I like it. To have Bing Crosby cover this song is the Equivalent of Paul Mccartney covering Justin Timberlake, or Smokey Robinson covering Bruno Mars. That is a great honor.
@MadameLil Also the album cover says "soft, safe, and sanitized" Meaning it's supposed to be an easy listening version. LoL But thanks for the feedback.
I adore the Beatles. My favorite rock band. But I admit that I actually like this version. This must have been recorded around 1969 or 1970? Crosby would have been over sixty years old and he actually sounds great.
@roman4438 Recorded on November 21, 1968. I have the vinyl in front of me and reading directly from the back about the standing ovation the musicians backing him up gave him after he finished.
What's corny here is the arrangement. Listen to what Bing is doing with the rhythm and his melodic variations - Lennon, for all his genius,couldn't touch it. This would have been better with a simple rhythm section behind Bing. The 'pum, pum, pum,' is a bad choice, I'll admit.
Though this may sound really corny and vanilla to many of us - including myself - what I am also thinking is that the great Bing Crosby just may have brought this terrific Paul McCartney classic into the ear's and mind's of many at the time not familiar with, or willing to listen to, the Beatles.
@Frisbieinstein Bing was one of the most iconic singers of all time & he was the guy that everyone copied, including Dean Martin, (the coolest mo-fo that ever drew breath). Saying that, Bing was in his late 60's when he recorded this and his voice isn't a patch on what it used to be. Here you have a known ballad crooner at least having the balls to record a contemporary pop record so cut the guy some slack. Check out some of his records from the 1930's and get ready to be amazed.
Here it ocurred an error of production. Bing Crosby has been an icon for decades and his talent is known for each one of us. John Lennon & Paul McCartney are winners in their careers (here as composers). But between the great Bing Crosby and The Beatles exist an ocean larger than Pacific. They belong to different worlds. Their artistic schools are differents. I guess Bing hasn't "soul" to record "Hey Jude" ,
"Hey Jude", as Elvis Presley is very good. Because the "ocean" is lesser. I guess it.
Believe or not this song was released as a single in Perth Western Australia in 1969 and made it to about 35 on the charts. A more unlikely charting song would be hard to find!
Bing's got a great voice but of course the delivery is soft, safe and sanitized.... but the drummer is kicking it out and having fun with it, particularly at the end. I'm dissapointed that Mr. Crosby didn't do a rendition of the McCartney scream fest in the second half of the song!
@Doleafol please tell me you did not just compare justin bieber to paul mccartney? Paul was one of his generation's finest songwriters. Thats why Bing covered Hey Jude. Justin Bieber is a scrub. Why in hell would Paul even consider covering some lame-ass justin bieber song?
Thanks for the reply. I was not suggesting that Justin Bieber and Paul McCartney are equals. That is completely absurb. You read my comment completely wrong. I was saying that Paul, unlike Bing Crosby, would NEVER cover a comtemporary song (meaning a current song circa 2010 as Bing covered Hey Jude when it was new in 1969 or soon thereafter). So, Paul WOULD NOT ever cover Justin Bieber or Jay-Z. Even in subsequent years, he would not stoop that low.
@Doleafol ...in a way you did compare mccartney to bieber. however lame bing crosby's cover is, he picked one of the generations top songwriters to cover. so for your comparision to be valid, it would have to be mccartney as an old dude covering one of today's top songwriters... which justin bieber ISNT (maybe Jay Z is)
@Doleafol You're right. Paul would never cover a comtemporary song. But I think it's because Paul is a composer. He doesn't need to search songs to record. Bing Crosby was just a singer - a great and original singer -and at the last years of his career became a artistic free-lancer. I guess it was an error of production to chose this type of music for him. But Paul McCartney - today - is a king of covers. Covers from the past, of course, but always covers. He is coming back to the fifties...
Thank you for the reply. I don't think Bing Crosby singing Hey Jude is necessarily a misstep or "an error." I think the pop majesty of Hey Jude fits well into Bing Crosby's style and abilities. Singing White Rabbit by the Jefferson Airplane would have been an error. I just think they took an overly "glossy" approach to it. As for Paul doing covers now, I think he is reflecting on his past and also running out of ideas after having written so many songs.
@drucafate I think maybe the arrangement is an error not so much the cover itself or song choice. Singers did a nice job with many Lennon/McCartney songs and it shows that the songs had become "standards" long before today. McCartney doing covers is nothing new. Going that far back is, but not a shock. All of them liked the music they no doubt heard growing up. As someone here said Lennon was a big Crosby fan and McCartney's favorite song is "Unforgettable!"
I weep, I just freakin weep. It's horrible in a strange and surreal way.
beast13284 1 month ago
Just noticed the image of John Lennon crying in the bottom left corner of the album cover. Purely priceless. Still like this version though.
