WHY DON'T WE DO IT IN THE ROAD?-BEATLES COVER

LEAD + HARMONY VOCAL.
McCartney wrote the song after seeing two monkeys copulating in the street while on retreat in Rishikesh, India with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He marvelled in the simplicity of this natural scenario when compared to the emotional turmoil of human relationships. He later said:
A male [monkey] just hopped on the back of this female and gave her one, as they say in the vernacular. Within two or three seconds he hopped off again and looked around as if to say, It wasn't me, and she looked around as if there'd been some mild disturbance ... And I thought ... that's how simple the act of procreation is ... We have horrendous problems with it, and yet animals don't.
Lennon was unhappy that McCartney recorded the song without him. In his 1980 interview with Playboy, he said:
Playboy: "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?"
Lennon: That's Paul. He even recorded it by himself in another room. That's how it was getting in those days. We came in and he'd made the whole record. Him drumming. Him playing the piano. Him singing. But he couldn't—he couldn't—maybe he couldn't make the break from the Beatles. I don't know what it was, you know. I enjoyed the track. Still, I can't speak for George, but I was always hurt when Paul would knock something off without involving us. But that's just the way it was then.
Playboy: You never just knocked off a track by yourself?
Lennon: No.
Playboy: "Julia"?
Lennon: That was mine.
"Julia" was recorded four days after the first session for "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?," and is a solo performance by Lennon (double-tracked lead vocals and acoustic guitar).
In a 1981 conversation with Hunter Davies, who had written a biography of the Beatles in 1968, McCartney responded to a Yoko Ono interview where she said McCartney had hurt Lennon more than anyone else, by saying, "No one ever goes on about the times John hurt me ... Could I have hurt him more than the person who ran down his mother in his car?" He then brought up Lennon's comments about "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?": "There's only one incident I can think of that John has mentioned publicly. It was when I went off with Ringo and did 'Why Don't We Do It in the Road'. It wasn't a deliberate thing. John and George were tied up finishing something and me and Ringo were free, just hanging around, so I said to Ringo, 'Let's go and do this.'"
McCartney also expressed some lingering resentment about a similar incident with "Revolution 9", recorded in June 1968, a few months before "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?": "Anyway, he did the same with 'Revolution 9'. He went off and made that without me. No one ever says that. John is the nice guy and I'm the bastard. It gets repeated all the time."

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[aaxal]

sorry, you don't have a voice for this song :-)

[killu106]

im going to do it in the road ;)

[gingeroni8]

@13THBEATLE thats a serious problem if you couldnt read my last post or comment or watever but i pretend meccas my hub but not like you do with yoko haha were you born after lennon got shot or before cause after then you could be a reancarnation of him if you believe in that stuff if you act like lennon also lennon was very bossy two

[gingeroni8]

@13THBEATLE yes arent u a beatles fan and mecca voice is on and off so what that he is old younger people like older pple and he was hot when he was young and yea yoko did she interfeared alot with the reccordings it didnt work out your a beatles fan u should know

[gingeroni8]

@13THBEATLE your so funny never said anything about this lol but no everyone hates yoko cause everyone says she was the cause of the beatles breakup meccas voice sounds off sometimes im inlove with him and hes supposed to do three hours for a show how longer do u need ringo concert was two hours and paul is 68

[gingeroni8]

@13THBEATLE i never said anything about that except he was stonned writting this song i love mecca soiunds good i dont like yoko

[gingeroni8]

@13THBEATLE no kidding me lol

[PeaceLoveTreesMusic]

wow they actually arent very good singers. . . at all . . . or maybe im just used to people who cant sing (Ke$ha, Rihanna) voice's being fixed in the sound room

[gingeroni8]

@13THBEATLE hoe did u find this out

[gingeroni8]

he must of been stonned paul while doing this song he doesent even sound cloes to himself or like himself