Savoy truffle

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Savoy truffle
The Beatles
publication November 22, 1968
length 2 min 54 s
Genre (s) Rock , soul
Author (s) George Harrison
Producer (s) George Martin
Label Apple
album The Beatles

Savoy Truffle ( English Savoy - Truffle ) is a song by the British musician George Harrison from 1968, which he recorded with his band The Beatles for the album of the same name .

background

As George Harrison himself said, the song is about Eric Clapton's sweet tooth and the ensuing problems with his teeth. One day saw this with his friend George a box of chocolates of the variety Good News of Mackintosh ; Harrison used their praline names in the lyrics. In the middle part, Derek Taylor helped him with the sentence "You are what you eat." (,You are what you eat.'). That was the title of a film made by Taylor's two friends, Alan Pariser and Barry Feinstein . This sentence is considered the maxim of the French Epicurean Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin .

composition

The in 4 / 4 - stroke and 7 / 8 wrote -Stroke song is in E minor and G major company and has a length of 2:54 minutes. The genre is known as rock or soul .

In Savoy Truffle , Harrison continues a tradition founded by John Lennon of self-quoting Beatles titles: In I Am the Walrus of November 1967 , Harrison quoted Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds of June 1967 and again five in Glass Onion from 1968 Beatles titles: Strawberry Fields Forever , I Am the Walrus , Lady Madonna , The Fool on the Hill and Fixing a Hole . Harrison also mentions the song Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da from the same double album in Savoy Truffle : here he writes and sings “We all know ob-la-di-bla-da, but can you show me where you are? ”, but not to quote smugly, but to find eight-syllable rhymes on“ You know that what you eat you are, but what is sweet now turns so sour ”. One can understand “these lines as a hidden criticism of Paul's […] sweet songs” or as an indication that life will not go on as claimed in the quoted song, or simply as nonsense.

occupation

Cast list:

admission

The first two recordings took place in the Trident Studios in Wardour Street, London W 1, “to change the environment”. They met on October 3rd and 5th, 1968. Further recordings were made on October 11th and 14th, 1968 in Abbey Road Studio  2. Harrison asked sound engineer Ken Scott to "smear" the sound of the wind instruments. They weren't very happy, but Harrison said after the editing: "Please forgive me - but it's the way I want it!" ('Please forgive me - but that's how I want it!').

Reviews

"After Back in the USSR [...] Savoy Truffle was the best rock piece on the record."

- Philip Norman: Shout! The real story of the Beatles. P. 245

"It's the best George song since I want to tell you ."

"It's the best song by George since I want to tell you ."

- Tim Riley: Tell me why. A Beatles Commentary. P. 284

" Savoy Truffle , as pointless as its predecessor."

- Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. The song lexicon. 2000, p. 340

Savoy Truffle was a gusty joke […] Far better was Long, Long, Long .

" Savoy Truffle was a tumultuous joke [...] Long, Long, Long was far better ."

- Simon Leng: The Music of George Harrison. While my Guitar Gently Weeps. P. 23

Savoy Truffle might not be one of the album's more memorable songs.

" Savoy Truffle might not be one of the more noteworthy songs on the album."

- Ian Inglis: The Words and Music of George Harrison. P. 13

Cover versions

Savoy Truffle was, among others, Ella Fitzgerald on her single I'll Never Fall in Love Again / Savoy Truffle (1969) gecovert .

