Cry Baby Cry

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Cry Baby Cry
The Beatles
publication November 22, 1968
length 3 min 2 s
Genre (s) skirt
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
album The Beatles

Cry Baby Cry ( English Schrei Baby Schrei ) is a song by the British band The Beatles from 1968, which appeared on the double album The Beatles . It was composed by John Lennon ; however, it is under the band's usual copyright Lennon / McCartney .

background

Lennon wrote Cry Baby Cry during the India visit of the band in 1968. The trigger was an advertising slogan ( "Cry baby cry, make your mother buy") from which he developed the song. He also used a few lines from the children's poem Sing A Song Of Sixpence , for example from the following verse:

"The king was in his counting house counting out his money,
The queen was in the parlor eating bread and honey
The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes,
When down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose!"

In May 1968, the Beatles recorded an early demo version of the song at George Harrison's Esher estate .

admission

The Beatles recorded Cry Baby Cry in July 1968 at London's Abbey Road Studios . The song was produced by George Martin , assisted by Geoff Emerick and Ken Scott . On July 15, 1968, the band began working on the song. At first it was rehearsed intensively. About two hours of these samples were recorded on tape; however, the tape was later erased. On July 16, 1968, the band recorded ten takes of the song with the following line-up:

Further instruments were then added using the overdubbing method . During these recordings, the sound engineer Geoff Emerick suddenly stopped working with the Beatles. He had had enough of the tension within the band. The technician Ken Scott took over his duties. With him on July 18, 1968, more overdubs took place, including a re-recording of Lennon's vocals. The original four-track recording was transferred to an eight-track tape for further overdubs, which never took place.

On October 15, 1968, Cry Baby Cry was mixed in stereo and mono , with the acoustic guitar receiving its characteristic flanger effect.

publication

Cry Baby Cry appeared on November 22, 1968 on the double album The Beatles. After the song, a fadeout of the song Can You Take Me Back can be heard on the album, which is not listed as a separate song on the album. Can You Take Me Back was created spontaneously during the recording of I Will on September 16, 1968 and is otherwise not related to Cry Baby Cry .

An alternative version (Take 1) appeared on the album Anthology 3 in 1996 .

Cover versions have appeared by Ramsey Lewis , Fool's Garden and Katie Melua , among others .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/cry-baby-cry/
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ http://www.beatlesbible.com/1968/07/18/recording-cry-baby-cry-helter-skelter/
  4. ↑ http://www.beatlesbible.com/1968/10/15/mixing-happiness-is-a-warm-gun-im-so-tired-cry-baby-cry/