Comments on: Baby’s In Black

By: Stella

Stella — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 03:07:08 +0000

i love that song and would of loved to see it live <3 <3 :):)!!!!!!!!!

By: MikeP

MikeP — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 02:02:40 +0000

When analysing songs musically, you need to put aside your biases, refer to FACTS as known and related by the people involved, and then try to write something of value.. Alas, you’ve yet to succeed in this.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 02:00:07 +0000

No. It was their pet black rat that they called “baby”. THAT’s where the idea for the song came from.
(I can write unsubstantiated crap too).

By: MikeP

MikeP — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 01:58:03 +0000

No, Paul did not record that (nor this) on his own, and the only songs he was doing on “his own” by 1966 was “Yesterday” and it’s not a one-man-band recording. Good grief…..

By: Kirby Rasch

Kirby Rasch — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 01:53:29 +0000

LOL! That’s an apt description. I like it though.

By: Kirby Rasch

Kirby Rasch — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 01:52:04 +0000

Thanks for the correction. I just re-listened to it and you’re absolutely right. My memory of it from years ago was faulty..

By: Lauren Crabtree

Lauren Crabtree — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 12:54:00 +0000

I don’t think so, I’m pretty sure that John got credit for the guitar chords on the ‘snare’ beats on ‘SAW’ haven’t seen any evidence to suggest George and Ringo didn’ play.
I think the first Paul ‘solo’ track was Yesterday.

By: Pilcher of the Yard

Pilcher of the Yard — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 17:43:04 +0000

Not so, Paul recorded She’s a Woman on his own in 1964 . Around the same time as they worked on this album.

By: Pilcher of the yard

Pilcher of the yard — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 17:40:55 +0000

The ‘trills’ you mention are played an a keyboard by Billy Preston. Nothing to do with George.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 21:22:03 +0000

Nonsense.

By: Jonas Svensson, Sweden

Jonas Svensson, Sweden — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 15:56:37 +0000

Useless knowledge; usually, the same Beatle introduced the same song at every performance, even for different tours. But this song is one of the rare ones that was first introduced by Paul -at the 1965 NME Show in London, and then shifted to John. He -John- sometimes introduced it as ‘Baby´s in Black-pool’, which Paul also did by the way!

By: Young Fred

Young Fred — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 02:56:23 +0000

Always loved the guitar at the beginning. Quite dark lyrics and as mentioned above, the guitar sound fits perfectly into the darkness of the song. Great vocal harmony in the “Oh, how long will it take…!” part. Powerful enough if I may say so.

By: Bob Taylor

Bob Taylor — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 03:26:11 +0000

Very insightful, very witty. Damned impressive. You’re right, it does have that quality.

By: kirbygene

kirbygene — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 21:36:17 +0000

George was like Ringo, a sympathetic musician. And like Ringo, his arrangement ideas always fit the song, like the Japanese-influenced trills on “Don’t Let Me Down”. I also like how George (and John?) treat the last verse. It has an almost bagpipes-like sound. This was one of my favorite non-hits from their early period.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:54:41 +0000

Thanks Jonas. I’ve removed that section from the feature, because I can’t back it up right now. I’m not sure where it came from in the first place!

By: Jonas Svensson, Sweden

Jonas Svensson, Sweden — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 10:14:32 +0000

Re: “Baby’s In Black was typically the third song in the group’s set, often following Rock And Roll Music and Long Tall Sally. “We used to put that in there, and think, ‘Well, they won’t know quite what to make of this but it’s cool’,” McCartney later recalled.”
As far as I can tell ‘Baby´s in black’ was not used in that position at any known time from the 64-65 Christmas show, Europe & USA 65 and up to the last show in 66. ‘Rock and roll music’ and ‘Long tall Sally’ were the last two songs of the Christmas Show, and and the first and last during the 1966 set, in Europe 65 they had ‘I feel fine’ and ‘Ticket to ride’ between them. ‘Baby´s in black’ was used in different positions in the set for each tour.

By: jnoble

jnoble — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 22:56:28 +0000

funny, I just came here to post the same exact thing about the drunk sounding solo! Great minds think alike I guess

By: jnoble

jnoble — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 22:55:45 +0000

the guitar solo for BIB here always sounded to me like it was staggering drunk if that could be put into music lol

By: Johan cavalli

Johan cavalli — Sat, 16 May 2015 20:11:45 +0000

When analysing the songs musically, we have to differ melody from harmony. The melody in Baby´s in Black is very typical Lennon: Long and falling notes. Even the competitive McCartney said in later years about this song “…sometimes the harmony I was writing in sympathy for John´s melody…”. But everybody, has a tendency to say that before Yesterday they composed everything “together”.

By: Kenny Miles

Kenny Miles — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:40:45 +0000

Could be about Astrid.
Could also be John singing about Cynthia, wanting John to be the man he wasn’t anymore.
Tho written face to face, John wrote many 3/4 waltz type songs (This Boy, Yes It Is, Dig A Pony etc) while I don’t think Paul wrote any 3/4 waltz songs.