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8.06am
26 June 2011
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Has anyone ever sat down and listed the various background muttering, words or shouts in Beatles tracks, e.g. “Cranberry sauce”, etc.? Or the debate on the spoken words between Polythene Pam and SCITTBW. If I only had the time . . . .!
8.16am
19 January 2017
Offline Nope i’ve never really been bothered to try listening to the hidden spoken words in a lot of their songs. Revolution 9 is practically all spoken word though and I can recite a few of the lines…..number 9, number 9, number 9 
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1.37pm
26 January 2017
Offline They loved to include studio chatter. Their accents make it a really enjoyable listen. I’ve never gone through and written it all down, but I have listened to all of it.
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1.50pm
10 March 2017
Offline I like that stuff too, it’s interesting to hear The Beatles speaking and it’s great how unlike other people like the BBC, they preserved a lot of stuff because they knew that people would want to hear it later on. Even Carnival Of Light wasn’t thrown away.
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5.03pm
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1 May 2011
Offline I have. I find it fascinating hearing them. The most famous should be John, tho some say it was Paul, uttering “Fucking hell” at just before the 3 minute mark in ‘Hey Jude ‘. Arm, leg & foot in ‘Ob-La-Di/Da’ is fabulous too.
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7.46pm
8 January 2015
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One of the things I like is when they left guide vocals/exclamations in on rhythm tracks, from the very deliberate use in Yer Blues to the serendipitous in I Want You (She’s So Heavy), but also the middle of A Day In The Life , and of course cranberry sauce was a similar jape.
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5.53am
27 February 2017
Offline ewe2 said
One of the things I like is when they left guide vocals/exclamations in on rhythm tracks, from the very deliberate use in Yer Blues to the serendipitous in I Want You (She’s So Heavy), but also the middle of A Day In The Life , and of course cranberry sauce was a similar jape.
That’s always so cool, indeed! Although I’m not sure whether it is on the rhythm track, I really like George saying da da da da and then counting in after the instrumental break in Within You Without You .
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ewe2Not once does the diversity seem forced -- the genius of the record is how the vaudevillian "When I'm 64" seems like a logical extension of "Within You Without You" and how it provides a gateway to the chiming guitars of "Lovely Rita. - Stephen T. Erlewine on Sgt Pepper's
11.57am
11 November 2010
Offline I like “We already told you why!” from What Goes On .
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12.35pm
8 January 2015
Offline Martha said
That’s always so cool, indeed! Although I’m not sure whether it is on the rhythm track, I really like George saying da da da da and then counting in after the instrumental break in Within You Without You .
That got “cleaned up” in the new remix, which saddened me and is a bit confusing, given they not only kept in Lennon’s “never believe it!” at the end of Lovely Rita , they made it easier to hear clearly!
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2.35pm
27 February 2017
Offline ewe2 said
That got “cleaned up” in the new remix, which saddened me and is a bit confusing, given they not only kept in Lennon’s “never believe it!” at the end of Lovely Rita , they made it easier to hear clearly!
Yeah, that’s quite a pity. I’ve listened to the track at least ten times because I thought I somehow missed it until it occurred to me that the muttering could have been removed.
‘Yawn Paul!’ about five seconds before Paul actually yawns in I’m Only Sleeping is also cool!
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