Show video File:Placeholder "Day Tripper" is a song by the Beatles, released as a double A-side single with "We Can Work It Out".[1] Both songs were recorded during the sessions for the Rubber Soul album. The single topped the UK Singles Chart[2] and the song peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1966.[3][1] Contents
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Composition[edit][][1][2]Main Guitar Riff Under the pressure of needing a new single for the Christmas market,[4] John Lennon wrote much of the music and most of the lyrics, while Paul McCartney worked on the verses. Lennon later cited Bobby Parker's 1961 song Watch Your Step as his inspiration for the famous guitar riff.[5][6] "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?"[7]In the same interview, Lennon said: "That's mine. Including the lick, the guitar break and the whole bit."[7]In his 1970 interview with Rolling Stone, however, Lennon 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.[8] For his part, McCartney claimed it was very much a collaboration based on Lennon's original idea.[9] In Many Years From Now, McCartney said that "Day Tripper" was about drugs, and "a tongue-in-cheek song about someone who was ... committed only in part to the idea."[9] The line recorded as "she's a big teaser" was originally written as "she's a prick teaser."[9] According to music critic 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."[10]In 1966 McCartney said to Melody Maker that "Day Tripper" and "Drive My Car" (recorded three days prior) were "funny songs, songs with jokes in." Recording[edit][]The song was recorded on 16 October 1965. The Beatles recorded the basic rhythm track for "If I Needed Someone" after completing "Day Tripper".[4] The released master contains one of the most noticeable mistakes of any Beatles song, a "drop-out" at 1:50 in which the lead guitar and tambourine momentarily disappear. There are also two more minor drop-outs at 1:56 and 2:32.[11]Bootleg releases of an early mix (which present an extended breakdown as opposed to a polished fadeout) feature a technical glitch on the session tape itself, with characteristics of an accidental recording over the original take as the recorder comes up to speed. This was later fixed on the 2000 compilation 1 and on the remastered Past Masters. In 1966, "Day Tripper" was featured on the US album Yesterday and Today and the British A Collection of Beatles Oldies compilation. It was later included on the 1962–1966 compilation (aka "The Red Album"), released in 1973. John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers' rocking 1966 cover of Ray Charles' What'd I Say features a very young Eric Clapton on lead guitar. However, to put it bluntly, even though it appears on a legendary guitar album – Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton – What'd I Say is not a standout track by any means. It just sort of sits there, and its lengthy (and weird) drum solo by Hughie Flint isn't exactly Moby Dick. Who knows – maybe it was a crowd favorite at the Bluesbreakers' live shows. Anyway, there is this oddity to consider: When the rest of the band comes back into the song after Flint's drum solo (at 3:36 in the top video), Clapton is playing the very-hard-to-miss guitar riff from the Beatles' late-1965 single Day Tripper – over and over again. Blues Breakers was recorded in March 1966, so there's no question as to whose riff it was. George Harrison had played it first. Plagiarism? Maybe by today's litigation-happy standards. But in reality, it's just a 21-year-old (almost 22-year-old) guitarist being irreverent and having fun, quoting a famous song within another song, just as he did when he quoted the melody to Rodgers & Hart's Blue Moon in the guitar solo to Cream's Sunshine of Your Love a year later (2:04 in the bottom video). Clapton had already met the Beatles at this point (they first met in December 1964 when Clapton was in the Yardbirds), and his decades-long friendship with Harrison was in its very early stages. Let's consider this little What'd I Say/Day Tripper episode the first recorded connection between Clapton and the Beatles. What Beatles song is played backwards?Influenced by the techniques of musique concrète, they featured a backmasked line in Rain, a single released in 1966. Featuring in the fade-out, the reversed vocal is the first line of the song. “On the end of Rain you hear me singing it backwards,” John Lennon told Rolling Stone magazine in 1968.
What was the B side of Paperback Writer?Release and reception. "Paperback Writer" was issued as a single in the US by Capitol Records on 30 May 1966, with the catalogue number 5651 and "Rain" as the B-side.
What does John Lennon say backwards in Rain?Edited together from Lennon's vocal track, the backwards portion consists of him singing the word "sunshine", then a drawn-out "rain" taken from one of the choruses, and finally the song's opening line, "If the rain comes they run and hide their heads".
What is Day Tripper slang for?The song was a knowing reference to the burgeoning drugs-based counterculture of the mid-1960s. 'Day tripper' was a slang term for someone who failed to fully embrace the hippy lifestyle. That's mine. Including the lick, the guitar break and the whole bit. It's just a rock 'n' roll song.
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