15 facts you didn't know about classic songs

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0:00 Hitchhiker's Guide to Radiohead
0:55 Blur's two-man drum beat
1:40 the other songs in "All You Need Is Love"
3:03 Buddy Holly's knee drumming
3:27 Mandy Vs. Brandy
4:07 "It's in the trees! It's coming!"
4:32 Satisfaction was the first fuzz song
5:25 Foo Fighter vocal recorded over the phone
6:50 that sound at the start of The Bends
7:35 Hook Theory
8:19 the Sounds of Silence
10:01 Bowie's triple microphone vocal
11:37 Bowie almost wrote Sinatra's "My Way"
13:45 Charlie Chaplin wrote "Smile" by Nat King Cole
14:29 "Pretty Woman" on tour with The Beatles
14:58 the dark origin of "Dancing In The Moonlight"
17:38 Twitch & Patreon

[pepinillosexy]

I love how Radiohead is in every video

[lofiworkshop]

That last story is intense. These are all really interesting. Thanks for compiling this video.

[joedurantguitar]

I've always kinda hated the song Dancing In the Moonlight (much prefer the Thin Lizzy tune of the same name), but the story has made me see it in a new light. What a strong person he must be for creating something positive out of such a horrible event. His girlfriend too, of course.

[melancholiac]

I think the most amazing thing is that Smile was composed by Charlie Chaplin.

[drexlspivey]

That Dancing In The Moonlight one is pretty mental

I thought the sad event was going to be that he left his wallet so they had to sleep outside, but the setting inspired the song, what came next would have permanently broke many other people...

[michaelintoronto]

John Lennon's voice is what we hear (She Loves You) in All You Need is Love. Paul may have been singing with him, but his microphone fell towards John.

[petergivenbless]

As a fan of Kate Bush and old horror movies, a few years ago I experienced the weird effect of recognising the sample used in 'Hounds of Love' while watching 'Night of the Demon' on YouTube!

[KRTeutsch]

There was bass distortion in a hit song in 1961. It was in the hit country song, Marty Robbins’ “Don’t Worry.” Admittedly, it happened by accident, but they left it in.

[andrewpappas]

Another interesting one is that back in 1968 Paul McCartney wrote Helter Skelter after reading an interview with Pete Townshend who described The Who’s song “I Can See For Miles” as “the loudest, heaviest song The Who ever recorded” and Paul wanted to write something similar, which also became one of the first heavy metal songs

[cocuto]

Oh man, I've heard Everlong a million times in my life, but I never noticed the backing vocals!!

[PlanetoftheDeaf]

Yikes, that last story was a shocker! In this country I guess the song is most well known as the Toploader version used as theme music for Jamie Oliver's breakthrough TV series.

[frogandspanner]

When _Brandy_ was current I thought it was about an alcoholic, pushed into his state by depression, trying to shake off his addiction but failing: "Oh, Brandy, well, you kissed me and stopped me from shaking".

[MERCURYSUNSET]

Fun fact : Radiohead's Debut album "Pablo Honey" was named after a phone prank title of the same name by New Yorks Jerky boys who put out albums of numerous prank phone calls back in the day .

[djangohick]

I really enjoyed this video, David. That guitar part on "Satisfaction" retains the clicking sound when Richards stepped on the fuzzbox's pedal. He also comes in early once and late once with the riff.

[royalex]

Here are a few facts about How to Disappear Completly by Radiohead:
- The song's title is taken from a book entitled "How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found" by Doug Richmond.
- The song was inspired by a nightmare Thom Yorke had about floating down the Liffey in Dublin, Ireland while being pursued by a tidal wave.
- The iconic line "I'm not here / This isn't happening" was actually advice given to Thom Yorke by Michael Stipe of R.E.M. on how to deal with the stress of touring.

[frankzelazko]

Thank you, Dave. You are my favourite music teacher

[eddiechase]

About a million years ago I put Dancing in the Moonlight on my "Happy Place" playlist which was list comprised of whimsical, bouncy, poppy songs I have now listened to hundreds of time since when I needed to get myself to a "Happy Place". Wow...mind blown!

[FawleyJude]

When "Safisfaction" first came out I didn't know what that instrument was, I thought it was maybe a saxophone but it wasn't really a sax, but it didn't sound like any guitar I'd ever heard. It looks like Keith Richards thought it sounded like a sax also if he was using it as a stand-in for a horn section. Soon fuzz guitar was everywhere, for instance on Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction".

[WDRhine]

One unusual thing I've noticed about "Dancing in the Moonlight" is that it uses the same rhyme for every line in all the verses and the chorus: "ite". Over the course of the song lines end with 'night', 'sight', 'right', 'delight', 'bite', 'light', etc. but never any other rhyme. I can't think of another song that does this.

[IsaacBTTF]

Interesting video as always. Thanks. The last bit, on Dancing in the Moonlight, was unexpected.