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Joe said
I’m always intrigued by that gap from 5:37 to 5:58. It’s like he forgot to keep doing the ad-libs, but was jolted awake again by Ringo’s manic drum fill.

Immediately before 5:37 Paul says something i can never quite make out, sounds like it ends with “… back to you” or “back through”. Maybe Paul’s quiet moment was related to that – a Paul felt flaw in the basic take that was eventually decided best by the group? I’d love to know what it is that Paul says.

@MrMoonlight, take 1 of ‘Hey Jude ‘ hasn’t been booted or released officially. Do you mean take 2 which is on ‘Anthology 3 ‘, one of the bootlegged outtakes or take 1 of the promo films?

Every Radio Station Ever Probably Owes The FCC Money Thanks To The Beatles

So what’s the alleged FCC violation we’re talking about?
(snip)
Right after “remember to let her under your skin” is sung, you can hear someone yelling “OH!”, immediately followed by a quietly spoken phrase.

You’ve probably actually sung along to the “OH!” part, but did you ever notice the talking right after it?

Listen again. Someone can allegedly be heard saying “f*cking hell”.

Originally, the song “Hey Jude ” was intended to only be released as a single. However, two years after its release date, the song found a home on side 2 of Beatles Again.

So how could this violation be ignored during the song selection for the Hey Jude album? And for every re-release and spin of the song since?

Well, profanity might not even be in the song. But according to multiple sound engineers who worked on the record, it’s there.

Beatles sound engineers, Geoff Emerick and Ken Scott, claim that the profanity came from Paul McCartney and that John Lennon decided to leave it in the final mix.

Lennon has allegedly been quoted as saying, “Paul hit a clunker on the piano and said a naughty word, but I insisted we leave it in, buried just low enough so that it can barely be heard. Most people won’t ever spot it … but we’ll know it’s there.”

While this story is semi-satisfactory, it seems a little fishy to us. Do you really believe that Lennon would release this golden nugget of information to the public?

Sound engineer Malcolm Toft’s account sounds a bit more believable.

Toft told authors Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew, “Barry Sheffield engineered ‘Hey Jude ’, but I mixed it … John Lennon says a very rude word about halfway through the song. At 2:57 you will hear a ‘Whoa!’ from him in the background. About two seconds later you will hear, ‘[expletive] hell!’ This was because when he was doing a vocal backing, Barry sent him the foldback level [headphone volume] too loud and he threw the cans on the ground and uttered the expletive. But, because it had been bounced down [mixed] with the main vocal, it could not be removed. I just managed to bring the fader down for a split second on the mix to try to lessen the effect.”

Unfortunately, we may never know what really happened, but trying to guess is pretty fun.

Also, we can’t even prove if the mystery voice is in fact swearing, but isn’t it fun to think that the Beatles have been in on this FCC prank for the past 47 years?

Ahhh Girl said on 7 September 2014

Would this be what you are looking for, LittleRingo?

(3:58) “Jude Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy.. ow, wahow!”
(4:07) “Ow hoo, my my my”
(4:12) “Jude Jude Jude Jude Joo-oo …”
(4:18) “Na na na na na, yeh yeh yeh”
(4:24) “Yeah you know you can make it, yeah Jude, you not gotta break it”
(4:30) “Don’t take it bad Jude”
(4:33) “Take a sad song and make it better”
(4:36) “Oh Jude, Jude, Hey Jude , woooow”
(4:44) “Ooo, Joooode”
(4:47) “Yeah”
(4:50) “Hey, hey, hey-ya-ay”
(4:57) “Hey, hey, hey …”
(5:03)”Now Jude Jude Jude Jude Jude Jude, yeah yeah yeah yeah …”
(5:12) “Woh yeah ye-ah”
(5:16) “Ah nanananananana cause I wanna na na na”
(5:20) “Nanananana … nanalalal ow ow ow”
(5:35) “Oh God “
(5:37) “The pain won’t come back Jude”

(5:58) “Yeah, eh hehe heh”
(6:03) “Make it through”
(6:07) “Yeyeye Yeah .. yeah y-yeah … yeah-hahahaha ….”
(6:20) “Goodeveningladiesandgentlemen mymymymy mahhhh”
(6:29) “oooo”
(6:35) “oo-oo”
(6:41) “ooo”
(6:47) “Woooh”
(6:48) “Well then a na-nanan”
(6:56) “Isn’t that …”

from
http://wgo.signal11.org.uk/htm…..tent/h.htm

Back in post 38 in this thread, I put ^^ this information. What I know now didn’t hit me as interesting at the time.

Monday I read in Tune In that Julia Lennon’s nickname was Judy. Then I heard Hey Jude the next morning, and the “Judy” in the na-na-na-na-na-na-na part really JUMPED out at me. Paul may not have consciously put that into the song, but I wonder if there was some subconscious part of his mind that put it in.

On a much less serious note: does anyone else put the syllable “ba” at the beginning or in the middle of the na-na-na-na-na-na-na part?

Welcome to the forum, @Beatles007. Hopefully someone will know what brand of piano Paul is playing on this song.