Comments on: Good Day Sunshine

By: DParker

DParker — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 01:33:26 +0000

Totally agree with you.

By: Scott E. Jensen

Scott E. Jensen — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:14:42 +0000

Yes, right after Paul sings “She feels Good” you can hear Lennon Jokingly repeat “She feels good” ya know he meant it in a sexual way and you can actually hear the smile in Paul’s voice as he sings, “She knows she’s looking fine”
I love that part of the song, cuz you always had Lennon messing around w Paul trying to make Paul laugh or screw up. The closeness of those two then was still so cool to hear.

By: Ursula Myers

Ursula Myers — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 05:22:14 +0000

According to Peter Framptin on the Beatles channel, George played bass.

By: Donny

Donny — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 15:54:30 +0000

Paul and George Martin are on piano. George Harrison plays bass guitar since it was recorded during the basic takes and McCartney was at the keys. Nobody documents this but John Lennon played electric guitar on the basic track as well, on his Epiphone Casino. You can faintly hear it playing in the song’s final master.

By: Jeff Carlson

Jeff Carlson — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 01:13:20 +0000

There is the arpeggiated guitar part that comes in.. Who played that? I’m guessing George?

By: Jeff Carlson

Jeff Carlson — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 08:24:49 +0000

This was my dad’s favorite Beatle song…..He wasn’t really a fan…
He liked the positivity of it…….

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 16:00:46 +0000

I love this! If you saw the new documentary Eight Days a Week, they made an awesome use of this song that plays on that “ominous piano” effect: it plays under footage of the protests and burnings of Beatles records in the South after the “bigger than Jesus” comment. 🙂

By: chris copeland.

chris copeland. — Sun, 08 May 2016 07:23:05 +0000

I have always liked that song!i remember one summer day I played it over and over again. my cousin told me to turn it off.
{he did not like it.} but I like d it, it is a happy, optimistic type song.

By: James Ferrell

James Ferrell — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 04:02:12 +0000

Good observation

By: Graham Paterson

Graham Paterson — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:43:28 +0000

Lovely optimistic Paul McCartney tune from”Revolver”. Obviously John Lennon helped. Wonderful piano playing in this by McCartney.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 02:40:43 +0000

John and George did backup for the chorus.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 02:38:46 +0000

It’s Lennon repeating: “She feels good”

By: Jan Rudolf Pettersen

Jan Rudolf Pettersen — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:58:42 +0000

Problem with the The Complete Beatles Scores is they note only two voices in the chorus. But I hear three voice harmony..

By: Stoutman

Stoutman — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 12:39:03 +0000

No, not a relative. Just giving credit where credit is due. The Beatles owe Martin so much….starting with their career.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:28:14 +0000

are you related to Martin, a cousin perhaps?

By: tstout

tstout — Sun, 24 May 2015 19:28:24 +0000

I don’t care what anyone says, George Martin WAS the fifth Beatle. He has added so much of his musical talents to numerous Beatle songs, with Good Day Sunshine being the perfect example.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 24 May 2015 10:48:50 +0000

Both Lennon and McCartney play piano on the band track. In the chorus Lennon adds the octave fills between “Good Day Shine” (he uses a similar lick in “All You Need Is Love”). In the verse he plays the descending chromatic run and then a boogie part. McCartney plays the syncopated right hand chords. The parts are clearly scored in THE COMPLETE BEATLES SCORES and can be heard fairly clearly separated in the left and right channels. That would leave Harrison on bass (and Martin on the piano solo).

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 08:55:25 +0000

I always interpreted this song as somewhat sarcastic. The piano is too solemn and deep and serious for the lyrics, so I always thought it was a dark joke: good day, sunshine, (ominous piano)

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:16:08 +0000

Also notice the ride cymbal roll on the 4th bar of the intro done at the same time or simultaneous with the triplet beats/hits on the snare. I think those were impossible to accomplish by one drummer unless Ringo overdubbed it or somebody was on the ride cymbal while Ringo is doing the snare part.

By: Martijn

Martijn — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:39:16 +0000

An excellent song, and probably the first of some Beatles songs that share a peculiar feature: the alternation between B major and A major. I suspect John was influenced by this song to write Doctor Robert, which, just like Good day Sunshine goes from A in the verse to B in the chorus. A year later Paul reverse the roles in Penny Lane, which is in B, but goes to A in the chorus. Then John follows him once more, in I´m the Walrus, which starts in B, then turns for most of the song to A, only to temporarily return in the “Sitting in the English garden” part to B. And even later in Hey Bulldog B and A are to be found in each other’s near. Obviously a trick they relished.