Jimmynotes 1 month ago
The Beatles "Please Please Me" was inspired by a Bing Crosby song
riverotter68 1 month ago
I like it. To have Bing Crosby cover this song is the Equivalent of Paul Mccartney covering Justin Timberlake, or Smokey Robinson covering Bruno Mars. That is a great honor.
Jimmynotes 1 month ago
@Jimmynotes WELL PLAYED!! I'm in complete agreement!
MadameLil 1 month ago
@MadameLil Also the album cover says "soft, safe, and sanitized" Meaning it's supposed to be an easy listening version. LoL But thanks for the feedback.
Jimmynotes 1 month ago
I adore the Beatles. My favorite rock band. But I admit that I actually like this version. This must have been recorded around 1969 or 1970? Crosby would have been over sixty years old and he actually sounds great.
roman4438 1 month ago
@roman4438 Recorded on November 21, 1968. I have the vinyl in front of me and reading directly from the back about the standing ovation the musicians backing him up gave him after he finished.
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What's corny here is the arrangement. Listen to what Bing is doing with the rhythm and his melodic variations - Lennon, for all his genius,couldn't touch it. This would have been better with a simple rhythm section behind Bing. The 'pum, pum, pum,' is a bad choice, I'll admit.
bixntram 2 months ago
Though this may sound really corny and vanilla to many of us - including myself - what I am also thinking is that the great Bing Crosby just may have brought this terrific Paul McCartney classic into the ear's and mind's of many at the time not familiar with, or willing to listen to, the Beatles.
dlpine71 2 months ago
John Lennon loved Bing Crosby's music, don't assume he liked what you like, he had his own mind, the fans did not own him!
sunshine45986 2 months ago
when lennon was doing his house husband period he would listen to bing crosby
MichaelHansenFUN 2 months ago
Anche questo veterano della musica rende omaggio a Paul McCartney
paolo38021 4 months ago
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he proves that he can't sing very well.
Frisbieinstein 5 months ago
@Frisbieinstein Bing was one of the most iconic singers of all time & he was the guy that everyone copied, including Dean Martin, (the coolest mo-fo that ever drew breath). Saying that, Bing was in his late 60's when he recorded this and his voice isn't a patch on what it used to be. Here you have a known ballad crooner at least having the balls to record a contemporary pop record so cut the guy some slack. Check out some of his records from the 1930's and get ready to be amazed.
holydiver73 3 months ago
can anyone give me a year when this was recorded please. would like to know
davidh0117 6 months ago
Sounds actually nice!! I may be from the 1980-Now fella, it sounds really GREAT!!
Jerseysson27 7 months ago
@Jerseysson27 1968.
ChrisStockslager 5 months ago
Here it ocurred an error of production. Bing Crosby has been an icon for decades and his talent is known for each one of us. John Lennon & Paul McCartney are winners in their careers (here as composers). But between the great Bing Crosby and The Beatles exist an ocean larger than Pacific. They belong to different worlds. Their artistic schools are differents. I guess Bing hasn't "soul" to record "Hey Jude" ,
"Hey Jude", as Elvis Presley is very good. Because the "ocean" is lesser. I guess it.
drucafate 9 months ago
@drucafate And that's exactly why it's hilarious. :)
mythmaster69 9 months ago
done in one take...class
1967Rev 10 months ago 2
It was the first song he recorded after having a lung removed. The orchestra gave him a standing ovation.
rbhumes 11 months ago
So funny!!!
1Born2LoveU 1 year ago
Bing, Bing, Bing. I love you with the entirity of my heart and soul.....but this song isn't for you =(
alexnickole2010 1 year ago
this is good
Nipplemuff 1 year ago
Awful. I'd rather be beaten by Bing Crosby than listen to this shit.
CoolerKing37 1 year ago
@CoolerKing37 You're shit!!!
LouisLeeKH 1 year ago
@LouisLeeKH You enjoyed this? I bet you're a fan of castration too...
CoolerKing37 1 year ago
@CoolerKing37 I bet you're castrated
LouisLeeKH 1 year ago
@LouisLeeKH Geez, you have the comebacks of a fourth grader. What's next? "I know you are but what am I ?!"
CoolerKing37 1 year ago
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@CoolerKing37 Fuck your mother !!!
LouisLeeKH 1 year ago
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LouisLeeKH 1 year ago
@CoolerKing37 It pains me that you've unironically accused someone of acting juvenile in an argument on a YouTube comments board.
CalmBlue 1 year ago
@CalmBlue AIDS.
CoolerKing37 1 year ago
@CoolerKing37 I see your AIDS, and I raise you SIDS.
CalmBlue 1 year ago
@CalmBlue AIDS beats SIDS every time.
