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10.05am
26 January 2017
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There’s an “Alternate Magical Mystery Tour ” bootleg that I own that has 6 versions of Flying .
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5.14pm
11 November 2010
Offline sgtpepper63 said
Which means that in addition to 95% of The Beatles music missing from YouTube, they’re making lost media by banning songs like Revolution 1 Take 20 or the original Flying
Only if you have a questionably loose definition of “lost media.”
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10.52am
18 April 2013
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1.09pm
26 January 2017
Offline I’m not sure if they are fan creations or not, but the Mellotron Music songs I wouldn’t consider versions of Flying , but the ideas present in those songs were incorporated in the song.
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8.11pm
23 July 2016
Offline Do you think that Flying is an instrumental, here’s the poll:
[sp_show_poll id=”147″]
For me, I personally think that it isn’t, due to the fact that there are clearly vocals in the song, but some think otherwise.
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8.34pm
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17 December 2012
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Yes, it is an instrumental because the voice is an instrument, and in this is used as an instrument rather than used to create an image by the use of lyrics.
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8.59pm
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17 December 2012
Offline I don’t think so, @Starr Shine?.
There is a clearly worked out pattern, pre-agreed, to the voice contribution to Flying . Scat is an improvisation, generally done by a single singer, or if more than one singer, with the vocal being passed between them.
Flying has all four Beatles singing exactly the same syllables in unison. It is a composed piece, rather than improvisation.
It probably has more in common with choral music.
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9.18pm
23 July 2016
Offline I don’t think this is scat singing, as that I usually done a lot faster with multiple nonsensical words. Also, Ron Nasty, does this mean you also consider Black Sabbath’s Supertzar and The Simpsons theme song instrumentals.
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9.48pm
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17 December 2012
Offline Black Sabbath’s Supertzar I would regard as choral music, @HMBeatlesfan.
The Simpsons Theme Song I don’t think of as anything other than a TV theme tune, built to do the job it does. It was never written to stand apart from the visuals it was created to accompany, and so I think that makes it a different beast altogether.
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10.15pm
14 June 2016
Offline @HMBeatlesfan said
I don’t think this is scat singing, as that I usually done a lot faster with multiple nonsensical words. Also, Ron Nasty, does this mean you also consider Black Sabbath’s Supertzar and The Simpsons theme song instrumentals.
So then do you consider Paul McCartney ‘s “Hey Hey”, John Lennon ‘s “Beef Jerkey”, and Wings’s “Rockestra” not instrumentals?
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5.54pm
23 July 2016
Offline I can call songs like Flying partial instrumentals, but I believe that the presence of vocals deters it from being called a full instrumental, here’s a list from Wikipedia determining borderline cases, with some tweaking to prevent flat out copying. If you’d like, here’s the unedited article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…..line_cases
The edited article:
Some recordings which include brief examples of the human voice are typically considered partial instrumentals. Examples include songs with the following:
Brief vocal sections (as in “The Simpsons” and “Wipe Out”)
Repeating the same few words (e.g., “Woo Hoo” and “Wild Honey Pie “)
Spoken dialogue (e.g., “To Live Is to Die” and several songs by William Shatner)
Choir aahs and other wordless vocals (e.g., “Flying ” and “Supertzar”)
Beat boxing, sometimes on B-sides of rap singles
Yodeling (e.g., “Hocus Pocus”)
Whistling (e.g., “I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman”)
Inclusion of field recordings which may or may not contain non-lyrical words. (e.g. Crowd cheering from a live performance of an instrumental song)
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6.56pm
12 November 2015
Offline HMBeatlesfan said
Some recordings which include brief examples of the human voice are typically considered partial instrumentals.
Huh. So Birdland by Weather Report would be an example. Love that song.
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2.19pm
11 November 2010
Offline Expert Textpert said
So I finally heard two long versions of Flying . They seem to incorporate bits that I have heard on other bootlegs. The song bits are called “Mellotron Music” and they are numbered 1 through 5. Did the Beatles themselves add these bits to Flying , or are these fan creations?
They aren’t fan creations.
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4.28pm
23 July 2016
Offline Who do you think plays the guitars on this song, George and Paul, just George, or someone else. For me, I am going with beatlesebooks claim that it’s just George (although unlike him, I believe that he used his acoustic plugged in instead of the Strat the site claims he used, due to a claim by Walter Everett), although it is possible that Paul played a guitar part on the song.
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8.59pm
9 March 2017
Offline Great news, while i was looking through old posts i found this.
Ron Nasty said this, of which he never expected to be quoted in this thread to which i say, Ron Nasty said
One album that hasn’t been mentioned in this thread is Booker T. & The M.G.’s (mostly) instrumental McLemore Avenue from April 1970.
Medley: Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End/Here Comes The Sun/Come Together [15:48] / Something [4:09] / Medley: Because/You Never Give Me Your Money [7:26] / Medley: Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard/Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window/I Want You (She’s So Heavy) [10:40]
I qualified it with “(mostly) instrumental”. What vocals there are are in the first medley. The End segment in it ends with the “And in the end the love you take…” line, while they sing “come together” a few times at the end of Come Together. The rest is entirely instrumental.
MOSTLY INSTRUMENTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Booker T. Jones said of the album, released within eight-nine months of AR‘s release:
I was in California when I heard Abbey Road, and I thought it was incredibly courageous of The Beatles to drop their format and move out musically like they did. To push the limit like that and reinvent themselves when they had no need to do that. They were the top band in the world but they still reinvented themselves. The music was just incredible so I felt I needed to pay tribute to it.
One of the two great American house bands at the time (the other being Motown’s Funk Brothers), the Stax studio was on East McLemore Avenue in Memphis, hence the album’s title. I think it’s quite funny that it works out that the title has the first two letters of Paul and John’s surnames at the start. The irony of coincidence!
It’s a fantastic reinterpretation of the songs they chose from AR, one of the truly great instrumental albums of Beatles covers:
And this gave me the perfect label, Flying is a mostly instrumental song. It’s a lot better than calling the song an instrumental because of those wordless vocals.
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1.32am
24 March 2014
Offline human body is an instrument, anyway.
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6.30pm
18 September 2017
Offline hola!!! Soy Pablo de Argentina y quisiera saber ¿que instrumentos se tocan con el mellotrón en el segundo verso de Flying ?
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Offline For anyone who is unable to read Spanish, myself included, Pablo’s question above is
Hello!!! I am Pablo from Argentina and would like to know what instruments are played with the mellotron in the second verse of Flying ?
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