The Beatles - Isn't It A Pity

[@steveinnh9]

Paul: okay George, now lets work on Maxwells Silver Hammer.

[@mrb4886]

Yup

[@cosmo35m16]

@@mrb4886 🤣

[@matthdez9355]

That was so good jjsjsjdjsjsjkd

[@bryanmoe9590]

100% correct. Paul's ego got on georges nerves. This is a brilliant song and it was ignored.

[@avapardoe6487]

@@mrb4886 ouch!

[@bunchlead]

This song should have been on Let It Be album. Compliments it perfectly.

[@MIB_63]

To imagine that John and Paul disregarded a song like that. That's why George had dozens of quality songs in store for ATMP.

[@ThePowerpointMaster]

I don't think this stuff would have fit on Abbey Road or Let It Be, they just needed a 1971 album to put stuff like this on.

[@Simbetam]

@doubleheadergr Ram is such a perfect album and mccartney 1 really has some standout ideas and songs. Shame really.

[@andrewchen9097]

That's a bit harsh. George and John both rejected Paul's yesterday ( which only made the cut because George Martin insisted ), and George rejected Paul's uncle albert ( which went ended up going to number 1), and john and paul's please please me demo was originally rejected. Don't forget in most cases the final decision comes down to the producer and the record label, and what goes best with the feel of the album ( except the white album where basically anything goes, and where George could easily have put it on instead of piggies which steals most of the music from a classical piece of music anyway and savoy truffle. - sorry Long long long stays, it just fits perfectly where it is on the album. George was the late starter as a writer, and paul and John had already become household names as writers so they had the inertia that george had to overcome, but had the beatles stayed together we would have seen much more George harrison songs in the early 70's and he would have come out of the shadow of paul and john. Just look at the evolution of the beatles. 63 to 65 john is the more dominant chosen writer, 66 paul ascends and george begins to emerge. 67,68 paul becomes the more dominant chosen writer. 69 George begins to ascend just like paul did in 66. had they stayed together I would suspect George would have equal pegging with paul and john ( especially after the acclaim from here comes the sun and something ) and all 3 would have been giving songs to other artists and or putting out occasional solo albums with rejected material.

[@garytolin2287]

Great tune. Frankly, Harrison should have held out songs for a follow-up record instead of having a triple.

[@darganx]

@@andrewchen9097 just what I'm thinking.. I estimate that by 1970/71 George would have been chief writer of the group. Would have been the perfect symmetry if they lasted for one more album, then All Things Must Pass would have made a perfect closing song to draw the curtains.

[@josephybarra7306]

Excellent Mr Harrison. You are a prolific songwriter

[@DiegoGonzalez0]

Greatest band of all time

[@danielhirrel3712]

Yes, The Rolling Stones definitely are.

[@gaby6789]

@@danielhirrel3712 Lol, The Beatles>>>>The Rolling Stones

[@arteCee]

lol..yeh. the myth and the reality. was it 4 songs up to speed on the rooftop?

[@gregboardman915]

One of

[@DiegoGonzalez0]

@@gregboardman915 THE greatest band of all time

[@richardordidge4945]

Such a shame that this song was passed over by John and Paul as early as 1966/67 because it is one of the best tracks on All Things Must Pass. Perhaps it needed the full Spector production treatment. I’m surprised that George didn’t push harder to get it included on the “White” Album where due to it being a double, there was far more room for his tracks. It is certainly stronger than the likes of Piggies, Long Long Long and Savoy Truffle.

[@PlanetoftheDeaf]

Especially as in 68 each individual Beatle was able to record what they wanted really, with few restrictions from the other members

[@stevenospam4216]

Piggies, Long Long Long, and Savoy Truffle all three helped make the White Album what it is. And I'm saying that from the point of view of having bought TWA the week it came out. Those songs added to the disparate character (widely varied styles) of that album. Historically, emotionally, and sonically, "Isn't It A Pity" fits PERFECTLY on ATMP. That's how I hear it anyhow.

[@seyerb]

It's better that way, otherwise we'll have a great (George's) song as just another Beatles track in the White Album...and Piggies, Long Long Long or Savoy in ATMP.

[@thejma724]

It is better than 90% of the White Album songs, specially that awful Revolution 9, which took too much space

[@750drums]

Definitely didn't need Spector's garbage on it. A great song that stood on it's own. The early mixes on the bootlegs bear out how much better the songs were without Spector's Wall of Mud on them. Agree with you on the White Album. John and Paul had some real garbage on there, : George had some great tunes that were passed over.

[@gegaks218]

Great song! R I.P.George

[@OroborusFMA]

I'm beginning to think all these January 1969 uploads are revealing that the first couple of solo albums were practically nothing but Beatles material that wasn't finished.

[@cisium1184]

Well yeah. A lot of songs can take months or even years from first idea to final demo. These guys were past the "bad-sad-glad" stage of their careers. They were working all the time, not knowing when a song might actually get finished. It was their life.

