Yes It Is

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Yes It Is
The Beatles
publication March 25, 1965 ( D ),
0April 9, 1965 ( UK )

B-side of Ticket to Ride

length 1 min 55 s
Genre (s) ballad
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
Producer (s) George Martin
Label Odeon (D),
Parlophone (UK)
album Beatles VI (US),
Love Songs ,
Rarities ,
Past Masters • Volume One

Yes It Is ( English Yes, it's true ) is a song by the British band The Beatles from 1965, which appeared as the B-side of the single Ticket to Ride .

background

John Lennon : "I tried to rewrite This Boy with that, but it didn't work."

composition

Lennon - McCartney is named as the writing team on the record label . “I was there and wrote it with John, but it was his inspiration and I helped him finish. Yes It Is is a beautiful song by John, a ballad, unusual for him. "

Located in the 12 / 8 - clock wrote song is in E major company and has a length of 1:55 minutes. The tempo is given as Slowly , the genre of the song is a ballad .

text

“In the text, a girl is warned not to put on something red because that was the color that the singer's girlfriend always wore.” “He asks his beautiful woman not to wear a red dress anymore because the color reminds him of his old one Love reminds you. "Perhaps this previous relationship was unsatisfactory or even ended with a death:" [...] the singer states his wish to avoid painful memories of a previous relationship. " ("[...] the singer expresses his wish to avoid painful memories of a previous relationship.") One interpretation of these verses is: "The fantasy figure conjured up here is probably an allusion to his red-haired mother Julia [... ]. "

occupation

Cast list:

admission

The recording was made on Tuesday, February 16, 1965 in Studio 2 of Abbey Road Studios . A total of 14 takes were recorded. George Martin was the producer and Norman Smith was the sound engineer .

publication

In Germany, Austria and Switzerland the single Ticket To Ride / Yes It Is was published on March 25, 1965 ( Odeon O 22 950), in Great Britain only on April 9, 1965 ( Parlophone R 5265). In the USA the title was also released on the LP Beatles VI ( Capitol T - 2358) on June 14, 1965. On March 18, 1996 the title appeared in a varying version on Anthology 2 .

Reviews

"[...] an exquisite and intricate three-part harmony ballad [...]"

"[...] an excellent and complicated three-part harmony ballad"

- Mark Lewisohn: The Beatles Recording sessions 

"George really appreciated the song and was sorry it wasn't on the A-side of the single."

- Jean-Michel Guesdon and Philippe Margotin: Totally Beatles. The stories behind the songs 

Cover version

Peter Sellers published a spoken version of the piece .

