get back loretta.

your mama's waitin for you.

wearin her high-heeled shoes.

and a low neck sweater.

get back home, loretta.

Great documentary about this songs development and the rooftop session.

Watch the "Get Back" movie.

Yoko and Linda  were quite placid and quiet. 

But there was one person who was pissed off. Argumentative. 

It was George. 

George  broke up the Beatles! 

What a brilliant solo by Billy Preston.

Fwiw, he is the only non-Beatles musician to be given credit on a Beatles recording (Eric Clapton was not credited for his performance on the track "While my guitar gently weeps" because he was signed to a different record label).

There is another take of this from the rooftop which was better - except for some flubbed lyrics - and without that gaff would probably have been the album take.

I agree about the way Lennon comes across in the doc. Wouldn’t want to have to work with him. I found Paul and Ringo to be the most interesting. Paul’s clearly trying to step up and be the adult in the room. And Ringo is just silent but incredibly solid.

Interesting take away, Bill. I thought everybody worked well together during the song-writing processes except for George, who didn't bring any ideas to the table and was overly critical when someone made a suggestion. 

 Rh wrote:

English beer isn't that good. Give me a good belgian beer any time! Or modern American IPAs...

 thewiseking wrote:
Aaargh, if only thewiseking had been around to show Paul how to rock, the Beatles might have actually been a good band. So frustrating!

 RParadise wrote:

I always liked the guitar on the Reprise of Sgt. Pepper.

 hempmandan wrote:
99% not true, distorts one fact in the song's evolution.  Details at Wikipedia.

While I pass on most Beatles stuff, this was a solid 8!

 mineralBOB wrote:


Only a musically uneducated person can write a statement like this, very sad ....

 Jelani wrote:
 

na, because it would be melodic like shit!

How did I have this an 8? 8>10 just because...

 Retrograde-orbit wrote:
 
Only because they're "The Beatles".

Oh the irony!

It's amazing to see the video of them playing this on the rooftop in London (their very last concert).

They were still a very tight live band.   Just incredible.  

 junebaby65 wrote:
 
Thanks junebaby65!  I'm a non-fan of the Beatles....and appreciate you (and others) who understand it's not everyone's cuppa.  Long Live RP!!

 Dazzerb wrote:
 
Personally, I love the Beatles, but I sympathize. Joni Mitchell--my ears HATE her voice, but other people think she's the greatest thing ever.

The Beatles could fart and it be an 8 or better.

 thewiseking wrote: 
Helter Skelter?

 finoufk wrote: 
Why?  So this person does not like the Beatles, who cares?  It's his or her choice.  Christ, Not everyone likes them.  I do, but I respect someone who does not.  Sheesh.

 LaurieinTucson wrote: 
All those scenes of infighting in the studio aren't very flattering to the band or their image.
I suspect that is at least part of the reason why Paul and others are not anxious to re-release the movie.
Too bad, because it is a great timepiece of a band falling apart, and yet still producing great music.

when I was 10, we went to the base movie theater to see Let it Be
five or six 10-year-olds, acting like little ladies with our purses
acting haughty, complaining that this movie was "soooo boring!"
but after they got on the roof, I was mesmerized
haven't seen it since then
can't find it anywhere

 Dazzerb wrote: 
You poor soul. 

 Dazzerb wrote: 
are you serious ? 

I think they passed the audition. Great way to end the album. Rooftop performance was great.  

Billy Preston did a free concert at a park just down the street from me a few years ago...I didn't know.  The next year he passed away.  Missing that show has been one of the biggest regrets of my life.

 Shmelo wrote: 
Super funny!

I'm not familiar with these "The Beatles" fellows. Sounds like they may be onto something with this rock-n-roll band they have going.

So much interesting stuff in what sounds like a simple song. Really great performances!

 idiot_wind wrote: 
Lennon did the lead pickin'

this is about as hard as Old Sir Paul could rock, the poor Dear

Thank god for PSD !!!!

i heard it too, Henry Nearly Killed Me and Get Back

 On_The_Beach wrote: 
Yeah, but someone's got to clarify context.

my ears....the beatles hurt my ears.  PSD quick.

 Proclivities wrote: 
You need to get out more.  ; )

 k-man wrote: 
He wasn't referring to this specific song in his comments, he was referring to The Beatles in general ("..this band is Not what you think they are. How's that for discreet? But really here's the way I like to put it  -..the rock and roll soul of their music came from a producer and a million dollar studio..."), so his context is valid (you are the one who took his words out of context), and his "poignant set of sentences" is not "rendered meaningless" - though I find his assertions somewhat inaccurate.

