In “Til There Was You”, one time around, Paul never “sar” the birds winging.
I read somewhere they didn’t speak English and learned the English lyrics phonetically, so they didn’t know we usually misplace the B in “climbing”.
The Rolling Stones, “I’m Free.” Coming out of the guitar solo, at 1:29, the drums go all wonky. It irks me because it’s such a nice song - I always want to mentally correct that somehow.
The fourth side of Todd Rundgren’s double LP “Something/Anything?” was basically recorded live in the studio, so there is a lot of studio chatter that is left in, which I’m sure was intentional, not a flub. However, during the song “You Left Me Sore” he tries to hold a note a little too long and his voice cracks, causing everyone else in the studio to crack up.
I think the song you are thinking of is “Tomorrow Never Knows”. There is some sort of beep or tone or feedback at roughly the 1:30 mark (while John is singing the first line after the guitar break).
There is also a barely audible cough right before the opening riff of “Whole Lotta Love.”
Dang! :smack: Knew I should have checked who sung before posting.
The mistake is that throughout the song Desmond runs the stand while Molly stays home during the day and sings at night. Suddenly Molly’s running the stand with the kids (and singing at night) while Desmond’s at home looking pretty.
I never thought that was a mistake; I just thought it was a switcheroo.
By all accounts (including the link I posted), it actually was a mistake. I thought it was on purpose, too!
Or might it be Helter Skelter? I’m too lazy to check for myself.
(Ob-La-Di)
My reading was that it was Paul’s mistake, left that way at John’s urging.
Another entry from me:
Simon and Garfunkel > “A Simple Desultory Phillipic” in the coda, an audible thunk is followed by Paul saying “I lost my harmonica, Albert.”
He never sawr them at all.
On “Hey Jude,” at about 2:57, John says “Oh, fucking hell!” On the stereo version of “Please Please Me,” at about 1:27, John screws up a lyric while Paul, singing harmony, sings it correctly.
On U2’s “Ultra Violet (Light My Way),” Larry Mullen drops a drumstick at about 3:10, and it takes him about three beats to recover. Brian Eno produced it, and one of his “Oblique Strategies” is “Honor thy error as a hidden intention,” so he insisted they leave it on.
As I mentioned on another thread, at the beginning of Zeppelin’s “Since I’ve Been Loving You,” you can hear Bonham’s kick pedal squeaking.
There’s an awful lot of studio chatter in the background of “Here Today” by the Beach Boys. Of course, there’s studio chatter on many Beach Boys tracks.
At about 1:38 on “Beck’s Bolero” by Jeff Beck, Keith Moon flies into a wild drum fill while screaming, apparently knocking over the drum mic in the process, and for the rest of the song you can’t hear anything from him but the cymbals.
That was the first one I thought of!
As a kid, I was fascinated by the stray piano note that shows up at the beginning of Bennie & The Jets by Elton John. Oh course, I would then get distracted wondering what electric boobs were…
This one annoys me too, but I think it’s merely a British pronunciation (can anyone confirm this?).
Also, in “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away”, Paul (I think) sings “two foot small” instead of “two feet small”. Don’t know if it’s intentional, but it’s always bugged me.
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Shouldn’t you know, with that name?
Anyway, it’s an intrusive R. “A Day in the Life” is the first thing I hear when I think about it. It occurs in some dialects, I believe the linking R is more common. Happens in some non-rhotic accents.
Oh, and the “two foot” thing, in the US, I associate with the speech of old men.
Anyone?
John, not Paul.
I don’t hear it.
Two foot long is common in UK English. Not correct, but common - in both senses of the word.
To add to the Beatles’ canon, you can hear a chair creak at the end of A Day In The Life.
In Helplessly Hoping, Stills muffs the second beat of the second measure (at 0:04). Makes me nutz…I twitch on that beat every time. Some day I’ll make myself a digitally-edited copy and fix that puppy.
Except an “intrusive r” wouldn’t happen in the phrase “I never saw them at all.” No British speaker, AFAIK, would pronounce that “saw” as “sawr” with a rhotic. Intrustive rs in English happen when a word ending with a vowel sound is followed by a vowel sound. So it might occur in a phrase like “I never saw(r) a giraffe” but not “I never saw the giraffe.” Note all the examples in the Wikipedia article follow this pattern.
A Scouse accent is different; just as Boston is different, or New York is different.