All for the Beatles
| All for the Beatles (Stand Up and Holler) |
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| Photo Fi Four | |
| publication | 1964 |
| length | 2:35 |
| Genre (s) | Rock and roll |
| Author (s) |
John Marascalco Harry Nilsson |
| Publisher (s) | Robin Hood Music |
| Label | Photo-Fi Records |
All for the Beatles is a rock 'n' roll - song from 1964, the Harry Nilsson along with John Marascalco wrote. With the alternative title Stand Up and Holler , the piece appeared on single under Nilsson's pseudonym "Foto-Fi Four" and was distributed along with a synchronous 8 mm video of the Beatles arriving in America . The piece is rhythmically based on Not Fade Away , a Buddy Holly cover of the Rolling Stones , and thus on Bo Diddley's self-titled song Bo Diddley . A cover version appeared as All for the Beatles (Stand Up and Holler) of the originals . The piece, which anticipated Nilsson's later close friendship and collaboration with the Beatles, missed any commercial success, but the single developed into a coveted collector's item.
Emergence
In February 1964, the Beatles came to the United States for the first time to promote their American tour planned for August that year with an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show and two concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Washington Coliseum . The arrival at the airport, various press appointments and the appearances were filmed. As early as 1962, the young Harry Nilsson had recorded several songs by the songwriter John Marascalco in a demo session for Scott Turner and in 1963 wrote some pieces with him, with which the first single releases were equipped under Nilsson's pseudonym Bo-Pete. Nilsson and Marascalco used the start of the Beatles' August tour to jump on the Beatlemania bandwagon with their own composition . The studio, the exact date and the band used for the recording are unknown. The four-part main vocals were completely sung by Nilsson in several tracks. For this purpose, recorded the Beatlemania-like screech of a background group to another track in which the Nilsson biographer Alyn Shipton with the Beach girls the same girl group suspected that already the Bo-Pete recording Baa Baa Black Sheep had supported .
Musical structure
In terms of structure, All for the Beatles (Stand Up and Holler) is a pure 12-bar blues , the scheme of which is repeated five times. There are two bars of the tonic in E major as the intro , and a multi-bar guitar solo on the tonic up to the fadeout as the outro . The first and last two 12-bar figures are each divided into verse and chorus, with the first eight bars forming the tonic and subdominant the stanza, the four following bars forming the dominant , subdominant and tonic the refrain. While Nilsson presents the stanzas in unison, he presents a four-part movement in the chorus, which he recorded using overdub technology. The electric guitar solos on the middle of the five blues schemes.
A striking element is the Bo Diddley beat, which is underlaid to the entire song. This one-bar, rhythmic figure was present on the radio at the time All for the Beatles was composed, thanks to the American debut single of the Rolling Stones Not Fade Away , a cover of the Buddy Holly classic. The beat was introduced by Bo Diddley in 1955 in his self-titled song Bo Diddley and has since been used many times in his follow-up recordings.
publication
Marascalco took over the composition for his own BMI music publisher Robin Hood Music under the title All for the Beatles . There is no copyright entry in the Library of Congress . The single cover when it was published under the alternative title Stand Up and Holler was attached to an 8 mm film shrink-wrapped in foil, which shows excerpts from the Beatles' February film scenes. According to the instructions on the single and the cover, the song and film can be played synchronously with each other. Marascalco created its own record label for the edition with Foto-Fi Records, which only produced this single single under the number 107. Nilsson got the new pseudonym "Foto-Fi Four" as the interpreter. The B-side contained the same shot, but without the background calls from the beach girls.
Cover versions
The Originals recorded the piece for the Associated Artists label that same year. The title was used in the form All for the Beatles (Stand Up and Holler) . The piece with Will You Come Back My Love? on the B-side.
In 1965 Marascalco adapted the rhythm and melody of All for the Beatles for the song Mary Mary by the band The Electras, which he produced . New text and a bridge have been added to the piece . When it was released on Marascalco's own labels Lola Records and Ruby-Doo Records , Electras members Gary Pipkin , Chester Pipkin and Brice Coefield were given as authors instead of Nilsson and Marascalco .
Importance, Criticism, and Success
Alyn Shipton thinks it is ironic that All for the Beatles is approaching Beatlemania via the adaptation of a Rolling Stones hit: "The shameless loan was calculated to bring the British Invasion to mind for everyone who heard it ." Nilsson sang the stanzas in an “Americanized approach to John Lennon ”, but the penetrating central guitar solo would correspond directly to that of Keith Richards . Shipton considers the song to be the first real example of Nilsson's fondness for the overdub technique, perfected over the course of his career, with which he emulated the Beatles' close harmony .
Neither the original nor the cover version made it into the charts. Shipton judges the song is "not particularly remarkable on its own, but a harbinger of Nilsson's following love for all things concerning the Beatles." The single with the film is now a rare collector's item, with prices starting at $ 200 in 2006. Filmmaker John Scheinfeld included the song in his 2006 documentary Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin 'About Him)? when the Beatles were first mentioned.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Alyn Shipton : Nilsson. The life of a singer-songwriter . 1st edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-975657-5 , Good Old Desk, pp. 31 f . (American English).
- ^ John Marascalco: Stand Up and Holler . Foto-Fi Records, Los Angeles 1964 (single and sleeve from Foto-Fi 107).
- ^ The Originals: All for the Beatles . Associated Artists, 1964 (Single Associated Artists 1464).
- ↑ The Electras: Mary Mary . Lola Records, 1965 (single Lola # 001).
- ^ Ivy Press: Heritage Signature Entertainment Memorabilia Auction # 622 . Heritage Capital Corporation, 2006, ISBN 1-59967-036-4 , Everything Beatles, pp. 190 (American English).
- ^ John Scheinfeld: Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin 'About Him)? Lorber Films, 2010 (DVD).