge him.

[@JJLAReacts]

Oh wow, I hope they do too! I'm honored to be spreading their art to others like yourself! Thanks for watching!!

[@davidsimon5555]

You are never too young to experience music. Music is eternal. There is nothing stopping you listening to the vast music catalogue of the Beatles. Especially the Beatles. We are all too young to experience Beethoven.

[@oufc90]

You can’t be too young to experience music. It’s still there to listen to, and as for the Beatles discography, I would highly recommend you do listen to it. Enjoy!

[@sc3pt1c4L]

@@davidsimon5555 I have indeed started...I meant I wasn't born when their music was made/in the charts so I missed it first time around, and my parents never played it when I was growing up.

[@johnkochen7264]

George Martin once said that his greatest regret was not taking George Harrison more seriously. He was totally under appreciated by Lennon and McCarthy but his contributions to the Abbey Road album were top notch and came at a time he was fully coming into his own as a songwriter.

[@chriscookesuffolk]

JJ I discovered you from the US v Brit videos but must say these music reaction videos are more interesting (for me) as you bring more to this sort of specialised content with your audio engineering background and interest in real music from the 20th century. Good luck with whatever you do.

[@MattMcQueen1]

I love how you got sidetracked into watching a video of sheep in the Highlands of Scotland LOL. I also love your comments on this as an audio engineer.

[@tapunyr8526]

My love for George as a person and an incredible artist is genuine and true. Watching this reaction and letting this amazing song wash over me as I'm going through a difficult time right now is like an uplifting, gentle hug. Thanks ❤

[@WildHog-p1d]

I just want to thank you for getting me through hospital and the weeks that have followed. Got a very nasty case of campylobacter which nearly ended me, in fact 5 weeks on and I’m still being seen by the doctor, but during all this I found your channel and there have been more sleepless nights than I care to think about where your soothing voice has calmed me and helped me find some rest. Thank you very much from the UK. As we say in Yorkshire, you’re a top lad!.

[@melvincain5012]

We don't have "back yards" we have gardens. Yards are paved areas adjacent to the house.

[@iantrott9152]

I love your insightful take on music and recording… more please :)

[@PeterK-m4q]

Big hugs from Goethenburg Sweden ❤

[@nolaj114]

"Here Comes the Sun" is one of my favourites, with a lovely associated memory of my dear hippie friends and me awakening after a party in a lovely old house in the hills, people everywhere, sleeping on floor and couches, and one of my friends picking up the guitar and softly playing "Here Comes the Sun" as the light came through the windows. I always think of that moment when I hear the first few notes. I think this is my favourite Beatles' song, maybe second to "Across the Universe" or "Norwegian Wood". ☮️

[@JJLAReacts]

Oh wow, what a memory! Props to your friend for recognizing the moment and playing the song. (Hey Nola 😉)

[@GroinStrain_]

That was a brilliant video. I loved hearing the isolated parts mixed into the final tune. And he did really well to match up the origins of each song and each inspiration

[@matt-fh6hb]

I don’t know if you read comments but I wanted to comment in the memory of the recently departed Steve Harley. Steve was a good friend of my father, who travelled the world to see Steve play many times per year, having been a fan of Cockney Rebel from their inception. Cockney Rebel are (on the surface) one of those quintessential one hit wonder bands, for their huge hit Come Up and See Me (Make Me Smile) and to some British readers, from the use of Mr Soft on an ad for mints on television. But as with many such bands Cockney Rebel, or really just Steve by himself, had a staggering back catalogue of superb music and Steve himself was a very talented writer and performer. Anyway, I digress. What I came here to say is that Here Comes the Sun was a massive hit for Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, in the UK and in Europe, during the very hot and very long summer of 1976. I would pre-empt that you won’t enjoy the very 70’s interpretation of the song as Cockney Rebel arranged it, but listen closely and that MOOG and other synth methods were put to extensive use! It’s a… strange, let’s say, interpretation but I adore it. It brings back memories of hearing my dad gush about Steve and the band, and it makes me smile to recall warm feelings from those days. And of course, Steve, I came here to post this in your memory, on behalf of my old dad. RIP Steve Harley.

