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Beatle songs with banjo
2 Apr 2006 04:37:49 -0700
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iarwain...
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I've recently become interested in the banjo. I know John Lennon
started out by playing the banjo but I wasn't aware that any Beatle
songs featured the banjo. Apparently I was wrong, however, because I
found some reference to there being banjo in All together Now and All
You Need is Love. I'm not sure if these are accurate because I haven't
listened to try to verify it. But I was wondering which Beatle songs
Daave...
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I hear a banjo in Honey Pie.
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have banjo in them.
Rerics...
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Not exactly the same thing, but....
Danny Caccavo...
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I always thought there was banjo in "Your Mother Should Know".....
ian...
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DavisK...
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NO he didn't start oout playing Banjo. His mother had played a UKe and
showed John some UKE Banjo chords on a regular guitar.
ian...
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Discussing John’s early musical interests, Stan recalled, “He was
always musically included. Our grandfather George Stanley had taught
his mother Judy the ukulele and banjo and our grandmother taught her
to play piano. Judy taught John all the basic chords on the banjo.
“My mother also had a baby grand piano at our home in Rock Ferry,
which also ended up in our Edinburgh home. John would always sit at it
for hours tinkering away on the keys.
“I had a half-size piano accordion at Fleetwood which I could not
master playing a keyboard sideways, so I gave it to John and he
mastered it straight away. He took it back to Liverpool with him. He
also had a cheap little mouth organ that he played about with a lot.
Stanley Parkes,
Our scout leader was Bill Whiteside whose brother, Charlie actually
lived off Penny Lane, in Limedale Road - or their mother did. I think
Bill still lives there. We sometimes had scout patrol meetings at his
home. ...
Charlie could play chords on a banjo and we scouts who met on Friday
nights for our Meeting and again on Saturdays for 'hut repairs' as it
was called, often had a camp fire sing-song in the Camp Fire Circle at
the back of the scout hut next to the quarry wall with its 200 foot
drop to the bottom.
I remember making nettle soup and bread twists on sticks one
Saturday for dinner while Charlie taught John the chords of 'Way Down
Upon the Swanee River' and 'John Brown's Body Lies a Mouldering in the
Grave'.
Sadly they did not like my nettle soup and spat it out over the
quarry wall! It was at such campfire sing-songs that we learned the
song 'The Happy Wanderer' which had become so well-known because of
the success of the children's choir from Germany - the Oberkirchen
Children's Choir - who had come to the International Music and Song
Eisteddford at Llangollen in North Wales in the early 1950s and won
the competition with it.
Everyone learned to sing it. John Lennon mastered it first on his
mouth organ and when he wanted a bigger 'mouthy' I bought his old one
for two shillings and paid another sixpence for the tutor book 'How to
Play the Mouth Organ'.
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There's seems to be banjo in "All You Need Is Love".
I hear one in "Your Mother Should Know", sometimes doubling the piano
chords -- the strumming action pokes out here and there -- however it
couid just be an e-guitar.
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