‘You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)’

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Ken Womack, trong bài viết The Beatles: Mười khoảnh khắc đáng ghi nhớ:

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personalities/ten_great_beatles_moments.php

đã chọn bài thứ mười là ‘You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)’  ["Em biết tên tôi (tra niên giám điện thoại để biết số phone nhe)"].

10. ‘You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)’ (1970)

 

Recorded by the band in 1967, completed by Lennon, McCartney, and the Beatles’ faithful roadie Mal Evans in 1969, and released as the B-side of ‘Let It Be’ in 1970, ‘You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)’ is a uniquely comic moment in the group’s discography. ‘We had these endless, crazy fun sessions,’ McCartney fondly recalls in Mark Lewisohn’s The Beatles Recording Sessions (1988). A pastiche of lounge-style vocal stylings and Monty Pythonesque humor, the song features the late Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones on saxophone, Lennon playing the maracas, and Harrison on the xylophone. From its soul-pounding blues introduction to the song’s swanky samba refrain, ‘You Know My Name’ is propelled—in unforgettably comic fashion—by Lennon’s hilarious falsetto vocals and the dappled chorus of grunts and mumbles that mark the tune’s sizzling conclusion. In its own peculiar way, ‘You Know My Name’ brilliantly captures the spirit of the Beatles’ remarkable pop-musical career: their personality, their willingness to experiment—to whatever results—and their irrepressible humanity.


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