Mother nature's son

Из всех битловских песен Пол живьём весьма посредственно пел именно эту песню,причём у меня претензия к его голосу.Может поэтому Пол её нам не спел,да и не включил в сборник Back in the world?И вообще о чём песня?В названии есть явный намёк на наркоту,но сама манера исполнения и тект песни слава богу о другом...Песня проста до гениальности :)))

Может, песня про хиппи?
А вообще, это чистый Пол - сентиментальный и чистый, как вода в ручее.

Written in India under the influence of a lecture by the Maharishi

Отличная песня. Лично я всегда выделял ее среди баллад Пола на "Белом альбоме" наряду с Blackbird :)

Чудная песня. Пол, воистину, мог всё. Рок - пожалуйста. Блюз - запросто. Кантри - легко. Метал - извольте. Ей богу, увлекся бы он цыганским романсом, заделал бы так, что Пономарево со Сличенкой ушли бы на заслуженный отдых.

Типичная маккртниевская песня, прилипчивая

Пол исполнял эту вещь и в предыдущем туре april 16th, 1993, Earth Day Concert in Los Angeles (Hollywood Bowl)

версию 93 года я слышал,на порядок лучше 2002 года....

У меня эта песня сейчас звучит...Сразу вспоминаются кадры из фильма "Beatles complete" под эту мелодию...
Супер песня!!!

2Эрик:

>Типичная маккртниевская песня, прилипчивая

Ну тут я в корне не согласен,вещь супер!!!

If there's anything...
Есть ли что-нибудь, найдется ли что-нибудь более мелодически-впечатляющее, чем напевание вот этих da-da-da в припеве Матер натурного сана. Такое свободное, "непредвзятое" мелодическое течение сродни тем прозрачным и чистым горным ручьям - a mountain stream. Настоящая жемчужина "Белого". То что Пол напевает могла бы исполнить труба, еще какой-нибудь духовой инструмент. Сродни For No One. Трогательно и впечатляюще.

Нравится эта песня,акустический саунд-типичный для Белого альбома. Кстати, барабаны для записи вынесли в коридор,чтобы звук получился еще громче.
Гитары очень гармоничны с голосом.

В старой, шестьдесят девятого, что ли, года битловской энциклопедии, в разделе "Тезаурус", указывалось, что это "an ode to folksingers": 1.singing songs for everyone..." Действительно, под таким углом это тогда и воспринималось.

Nature Boy
Artist: Nat King Cole

-peak Billboard position # 1 for 8 weeks in 1948
-competing versions charted by Frank Sinatra (#7), Sara Vaughn (#8), and Dick Haymes (#11).
-Words and Music by Eden Ahbez


There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he

And then one day
A magic day he passed my way
And while we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return"

<instrumental interlude>

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return"


На а последние строчки по смыслу тоже что-то напоминают. The End, катца. :) В русском переводе Хвоста: "Кто любит, тот любим".

Songfacts:

This song was written by Eden Ahbez, one of the strangest songwriters of the pre-Hippie era. He was a beatnik poet, but more accurately a proto-Hippie, choosing to wear long hair, a full beard and long, white, flowing garments that promoted a Christ-like appearance. He lived in Griffith Park in Los Angeles and ate fruit, vegetables and nuts. Ahbez was born in Brooklyn in 1908, and he claimed to have been raised in an orphanage and to have crossed the US on foot 8 times before age 35. He moved to Los Angeles in the '40s, lived on 3 dollars a week, and lectured on Hollywood street corners about Oriental mysticism.
Ahbez implored Nat King Cole's manager to look at his manuscript of "Nature Boy." Cole recognized the Yiddish melody, liked the lyrics and added it to his act. It was well received so Cole decided to record it. One problem: Cole and Capitol Records could not find Ahbez in order to secure the publishing rights. Finally they located Ahbez, camped beneath the first L in the "Hollywood" sign.
Nat King Cole recorded one other Ahbez song - "Land of Love." Ahbez released his own album in 1960 called Eden's Island. He spent time with Brian Wilson before The Beach Boys recorded Pet Sounds. Ahbez, his wife, Anna, and their son Zoma lived in Griffith Park with their bicycle, sleeping bags and a juicer. With their unusual lifestyle, the family became legendary.
According to his friend Joe Romersa, Ahbez wanted to correct the last lyric. He decided that "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return," was not really what he wanted to say, since to be loved in return is too much of a deal and has nothing to do with love. Ahbez said that the last line should be, "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love, just to love, and be loved."
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=4472

PAUL WROTE "MOTHER NATURE'S SON" WHILE visiting his father in Liverpool, though it had reportedly been inspired by one of Maharishi's lectures in India.The song was record¬ed in just two sessions, and - with the exception of a brass overdub Paul played all of the instruments, making it one of the album's few true solo recordings.
Work began on 9 August with 25 takes of acoustic guitar and vocal. Onto Take 24, Paul over-dubbed bass drum. During the last third of the song, he decided he wanted the drum to have a more distant sound.Technical Engineer Alan Brown recalls Paul setting up his drums in the hallway with mics at the other end, but Ken Scott remembers the arrangement that made it onto the final recording: "Paul decided he wanted a distant sound. Right at the end of Abbey Road studios there was this staircase that went from basement all the way up to the top. He went down to the bottom and hit a bass drum, but the mic was at our level so it would be like two stories higher. He just wanted the reverb and everything from all of that." (The stair¬well bass drum enters at 1:54 and has been incorrectly identified as timpani in the past.).
This wasn't the only noteworthy percussion overdub to the song, though. Tape Op John Smith recalls that, at one point, Paul was listening to playback of the song while holding a copy of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song Of Hiawatha in his lap. Paul began tapping along on the cover and decided that the sound of the book, in fact, would make a nice addition. Ken Scott then carefully positioned a microphone over Longfellow's epic poem, and the final track of the four-track tape was filled with Paul tapping out a rhythm on the book's hardcov¬er (The tapping enters almost exactly a minute into the song.) At the very end of the song, Paul double-tracked his vocal on this same track
.....
John Smith found himself particularly moved by the song: "I'll never forget that session. It was just like,'God this is incredible!' He's just written this song, and there isn't anybody in London who could have written that song, and we're going home having listened to something - hav¬ing participated in something -- that was extraordinary. And I remember thinking, 'Nobody knows except us; there's only three people that know! But they're all gonna find out...'"

http://recordingthebeatles.com/IsoScreens-excerpt.pdf

Когда 20 августа на Половскую акустическую основу наложили стук литавров и автор прослушал в аппаратной результат, он сказал звукооператору Кену Скотту, присутствовавшему при наложениях: "Балдежно получилось"...

Я вчера случайно скачал исполнение этой песни Sheryl Crow.

2Lemon Lennon:

>Пол исполнял эту вещь и в предыдущем туре april
>16th, 1993, Earth Day Concert in Los Angeles (Hollywood Bowl)

7 лет прошло после вашего сообщения))))))) Скажите, а где можно посмотреть именно эту песню с этого концерта в Лос-Анжелесе? Я что-то не слышал её раньше...

Интересно, отчего в заголовке темы стоит Иронический смайлик?

Harry Nilsson - Mother Nature's Son