Comments on: I Want To Hold Your Hand https://www.beatlesbible.com Not quite as popular as Jesus... Mon, 01 Apr 2019 15:50:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.1 By: MikeP https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-483215 Tue, 27 Nov 2018 04:03:51 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-483215 Johan is a devout John lover /Paul hater. He never cites sources or direct quotes, but somehow always seems to know what happened better than the people who were there.
For instance, John and Paul both said this and From Me To You were co-composed / written…together…up each others noses (to use John’s phrase). But Johan knows better!
Frankly, nothing he posts is worth investing much time in….except for the entertainment factor.

]]> By: Ajax https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-456421 Tue, 29 May 2018 13:59:05 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-456421 No, you didn’t get it right with your rambling, long-winded, conspiratorial assertion. There ISN’T AN ORGAN on this track. It’s John playing his Rick probably with the pickup in the bridge position, VOX amp likely with the tone knobs set to a position cutting most of the Treble, and a high ratio of compression inserted within the console. The reason it was not replicated live is because they weren’t compressing the hell out of his guitar channel in a live situation. There you go genius.

]]> By: Slipper of the Yard https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-453816 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:39:10 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-453816 Ham is not English for a female body part. You have just made that up.

]]> By: Slipper of the Yard https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-453815 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:36:04 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-453815 I hope he bought a bigger one as a consequence 🙂

]]> By: Slipper of the Yard https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-453814 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:32:18 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-453814 Yeah , an absolutely massive mistake. Apart from breaking America and launching the band into the stratosphere what the hell was Martin thinking?

]]> By: Slipper of the Yard https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-453813 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:28:51 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-453813 To me it sounds like it is Paul who is singing the opening line of this song, yet somehow it morphs into John’s voice.

]]> By: Slipper of the Yard https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-453812 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:21:05 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-453812 The phenomena of beats occurs when almost the same note is played simultaneously by two sources. As you say, the notes need to differ only very slightly by a few Hz in frequency. In other words they have to be very close in pitch. Since John and Paul are singing different notes entirely, notes that differ by a much larger difference in frequencies ( they are harmonizing after all) and at completely different pitches, then what you are hearing is not the phenomena of beats. I think you are hearing Ringo’s bass drum doubling up at these points. Either that or you are smoking some strong stuff.

]]> By: Teddy Salad https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-453192 Fri, 09 Feb 2018 18:53:52 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-453192 As you say it happens three or four times, meaning not every time, can you point out the time stamps of these? I personally couldn’t hear it with head phones. All I hear is a drawn out “haaaand” or at most what sounds like “haaaaan” with the d clipped.

]]> By: jack https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-452958 Sat, 06 Jan 2018 14:48:35 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-452958 Hey folks. Here is a scoop which if JL was still around he would confirm. The joker that he was, very flippant, sings I want to hold your HAM, not hand. Happens three or four times during the song. Ham is english for a female body part. Oooh that Lennon. Always keeping us on our toes. Imagine if he had been asked about this when the song came out or at the Beatles press conference at Kennedy. Ouch!!! Give a listen folks.

]]> By: N https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-451691 Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:31:48 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-451691 Song was made when Paul was with John’s first son, Julian on the way to visit John and Cynthia

]]> By: MikeP https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-450922 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:28:25 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-450922 Bob Eubanks – also the promoter of the Beatles’ H-Bowl concerts. Reportedly, he took a second mortgage on his house to finance the ’64 show.

]]> By: oldFartBassPlayer Walt https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-450921 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:46:43 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-450921 So strange, I did NOT like this song, couldn’t warm up to it, even mused as why the Beatles were supposed be all that GOOD. Then I heard the flip side, “I Saw her standing there”, and kind of got
smacked up side of the head. By the time “She loves you” and “Please please me” hit, I was a hopeless, molten pool of Beatles love.

]]> By: Azizi https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-450858 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:13:36 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-450858 Did John recorded this on a Gibson J-160E or Rickenbacker 325? I don’t know why, but although many people believe it’s the Rickenbacker, some people believes that it’s actually the Gibson plugged in to an amp. I’m very confused.

]]> By: Joe https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-450271 Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:13:44 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-450271 Thank you! I’ve corrected it now.

]]> By: spudis https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-450267 Tue, 17 Jan 2017 20:13:11 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-450267 >> A version of I Want To Hold Your Hand was included on the 2006 album Love. A shorter edit from the original studio recording was combined with a performance and crowd noise from the Hollywood Bowl, and the famous introduction from The Ed Sullivan Show: “Here they are… The Beatles!” <<

Actually, the voice introducing the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl is that of Bob Eubanks, a DJ in the LA area in the 1960's and later, host of the TV game show, The Newlywed Game.

]]> By: Johan cavalli https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-450074 Mon, 26 Dec 2016 22:43:25 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-450074 Thank you Christopher. That is the upper harmony in “…I wanna hold your HAAAND!…”

]]> By: wksongwriter https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-449871 Sat, 26 Nov 2016 19:24:49 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-449871 The idea of using a v-minor chord as a temporary ii minor in a new key is as old as the hills. I’m sure Paul heard this change many times as he seemed to love the old standards.

]]> By: Christopher Martin https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-449352 Tue, 20 Sep 2016 22:07:55 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-449352 i just listened to IWTHYH on Off the Beatle Track and could not detect the omission you speak of, probably because i’m not sure which part you refer to as the “octave running” Would love to understand better your excellent comment!! Thanks in advance.

]]> By: Christopher Martin https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-449351 Tue, 20 Sep 2016 21:47:26 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-449351 I’ll Get You is so amazing…when i saw play that in 2005 (did not know it was coming) it blew me away.. Of course on the current tour he’s playing Love Me Do and You Won’t See Me, which were equally mind blowing when seeing them live without being forewarned.

]]> By: Moy Musouka https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-448934 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 18:22:40 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/#comment-448934 They were in a Ray Charles-type period. That is why they were singing with more of a “sh” sound.

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