It's All Too Much spoken intro; George or John?

Another Beatle mystery to (try and) solve: did John drop the tambourine as "You Know What To Do" comes to an end and what was uttered afterwards?

 

No, the tambourine came to life and jumped out of John's hand. It started rolling towards the percussion store. John, trying to cut it off at the pass, shouted to the others "To your maracas!" Eventually, they overcame the errant tambourine and all was well. A few years later, George remembered this episode and pasted John's utterance onto the intro to It's All Too Much, except that the ending was obscured by a big dose of feedback.

 

Why should you be embarrassed??? The rhythm guitars on ALHFMF were never so "there"...Nowhere Man was NEVER so sibilance-free...the bass on BYARM was NEVER so balanced...I can go on....

 

George makes more sense, since it is his song, seems like he'd do any dedication. But I always thought it was John, just because it sounds incredibly like him. I've heard that the words spoken are "To Jorma" (pronounced 'yourma"), referring to Jorma Kaukonen, guitarist of Jefferson Airplane, who I believe was a friend of George. So George saying "To Jorma" makes most sense to me, but I can't get over how it sounds like John.

 

Plausible. It does sound like that.

 

George.

Next time: Who sings "She loves you, yeah yeah yeah" at the end of All You Need is Love?

 

Maybe George is saying "do chaar nau", the Hindi numbers for "one four nine". Not exactly "one two three".

 

Beatle Ed, via satellite.

 

I always assumed he was saying "To your mother".

 

Mal Evans is my answer to that.

 

"To your moll"?

 

I think it gets caught off at the end, so it sounds like "To your moth-".

 

Another Beatles mystery: Did George Martin ever get that bottle of claret he asked for?

 

Definitely John, he is a little easier to hear on this version:



Love this song and the long version.

 

Still think it sounds like George.

 

Yes, he plays bass and is singing with George and Paul on the overdubs too.

 

Always assumed it was John. After hearing it several times via links folks have provided I'm thoroughly convinced it's him. Sounds obvious now.

 

It sounds even more like George on that.

 

I hear John on every version.

 

Sounds nothing like George!

 

Revisiting this thread:

Final answer:

Who- George

What- To Jorma


not if that's too much info......

 

I didn't know there was any quesion about who it is. I always assumed it was George, it sounds like him, and nothing like John to me.

 

Because it's clearly his voice I would suppose. Besides that George probably would have said something like "To your krishna!, whereas John would insert a "Mother" here or there all the time after meeting Yoko

 

I don't have a good enough system to make that disc sound awful yet(consider the first time I heard this album was about 38 years ago towards the end of January after buying it on my way home from school and you don't even want to think of the little RED record player I heard it on)!!! No matter how good my stereos got... this song never sounded unmuddied so to me the songtrack remix was a revelation. And to think the 5.1 is only an edit. I was so disappointed when I had 3 anthologies and nary a bit of IATM on any of 'em. To my mind the remixes on Songtrack are the best thing to happen to a Beatles fan in 40 years. If this disc sounds BAD then I eagerly await the full catalogue properly remixed and remastered by skilled and talented hands... though I'm assuming that the same staff at Abbey Road handles all of this stuff good and bad!

 

Think it's pre-Yoko, well at least before they were together. Still think it's John.