Don't Pass Me By

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Don't Pass Me By
The Beatles
publication November 22, 1968
length 3 min 46 s ( mono )
3 min 51 s ( stereo )
Genre (s) Country
Author (s) Ringo Starr
album The Beatles

Do not Pass Me By ( English Do not go past me ) is a song by British rock band The Beatles from 1968. The one on the so-called White Album song was published the first of only two compositions, Ringo Starr , the drummer the Beatles, composed for the band.

background

Starr had already composed Don't Pass Me By in 1963 or 1964. In a radio interview the Beatles gave in New Zealand in June 1964 , Starr asked his bandmates to sing the song. On July 14, 1964, Paul McCartney spontaneously sang the first lines of the song on the BBC's British radio show Top Gear after Starr was asked if he was planning to write his own songs. Starr later explained that the song only consists of three chords by stating that he can only play three chords each on the guitar and the piano.

production

Don't Pass Me By was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London in the summer of 1968 . The producer was George Martin , assisted by Geoff Emerick and Ken Scott . McCartney and Starr recorded three takes with drums and piano on June 5, 1968 under the working title Ringo's Tune (Untitled) . In overdub process of recording another piano, a were Schellenstab , bass and vocals added. The sound of the piano was alienated by a Leslie cabinet, which gave it a peculiar tremolo sound . The following day the song was renamed This Is Some Friendly , and Starr re-recorded his vocals.

On July 12, 1968, the violinist Jack Fallon was booked for further recordings. In a recording session of about three and a half hours, he recorded a violin solo arranged by George Martin and Paul McCartney . At the end of the recording - actually after the end of the song - Fallon improvised on the violin, assuming that this recording would be deleted. To Fallon's surprise, this improvisation was left in the final mix of Don't Pass Me By .

The last recordings for Don't Pass Me By took place on July 22, 1968, which focused exclusively on the introduction of the song. A short orchestral introduction was produced but later discarded. The recording was only released in 1996 under the title A Beginning as part of the anthology series, but was included in the Beatles' animated film Yellow Submarine as early as 1968 , where it is heard when the sun rises between the songs Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby at the beginning of the film Liverpool rises. An introduction on a piano was also recorded, which (shortened from 45 to 8 seconds) was ultimately used.

The stereo and mono mixes of the song differ significantly: the mono version was produced with a significantly higher playback speed, and the violin solo is also significantly different.

publication

Don't Pass Me By was released on November 22, 1968 on The Beatles album . In the UK it was not released as a single . However, a single was released in Denmark in April 1969 at number one on the Danish singles charts.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Beatles Recording Sessions, Harmony Book , New York, ISBN 0-517-57066-1 .
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