It all started one morning in May 1965. Paul McCartney melody had beaten him in the head during a dream and could not remove it. What looked like a mind game came to become one of the most recognizable melodies of pop history in the hands of The Beatles. In his own words, it was like an old jazz tune, as I used to sing his father made him return to his past.
The letter, however, was another story. Legend has it that the author sang the first verse as “scrambled eggs, oh baby, how I love your legs” (“Scrambled eggs, oh, dear, how I love your legs”). He repeated for days but in the end, during a trip to Portugal with his girlfriend at the time, Jane Asher, put the right lines.
The song eventually recorded the June 14, 1965. After a shot with John Lennon on the Hammond organ, producer George Martin Suger McCartney used a string quartet. McCartney initially resisted and said, “I do not want to be a composer, in reference Mantovani Italian light music, he used to play at that time in auditoriums London-”. But without such arrangements the song would not have been the same.
Yesterday was published in the album Help! . It has the honor of being the song with more versions of history, according to Guinness World Records. Among its more than 1,500 versions, they are famous sung by Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson. This interior monologue McCartney keeps a magical melancholy. It’s almost impossible not to be seduced by it.
Here, we offer a list of five of the most celebrated releases of all time.
An eternal song
1. Elvis Presley
The King of Rock never understood the Beatles, which he saw as the fruit of a generation, the counterculture, with which not tuned. In fact, the meeting between the Fab Four and Presley was not fruitful, nothing to do with what they had with Bob Dylan. However, Presley liked to versioning some of the ballads of the Beatles, suitable for galaxy throat.
2. Willie Nelson
The father of the country outlaws Yesterday carries his terrain, making one of the most moving versions of all time. With his deep voice brimming Nelson puts cowboys McCartney ballad, replacing the strings for a simple but effective guitar, as if it were written to be sung in a bar of Texas.
3. Frank Sinatra
The Voice always reneged on the rock and said corrupting youth. But he could not resist singing a song that was above all a musical movement. With his great pop clothing, Yesterday was a ballad and intergenerational Sinatra knew to preserve its powerful melancholy burden on its proposal vocal jazz. The strings continue to play a key role but, this time, are displayed in a suggestive and slow jazz sense.
4. Aretha Franklin
The most spectacular soulful female voice and possibly the entire history of popular music could not help but put his spirit in this eternal song. With his piercing timbre edge divine, Aretha Franklin Yesterday saw with his vocal finery. Between jazz and soul, their version is perhaps the most nostalgic of all recorded by any other artist.
5. Ray Charles
One of the pillars of African-American music gave its essential touch the piano, to which he added his particular way of singing, much slower.
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