ALL TOGETHER NOW
“All Together Now” is a song by the Beatles written primarily by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song was recorded during the band’s Magical Mystery Tour period, but remained unreleased until it was included on the Yellow Submarine soundtrack. McCartney described the song as a children’s sing-along with the title phrase inspired by the music hall tradition of asking the audience to join in. According to music critic Tom Maginnis of AllMusic, McCartney created the song “to match the same light-hearted spirit” of “Yellow Submarine”. “All Together Now” appears in an animated sequence in the film Yellow Submarine, and is also introduced by the Beatles themselves in a final live-action scene of the film. During the latter scene, translations of “All Together Now” into various languages appear written on-screen. (More from Wikipedia)
For Yellow Submarine, just four new songs were included on that album, and IMHO, George Harrison wrote the two best by far: “Only a Northern Song” and “It’s All Too Much”. The two Lennon/McCartney songs are “Hey Bulldog” and “All Together Now”; “Yellow Submarine” and “All You Need is Love” had been released previously.
(June 2015)