[@ThornyLittleFlower]

Sound Recorders Studio was at: 6226 Yucca St. Los Angeles, CA 90028 Established in 1965 by Armin Steiner. In 1971, Eirik The Norwegian took over the studio when Armin Steiner quit Sound Recorders. He opened Sound Labs, Hollywood across the street. Eirik The Norwegian ran the studio until 1974. The building Was demolished and is now the highrise Argyle House Luxury Apartments.

[@firstnamelastname-bu1xm]

George was always seen as the quiet one. The thing about the quiet ones is they're not talking, they're listening. I cant help but think George being such a great songwriter would have been a complete miracle in isolation-but watching and listening to john and paul & trial and error had to have helped massively. In the end abbey road, arguably is georges beatles album

[@JJLAReacts]

Well said! And George having to analyze their songs so quickly to come up with a guitar part must have gotten the synapses firing.

[@magnolia7277]

Love your knowledge it greatly enhances your reactions, and how you look things up, good post as usual ❤ from UK.

[@krupauk]

For me the best song, for the longest time was while my guitar gently weeps, then (place song here) is the best one. you cant go wrong

[@planekrazy1795]

The Eric Idle connection with George goes a lot deeper. George financed the movie The Life of Brian and also appeared alongside Eric in a few scenes. George was close friends with Eric and Neil Innes (Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band & Monty Python) and consulted on the Idle/Innes Beetles parody band The Ruttles, made for the Monty Python spinoff show Rutland Weekend Television.

[@steven54511]

Whilst not my favourite Beatles song, Here Comes The Sun is up there with them. Fascinating video. Cheers Jean!

[@JJLAReacts]

🙌

[@planekrazy1795]

It hit the UK charts again with the Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel version in 1976 getting to number 10.

[@matt-fh6hb]

Ah im glad someone else came here to say this. RIP Steve Harley, God bless you sir.

[@trevorcook4439]

Hand claps are so underrated

[@strathman7501]

John actually swerved off the road to avoid another tourist car (not a sheep) met head-on on a single-track road around the Kyle of Tongue, about 30 miles from Durness. By all accounts he was a lousy driver. The reason he was visiting Durness was to visit the croft owned by his aunt and uncle, a second holiday home for the Edinburgh dentist where John had spent summers as a child.

[@paperkin1]

My ears pricked when you said Nik Cohn a name well known in the Mod world (British subculture). He inspired the film Saturday Night Fever from a story about 60's Sheppard Bush Mods.

[@snowfirma5423]

From the early days my favourite was George Harrison . I loved his songs especially While My Guitar Gently weeps uhhh ,

[@nicw5574]

Fascinating, thanks for sharing

[@JJLAReacts]

🙏

[@clueingforbeggs]

You Can't Unhear This has done some great videos. Glad you've discovered them

[@JJLAReacts]

Me too! I emailed him and he's seems like a right on kinda guy. 🙌

[@Ade2bee]

The Ford maxi was an amazing car that actually was one of the first cars to have a decent hatchback, a friend of mine had one when I was in the air Force, you could actually fit a small double mattress in the back with the seats folded down

[@SuperKevin57]

I remember being wowed by this when it first came out 😊. I was 17.

[@juliajoyce4535]

John was visiting his maternal Aunt Elizabeth in Scotland when he had the accident, he regularly spent the whole school holidays with her and his cousins in the Durness area growing up, she shared the responsibility of looking after John with Mimi, she was the Aunt who gave him £100 for his 21st birthday, he then went on a Jolly to Paris with Paul, it was a lot of money in 1961 about £2,500 nowadays

[@PhilLewis-xg7iv]

£ 2,500 jools

[@juliajoyce4535]

@@PhilLewis-xg7iv thanks, typo

[@SuperKevin57]

I remember being wowed by this when it first came out 😊.