Wow, it's actually been a long time since I heard this, and it still strikes me how much they were JAMMIN' on it! Wailing with PASSION!

This somg is a protest agaimst the British governments stance on immigrants. It was originally called " No Pakistanis" 
 

This is pretty good guitar work. Is this just John and George? 

On their best behavior, with Billy Preston present, carrying the bulk of the song.

 KaraokeVox wrote:  Couldn't agree more but......that's kind of like saying Babe Ruth and Willie Mays were both pretty good hitters or Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe were both pretty good hockey players.  Or DaVinci and Michaelangelo were pretty good artists. You get my drift.

david bowie and now paul mccartney...they are both excellent singers!

Went to the record shop to buy this the day it was released - sold out at 9.10am.

What's that bloody racket on the roof… call the police!!

in that low neck sweater, get back home Loretta ..

 I like 'She's a woman' ! BuffaloGrunt wrote: 

Great tune ... 

 

 lily34 wrote:  So sweet...

Your mama's waitin' for you! 

what an awesome set~

Wow, a RnR song on a Thursday morning...and a very good one at that.


What gives?    

 Rh wrote: 
and let's not forget the hundreds of years of brutal imperialistic colonialism while de-humanizing and stripping any form of rights whatsoever on people around the world............cheers!  

 Lazarus wrote: 

Mr. Snowden:  We have a nice hard jail cell awaiting you upon your return to your homeland, you traitorous pig......

 johnjconn wrote: 
I think best thing was legal, political, economic, industrial, social systems copied by the world...oh yeah and literature, music and beer!. 

Yeah man.
cool! 

marvelous song from one of the greatest albums in infinity...
 

Get back, Loretta.  It's got a nice beat, and I can dance to it!  9.

Everybody in my church loves this song...
 

Just may be the best song from that album.  Love the guitar.

 ziggytrix wrote: 
Ahh, yes. Good ol' "Mo".

Talk about "but she gets it while she can"...with George, as it turned out.

Ahh, those incestuous little Beatles.

Just a little bit of goss.

 

i love this so much. reminds me of my parents laughing.

Gun Smoke!

and a year before "Walk on the wild side"...
 

Still sounds pretty freaking good to me.  I can recall how when I first started hearing this on the radio I began to sing along, and when I got to the part where he says, "for some California grass," my mother shook her head and my father chuckled.  Some years later, I had to chuckle myself.  I loved their cleverness, their daring, and above all, their musical genius, which still blazes brightly through so many layers of Time...

Excellent Song from the best band that ever existed

 midreaming wrote: 
Anybody find it funny that this comment is to a song that was recorded live on a rooftop?

midreaming, ya probably felt a bit of self-gratification that you could put together a seemingly poignant set of sentences that expressed your thoughts. Too bad they are rendered meaningless because your context was all horked to hell. 

 ydjb wrote: I have to agree.
It's easy to slag a band for whatever political reasons might offend us. The thing is, and it is, really, that the music is the important thing. The studio, the production team, the drugs, the girls, they're not really important at all. Not to me, anyway.

I actually spent last night listening to The White album and Abbey Road, I just did as a lark....there is some truly amazing music on those two albums, regardless of who produced it, who wrote it, who took which drugs or who had which girl or when....

Music, people....keep your focus. 

I like the spector-less naked editions...  and they still pass my auditions.

 midreaming wrote: 
much passion in your discourse, me thinks its near and dear to you. Ask yourself why is it you care so much? I am guessing Bob Dylan never went corporate, never ripped off audiences, was never a fraud? Please...i guess we all have our own truth. 

 jonsblog wrote: 
Actually, you are incorrect.

"...and I hope we passed the audition!"

Um, yup, I think so! 

Fun! Makes me want to start calling the whole world Joe-Joe! "Get back Joe Joe, get back to where you @#$@ belong!" lol. =P

 sirdroseph wrote: 
Even greater than the Magna Carta?

Check out the live performance from 1964 at the Apple site. It will give you a good idea of how great these guys were. No gimmicks, no stage really and they are tight and solid.

The greatest thing that Great Britain ever produced. 10

 midreaming wrote: 

So then your not into the Backstreet Boyz?....dufus!!!!

 lemmoth wrote: 
Thanks for posting this. I just didn't have the energy.

 midreaming wrote: 

Actually, I'd say her backing vocal has more guts than anything done by the Stones. Her vocal falls into my personal category of "great vocals done by unknown women that completely upstaged the superstar male band behind them and for which they received insufficient credit," which also includes Clare Torry's performance on Pink Floyd's "The Great Gig in the Sky" and Nicolette Larson's on Neil Young's "Motorcycle Mama."

 jonsblog wrote: 
Go on home.

 lemmoth wrote: 
blah, blah blah, blah blah blah blah.. corporate. over produced. boy band. band wagon.

 midreaming wrote:You are certainly entitled to have and express your opinion here - no discretion required. 

