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I've got a feeling, a feeling deep inside
Oh yeah, oh yeah, that's right
I've got a feeling, a feeling I can't hide
No no no, oh no, oh no
Yeah yeah I've got a feeling yeah
Oh please believe me, I'd hate to miss the train
Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah
And if you leave me I won't be late again
Oh no, oh no, oh no
Yeah yeah I've got a feeling yeah
I've got a feeling
All these years I've been wandering around
Wondering how come nobody told me
All that I was looking for was somebody
Who looked like you
I've got a feeling, that keeps me on my toes
Oh yeah, oh yeah
I've got a feeling, I think that everybody knows
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
Yeah yeah I've got a feeling yeah
Yeah
Everybody had a hard year
Everybody had a good time
Everybody had a wet dream
Everybody saw the sunshine
Oh yeah, (oh yeah) oh yeah, oh yeah
Everybody had a good year
Everybody let their hair down
Everybody pulled their socks up
Everybody put their foot down
Oh yeah
Yeah I've got a feeling
A feeling deep inside
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
I've got a feeling
A feeling I can't hide
Oh no
Oh no no no
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
I've got a feeling
I've got a feeling
Everybody had a good year
Everybody had a hard time
Everybody had a wet dream
Everybody saw the sunshine
Everybody had a good year
Everybody let their hair down
Everybody pulled their socks up
Everybody put the foot down
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
I've got a feeling
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
(Oh my soul, so hard.)
"I've Got a Feeling" is a song by the Beatles, from the 1970 album Let It Be. It is one of the songs on the album from the rooftop concert. It is a combination of three unfinished songs: Paul McCartney's "I've Got a Feeling", John Lennon's "Everybody Had a Hard Year" from the White Album sessions (where it was demoed as "Everyone Had a Hard Year") and "Watching Rainbows."
McCartney's song was written for his girlfriend Linda Eastman, whom he soon married, telling her that she was the girl he had always been looking for. Lennon's song was a litany where every line started with the word "everybody".
While McCartney's song was very optimistic, Lennon had actually had a hard year—he divorced his wife, Cynthia Lennon, his girlfriend Yoko Ono had a miscarriage, he was arrested for drug possession, and he had grown deeply unhappy in the Beatles.
In the film Let It Be, Lennon jokingly claimed he had written "Everybody Had a Hard Year" the night before.
Personnel
Paul McCartney – lead vocal, bass
John Lennon – lead vocal, rhythm guitar
George Harrison – lead guitar
Ringo Starr – drums
Billy Preston – electric piano
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Always liked it. A standout on the album for me. Clever how the various bits were interwoven. A nice listen.
:)
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One of the better songs on Let it Be I think. It's welding together of separate Lennon and McCartney songs works really well.
Not a huge favourite of mine in the overall Beatle repertoire. It's largely appealing because of the rocky feel and sense of the Beatles having fun playing it rather than any great melody or lyrics.
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I have a version I got off a bootleg long before Anthology came out (might be on there, don't remember). Anyway, the version I like and have on my ipod has Paul laughing at the end of the first line and they re-start on the fly without pause. Changes the mood of the song for me. Like the song, like the riff, not the best, not the worst.
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Theres a sort of middle 8
All these years I've been wandering around
Wondering how come nobody told me
All that I was looking for was somebody
Who looked like you
after the last word 'you' there is a solo guitar part where the note is bent back to the original key, I really hate that guitar figure, it sounds sort of crappy to me, wouldve preferred nothing (silence)
Overall I think its a poor song with little or no meaning to the listener, a kind of throwaway and in some part it gives ammunition to the Let It Be detractors, the song is saved quite a bit for me by Pauls excellent singing.
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I have a version I got off a bootleg long before Anthology came out (might be on there, don't remember). Anyway, the version I like and have on my ipod has Paul laughing at the end of the first line and they re-start on the fly without pause. Changes the mood of the song for me.
Is this it? From the Let It Be Sessions...
The Beatles I've Got A Feeling Let It Be Sessions 1969 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b6saK2cFb0#)
January 1969
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Overall I think its a poor song with little or no meaning to the listener, a kind of throwaway and is some part it give ammunition to the Let It Be detractors, the song is saved quite a bit for me by Pauls excellent singing.
Wait. I like this song! ;)
Theres a sort of middle 8
All these years I've been wandering around
Wondering how come nobody told me
All that I was looking for was somebody
Who looked like you
after the last word 'you' there is a solo guitar part where the note is bent back to the original key, I really hate that guitar figure, it sounds sort of crappy to me, wouldve preferred nothing (silence)
That's my favorite part of the song! ;D
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One of the better songs on Let it Be I think. It's welding together of separate Lennon and McCartney songs works really well.
Not a huge favourite of mine in the overall Beatle repertoire. It's largely appealing because of the rocky feel and sense of the Beatles having fun playing it rather than any great melody or lyrics.
I think so too, Moog. For the reasons you stated.
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Love it.
One of those 2nd Division Beatles songs that always comes up fresh because it is rarely played and, for me, has overtaken many of the 1st Division songs ('Lucy', 'Walrus', 'In My Life', ''Get Back') that are now over familiar.
Never had a problem with the 'Let It Be' LP actually, I've got far more of an issue with 'Let It Be......Naked', my copy of which made it to Oxfam not too long after its release.
