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iamthewalrusgooj
March 5, 2004, 7:47pm Report to Moderator
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doesnt this song seem to have a motownish impact
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Yes! My dad and I totally agreed on that! My uncle actually brought it up and we all had to go listen to it and then come up with our verdict!


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motownish?!?! What does it mean? Sorry!


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Yea... what DOES that mean? 
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Quoted from Frightwolf, posted March 7, 2004, 5:18pm at here
Yea... what DOES that mean? 


Motownish? Well, I guess you mean it sounds a bit like the old Motown hits of the Sixties, such as I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Tears Of A Clown, When You're Young and In Love, You Really Got A Hold On Me etc. BUT... I personally don't hear that influence at all - I think Paul was trying to make it sound more like a late 1950's type ballad. Kinda in a similar style to Donna by Richie Valens (KINDA!). 


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if that's what it means, then i have to agree with you. Oh! Darling doesn't sound motownish at all to me


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No surprise since the fab 4 were heavily influenced by the MOTOWN sound.


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I don't think Oh Darling sounds like a Motown song at all even though it's a great track on Abbey Road with Paul's finest vocals.


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Motown? That's crazy. Definitely not.

Oh Darling! is written and sung and played as a fifties throwback.

The song suffers from Paul's not quite getting the vocals right. Paul is a great singer, don't get me wrong, but here ... not quite. The fact that he had so many attempts at the vocals, over some weeks, shows that Paul himself knew it wasn't quite "there".
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Quoted from Maria, posted March 17, 2004, 6:19am at here

Oh Darling! is written and sung and played as a fifties throwback.

The song suffers from Paul's not quite getting the vocals right. Paul is a great singer, don't get me wrong, but here ... not quite. The fact that he had so many attempts at the vocals, over some weeks, shows that Paul himself knew it wasn't quite "there".


Yeah, definitely Fifties.

The thing was, because Paul hadn't sung anything like this probably since 1966 (live versions of I'm Down) his voice was not in the right condition to sing it. He was actually getting in the studio early everyday to blast out his vocals so he could get his voice re-accustomed to singing like this once more.


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It's kind of an R&B 50's feel, so perhaps that's where the Motown vibe is being felt by some.
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