Monday, January 21, 2013

100 DAYS OF THE BEATLES – TOP 100 SONGS – 80




NUMBER 80: "Mother Nature’s Son" (McCartney  November 25, 1968) 
The Beatles (The White Album) CD Versions  Track 3 (2:47)

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (sans footnotes/references) 

"Mother Nature's Son" is a Lennon–McCartney song, written primarily by Paul McCartney and released by The Beatles on The Beatles (The White Album). It was inspired by a lecture given by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi while the Beatles were in India. The same lecture inspired Lennon's unreleased song "Child of Nature", the tune of which he later re-used for "Jealous Guy". The song was later covered by Harry Nilsson.

Recording

McCartney recorded it on 9 August 1968. He recorded 25 takes singing and playing acoustic guitar simultaneously. Take 24 was perceived to be the best (take 2 later appeared on Anthology 3). McCartney recorded overdubs of timpani, another guitar, and drums the next day. The drums sound more like bongos and this was achieved by putting the drums halfway down an uncarpeted corridor with the mics at a far end which resulted in a staccato sound. Lennon did not play on the recording, but McCartney said he contributed some words to the song in India. When Lennon — who hated it whenever McCartney recorded without the rest of the band — walked into the studio with Ringo Starr after McCartney had finished, "you could have cut the atmosphere with a knife," recalled engineer Ken Scott. 


Personnel 

Paul McCartney 
 double-tracked vocal, acoustic guitars, timpani, bass drum
George Martin 
 brass arrangement



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