Comments on: Oh My Love

By: David (from Peru)

David (from Peru) — Sat, 31 May 2014 22:56:04 +0000

I really love this song and consider it among the best of all Lennon’s production. I’ve been hearing the separate tracks of this song, available somewhere in the Internet, and I’ve came with some “conclusions”:

1. There are no drums in this song (not a single hi-hat, snare, bass drum or anything similar).
2. The only percusive sound is the “small bell” in the bridges (which sounds pretty close to the bell at the start of (Just like) Starting Over. I doubt that Tibetan cymbals could produce a sound that high, though it could be an altered recording.
3. The bass guitar is very simple in the verses (just one stroke per bar) but it gets really cool in the bridges, imitating Harrison’s counter-melody guitar and adding some extra notes there.
4. After the first line of the second part of the song […my mind is wide open], John cleans his throat. This is inaudible in the recording.

By the way Joe, congratulations for this site, I regard it among the best.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:19:59 +0000

It's definitely an electric guitar (a Gibson Les Paul, I think). Here's the clip.

By: carlos

carlos — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:05:47 +0000

I don´t remember the scene in the film, but I´m sure that George played a spanish acoustic nylon strings guitar in the final recording, similar as the one he played on “And I love her” and “Till there was you”

By: David Fernandez

David Fernandez — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 02:54:57 +0000

I love this song. Very touching. Also, I love the part in the Imagine film when they are arranging the song: Lennon asked the musicians to «ring off» their instruments in order to let Harrison’s hammer on-pull off guitar lick «ringing» nice and clear at the end of the song.