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" Hello, Goodbye " is a song by The Beatles . The song was released as a single in November 1967, and topped the charts in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Norway. The song also was a number two hit in both Austria and Switzerland .. Accessed 29 August 2010

Writing

Though the songwriting credit is Lennon–McCartney , it was written solely by Paul McCartney .
Alistair Taylor , who worked for the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein , had asked McCartney how he wrote his songs, and McCartney took him into his dining room to give him a demonstration on his harmonium .
He asked Taylor to shout the opposite of whatever he sang as he played the instrument—black and white, yes and no, stop and go, hello and goodbye.
Taylor later said, "I wonder whether Paul really made up that song as he went along or whether it was running through his head already."

Recording

Under the working title "Hello Hello", the Beatles recorded the backing track on 2 October 1967, and added vocals and a guitar overdub on the 19th. After further overdubs of bass guitar and viola, recording was completed on 2 November, and mixing on the 6th. "Hello Goodbye" is in the key of C Major and in 4/4 time., Alan W. Pollack

The song features a coda (music)|coda which came spontaneously in the studio. Of this, McCartney said "I remember the end bit where there's the pause and it goes 'Heba, heba hello'. We had those words and we had this whole thing recorded but it didn't sound quite right, and I remember asking Geoff Emerick if we could really whack up the echo on the tom-toms . And we put this echo full up on the tom-toms and it just came alive."
One of the notable features in the song is Ringo Starr 's busy drumming.

Promotional films

Three promotional films were made for the song; directed by McCartney, they were filmed on 10 November at the Saville Theatre in London .
The films were not aired by the BBC due to the Musicians' Union (UK)|Musicians Union 's strict rules on lip-syncing|miming ; with no such restriction in the US, one of the films was screened on The Ed Sullivan Show on 26 November.
The videos feature The Beatles wearing their Sgt. Pepper uniforms with hula girls dancing about; it was also the last time they wore their 1963 grey Merseybeat suits. The video also shows a clean shaven Lennon without his granny glasses; McCartney is clean shaven as well.

Release

"Hello, Goodbye" was released as a single on 24 November 1967. In the US, the song was also included on the Magical Mystery Tour album released three days later, but the song was not made available in the UK on an album (or in stereo) until the release of the 1973 compilation album 1967–1970 .

With the release of the song, McCartney gave an explanation of its meaning in an interview with Disc : "The answer to everything is simple. It's a song about everything and nothing. If you have black you have to have white. That's the amazing thing about life."
In the US, Capitol Records omitted the comma in the song’s title in the packaging of the single (as did some of EMI’s partners in other countries), and also the Magical Mystery Tour LP album|LP (which was subsequently adopted for the Compact Disc|CD release of this album).

Reception

"Hello, Goodbye" topped the charts in both the United States and United Kingdom|Britain where it spent seven weeks at number one, and was the Christmas number-one singles in the UK|Christmas number one for 1967.

Uses

The song’s coda plays over the end titles of the Beatles’ 1967 Magical Mystery Tour (film)|Magical Mystery Tour film. The coda was used again on McCartney's 1990 world tour at the end of the song Put It There .

This was also covered by the cast of Glee (TV series)|Glee , Jump 5 , Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck , and Jonas Brothers .

The original song was also used in 2005-06 in a number of campaigns for Australia's largest phone company Telstra promoting 3G coverage.

Personnel

Paul McCartney & ndash; Lead vocalist|lead vocal s, Bass guitar|bass , piano , bongo drum|bongos , conga s

John Lennon & ndash; Backing vocalist|backing vocal s, Hammond organ

George Harrison & ndash; backing vocals, lead guitar

Ringo Starr & ndash; Drum kit|drum s, backing vocals, maraca s, tambourine

Kenneth Essex & ndash; viola

Leo Birnbaum & ndash; viola

George Martin & ndash; Producer

Ken Scott & ndash; Engineer

:Personnel per The Beatles Bible

Notes

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