[@elvispresleydaily3952]

No kidding 😂😂😂

[@mathmusic1490]

Yes, they are all various 'germs' of ideas, some only slightly developed, all developed a bit more. Shows one way of songwriting. Get a 'germ' of an idea, put it down, then MAYBE come back to it later to develop it more?????

[@mauricechevalier3618]

Beautiful Song !!

[@lokiop345]

Thanks for posting this. Beauty

[@rockturtleneck]

I read somewhere this brilliant tune goes back to the REVOLVER era--amazing.

[@rrCHRISxx]

So good, on point.

[@scotttbeee2912]

Just the best music. I mean it maaaan.

[@miguelmanzano3960]

This is like one of the parts where it causes them to get f up They're not getting along really well at the end and recording for get back made it worse Like the late beatles made better music but that's when they became far from each other Like they had different beliefs and opinions for things When i realized that the ending of isn't it a pity sounded like hey jude I thought in my mind That's a nice tribute right there Not realizing he was actually mocking the song Anyways thank you George and John for the good music Today is december 8 and it's a pretty sad day

[@adrianreyes4702]

The only song that sings about its own treatment.

[@jamesbyersmusic]

One of my favourite songs on ATMP and one of George's best songs ever - However, presented like this, I can see why it was passed over!

[@kelvendyson1508]

Wow Paul at 1:42 singing the violin part of the song!!

[@samuelalvarez9873]

it's george though

[@ashishpanwar909]

That was his slide guitar solo though

[@johnvastola7748]

Supertramp may have heard this.

[@robertstone1409]

Geoff Emerick was the recording engineer on some very successful Supertramp albums so there may well be a connection there.

[@gregb3674]

Isn't it a pity they broke up :-(

[@firefly59]

I never realized before how much this song sounds like Something in it's foundational simple descending style chords.

[@ThePowerpointMaster]

Could you upload The Walk? One of my favourite from the Get Back Sessions, the dirty walk! and All Things Must Pass, lots of unreleased Beatles stuff.

[@themastroiannis]

the song is about his crisis/ breakup with patti... that IS george harrison's take on his song.

[@PlanetoftheDeaf]

I doubt the song was this good when rejected in 66 and 67. After all George had 3 songs on Revolver and they recorded several of his songs in 67, including lesser ones like Only a Northern Song and Blue Jay Way

[@hammer44head]

Must have had different lyrics also if any yet, the lyrics and theme is very unlike anything anybody was writing in 66 or even 67 for that matter. Heck, even George said he was into eastern music and sitar in 66 and 67 and he's supposedly writing Isnt it a Pity? Nah, i dont buy that at all.

[@akwilson1676]

Yeah let's be real here. Say Something for example. During the Get Back session he said he had been working on it for 6 months. And that's when he was coming to his own as a songwriter. I think it's not that his songs weren't good enough. He just took very long to develop his ideas.

[@newfoundlanderingallsfamil4084]

Shoutout to you good video s

[@superlegoboysz]

Yes. I can hear the chord voicings. And they were what I thought they were lol.

[@nic-chancellor777]

I wish he grew and jammed his songs with the other beatles more.

[@andrewwestwater7741]

Another classic somehow undervalued by Lennon and McCartney.. yet it was around since 1967, and sounds like Hey Jude melody, funny that Paul 🤔

[@andrewwestwater7741]

@Wayne Pitty exactly, George putting that into his LP version, to show it was his tune from 1967 that Paul "remembered" for Hey Jude in 1968...

[@robertstone1409]

"Isn't It A Pity", on All Things Must Pass, is seven minutes and eleven seconds long. "Hey Jude", the single, is seven minutes and eleven seconds long.

[@Brucev7]

'Hey Jude' in the Refrain

[@oolalamamasita6314]

Isn't there a band version of this? Or is this it

[@atroyz]

This would have had so much more pep as a Beatles tune. Played so much brisker here. I love ATMP as an album, but sometimes I think the syrupy Specter production turned a lot of nice folk songs into dirges.

[@750drums]

I hated Spector's overproduction on that and Let It Be. Terrible. George Martin always had perfection : Spector, the Wall Of Mud.

[@dekal3622]

Yes. Also more people would have known George's songs if played with the Beatles.

[@huh-by2lr]

All things must pass was amazing. Specter was amazing, it’s just trendy to hate him now because he had a horrendous personality up to including murdering people and he pissed off a lot of famous and influential people, that’s where this Phil specter was the worst stuff comes from, it has NO basis in the music whatsoever, and people just pile on to be trendy

[@750drums]

@@huh-by2lr My dislike of his production has nothing to do with being "trendy "., I find his "Wall of Noise " production style repugnant, even when ATMP came out. Same with Let It Be. I had a few bootlegs before it came out, and was disgusted when I heard what he did to some of the songs. Same with the ATMP sessions when they came out on boots. It was amazing how clean and uncluttered with needless crap that they were. So to contradict your thoughts, my dislike of his style has ALL it's basis in music, and I know a lot of other people who feel the same way.