literature

  • Alan Aldridge (Ed.): The Beatles Songbook 2. The Beatles' colored text book. Volume 2 . German by Lutz-W. Wolff. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-423-01746-5 .
  • Alex Bagirov: The Anthology of the Beatles Records. Yesterday and today. Tomorrow and always . Something, Rostock 2007, ISBN 978-3-936300-44-4 .
  • Colin Campbell, Allan Murphy: Things We Said Today. The Complete Lyrics and a Concordance to The Beatles' Songs, 1962-1970 . Pierian Press, Ann Arbor 1980, ISBN 0-87650-104-8 .
  • Hunter Davies: The Beatles Lyrics. The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs . Little, Brown and Company, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-316-24716-0 .
  • Walter Everett: The Beatles as Musicians. The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul . Oxford University Press, New York 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-514105-4 .
  • Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Hagino, Hajime Kubo, Goro Sato (Transcription): The Beatles Complete Scores . Hal Leonard, Milwaukee 1993, ISBN 0-7935-1832-6 .
  • Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Total Beatles. The stories behind the songs . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-7688-3881-8 .
  • Jerry Hammack: The Beatles Recording Reference Manual. Volume 2. Help! through revolver (1965-1966) . Gearfab Books, Toronto 2018, ISBN 978-1983704550 .
  • 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 .
  • Christoph Maus: Beatles worldwide. An Anthology of Original LP Releases in more than 40 Countries 1962–1972 . Print Competence, Mühlenrade 2004, ISBN 3-9809137-1-6 .
  • Barry Miles : Paul McCartney. Many years from now . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-499-60892-8 .
  • NN : The Beatles Complete. Piano Vocal / Easy Organ . Music Sales, London, undated
  • David Sheff: The Ballad of John and Yoko. The last big interview . Hannibal, Höfen 2002, ISBN 3-85445-202-0 .
  • Neville Stannard: The Long and Winding Road. A History of The Beatles on Record . 2nd Edition. Virgin, London 1983, ISBN 0-907080-96-0 .
  • Steve Turner: A Hard Day's Write. The story behind every Beatles song . Heel, Königswinter 1996, ISBN 3-89365-500-X .
  • Uwe Watzek, Uwe Heft: The Beatles made in Germany. Discography of the Beatles records from Germany, Austria and Switzerland . Digital printing service, Halle (Saale) 2002.
  • Mathias Wlaschek, Wilfried Pelz: The Beatles. Here, There (And Everywhere?) . Modern Music Cologne, Cologne 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Sheff: The Ballad of John and Yoko. The last big interview, p. 201
  2. ↑ Alex Bagirov: The Anthology of the Beatles Records. Yesterday and today. Tomorrow and always, p. 887
  3. ↑ Barry Miles: Paul McCartney. Many years from now , p. 214
  4. ↑ Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Hagino, Hajime Kubo, Goro Sato (Transcription): The Beatles Complete Scores , pp. 1070-1073; Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. Das Song-Lexikon , p. 162; Walter Everett: The Beatles as Musicians. The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul , p. 285
  5. ↑ Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Hagino, Hajime Kubo, Goro Sato (Transcription): The Beatles Complete Scores , pp. 1070-1073
  6. ^ Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Beatles total. The stories behind the songs , p. 262
  7. ^ NN: The Beatles Complete. Piano Vocal / Easy Organ , p. 208
  8. ↑ Barry Miles : Paul McCartney. Many years from now , p. 214; Jerry Hammack : The Beatles Recording Reference Manual. Volume 1. My Bonnie through Beatles for Sale (1961–1964) , p. 20
  9. ↑ Steve Turner: A Hard Day's Write. The story behind every Beatles song, p. 72
  10. ^ Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Beatles total. The stories behind the songs , p. 262
  11. ↑ See the discussions on https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/yes-it-is/
  12. ^ Walter Everett: The Beatles as Musicians. The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul , p. 286
  13. ^ Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. The Song Lexicon , p. 162
  14. ^ Hunter Davies: The Beatles Lyrics. The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs , p. 101: “I asked Julia Baird, her daughter, if her mother wore red. 'Never never, always black black black, sometimes dark blue, but never red.' I think that answers that. " ("I asked Julia Baird, her daughter, if her mother wore red [clothes]. 'Never, never, always black, black, black, sometimes dark blue, but never red.' I think that answers that.")
  15. ^ Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin: Beatles total. The stories behind the songs, p. 262. Instruments based on: Jerry Hammack: The Beatles Recording Reference Manual. Volume 2. Help! through Revolver (1965-1966) , p. 20. Ian MacDonald: The Beatles. The Song Lexicon, p. 162 does not mention Harrison at all, but mentions a "three-part harmony" below.
  16. ^ Mark Lewisohn : The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years , p. 54
  17. ^ Mathias Wlaschek, Wilfried Pelz: The Beatles. Here, There (And Everywhere?), P. 47; Uwe Watzek, Uwe Heft: The Beatles made in Germany. Discography of the Beatles records from Germany, Austria and Switzerland , p. 35; Alex Bagirov: The Anthology of the Beatles Records. Yesterday and today. Tomorrow and always , p. 887
  18. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years , p. 57 ; Neville Stannard: The Long and Winding Road. A History of The Beatles on Record , p. 32
  19. ↑ Alex Bagirov: The Anthology of the Beatles Records. Yesterday and today. Tomorrow and always , p. 221; Christoph Maus: Beatles worldwide. An Anthology of Original LP Releases in more than 40 Countries 1962–1972, p. 82
  20. ↑ Uwe Watzek, Uwe Heft: The Beatles made in Germany. Discography of the Beatles records from Germany, Austria and Switzerland , p. 116
  21. ↑ p. 54
  22. ↑ p. 262