If I could summarize your central point, the Beatles do not epitomize rock and roll because they are essentially a pop band owing everything to studio tricks and drugs.  They were just not tough like rock and roll is meant to be.

Well - in their Liverpool and Hamburg apprenticeship all records and reports are there was no band tougher, more rock and roll than the Beatles.  They were punks before punks existed.  They honed their considerable craft long before they entered a studio, with 8 hour per night gigs in very very tough working man's clubs.

But then they changed - at a pace and with a breadth of experimentation and broadening of styles that is mind boggling as much today as then.

3 1/2 years from Love Me Do to Tomorrow Never Knows.

"Fades in relevance" is hilarious in describing a band that is still voted every single year by critics and more importantly fellow rock and rollers as the most influential artists in history.

As the fine folks at AMG state so well:

To start with the obvious, they were the greatest and most influential act of the rock era, and introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century. Moreover, they were among the few artists of any discipline that were simultaneously the best at what they did and the most popular at what they did. Relentlessly imaginative and experimental, the Beatles grabbed a hold of the international mass consciousness in 1964 and never let go for the next six years, always staying ahead of the pack in terms of creativity but never losing their ability to communicate their increasingly sophisticated ideas to a mass audience. Their supremacy as rock icons remains unchallenged to this day, decades after their breakup in 1970.

"I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group ..."
We miss you, John. 

 Lrobby99 wrote:    ..discretion? ..this band is Not what you think they are. How's that for discreet? But really here's the way I like to put it  -..the rock and roll soul of their music came from a producer and a million dollar studio..  or.. the 60's and 70's were a time that called for guts and honesty, not the Bangladeshi version of Love Me Do, and we've paid for the drug induced hyponosis they created ever since..(?) or Best of all -.. me thinks the money was a rollin' so hard for some, and the egos and the chicks were a rollin so hard for others.. and the poppers and the speed were a rollin' so hard for all the rest, that it's not hard to see why that train kept a rollin', so hard, all-night-long. ... into the next decade even.

 the backing vocal of Mary Clayton on the Stones Gimme Shelter  has more guts alone and is tougher and more honest than anything done by the Beatles. If rock isn't tough and honest what is it? I'll tell you, it's Pop, then it fades in relevance and becomes adult contemporary. ..not Rock and Roll and definitely not the timeless voice of a generation. Or wait ..maybe so.. Yes, That's It !! The Beatles! A timeless voice of their generation..  yup it fits.

 gjr wrote: 

You are kidding us all with that one ——- right??

The bashers are entitled to their opinions. Discretion would, however, serve them well.

Check out the live performance from 1964 on the Apple site. Given the date, the equipment, staging etc it is amazing!

 jonsblog wrote: 

Your brethren in Christ, circa 1966: 

 

Makes my early morning groovy!!

I'm so over the Beatles.  They are without doubt the most overexposed group on the planet.  If I don't hear another of their songs for the next year or so, that'll be just fine, thanx.

For once, I'm shocked that a song only has an 8.4 rating.

 DoctorHooey wrote: 

And again today!  Still a great line-up!!

 Bazooka wrote: 
Sure you will!  btw.....this is my favorite Beattles album, since it's a CD....highly recommended!

I'm not ever going back to Tucson...so there!

 67nj wrote: 
Soooo wrong! LOVE this song!...get back Loretta!!!!!!

 lsherida wrote: 
You should really get that condition checked by a professional.

 DoctorHooey wrote: 
mmmm Bill is still going for the best ones!

no matter how i try - i just can't wrap my arms around this song..........it's dull and lifeless

 romeotuma wrote: 
HELL YES

Ha! Great after the Ray LaMontagne song that has a similar stomp. 

I want some California grass!!!!!!!!!!!

One of their Best!!!

Loretta Lynn.

Love it!! It seems this was left alone for the most part by Phil.

 window wrote: 
Actually, that's Lennon on lead. Didja see the movie?

come on joe joe, turn off that computer for now!!! I know I love radio paradise too,,, but we have to work now...... it has been fun... ok one more song that is it.....

Hey, a Beatles song that doesn't make me go homicidal.  I mean, I still don't like it, but it's not as bad as most of them, in my opinion.

I am not one to give The Beatles a knee jerk 10 by any means, but this is a 10 I think

R.I.P Rev. Billy Preston. 

thewiseking wrote:
Ha Ha!  Nice comment!