But then I am more interested in the jazz they played in the 1960s, and a handful of deep cuts from their early Carpenters albums. Karen's voice is great no matter what, but the music became less interesting after their third or fourth album. Their later stuff became more and more bland. And I heard or read in an interview that Richard felt the same.įor me, the reason is that the music isn't so predictable. It is the best ballad/hit they ever produced. The original is simple, clean and clear, and the added electric guitar is unnecessary, it just adds noise, muddying it up.Īs great as Karen's voice is on so many of their hits, I believe they knocked it out of the park with TTR. It was quite radical at the time.Click to expand.I first listened to their initial album (Offering/Ticket To Ride) only about three months ago, and I loved about half the songs ( Invocation and Benediction, Someday, All I Can Do, Eve, Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing), but especially Ticket To Ride.Īnd I much prefer the original album version over the single or the the reworked version from the greatest hits album. “It was something specially written for the fade-out, which was very effective but it was quite cheeky and we did a fast ending. Listen to the best of The Beatles on Apple Music and Spotify. We picked up one of the lines, “My baby don’t care,” but completely altered the melody. McCartney, remembering the Abbey Road sessions for “Ticket To Ride” and the way the song’s ending was devised, said: “Instead of ending like the previous verse, we changed the tempo. They worked straight through into the early hours of Wednesday November 24, by which time there were ten clips of five different songs that could be used in markets around the world. Filming began in the afternoon, and besides director Joe McGrath, who would later direct 1969’s The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, there were four cameramen, a sound recordist and a lighting man. The promo film for the song, seen above and shot along with four others at Twickenham Film Studios in November 1965, was a long day’s work for everyone involved. The fact that only two takes are listed does not accurately represent the time spent on perfecting the finished master. They were then subjected to numerous overdubs until everyone was satisfied with the result. Unlike many of their previous recordings, where multiple takes were individually numbered, “Ticket To Ride” and some other songs from this period were created from a basic rhythm track. Ringo’s drum patterns, in particular, are very different to those heard on a regular pop single. The song marks a sea change in The Beatles’ singles: it was their first to run for over three minutes, as well as being more complex both musically and in its lyrical inspiration than its predecessors. The scenes were filmed just a month after they recorded the song, in a verité style that clearly inspired the music videos that became so prevalent in the 1980s, following the rise of MTV. In the film, “Ticket To Ride” is the soundtrack to shots of The Beatles on the ski slopes at Obertauern in Austria. When “Ticket To Ride” came out on Capitol in the US, the accompanying press release declared that the song was “from the United Artists release Eight Arms To Hold You.” For a long time, this was the working title for the picture that came to be known and loved as Help!, which was released in late July, just ahead of the group’s new LP of the same name.
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