It’s time for another Beatles Bite… The song “Daytripper” is a wonderful Beatle song that was actually the ‘B’ side (meaning the record company threw a song on the reverse side of a vinyl single of the ‘A’ side). “We Can Work it Out”, released in December 1965 was the hit. The song hit number one in the charts and continues to be one of the most played Beatle songs on FM radio.
Here’s a little backstory. There’s actually an audible drop out of the tambourine around two minutes into the tune, and then a couple more times before the song ends. It seems to be a studio mistake when the tape scrambled itself and nobody noticed – but not caught until the record was pressed for distribution.
The most inside story of the song is the intro, or guitar open. The song was written with no real beginning, and at the recording session the studio engineer asked John to play something, which John did. The beginning of “Daytripper” is one of the most recognizable song beginnings in all of rock and that’s why.
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