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One of the better songs on Let it Be I think.
Fair go's mate, I like it too but I dont think it has much of a melody, its two half arsed songs (jams) cobbled together, its one of those fillers to me that the Beatles could get away with because they were the Beatles
I think there are much better songs on LIB that have good strong melodies
Let It Be
L & W Road
Two Of Us
Across The Universe
I Me Mine
Get Back
Dig A Pony
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Fair go's mate, I like it too but I dont think it has much of a melody, its two half arsed songs (jams) cobbled together, its one of those fillers to me that the Beatles could get away with because they were the Beatles
I think there are much better songs on LIB that have good strong melodies
Let It Be
L & W Road
Two Of Us
Across The Universe
I Me Mine
Get Back
Dig A Pony
I'd probably rate it above L&W road and across the universe in that list. It's probably not a better "song " than those two. As you say it's basically a jam. But it's a fun one I think. Of the rockier songs on the album I'd rate it below I me mine and Dig a Pony though.
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Strange animal the 'Let It Be' album.
'Let It Be', 'Get Back' and 'Across The Universe' had come out before in other, arguably better, versions; 'Dig It' and 'Maggae Mae' are linking songs rather then actual songs; 'One After 909' had been tried years before; and, out of 10 proper songs, George gets two (way above the George average!).
And yet, check out that track-listing, it's stunning!
I'd put it above pretty much any other LP released in the 1970s, and definitely above every LP released after that.
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From the time it came out and through the few years following, 'LIB' was my favorite of theirs. Don't ask why, couldn't say. Maybe it was mostly that they were going for simpler production techniques and a purer sound. 'Getting back' as it were. Anyway, that album was always with me in my 'on the road' days. That one and a worn-thin copy of Melanie's 'Candles In The Rain.' My entire record collection for a year or so. Strange days.
:P
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I've always liked it. Pretty good song on a pretty poor album in my opinion. You have Paul and John singing together. Whats not to like?
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Clever how the various bits were interwoven.
There's a sixteen measure quodlibet there! That superimposed verse was brilliant. Very Leonard Bernstein...
West Side Story-Tonight (Ensemble) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpaS2v-r7cE#)
;)
Hey Kev, there's another fancy word! Just like "melisma." ;D
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I really like this song. When we first heard it, we knew The Beatles had broken up (news travelled slowly in the pre-internet era). But watching the movie in the theater and seeing them singing I've Got A Feeling on the rooftop, we saw this band as tight as ever. And they were having fun!
The Beatles - Rooftop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUHuCWkltqw#ws)
7:50
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There's a sixteen measure quodlibet there! That superimposed verse was brilliant. Very Leonard Bernstein...
West Side Story-Tonight (Ensemble) ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpaS2v-r7cE#[/url])
;)
Hey Kev, there's another fancy word! Just like "melisma." ;D
Im always learning from you Baz ;yes
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Im always learning from you Baz ;yes
And I'm learning so much from you, mate! You started your Song Of The Week series more than a year and a half ago. It's full of important information and commentary. Thank you, Kevin.
:)
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Another well-known quodlibet...
Scarborough Fair/Canticle
Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair (Full Version) Lyrics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BakWVXHSug#)
But, unlike The Beatles, they didn't sing the quodlibet when they performed the song live...
Scarborough Fair
Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dau2_Lt8pbM#)
The Concert In Central Park
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And this quodlibet in Meredith Willson's The Music Man...
Goodnight, My Someone / 76 Trombones (The Music Man) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwDFWo3reeE#)
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I think Gilbert and Sullivan put a quodlibet in every one of their comic operas...
We Sail The Ocean Blue / Gaily Tripping
We Sail The Ocean Blue / Gaily Tripping / When I Was a Lad - HMS Pinafore (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAZPPBDybtM#ws)
H.M.S. Pinafore
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And for those wondering what a melisma is...
Carefully on Tiptoe / He is an Englishman - HMS Pinafore (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV870tEVQJw#ws)
4:06
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I've Got A Feeling
Paul McCartney - I got a feeling / Blackbird (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg8dFvAQF4c#ws)
Abbey Road Studios Studio 2 28 July 2005
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I've Got A Feeling
Paul McCartney - I got a feeling / Blackbird ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg8dFvAQF4c#ws[/url])
Abbey Road Studios Studio 2 28 July 2005
Nice Hello Goodbye. Thanks for that find.
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I've always liked it. Pretty good song on a pretty poor album in my opinion. You have Paul and John singing together. Whats not to like?
Yep, that sums it up for me too.
A definite highlight from "Let It Be" and another great example of the wonderful counterbalance between Lennon and McCartney; John looking wistfully back to the past/Paul looking hopefully ahead to the future.
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Nice Hello Goodbye. Thanks for that find.
Everybody had a hard year, John Lennon. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvQwsBUW9wM#)
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Everbody Had A Hard Year John Lennon HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGLWkWdPLEw#)
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A good old rocker. I like it. I find it interesting to compare some of the "roof top' live songs to their earlier songs and listen to how much more intricate their sound was live in 1969.
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Is this it? From the Let It Be Sessions...
The Beatles I've Got A Feeling Let It Be Sessions 1969 ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b6saK2cFb0#[/url])
January 1969
yes, that is the version, love it.