literature

  • Alex Cain, Terry McCusker: Ringo Starr and The Beatles Beat . Troubador. Leicestershire 2016, ISBN 978-1-78589-955-3 .
  • Walter Everett: The Beatles as Musicians. Revolver through the Anthology . Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-512941-5 .
  • Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Hagino, Hajime Kubo, Goro Sato (Transcription): The Beatles Complete Scores . Hal Leonard, Milwaukee 1993, ISBN 0-7935-1832-6 .
  • Jonathan Gould: Can't Buy Me Love. Beatles, Britain and America . Portrait, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-7499-5166-5 .
  • Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Total Beatles. The stories behind the songs . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-7688-3881-8 .
  • George Harrison: I Me Mine . Genesis, Guildford 2017, ISBN 978-1-905662-40-1 .
  • Chris Ingham: The Rough Guide To The Beatles . Penguin, London 2003, ISBN 1-84353-140-2 .
  • Ian Inglis: The Words and Music of George Harrison. Praeger, Santa Barbara 2010, ISBN 978-0-313-37532-3 .
  • Simon Leng: The Music of George Harrison. While my Guitar Gently Weeps. Firefly, London 2003, ISBN 0-946719-50-0 .
  • Mark Lewisohn : The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years. Hamlyn, London 1988, ISBN 0-600-55798-7 .
  • Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. The song lexicon. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1426-7 .
  • Philip Norman: Shout! The real story of the Beatles . Goldmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-442-10194-8 .
  • John Pring, Rob Thomas: The Beatles Story. Band history | Albums | Backgrounds . Knesebeck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-95728-176-0 .
  • David Quantick: Revolution. The Making of the Beatles' White Album . Unanimous, London 2002, ISBN 1-903318-55-6 .
  • Volker Rebell : The Beatles 1968. The White Album . Heupferd Musik, Dreieich 2008, ISBN 978-3-923445-68-4 .
  • Tim Riley: Tell me why. A Beatles Commentary. First Vintage Books, New York 1989, ISBN 0-679-72198-3 .
  • Jeffrey Roessner: We All Want to Change the World: Postmodern Politics and the Beatles' White Album. In: Kenneth Womack, Todd F. Davis: Reading the Beatles. Cultural studies, literary criticism, and the Fab Four. State University of New York Press, New York 2006, ISBN 0-7914-6716-3 .
  • Steve Turner: A Hard Day's Write. The story behind every Beatles song . Heel, Königswinter 1996, ISBN 3-89365-500-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Harrison: I Me Mine. 2017, p. 126.
  2. ↑ Illustration in: George Harrison: I Me Mine. 2017, panel XXII.
  3. ↑ Steve Turner: A Hard Day's Write. The story behind every Beatles song. 1996, p. 170.
  4. ^ Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Beatles total. The stories behind the songs. 2013, p. 508.
  5. ↑ Alex Cain, Terry McCusker: Ringo Starr and The Beatles Beat, p. 287: also 6 ⁄ 8 -akt
  6. ^ Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Hagino, Hajime Kubo, Goro Sato (Transcription): The Beatles Complete Scores. 1993, pp. 846-851.
  7. ^ Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. The song lexicon. 2000, p. 340.
  8. ↑ John Pring, Rob Thomas: The Beatles Story. Band history | Albums | Background, p. 205.
  9. ^ Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Beatles total. The stories behind the songs. 2013, p. 508.
  10. ↑ Philip Norman: Shout! The real story of the Beatles. 1982, p. 245; David Quantick: Revolution. The Making of the Beatles' White Album. 2002, p. 148: "a pop rocker"
  11. ↑ Chris Ingham: The Rough Guide To The Beatles. 2003, p. 65; Jonathan Gould: Can't Buy Me Love. Beatles, Britain and America. 2007, p. 524.
  12. ↑ George Harrison: I Me Mine. 2017, p. 128.
  13. ↑ Jeffrey Roessner: We All Want to Change the World: Postmodern Politics and the Beatles' White Album. 2006, p. 156: “smugly referring”
  14. ↑ Volker Rebell: The Beatles 1968. The White Album. 2008, p. 231.
  15. ^ Walter Everett: The Beatles as Musicians. Revolver through the Anthology. 1999, p. 204: "the reference to 'Ob-la-di' seems a sinister suggestion that […] perhaps life will not go on."
  16. ↑ David Quantick: Revolution. The Making of the Beatles' White Album. 2002, p. 148: “just some nonsense”
  17. ^ Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. The song lexicon. 2000, p. 340.
  18. ↑ Alex Cain, Terry McCusker: Ringo Starr and The Beatles Beat, p. 287: also tambourine
  19. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years. 1988, p. 161; Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Total Beatles. The stories behind the songs. 2013, p. 508: tenor saxophone
  20. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years. 1988, p. 158: "for no other reason than a week's change of scenery"
  21. ^ Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Beatles total. The stories behind the songs. 2013, p. 509; Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years. 1988, p. 161: "I want to distort it."
  22. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years. 1988, p. 161.
  23. ↑ Volker Rebell: The Beatles 1968. The White Album. 2008, p. 231.