REACTING to The Beatles For The FIRST TIME! (HEY JUDE) | DAMN!! 😲

Once AGAIN, due to copyright claims, I had to obscure my screen with the same overlay as last time. Sorry about that, but did you enjoy the reaction? 😁 What should I react to next? 🤔
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Highlight: 0:00
Introduction: 0:02
The Beatles - Hey Jude (Reaction): 0:29
The Na Na Na Section: 4:09
Final Thoughts: 8:09
Patron Credits/Outro: 9:19
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[joanneharper]

I love how each new generation discovers the Beatles.

[bobbiewallace]

Hooray a new generation discovering the Beatles. Your doing great reactions

[NickNack-lq]

I've been listening to the Beatles for over 50 years. They still give me goosebumps, especially McCartney's 1966-69 work. To me, there is no better band.

[genebaughbba]

The audience knew what they were getting into and they had been coached beforehand to come and join the Beatles when they got the signal to do so and that's when John and George stood up and told them all to stand up come down.

[loraedwards]

As a 2nd generation Beatles fan.. so happy to see this reaction the younger! Party on!❤

[ducatiman]

I" m now 74 amd this has been the soundtrack pf my life !@!! XX

[rosscouch]

Kaysee here ... definitely one of their classics and one of my favourites. If you're looking at another Beatles song to react to, and there are plenty to choose from, "Let It Be" is another great song.

[thomastimlin]

Fall 1968, their biggest selling single. 9 weeks at #1. Radio stations tried to get away with fading out the NANaNa part to keep the time shorter for advertising time. This was before FM radio became major thing in stereo...AM radio was still dominant. Within a few weeks, as listeners complained in droves for the full song, they relented and played the whole thing. THIS was the power of the Beatles!! Besides, there was nothing greater than the Beatles enabling you to annoy your parents by making them listen to NaNaNa for 3-4 minutes on the car radio or record player. lol. I was 12. This video, taped for the David Frost show in August 1968, was shown around the end of September on the very popular Smother Brothers Comedy/Variety Hour and that's when all us USA kids saw it. They were mostly only singing with their recoding [common practice on TV back then]...ask yourself how did they fit that giant orchestra in that small TV studio with all those other people and have it not be seen on TV etc? No amplifiers seen for the guitars? Ringo kind of "air drumming?" But the Beatles were always the real deal. The most beautiful thing about this was the gathering of the audience to sing together, people of all races and ages...what a contrast to the separatism in music today...if there was a way to take sad world then, and make it better...with civil rights, racism, Viet Nam and assassinations, and governmental lies, if only for 7 minutes, this performance was certainly how. There's a lot of crap & trash talk printed and said about the Beatles over the decades, by critics and others, but I've never seen any of those idiots able to do something like this....and get 21 #1 hit records on the Billboard Hot 100 [includes Now and Then from last year. For over 50 years, their body of work has stood the test of time and the critics ... I became a music teacher because of the Beatles. Their #1 strength was the song writing and the variety of styles within that.

[pasi]

The Beatles filmed an uplifting music video (called a "promotional film" at the time) for "Hey Jude" on September 4, 1968, at Twickenham Studios. The director, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, brought in an orchestra and an audience of about 100 people who rose to their feet and sang along to the second half of the performance. The Beatles really got into it, feeling the energy from a performance for the first time since August 29, 1966, when they played their last concert.

In terms of songcraft, this is one of the most studied Beatles songs. It starts with a vocal - Paul's voice singing "Hey" - then the piano comes in (an F chord). The song gradually builds, with McCartney alone playing on the first verse, then the sounds of George Harrison's guitar, Ringo's tambourine, and harmony vocals by George and John. The drums enter about 50 seconds in, and the song builds from there, reaching a peak of intensity with McCartney delivering the "better... better... better" line punctuated by a Little Richard-style scream, then the famous singalong resolution.

The "na na na" fadeout takes four minutes. The chorus is repeated 19 times.

[joejohnston]

The greatest sing-a-long song of all time!

[debjorgo]

The flip side of this single was "Revolution". The video for it was shot at the same time as this, but it rocks a lot harder.

[alexioverdo]

In Australia (1968) it occupied the no1 spot for a record residency of 13 weeks, until 1976 that ABBA's "Fernando" took over with 14 weeks, until 2017 that Ed Sheeran took over with "Shape of you"(15 weeks /sales included streamings).but its predecessors sales were pure real sales in vynil so imo kinda more solid.

[genebaughbba]

The Beatles were in their recording studio and rather than appearing on this guy's nightly TV talk show they had him bring his whole audience and his band to the studio and they did this for them in the studio That's his band behind them The Beatles first started out by playing the theme song of the guy's TV show. That's when he says Oh that's perfect what a lovely rendition there you go The most perfect tea room orchestra in the world. That was the Beatles doing the theme song of his show right before they did hey Jude.

[philiphoy]

When they recorded this their producer (George Martin) told them they needed to shorten the outro and get the song down to 5 minutes or less because radio stations wouldn't play a 7 minute song. Paul said, "Yes they will, because it's us". Paul was right. The song went number one and was the biggest hit of the year. At that time it was the longest song to reach number 1 on Billboard.

Here's the five longest songs to reach number 1 on Billboard with the year of release:
Rapture by Blondie (6:31) - 1981
Papa Was A Rolling Stone by The Temptations (6:54) - 1972
Hey Jude by The Beatles (7:11) - 1968
American Pie by Don McLean (8:42) - 1971
All Too Well by Taylor Swift (10:13) - 2021

Don MacLean held the record for the longest song to go number 1 for 50 years.

[carolmeindl]

I wonder if there ever was a reunion for everyone who was present for that recording!! awesome!!

[HulaKatz]

It's always interesting to see todays generation react to them. I just turned 63 but was all of 6 when this was released, so there are many who are just now discovering their classics. Your reaction was fun to watch.

[garfle]

saw this live back in the day on tv. I was about 9. Now i'm 65.

[housingrevolution]

If you want to hear Paul really "go off" on all the "ad libs" in the outro, check out the original release, which was a 45. You can hear it on "The Beatles 1967 - 1970" double LP.
Paul's vocals on Oh! Darling! are also crazy good, doing his best Little Richard impression.

[jimmcdonald]

At about 6:30 on your video, Paul tosses in the chorus from The Band's "The Weight": "Tale a load off, Fanny, and put the load right on me."

[SWLinPHX]

For anyone who is new to the "institution" (not just supergroup or legends) that was the Beatles, I really recommend you explore them in stages or phases of their career. Start with a handful of the wild and frenetic (and more innocent) Beatlemania days of 1964-65 when they took America (and much of the world) by storm amid screaming and crying girls and crazed mobs, then see how they evolve with so many different sounding and meaningful songs as they matured. Again, in their relatively short hit-making years (less than eight really) their sound and personas seemed to span at least a couple decades as a band, to say nothing of their stellar work as solo artists -- and status to this day.