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Day gonorrhea
The Beatles
publication December 1965
length 2 min 47 s
Genre (s) skirt
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
album A Collection of Beatles Oldies

Day Tripper was the Beatles' twelfth single , released as the first double A-sided single with We Can Work It Out in December 1965.

History of origin

Day Tripper was written in John Lennon's house in Kenwood (St. George's Hill), Weybridge , Surrey in October 1965 . Paul McCartney and John Lennon worked together on this, as usually, but McCartney ascribes most of the ideas behind the creation of the song to his colleague. The song was created under the pressure of having to release a new single because the last single Help! last listed first on August 19, 1965 in Great Britain and dropped out of the top ten in mid-September . The two composers came up with the idea of ​​the ambiguous title Day Tripper . On the one hand, this describes people who do not have much practice in a certain activity, are colloquially a "Sunday driver" or can also be a day trip with a "one way ticket" (one-way ticket without return). On the other hand, this is also the name for someone who has not fully embraced the hippie lifestyle, in particular does not take drugs every day. According to fellow composer John Lennon, it was a drug song.

admission

Recorded on October 16, 1965 in Studio 2 of Abbey Road Studios during the recording sessions for the album Rubber Soul , first the music tracks were recorded with bass guitar and drums, then Lennon's rhythm guitar playing, mixed on the left channel, the reverb voices on the right. In the intro , the rhythm guitar was recorded twice and played over with the bass guitar. John Lennon and Paul McCartney took on the lead and backing vocals together. Of the three takes , the last was used for record pressing, produced by George Martin with Norman Smith as the sound engineer.

The song is dominated by Paul McCartney's syncopated bass ostinato , whose eleven-note motif is constantly repeated during the piece in different keys and is based on a 12-bar blues in E major (with no minor admixture). The intro alone is repeated five times, which is a dramatic treatment of the harmonic rhythm. The dominance of the bass makes Day Tripper one of the most riff-driven songs in pop music. The model was Robert White's guitar ostinato in My Girl from the Temptations (December 1964). The following instruments were used for the recording: McCartney's electric bass was a Höfner 500/1 (from 1961), Harrison's lead guitar was a Gibson ES-345 and Lennon's rhythm guitar was a Rickenbacker 325 from 1964.

After the recordings for We Can Work It Out on October 20, 1965, the decision for a single with a double A-side was made for the first time in the pop sector worldwide. That made it difficult for the radio stations to choose either side of the airplay . With the standard A and B side division , the A side for radio stations should serve as an indication that this side should also be preferred for airplay. The practice of a double A-side was repeated several times by the Beatles and also adopted by other performers of pop music.

Publication and Success

The Beatles - Day Tripper
(British pressing)

The single with the two A-sides was released in England on December 3, 1965, the same day as the album Rubber Soul ; the single sold 1.387 million copies (one million by December 20, 1965), went over a million copies in the United States and more than three million copies worldwide. After it was released on December 6, 1965 in the USA, the radio stations preferred We Can Work It Out , which was able to penetrate to first place there. As usual, Billboard listed both sides separately and only listed Day Tripper in fifth place. In Great Britain there was no hit parade separation, so Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out (Parlophone # R5389) could be registered as the tenth consecutive top hit for the Beatles.

Statistics and cover versions

Day Tripper won a BMI award and, according to the cover info, was covered 51 times , in 1965 by Booker T. & the MG's and in 1966 by the Ramsey Lewis Trio. Otis Redding recorded Day Tripper in the studio a year later on October 15, 1966 and played what is perhaps the most soulful song by the Beatles live during his 1967 European tour (March 17, 1967 at the Astoria Theater in London and March 21 at the Olympia in Paris ). Jimi Hendrix also covered the title. The British progressive rock band Yes used the above-mentioned bass ostinato as a transition to the vocals of the title in their 1969 cover version of the Beatles song Every Little Thing . Eric Clapton also built the introductory ostinato into his guitar part: after the drum solo in Ray Charles ' cover What'd I Say on John Mayall's LP Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mark Lewisohn, The Beatles Recording Sessions , 1989, p. 64.
  2. ^ Bill Harry, The Ultimate Beatles Encyclopedia , 2000, p. 189.
  3. ^ Soundscapes: Alan W. Pollack, Notes on "Day Tripper" , 2000 .
  4. ^ Ian McDonald, Revolution in the Head , 2007, p. 167.
  5. ↑ Harmonic rhythm is the rhythm expressed in music by changing chords
  6. ^ Walter Everett, The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men Through Rubber Soul , 2001, p. 316.
  7. ^ Joseph Murrells: Million Selling Records , 1985, p. 204.