Beatles Ringtones | Fab forum

Alright, so, 'fess up.  Who's got Beatle-y ringtones on their phones, what are they, and what kind of cool stories do you have about broadcasting these ringtones in public?

I make my own ringtones using Audacity, so I have some rather unique ones.

Currently in my "playlist":

1) The intro to "Here Comes the Sun"

2) The orchestral swell-up from "A Day in the Life"

3) The first verse of "You Won't See Me" ("when I call you up, your liiiiiiiine's engaged …")

4) The second verse of "No Reply" ("I tried to telephone, they said you were not home …")

5) John singing "Check it and see, one more time for me" from "Mr. Postman" (I use this for incoming txt messages)

6) The slide-up chord from "Blackbird" (another one I use for incoming txts)

7) Ringo's "I thought she was a sandwich" bit from Help! (this is a Ringo-tone, of course!)

I'm always on the lookout for good ideas, though, so if anyone has a suggestion, I'm all ears.  If you send me a PM with your email address and a request, I'd be happy to email any of the above ringtones that I have (they're in mp3 format).

Joe said:

What about the first verse of All I've Got To Do?

"Whenever I want you around

All I've got to do

Is call you on the phone, and you'll come running home

Yeah that's all I've got to do"

Nice.  I'll have to mock that one up and see if it's short enough.

I forgot, but I actually have two more: one is a vocal-only track (I stripped out the instruments) of John singing "Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly, the girl with kaleidoscope eyes."  Then I also have just the intro to "Lucy in the Sky", which is really nice because it loops around neatly when the ringtone runs out.  Sometimes I don't even want to answer the phone, I just want to hear that lick over and over again.

I hear you, Joe, about the phone thing.  I still only have a basic phone without a data plan or a web browser or synchronized email or any of that.  Juicing it up with Beatles ringtones just makes it easier to carry it around all day.  (I used to have one of those build-your-own-ringtone tools on an old phone as well, but for some reason I used mine to program in Bach's Brandenberg Concerto No. 2 – go figure.)

iCaramba said:

No funny stories…

Across the Universe (the actual song, not a tone) is my default ring.

All Together Now (again, the actual song) means one of my kids is calling. (My son's ring used to be Help! because he only calls me when he needs something.)

Good point – the "tones" I'm using are actual clips from the albums, not midi equivalents or anything like that.