Good Morning Good Morning

Good Morning Good Morning
The Beatles
publication	June 1, 1967
length	2 min 41 s
Genre (s)	Rock , experimental rock
Author (s)	Lennon / McCartney
album	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Good Morning Good Morning ( English Good morning, good morning ) is a song by British rock band The Beatles , which on 1 June 1967 as the eleventh track on the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released.

Emergence

The recordings for the composition by John Lennon took place on February 8 and 16, 1967 and on March 28 and 29, 1967 at Abbey Road Studios . Lennon / McCartney are named as the copyright holder .

This song is based on an arrangement of drums, bass, rhythm and solo guitar with vocals. Musicians from the group Sound Incorporated were hired to record further overdubs and thus "inflate" the sound with three saxophones , two trombones and a horn . This was very difficult because of the many time changes within the piece. To spice up the piece, Lennon wanted to incorporate the cock crow from the Kelloggs commercial into the song. He supplemented this with numerous other animal noises which can be heard in the fade out and which at the same time form a transition to the next song - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) . The selection of animal sounds was not arbitrary: at Lennon's request, each animal should be able to kill or eat the animal it had heard before. First you hear the twittering of birds, then a cat, then a dog, followed by a lion, then an elephant and finally the pounding of horses and hunting horns from a hunt. At the very end a chicken cackles, the last note of which should exactly match the first chord of the following song Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (recapitulation) ( this did not work out exactly in the stereo version ).

Lennon got the idea for this piece through a cornflakes commercial. In Good Morning Good Morning he is sarcastic about British, bourgeois-stuffy life. Lennon was then leading an unhappy married life with his wife, Cynthia, in the posh London suburb of Weybridge . The line “It's time for tea and meet the wife” refers to a British television sitcom Lennon loved at the time called Meet the Wife . Lennon later dismissed this song as "disposable, a piece for the garbage".

Clocking

The piece, which is played at 117 beats per minute, has an unusual sequence of measures, alternating ⁵ ⁄ _{4 time} and ⁴ ⁄ _{4 time} , with ³ ⁄ ₄ transitions.

The total of 64 bars can be grouped into seven sections, but only three different A, B and C, which are repeated according to the following pattern: A, B, C, B , C, B, A, with a symmetry with regard to the middle B- Part; ignoring the last bar ( fadeout ).

The clock sequences in detail:

A: 4,4,4,4,4 (introduction: five bars, 20 beats)
B: 5,5,5,3,4,5,4,3,3,4,4 (eleven bars, 44 beats)
C: 5,5,5,3,4,4,4,4,4,4 (contains refrain: ten bars, 42 beats)
B: 5,5,5,3,4,5,4,3,3 , 4,4 (eleven bars, 44 beats)
C: 5,5,5,3,4,4,4,4,4,4 (contains refrain: ten bars, 42 beats)
B: 5,5,5, 3,4,5,4,3,3,4,4 (eleven bars, 44 beats)
A: 4,4,4,4,4,4 (end: six bars, 24 beats, with fadeout beat)

This is a total of 64 bars with 260 beats, which at 117 beats per minute results in a length of 2: 13.333 ... minutes.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mark Lewisohn : The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions . London, Hamlyn, 2004, ISBN 0-681-03189-1 . Pp. 95, 97, 105 and 106.
2. ↑ Steve Turner: A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song . New York, HarperCollins, 2005, ISBN 0-06-084409-4 . P. 132.
3. ↑ David Sheff: The Ballad of John and Yoko. The last big interview . Höfen, Hannibal-Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-85445-202-7 . P. 190.
4. ↑ George Martin : Summer of Love. The Making of Sgt. Pepper . London, Macmillan, 1994, ISBN 0-333-60398-2 . Pp. 73-75.
5. ^ Walter Everett: The Beatles as Musicians. Revolver through the Anthology . New York, Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-19-512941-0 . Pp. 114-116.
6. ^ Dominic Pedler: The Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles . London, Omnibus Press, 2003, ISBN 0-7119-8167-1 . P. 552 f.