[@huh-by2lr]

@@750drums you’re literally just spouting talking points, “I absolutely detest his ‘wall of sound’” lol

[@wormsnake1]

Who is George speaking to in this clip?? I am guessing it’s Mal Evans?x

[@gettinhungrig8806]

Sounds like Mal and Ringo and then Glyn Johns arrives. Ringo says,"that's a beautiful song."

[@davidpalmisano5115]

I think my favorite post Beatles song is Live and Let Die.

[@OroborusFMA]

The George Martin production makes it sound very Beatles.

[@daleeloph7759]

This one all things must pass and gimme some truth and born in a prison are my favorites

[@Gardosunron]

if only ...

[@pawelpap9]

Is it just me, or this is not played by The Beatles as the click-bait title would have it? It is simply George with his guitar demoing the song.

[@hmarote]

It was recorded in one of the beatles sessions, and you can hear Paul's voice too..

[@gettinhungrig8806]

​@@hmaroteRingo's voice

[@danillobet1162]

I would have liked see this song in Let it Be, but not the same one as All Things Must Pass

[@floodgatestudios1825]

It can be any speed....as long as you bastards give it a chance!

[@leetomboulian]

Faster and higher

[@shamanbot7709]

Someone here?

[@АлександрЛапченко-н4е]

Aroheus

[@johngordon880]

Wow, why haveI never heard this one before?

[@bernardinipaolo1]

Paul cut this song, that Is the real pity

[@luiscorro1924]

What a "strange" coincidence that the Beatles break up happened when George Harrison emerged as a equally talented songwriter...

[@guyincognito5706]

Luis Corro Or it happened as a result of a combination of factors, including everyone having quit once before, John’s drug use and new relationship with Yoko, the introduction of Allen Klein, Paul opting to not hire Allen Klein as his manager, John saying he was leaving the group on September 20, 1969, increased tensions and expenditures at Apple, John dissolving his songwriting partnership with Paul, and Paul being the sole person wanting to be an active recording artist and performer as they once were, for starters.

[@Maverick19977]

George is a GREAT songwriter. But I wouldn’t put him equally with Lennon/McCartney.

[@thebrazilianatlantis165]

John was tired of being in the Beatles and had been for some time. What that had to do with how good George's songs were is nothing.

[@GuitarSmith.]

George is playing it on a ukulele, one of his favorite instruments.

[@paulharrington7651]

turned out nice again!

[@loganfinn2728]

That's a guitar with a capo, not a ukulele.

[@GuitarSmith.]

@@loganfinn2728 Listen, that's nylon strings you are hearing not steel. Unless he put a capo on a classical guitar. George was very fond of tenor ukes.

[@loganfinn2728]

@@GuitarSmith. Those are steel strings. At 1:55 he removes the capo and you can hear the same guitar with the same tone play an open G chord. This isn't to mention the fact that if you sound out the B chord at some points you can count five or six notes. If you own a steel string guitar put the capo on the 7th fret and play this: xx0232 xx0132 xx0032 xx0232 It is the exact same chords.

[@loganfinn2728]

@@GuitarSmith. He varies the chords a bit each loop, but you can hear that particular instance at the beginning. He even accidentally hits the lowest string at 0:33 showing that the instrument has 5 or more strings.

[@tysongames2750]

Jealous and greedy. John and Paul new a good thing when they heard it and they knew if they wanted those writers royalties and the prestige they better never let this guy have more than two songs on an album. Even then, George still had the best songs on Abbey Road. Better to have Maxwell's Silver Hammer, or Oh Darling (rolls eyes).

[@MetabolicMouth]

Hey, Oh! Darling is really good.

[@tysongames2750]

@@MetabolicMouth Fraid not. Paul butchered the vocals. Could have been though.

[@renepeterse1884]

That butchered vocal is what its all about, brilliant. Just like George of course

[@HankFinkle11]

Oh Darling is a classic. MSH shouldn’t have been on the record.

[@garytolin2287]

Lennon should have sung instead of McCartney. But, as Lennon said (paraphrasing), "It's Paul's song, so he can sing it if he wants". I agree with you on "Maxwell's..." that should have ended up on the cutting room floor.

[@davidpalmisano5115]

It's like they forgot how to write songs after the Beatles.

[@ProfessorKenneth]

Brilliant song. George was the best and me favourite Beatle. Of course Paul has to dis him...smh...John too. John would always patronize George, I didn't like that ya...

[@spaceengineer1452]

Are u entirely sure, this is THE BEATLES ???!! Change the click bait title to "George Harrison" Get real !

[@seksownygnojek]

Check the description

[@spaceengineer1452]

@@seksownygnojek Geo said he wrote it about Patty. Theres film of him w Eric. He may have been joking, though. Thanks for cleaning up the sound and removing cough. I still maintain the desc of The Beatles, is misleading. It's Geo.

[@ashhicks6664]

I supposed we should relabel every performance of blackbird on KZbin as Paul McCartney and not the Beatles, too then?

[@seyerb]

I heard Paul humming the symphony part at 1:35

[@spaceengineer1452]

@@ashhicks6664 No, that would be pedantic. THIS is a demo. It wasn't on the official album.