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Joe said
Anyone fancy doing a deed for the good of humanity? Go here and ask Paul McCartney who sang the Aaahs in A Day In The Life . Then I can close this wretched thread. Thanks!

http://www.paulmccartney.com/f…..-questions

Done.

Funny Paper said
P.S.:

When you sign up for that Paul website in order to ask that question, your computer starts playing Paul doing covers of his own songs — and even when you close the page and go to some other website, the music keeps playing!

 

That has happened with me, too, but on other websites, like YouTube and other websites with sound. Maybe it’s a glitch?

The melody or the word itself?

Egroeg Evoli said

Funny Paper said
P.S.:

When you sign up for that Paul website in order to ask that question, your computer starts playing Paul doing covers of his own songs — and even when you close the page and go to some other website, the music keeps playing!

 

 

That has happened with me, too, but on other websites, like YouTube and other websites with sound. Maybe it’s a glitch?

Actually, I realized what was going on (at least in this case): that Paul website automatically opened up a separate window playing that music, and I didn’t see there was a separate window behind the window I was in, so when I closed the Paul website tab, I hadn’t also closed that separate window (which they called a “SoundCloud”).

We’ll see if Paul answers my question — though I won’t be holding my breath…  Even if the assistant’s assistant of the assistant to his assistant’s assistant ever gets around to reading my question, he’ll have to then bring it to the attention of the secretary’s secretary to the secretary’s secretary of Paul’s outer people at the periphery of his Inner Circle…

I hate to add another consideration (especially if it was brought up by someone before) — but the timing from the moment Paul sings “went into a dream” to the first “ahhh” is so quick it’s unlikely that, if it was Paul, it was not tracked over.  Of course, the Beatles tracked over stuff a lot, so that by itself is not a reason to decide it’s not Paul.  However, at that particular juncture in the song, we are officially transitioning from Paul back to John — both in song structure and in mood — so it would make more sense for John to take the baton back, so to speak; and he could do it effortlessly and live, without having to track over.

Secondly, if it is Paul, it’s Paul trying to sound like John, both in tonality and in terms of the mood of John’s parts of the song — unlike the entire tone of his (Paul’s) chipper & bouncy little interlude there.  Why not just have John do it?

The demurrers of the Paulinists in this debate thus logically seem to have only one seemingly plausible rationale for their position: the claim that it was physically impossible for John to sing those ahhhhs — the same claim that was the crux of the “woo woo” debate vis-a-vis George vs. Paul in “While My Guitar Gently Weeps “.