# Ultimate Challenge Thread: You cannot sing this Beatles bit

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [October 1, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-challenge-thread-you-cannot-sing-this-beatles-bit/921944 "2020-10-01T06:03:01Z")\
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Yup, the title of this thread needed to be as gratiuitously bombastic and in-your-face as humanly possible. In the Beatles’ _Dr. Roberts_, you cannot sing this line:

[No one can succeed lke Dr. Robert](https://youtu.be/Tb9L3iAUhc0?t=52)

Nope. You can’t. Just can’t. (this is an open taunt)

Maybe after six or eight attempts, sure, _but not the first_. If you nail it after maybe, say, three attempts, not bad.

Just nine notes, but it’s that very _last_ one.

Enjoy. Sweat unimaginably.

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**Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-challenge-thread-you-cannot-sing-this-beatles-bit/921944/2 "2020-10-01T06:13:05Z")

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Heh, don’t mind the Eisenhower-y-looking typo.

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-challenge-thread-you-cannot-sing-this-beatles-bit/921944/3 "2020-10-01T06:16:26Z")

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Which part? They’re singing harmony!

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**Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-challenge-thread-you-cannot-sing-this-beatles-bit/921944/4 "2020-10-01T06:47:52Z")

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Ah yes, a perfectly reasonable question that I should have taken into consideration when trying to sing it unaccompanied. Looks like you hit at the crux as to why that’s a slightly tricky sing.

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**Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-challenge-thread-you-cannot-sing-this-beatles-bit/921944/5 "2020-10-01T06:56:27Z")

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> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#):
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> Yup, the title of this thread needed to be as gratiuitously bombastic and in-your-face as humanly possible. In the Beatles’ _Dr. Roberts_ , you cannot sing this line:

And nor could any one of the Beatles.