[@gdok6088]

If you watch the seemingly ever longer credits at the end of films / movies it's amazing how many, whether British or American have the score recorded or re-recorded at Abbey Road Studios. Rick Beato was given a tour of Abbey Road studios by one of the senior sound engineers which Rick showed on his YT channel. They have some pretty exotic kit at AR and the studios extend far back behind the famous Georgian porticoed frontage.

[@experi-mentalproductions5358]

I'd reccommend for you to watch all of You Can't Unhear This' videos, even the decade-old ones are just as good as the ones he's doing now.

[@jonathanwetherell3609]

My childhood into mid teens was the Beatles. The quantum changes from one album to another. All now the subjects of History Programs. I'm getting old.

[@MThree1215]

Love this; fascinating.

[@jeffbutcher7423]

That song could only ever have been written by a British person - it perfectly encapsulates how wonderful it is to feel the sun on your face after emerging from the long, dark, cold, damp, foggy tunnel that is winter in Britain. You get to April and every fibre of your being is craving sunshine…

[@johncrwarner]

I associate "Here Comes the Sun" with in the early to mid seventies it being used as the theme music to the "Holiday" programme on the BBC.

[@Darrenski]

I'm currently in the process of trying to tell my daughter, who is doing a fine art degree, to not pay much attention to critics and more attention to the advice of artists who actually made art. But they push so much 'theory' at them these days. I assumed the balance might be about 70% practical and 30% theory (if that), but the reverse seems to be true. It's as if they're basically admitting they have no idea how to make 'artists' out of anyone, so read all this stuff instead. And it makes me question the value, financially and career wise of bothering with higher education at all, especially in any artistic field. I can understand it with scientific things, but art, you can't teach that. You might at best be able to teach a few techniques, but you're never going to teach someone how to be some great artist, because if they had that secret they'd have kept it to themselves and just done it.

[@jaidee9570]

The main reason I wanted to play guitar was Here Comes the Sun, I was never very good at playing, but I kept trying (young people have no idea how easy KZbin videos make learning to play a song), after years of going back to the song and working out bits and pieces, I finally learnt how to play it. I was going to record it for my own amusement, but I developed trigger finger in my left hand and could not form chords or change from one chord to another. It's gotten worse despite treatments and I ended up selling my guitar rather than getting frustrated seeing it but not being able to play. It's still my favourite George and Beatle song, but in truth there are so many timeless Beatles songs, saying favourite is almost pointless, I have favourite Beatle songs for every emotion.

[@JJLAReacts]

Oh wow, I just looked up trigger finger and it looks terrible. I'm sorry you're dealing with that. Here Comes The Sun sounds like a tricky riff, even without trigger finger. And yeah, it's so hard to choose one favorite Beatles song. It changes throughout the day 😂

[@seanmcmichael2551]

Great point about album sequencing. Without the vinyl experience, an mp3 play through forces I Want You and HCTS too tightly, and the clash may grate. But originally, the listener had to get up, walk to the record player, turn the record over, and put the stylus down again. A perfect 'reset'.

[@robopecha]

13:14 love all the selfies with the moog. so cute.

[@billyo54]

I was fifteen when the album was recorded. Even though The Beatles had made so many albums before that, it's only around this time that I sat up and took notice. Nowadays I do despair a little when I see every belch, fart and sneeze by The Beatles being analysed to death.

[@tabb5818]

I was watching Better Call Saul last night and couldn’t for the life of me work out where I knew your face from. YT algorithm knows something we don’t!

[@Creamgirl78]

Definitely in my top 5 beatles songs. Never fails to put me in a better mood. This and Penny Lane have the same effect on me :)

[@owenfitzgerald5928]

For more musical youtubers to watch you should check out Mic the Snare does incredible videos particularly his deep discog dives

[@JJLAReacts]

Thanks 🙏

[@wulfgold]

I'm not a huge Beatles fan, but respect the body of work. Rarely eBay lists Moog stuff and I despair at my lack of disposable income.

