Good Morning Good Morning

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Good Morning Good Morning is a song off The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon/McCartney.

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Writing

Good Morning Good Morning was partially inspired by a jingle for Kellogg's Corn Flakes that was playing on a television in the background while he was writing the song. The jingle went:

"Good morning, good morning
The best to you each morning.
Sunshine breakfast, Kellogg's Corn Flakes
Crisp and full of fun."

The song features frequently chaging time signatures, indicating Lennon's tendency to write words before writing the music. Paul McCartney recalls, "John was feeling trapped in suburbia and was going through some problems with Cynthia. It was about his boring life at the time - there's a reference in the lyrics to 'nothing to do' and 'meet the wife'; there was an afternoon TV soap called Meet The Wife that John watched, he was that bored, but I think he was also starting to get alarm bells." The sound effects used in the song were taken from the Abbey Road sound effects tapes Volume 35: Animals and Bees and Volume 57: Fox-hunt and were used in the order of Lennon's insistence. Engineer Geoff Emerick recalls, "John said to me during one of the breaks that he wanted to have the sound of animals escaping and that each successive animal should be capable of frightening or devouring its predecessor! So those are not just random effects, there was actually a lot of thought put into all that." The mix starts with the sound of a rooster, then followed by a cat, dogs, horses, sheep, lions, elephants, a fox being chased by dogs and a hunter's horn, cows, and a hen. The brass on the song was played by Sounds Incorporated, an instrumental band The Beatles first met at The Star Club in April 1962.

Recording

Good Morning Good Morning was first recorded on February 8, 1967, when eight takes were recorded, the last one being marked best. On February 16, bass and vocals were overdubbed. The recording at this stage was included on Anthology 2, with a different vocal and minus the various overdubs later included. They then left the song until March 13, when the brass overdubs were recorded. Tape operator Richard Lush recalls, "They spent a long time doing the overdub, about three hours or maybe longer, but John Lennon thought it sounded too straight. So we ended up flanging, limiting and compressing it, anything to make it sound unlike brass playing. It was typical John Lennon - he just wanted it to sound weird." On March 28, John Lennon added new vocals and Paul McCartney recorded the song's guitar solo. After that John and Paul recorded backing vocals. The animal sound effects were assembled today, though they weren't added to the song until the next day.

Recording Sessions

Personnel

The Beatles

Guest Musicians

Production

Available Versions

Available On

Cover Versions

Source

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