The Beatles - Day Tripper Promo 3

"Day Tripper" is a song by The Beatles. Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, it was released as a double A-side single with "We Can Work It Out". Both songs were recorded during the sessions for the Rubber Soul album. The single topped the UK Singles Chart and the song peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song is playable in the music video game The Beatles: Rock Band.

Composition

Main Guitar Riff Under the pressure of needing a new single for the Christmas market, Lennon wrote most of the lyrics and the famous guitar hook, while McCartney helped with the verses. "Day tripper" was a typical play on words by Lennon: "Day trippers are people who go on a day trip, right? Usually on a ferryboat or something. But [the song] was kind of . . . you're just a weekend hippie. Get it?" In the same interview Lennon said, "That's mine. Including the lick, the guitar break and the whole bit." In his 1970 interview with Rolling Stone, however, he used "Day Tripper" as one example of their collaboration, where one partner had the main idea but the other took up the cause and completed it. For his part, McCartney claimed it was very much a collaboration based on Lennon's original idea.

The lyric may be partly about McCartney's reluctance to experiment with LSD. (Lennon and Harrison had been using LSD since the spring of 1965, when a London dentist slipped it into their coffee after an evening meal. In August, Lennon confessed that he "just ate it all the time.") On the face of it, however, the song is about a girl who leads the singer on. The line recorded as "she's a big teaser" was originally written as "she's a prick teaser." In this sense, it may equally be about the aloof heroine from "Norwegian Wood." In Many Years From Now, McCartney admitted that "Day Tripper" was about drugs.

According to Ian MacDonald, the song "starts as a twelve-bar blues in E, which makes a feint at turning into a twelve-bar in the relative minor (i.e. the chorus) before doubling back to the expected B—another joke from a group which had clearly decided that wit was to be their new gimmick." Indeed, in 1966 McCartney said in Melody Maker that "Day Tripper" and "Drive My Car" (recorded three days prior) were "funny songs, songs with jokes in." McCartney provides the lead vocal for the verses and Lennon the harmony, in contrast to the Beatles' usual practice of a song's principal composer singing lead, although Lennon sings lead in the chorus.

Recording
The song was recorded on 16 October 1965 at Abbey Road Studios. The Beatles recorded the basic rhythm track for "If I Needed Someone" after completing "Day Tripper".

The released master contains one of the most noticeable mistakes of any Beatles song, a drop out at 1:58 (1:49 in the version on Past Masters, Volume Two) in which the rhythm guitar part momentarily disappears; this may have been done to cover tape damage or some other recording mishap. This was later fixed on the 2000 compilation 1. Though not released on any album in the United Kingdom (until A Collection Of Beatles Oldies, in 1966, and later on 1962-1966, aka the Red Album, released in 1973), it was released in the US on the album Yesterday and Today.

Personnel
John Lennon double-tracked lead vocal, backing vocal, rhythm/lead guitar
Paul McCartney double-tracked lead vocal, backing vocal, bass
George Harrison lead guitar
Ringo Starr drums,Tambourine

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[sallyg270]

the girls at the start cant dance lol ...i love this song and the beatles !!!!

[MsWay666]

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[bradleypartyof3]

Beginning: what the.....................

[myrtlebox]

@TooHotToWork Official Studio track. It's the tambourine overdub that you hear. (I know u love them like I do).

Ringo was never too concerned about nailing a demo of the official studio release. I like this - it's consistent with his unpretentious personality.

[TooHotToWork]

Ha! At 1:39 Ringo stops - at the wrong place. Ha!

[kingoma61]

George Harrison is playing a Gretsch Country Gentleman in this video while in the other promo videos he plays a Gibson ES 345.

[Agnessa001]

Love this Vid! :)) Thank you so much.

They are all so typical. George almost always looks down at his guitarr, Paul quiver on his head, John bends his legs to the beat and Ringo movies the way only he knows how to do ;D

Love The Beatles<3333333

[Agnessa001]

They are all so typical. George almost always looks down at his guitarr, Paul quiver on his head, John bends his legs to the beat and Ringo movies the way only he knows how to do ;D

Love The Beatles<3333333

[Agnessa001]

they are all so typical. George almost always lokks at his guitarr, Paul quiver on his head, John bends his legs to the beat and Ringo movies only he knows how ;D

Love The Beatles<333333



[spidahMONKEY]

the beginning of this made my day :D

[noble381297]

this is my fav song by them...ringo in my fav!!!!