CoolerKing37 1 year ago
@CoolerKing37 You sir, lack a sense of dramatic proportion.
CalmBlue 1 year ago
Whatever or not it's a good song, it was at least performed well.
Matt10670 1 year ago
Great version!
ShutThatDoor 1 year ago
@ShutThatDoor
Agree, a great song sung by a great singer !!!
This song can have hundreds of interpretation ways. Those fucking critisisms only show those fucking guy's bad tastes !!!
LouisLeeKH 1 year ago
Believe or not this song was released as a single in Perth Western Australia in 1969 and made it to about 35 on the charts. A more unlikely charting song would be hard to find!
tnbljp 1 year ago
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itriedtofu 1 year ago
Bing's got a great voice but of course the delivery is soft, safe and sanitized.... but the drummer is kicking it out and having fun with it, particularly at the end. I'm dissapointed that Mr. Crosby didn't do a rendition of the McCartney scream fest in the second half of the song!
dreck34 1 year ago
bing just like frank sinatra could sing anything.they had the finest voices of the last 100 years.
jaythorn15 1 year ago
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gerry50ify 1 year ago
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I always have this image of Bing Crosby's cheeks puffing in and out when he does "pum pum pum pum pa pum"
bender1958 1 year ago
I always have this image of Bing Crosby's cheeks puffing in and out when he does "pum pum pum pum pa pum"
bender1958 1 year ago
This really ain't that bad
beaupeep1 1 year ago 13
@beaupeep1 Hahahahaha!!!!!
JhonathanFree 6 months ago
i would pay money to hear Paul McCartney do Big Pimpin....haha
crassyfrake 1 year ago
The cycle of life in all it's glory. Paul McCartney now, is the equivalent of Bing Crosby, then.
cornucopiaethiopia 1 year ago
@cornucopiaethiopia
So true. But, Paul McCartney wouldn't do a cover of a comtemporary song.
Can you imagine him singing a Justin Beiber or a song by Jay-Z? That's the difference.
Doleafol 1 year ago
@Doleafol please tell me you did not just compare justin bieber to paul mccartney? Paul was one of his generation's finest songwriters. Thats why Bing covered Hey Jude. Justin Bieber is a scrub. Why in hell would Paul even consider covering some lame-ass justin bieber song?
sasnyc 1 year ago
@sasnyc
Thanks for the reply. I was not suggesting that Justin Bieber and Paul McCartney are equals. That is completely absurb. You read my comment completely wrong. I was saying that Paul, unlike Bing Crosby, would NEVER cover a comtemporary song (meaning a current song circa 2010 as Bing covered Hey Jude when it was new in 1969 or soon thereafter). So, Paul WOULD NOT ever cover Justin Bieber or Jay-Z. Even in subsequent years, he would not stoop that low.
Doleafol 1 year ago
@Doleafol ...in a way you did compare mccartney to bieber. however lame bing crosby's cover is, he picked one of the generations top songwriters to cover. so for your comparision to be valid, it would have to be mccartney as an old dude covering one of today's top songwriters... which justin bieber ISNT (maybe Jay Z is)
sasnyc 1 year ago
@Doleafol Actually, Paul did do some work with Jay-Z on stage.
craigmusic1707 1 year ago
@Doleafol You're right. Paul would never cover a comtemporary song. But I think it's because Paul is a composer. He doesn't need to search songs to record. Bing Crosby was just a singer - a great and original singer -and at the last years of his career became a artistic free-lancer. I guess it was an error of production to chose this type of music for him. But Paul McCartney - today - is a king of covers. Covers from the past, of course, but always covers. He is coming back to the fifties...
drucafate 9 months ago
@drucafate
Thank you for the reply. I don't think Bing Crosby singing Hey Jude is necessarily a misstep or "an error." I think the pop majesty of Hey Jude fits well into Bing Crosby's style and abilities. Singing White Rabbit by the Jefferson Airplane would have been an error. I just think they took an overly "glossy" approach to it. As for Paul doing covers now, I think he is reflecting on his past and also running out of ideas after having written so many songs.
Doleafol 9 months ago
@drucafate I think maybe the arrangement is an error not so much the cover itself or song choice. Singers did a nice job with many Lennon/McCartney songs and it shows that the songs had become "standards" long before today. McCartney doing covers is nothing new. Going that far back is, but not a shock. All of them liked the music they no doubt heard growing up. As someone here said Lennon was a big Crosby fan and McCartney's favorite song is "Unforgettable!"
AppleCorp3 2 months ago
pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum hey jude
mythmaster69 2 years ago 15
@mythmaster69 He forgot he wasn't singing The Little Drummer Boy.
SufferingFoolsMusic 1 month ago