[@secondartists]

Rick Beato. who you know, toured Abbey Road and gets the info you need.

[@JJLAReacts]

Yeah, I've avoided watching that tour. I'm too envious to enjoy it 😂

[@MattMcQueen1]

They did have a few songs about the sun. Mother Nature's Sun... 🤣

[@davehilton3588]

surprised in my life was that high, trivia - George and Clapton both married the same lady

[@JJLAReacts]

Ha! Yes they did!

[@sourisvoleur4854]

This may be an unpopular opinion but I think George's two contributions to Abbey Road are the best two songs on the album.

[@sleepyshoegazer4745]

If you make a 20second video anywhere in the UK there is a 86.35% chance of Sheep

[@sleepyshoegazer4745]

Show me on an APP!

[@afj2276]

Wait a minute Sir in one Beatles reaction video you said *"I guess that's good maybe it took those breaks in between to figure out what they wanted to do with it that's good let it let it simmer let it let it bake in your brain and let the ideas come on"* but on another you say *"the more you're with this thing you're creating you overanalyze it you second guess yourself you put it on a pedestal and it sucks the life out of it capturing ideas fast is really smart it it doesn't let you have the time to second guess it you don't have time to think this sucks I don't like it anymore capture ideas fast yeah"* If you are allowed to change your mind then you need to please show them to me on a map

[@BonkersAboutAlice]

The whole documentary is live history.

[@JJLAReacts]

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but I like the way you think. 🙌

[@letitiakearney2423]

My favourite song is George Harrison’s While my guitar gently weeps. I love the tribute to him with Tom Petty, George’s son and of course Prince stole the show. Look it up on KZbin it’s fantastic.

[@JJLAReacts]

YES! I've seen it many times. It's amazing!

[@yepyepmaybe]

have you listened to Ren yet ??

[@anthonyferris8912]

Only written by the Beatles third best song writer.

[@brian1002]

Was it made a song and lost his wife? I suppose the song lasts longer

[@robopecha]

🐑🐑🐑💕

[@helenab7390]

All music comes from classical or other music...

[@JJLAReacts]

Hitting a log with a stick.

[@jinkysmith]

What the actual eff was that so-called critic listening to lol ?!?

[@davidfuters7152]

The wind whistling through the cavity between his ears , while being under the influence of his own shit life

[@billythedog-309]

l find it interesting that Americans love to watch sheep, but look down on the meat as somehow inferior.

[@robopecha]

why is this song so popular?? out of all the beatles songs i would not choose to listen to it or recommend it to anyone. i like music to dance to. has it been in a lot of commercials? movies?

[@matt-fh6hb]

For a few reasons. Firstly because of the key, it’s a happy sound, uplifting, people like that. And the lyrical message is one of hope. It’s also a song that lends itself to radio/streaming/television as it is family friendly and is a great morning song for shows to play, for people going about their new day. Thirdly, it’s quite a muddled and at times challenging arrangement to play as outlined in the video (or at least was before the internet became big) so it posed an interesting challenge to other artists to interpret, there have been many covers of it by some very well regarded acts. And finally, it can be played acoustically by anyone from a person learning to play, to a church group, to a pub singer, or busker etc. But really… we will never really know why millions of people enjoy hearing it. Perhaps they… just do.

[@JakeWarrington]

First 😅

[@JJLAReacts]

YES 🥇

[@laylasean-u3n]

I don't understand why people still listen to this sub music hall Boomer music, I mean...rubbish band name, and they weren't exactly Joy Division were they....

[@Tass...]

That moment when you realise you have been criticizing Oasis for their Beatles "influences" to realise the Beatles too were not ashamed to rip off others music huh JJL. ;) It's almost as if that's how musicians work. Being inspired by.

[@Lixmage]

Hi JJLA, please stop growling "Show me on a map" (or similar) - it's creepy... Otherwise great reaction...

[@Jill-mh2wn]

But I like that ,please don`t stop.

[@Lixmage]

@@Jill-mh2wn 😀