Comments on: I’ve Got A Feeling

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 20:41:06 +0000

I would say the riff was taken from The Creation ‘If I stay too long’. just what I think.

By: George

George — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 03:41:51 +0000

Not accurate. Birthday is 50/50 as even noted by Paul in different interviews.

https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/song/birthday/

By: Emmett

Emmett — Sun, 27 May 2018 21:58:23 +0000

That’s NOT Lennon. It’s some guy singing over a Beatles track with the vocal removed. Note the drastic change in Lennon’s voice when the “middle” comes in. Different timbre and everything. Nice try, whoever made this fake.

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:14:17 +0000

@Radames Or just as likely, it’s about having diarrhea in the back of a tour bus.

By: Tyler Vanner

Tyler Vanner — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 19:09:07 +0000

Manic Derpression Hendrix ?

By: Dab Weintraub

Dab Weintraub — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 18:33:07 +0000

So is this the last Lennon-McCartney song written jointly by the two?….

By: kevintimba

kevintimba — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 05:50:34 +0000

QUESTION: There a melodic bluesy bass line that comes up in both sections of this song (A A A DFGA GA) that’s either adapted from another late 60s band or vice versa – it’s not Cream or Hendrix – but something like that – can anyone place it? I’m curious who got it from whom – for example, the biggest hit of Seals & Crofts has a distinct guitar hook that I only realized years later was lifted from a background part of Dear Prudence. And of course, the chord progression of the choral transition of A Day in the Life is the same as Hey Joe (The Beatles were way into Hendrix at that time). I find these creative borrowings fascinating for some reason.

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 17:38:53 +0000

In the 1980 Playboy interview, John gave Paul sole credit for ‘I’ve Got a Feeling,’ without any further elaboration.

By: Graham Paterson

Graham Paterson — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:45:46 +0000

I love this song. A great collaboration, with John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s two different songs coming together beautifully. As the editorial said the contrasting situations of John and Pauls lives at this point comes through.Great in the film “Let It Be” when you see them singing it. Just as in “Baby You’re A Rich Man” and many others it was amazing how these two brilliant men could put together unrelated pieces and make a great song. “A Day in the Life” is the greatest example. “Iv’e Got A Feeling” is a highlight of the “Let IT Be” album.

By: manteau

manteau — Thu, 05 May 2016 11:14:48 +0000

The “miss the train ” part comes from “one after 909”, that’s for sure. Now At the end of “watching rainbows”, john comes up with a riff that he’ll use later for “don’t worry Kyoko”, first at the Toronto peace festival in september, and then later as a studio version on side B of the “cold turckey” single.

By: Michael Fontana

Michael Fontana — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 23:20:30 +0000

As someone whose been listening to the Beatles for over 50 years now, it always amazes me the things you thought you knew or seemed to be so obvious may not even be completely true. Both John and Paul have pretty much agreed this was a collaboration. I just heard a version here with John singing the first two versus and middle eight. There's no bass, so perhaps Paul wasn't in the studio yet. Makes you wonder if, like "Oh, Darling", it really wasn't certain during rehearsals who might sing the lead. You have to wonder how many other songs were like this - they were collaborations, but eventually one or the other took the lead, and everyone heretofore declares them "John" or "Paul" songs?

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Wed, 06 May 2015 23:11:25 +0000

It´s just me or this song is this song should be recorded later by the rolling stones? It would be excelent!!!

By: Dennis Jacques

Dennis Jacques — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:01:25 +0000

Am I the only person who hears an expletive from Lennon at 3’18”? I’ve been hearing it for 25 years but have never seen it referred to, ever.

By: Dan Diamond

Dan Diamond — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 04:30:19 +0000

A highly underrated song… not one of the really famous ones, but in my opinion right up there with their very best. And the harmony when Paul and John each sing their respective part of the song at the same time… just incredible!

By: Magnus

Magnus — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 19:46:31 +0000

Anyone else feel the “Oh please believe my, I hate to miss the train/And if you leave me I won’t be late again” lines are a reference to The One After 909?

By: Martijn

Martijn — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:54:15 +0000

Combining Paul’s and John’s part at the end is just pure genius. Simple, but very effective. Just a pity they couldn’t finish the Anthology 3 version, it’s so full of energy and the interaction between John and Paul there is great.

By: Baggio

Baggio — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 03:46:55 +0000

This is possibly my favourites song on Let It Be. A classic.
Great rock number by Paul and I love how John’s melancholic laid back part take the song to an unexpected place.
I love these songs were they turn different pieces of music into something cohese.

By: also-Paul

also-Paul — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:59:52 +0000

I disagree with that. I think Birthday is mainly Paul´s – read what I´ve written on the Birthday- (song) page here …..

By: Ramon

Ramon — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:38:35 +0000

I ‘ve got a feeling’s riff didn’t come from Watching Rainbows. That’s an inaccurate story made up by someone. That theory came popular but it is false.
Watching the rainbows was a jam derived from I’ve got a feeling’s riff, not viceversa. Lennon took Paul’s riff and made up on the spot this unreleased composition. This happened after The Beatles played a versión of Mean Mr Mustard..
I’ve got a feeling was rehearsed at Twickenham on day one (January 2) of the Let It Be sessions, Watching rainbows came fourteen days later ( january 14). You should check the bootlegs of the sessions.
I agree with David, I´ve got a feeling is mostly McCartney’s. Basically is a Paul’s song with a second middle section by Lennon ( McCartney already had written “the first middle” : ” All these years wandering around…”), not a equal colaboration.

You could hear the first rehearsals of I’ve got a feeling here:

http://letitbedissected.blogspot.com/search/label/Let%20it%20Down

By: AppleCore Andy

AppleCore Andy — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:21:31 +0000

I always love performing this song in our wigs-free Beatles cover band. McCartney’s vocal range is not to be tackled by the faint-of-heart. I never know as I approach the “all these years I’ve been wandering around” part if I’m going to be able to hit those notes. Most of the time I do, but barely. And he can still do it today…in the original key…night after night!