# Help! Indentifying Beatles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 4, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129 "2011-09-04T02:50:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/42 "2011-09-05T02:09:38Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > There were girls who had some favorite Beatle who was not Paul? My heart will always belong to George. I’ve always thought that Paul was too smarmy, both in looks and attitude. As far as I was concerned, the Beatles consisted of George, John, Ringo, and Paul. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/43 "2011-09-05T09:39:35Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Omigod, my sister and I were too freaked-out to even \*try \*that! rotpme taevaC: https://www.youtube.com/embed/PG0wksBzKSc?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/44 "2011-09-05T09:54:33Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > (Can you even \*play \*computer files or CDs backwards?) [Yes.](http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/45 "2011-09-05T16:40:20Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > rotpme taevaC: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG0wksBzKSc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG0wksBzKSc) That’s some scary shit right there. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/46 "2011-09-05T18:24:07Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > rotpme taevaC: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG0wksBzKSc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG0wksBzKSc) Thanks. Now I feel like killing Sharon Tate. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/47 "2011-09-05T22:55:28Z")
Well, the OP’s question was answered…but watching the video, did anyone else expect to see the High Priest throw darts at the screen and colored names shoot out from them? I thought this video was recorded for the movie “Help!” opening credits, which is why there’s several key shots of that big ring on Ringo’s finger thru-out the video (the ring, of course, being a major plot point in Help!). Unless the writers worked backward - “So how do we work the Beatles into a quasi-spy action adventure? What motivator can we use?” “Say, look at this video for the song Help! - look that ring…” ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/48 "2011-09-06T00:14:30Z")
To Shodan: Unfortunately, Sharon Tate is unavailable. Will you settle for Roman Polanski? ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/49 "2011-09-06T01:42:54Z")
> [@automagic](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RElhIHM3G3M&feature=fvwrel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RElhIHM3G3M&feature=fvwrel) > > This is a video of The Beatles singing Help! and I have a hard time recognizing them. Could you please help me identify which is which. There is a nice shot of all of them at 0:14 or you could just let me know by instrument. Thank you. Well, that knocked the wind out of me. I better start looking for an old folks’ home. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/50 "2011-09-06T02:12:56Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > [Yes.](http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) Don’t need to go to Audacity for something as simple as reversing - the Sound Recorder that comes installed by default on Windows does it just fine. (The first time I ever played a sound file backwards was the runout groove from Sgt Pepper, which is supposed to say ‘We will fuck you like Superman’, which I could sort of hear, if I tried hard enough. I used Windows’ sound recorder.) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/51 "2011-09-06T05:15:14Z")
Friends of mine and I played all the Beatles’ records from Rubber Soul backwards during the height of the “Paul is dead” rumors. What stands out in my memory is the line “Playing music and laughing in bed” as plain as can be in the middle of “Back in the U.S.S.R.” ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/52 "2011-09-06T05:34:50Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > Friends of mine and I played all the Beatles’ records from Rubber Soul backwards during the height of the “Paul is dead” rumors. What stands out in my memory is the line “Playing music and laughing in bed” as plain as can be in the middle of “Back in the U.S.S.R.” Did you and friends “experiment”? ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/53 "2011-09-06T06:19:26Z")
Sorry, misunderstood. Wait, no, I didn’t. You started with _Rubber Soul_ and went backwards? “Back in the USSR” is on the White Album, which came out _after_ Rubber Soul. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/54 "2011-09-06T09:42:30Z")
> [@DooWahDiddy](#): > > Sorry, misunderstood. > > Wait, no, I didn’t. You started with _Rubber Soul_ and went backwards? “Back in the USSR” is on the White Album, which came out _after_ Rubber Soul. 😕 Backwards, but in sequential order, if memory serves–which it might not, what with all that “experimenting”… ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/55 "2011-09-06T12:22:47Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > rotpme taevaC: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG0wksBzKSc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG0wksBzKSc) _THAT_ was so creepy, I had to turn it off…! You’re a bad, bad, man, **Sam A. Robrin** … I want my mummy… 6impossiblywussythingsandfuckbreakfast ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/56 "2011-09-06T14:18:36Z")
There are a lot of websites claiming that “Yesterday” is the A-side and “Act Naturally” is the B-side. There are a lot of websites claiming that “Act Naturally” is the A-side and “Yesterday” is the B-side. I have no idea how to tell what to believe. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/57 "2011-09-06T14:25:10Z")
Go to the pictures. [“Yesterday” - A-side](https://www.merchantauctions.com/detail.asp?id=521&n=THE-BEATLES---Yesterday---45rpm--Pic-Slv-1965-Original) [A-side](http://www.ebay.com/itm/Beatles-YESTERDAY-45-rpm-Record-wth-Original-Sleeve-/380255452559) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/58 "2011-09-06T14:56:12Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Go to the pictures. > > [“Yesterday” - A-side](https://www.merchantauctions.com/detail.asp?id=521&n=THE-BEATLES---Yesterday---45rpm--Pic-Slv-1965-Original) > [A-side](http://www.ebay.com/itm/Beatles-YESTERDAY-45-rpm-Record-wth-Original-Sleeve-/380255452559) Actually, that doesn’t prove anything. If you look at the other side of that sleeve, you’ll see “Act Naturally” listed first and in larger letters. The label has no A or B side designations. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/59 "2011-09-06T15:55:26Z")
There you go then. There **is** no answer. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129/60 "2011-09-06T16:36:07Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > As for the “I…buried…Paul” controversy, I’m not aware that “cranberry sauce” played BACKWARDS would sound like “I buried Paul.” You’re right, it doesn’t. That was not one of the “backwards clues” like “Turn me on, dead man” or “Paul is dead, miss him, miss him, miss him”… it was simply that the phrase “cran…BERRY…sauce”, buried in the mix, sounded kind of like “I…BURIED…Paul”. I think it wasn’t until _Anthology_ that a version of “Strawberry Fields” came out with the ending faded up enough to make the sibilants in “sauce” clearly audible. (See “the clues” [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead).) So, you may have heard “I buried Paul” when you played IATW backwards, but that’s not where everybody else heard it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-indentifying-beatles/595129.md?page=2)